Posts with the tag 'abortion'
Fr. Neuhaus, in an address to the National Right to Life Committee, lays it out:
Some say it started with the notorious Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 when, by what Justice Byron White called an act of raw judicial power, the Supreme Court wiped from the books of all fifty states every law protecting the unborn child. But it goes back long before that. Some say it started with the agitation for “liberalized abortion law” in the 1960s when the novel doctrine was proposed that a woman cannot be fulfilled unless she has the right to destroy her child. But it goes back long before that. It goes back to the movements for eugenics and racial and ideological cleansing of the last century.
Whether led by enlightened liberals, such as Margaret Sanger, or brutal totalitarians, whose names live in infamy, the doctrine and the practice was that some people stood in the way of progress and were therefore non-persons, living, as it was said, “lives unworthy of life.” But it goes back even before that. It goes back to the institution of slavery in which human beings were declared to be chattel property to be bought and sold and used and discarded at the whim of their masters. It goes way on back…
…The culture of death is an idea before it is a deed. I expect many of us here, perhaps most of us here, can remember when we were first encountered by the idea. For me, it was in the 1960s when I was pastor of a very poor, very black, inner city parish in Brooklyn, New York. I had read that week an article by Ashley Montagu of Princeton University on what he called “A Life Worth Living.” He listed the qualifications for a life worth living: good health, a stable family, economic security, educational opportunity, the prospect of a satisfying career to realize the fullness of one’s potential. These were among the measures of what was called “a life worth living.”
And I remember vividly, as though it were yesterday, looking out the next Sunday morning at the congregation of St. John the Evangelist and seeing all those older faces creased by hardship endured and injustice afflicted, and yet radiating hope undimmed and love unconquered. And I saw that day the younger faces of children deprived of most, if not all, of those qualifications on Prof. Montagu’s list. And it struck me then, like a bolt of lightning, a bolt of lightning that illuminated our moral and cultural moment, that Prof. Montagu and those of like mind believed that the people of St. John the Evangelist—people whom I knew and had come to love as people of faith and kindness and endurance and, by the grace of God, hope unvanquished—it struck me then that, by the criteria of the privileged and enlightened, none of these my people had a life worth living. In that moment, I knew that a great evil was afoot. The culture of death is an idea before it is a deed.
In that moment, I knew that I had been recruited to the cause of the culture of life. To be recruited to the cause of the culture of life is to be recruited for the duration; and there is no end in sight, except to the eyes of faith.
I can’t identify the moment that vividly where I switched from acquiescence to the Culture of Death to opposition…but I do remember the moment when I became a pro-life absolutist, a happy warrior for the Culture of Life: it was when I was honored to listen to some women who had been victimised by abortion, and heard them urge me - a man - to stand tall for life and in the defense of women and their unborn children. It became so entirely clear to me that the issue of life transcended everything else - that there really was no more important issue. If we can’t respect the dignity of our fellow human beings - from conception to natural death - then all talk of “rights” and “liberty” was so much nonsense. People have to be alive for us to be concerned about them.
The title of Fr. Neuhaus’ speech is “We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest” - speaking to the fact that once recruited to the pro-life cause, one never gives up and never gives in. We are sustained by the knowledge we are backing basic decency - and the knowledge that in spite of all lies designed to throw dust in everyone’s eyes, the basic fact of our nation - the Declaration of Independence - proclaims what we proclaim, that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights, including - most importantly - the right to life, with no quibbles about whether or not a pregnancy 6 months along or a 96 year old alzheimers patient are really alive. They are. We know it. The Culture of Death knows it, too. We just act on that knowledge, the Culture of Death ignores it because, for humanity, cowardice and evil are the easy course of action - doing wrong or just ignoring wrong is much easier, and seemingly safer, than doing right or opposing wrong.
I, too, shall not weary nor shall I rest in this battle - not only am I not discouraged, there is no way to discourage me on the issue of Life vs Death. As I live so do I battle for Life, and as long as I live - which, after all, is actually forever - I shall fight for Life against all of those who hold that Death is the better alternative.
Tags: abortion, culture of death, Culture of Life, Fr Richard John Neuhaus
July 13th, 2008
It’s kind of ironic that at the same time Obama tries to moderate his position on abortion, he gets endorsed by Planned Parenthood, a group as far to the left on abortion as one can get:
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), saying his 100 rating by the fund for consistently backing pro-abortion legislation makes him the best choice for president.
“Sen. Obama supports a woman’s right to choose and is a co-sponsor of the Freedom of Choice Act, which would codify and protect a woman’s right to choose,” Anne Brewer, Women for Obama coordinator for the Obama campaign, said in her blog on the Democratic hopeful’s official Web site.
Meanwhile, Obama’s public rightward shift on abortion enrages the left, but doesn’t fool everyone else.
Tags: abortion, Barack Obama
July 9th, 2008
Score one for Life, and one against Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood:
(CNSNews.com) - South Dakota may enforce a law that requires doctors to provide pregnant women with a written statement saying, “the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being,” a federal appeals court ruled last Friday.
In Planned Parenthood v. Rounds, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit voted 7-4 to strike down a 2005 preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for South Dakota.
The injunction had prevented a statute - requiring abortion providers to tell women, in writing, that an abortion would terminate the life of a “living human being” - from taking effect. The decision by the appeals court reversed the injunction and remanded it to the district court for further proceedings consistent with its opinion.
The lawsuit, filed by Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, required the court to consider whether the definition of human being should include “the unborn human being during the entire embryonic and fetal ages from fertilization to full gestation.”
South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds and Attorney General Larry Long, representing the state, argued against Planned Parenthood in the suit, providing evidence that the embryo or fetus is “whole, separate, unique and living.”
The court’s ruling said, “Planned Parenthood submitted no evidence to oppose that conclusion.”
The court cited a bioethicist’s affidavit, submitted by Planned Parenthood, which stated that “to describe an embryo or fetus scientifically and factually, one would say that a living embryo or fetus in utero is a developing organism of the species Homo Sapiens which may become a self-sustaining member of the species if no organic or environmental evidence interrupts its gestation.”
Dear readers, when faced with the Truth of what an abortion is, the pro-abortion, pro-death lobby has no moral leg to stand on. Unlike a pile of wood, which can become a chair, a table, or part of a home, a developing embryo can only become more and more of what it already is–a human being.
Congratulations to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals for having the cajones to face up to that truth.
Tags: abortion, defense of life
July 2nd, 2008
“As Mark Twain, that greatest of American satirists and proud son of Missouri, once wrote, Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” We may hope that our leaders and our government stand up for our ideals, and there are many times in our history when that’s occurred. But when our laws, our leaders or our government are out of alignment with our ideals, then the dissent of ordinary Americans may prove to be one of the truest expression of patriotism.”
-Barack Hussein Obama, in a speech delivered on 30 June, 2008-
So that explains Barack Hussein Obama’s close relationship with one William Ayers, whose patriotic duty (by Obama’s definition) included setting bombs and killing innocent people. Heck, according to Obama’s definition, and by Ayers’ own admission, he just wasn’t patriotic enough.
That also explains Obama’s close relationship with one Rev. “God Damn America!” Wright.
For in Barack Hussein Obama’s world, these men, and others, have demonstrated, according to Obama’s own definition, the “…truest expression of patriotism,” in spades.
An axiom that I have long held is that liberals have no chance of winning a debate in the arena of ideas, unless they are given rein to re-define the terms of that debate.
The heinous practice of killing a baby in what should be the safety of a mother’s womb, heretofore known as abortion, is now known as, “reproductive health.”
The process whereby the government confiscates wealth from productive Americans for redistribution, formerly known as “taxes,” are now known as “contributions” or “investments.”
Today, “the messiah” stated,
“…surely we can agree that no party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism. And surely we can arrive at a definition of patriotism that, however rough and imperfect, captures the best of America’s common spirit.”
If Obama’s sense of ‘patriotism’ embodies his established pattern of associations with “patriotic” individuals, such as Ayers, Wright, Pfleger, and others whom he must consider “…the best of America’s common spirit,” then color me unpatriotic.
Cause I ain’t buying it.
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: Proving that Democrats are about as dumb as a box of rocks, another Obama surrogate opens mouth and inserts foot:
While Barack Obama was urging supporters not to devalue the military service of rival John McCain, an informal Obama adviser argued Monday that the former POW’s isolation during the Vietnam War has hobbled the Arizona senator’s capacity as a war-time leader.
“Sadly, Sen. McCain was not available during those times, and I say that with all due respect to him,” said informal Obama adviser Rand Beers…
…”So I think,” he continued, “to some extent his national security experience in that regard is sadly limited and I think it is reflected in some of the ways that he thinks about how U.S. forces might be committed to conflicts around the world.”
I wonder if Beers thinks that Obama’s experience is “sadly limited” by the fact that he was just a kid during Vietnam? Or that he didn’t serve at all, in any capacity, this great nation he aspires to govern?
Tags: abortion, John McCain, Obama, Patriotism, taxes, The Fifth Column
June 30th, 2008
The news story:
A coalition of African-American pastors and other pro-lifers marched on the headquarters of both major American political parties in Washington on Thursday to demand that the party committees and party candidates for office refuse the $10 million that Planned Parenthood has said it will spend to influence the 2008 elections.
Decrying what they called its “philosophy of prenatal murder in the black community,” the marchers also demanded that Planned Parenthood be stripped of its $350 million in taxpayer funding it receives each year.
The marchers visited the headquarters of both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee. They were led by Day Gardner of the National Black Pro-Life Union and Dr. Alveda King, who is a niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pastor Stephen Broden of Fair Park Bible Fellowship, speaking at a press conference, described the goal of the march:
“We find it a conflict of interest that Planned Parenthood receives federal funding and with that funding it contributes to Republican and Democratic candidates who support their philosophy of prenatal murder in the black community. Congress gives money to Planned Parenthood and Planned Parenthood in return gives the money to pro-abortion candidates. There’s something rotten in the halls of Congress.”
And just which party do you think will give a more open-minded hearing to these demonstrators? Given that since 1990 pro-abortion donations to politics have never been less than 61% to the Democrats and are so far 91% to Democrats in 2008, methinks this protest against pro-abortion donors will fall on deaf ears over at the Democratic National Committee.
I bring this particular news story up because it highlights two things:
1. The African-American community in large measure shares the social values of conservatism, especially Christian conservatism.
2. There are a lot of cross-currents going on out there, some of which may not be showing up in polling.
Now, don’t get me wrong - with Obama as the nominee, I can’t see him getting less than 95% of the black vote in November; even a lot of conservative blacks are considering Obama because, lets face it, just like with Catholics and Kennedy in 1960 and Jews and Lieberman in 2000, there is something deeply satisfying in one of your own making it to the heights…especially if your people are or have been a despised minority (and Catholics, Jews and blacks all have a legacy of bigotry against them - though, of course, black Americans had it by far the worst). But the fact that these voices are being raised in direct contravention of core Democratic principles shows that there is a means for the GOP to eventually make inroads into the black vote. Not in 2008 - but in 2012 and beyond. It goes on issue after issue - black Americans favor school choice; black Americans favor restrictions on abortion; black Americans oppose gay marriage. All we need do is break down the wall of distrust between black Americans and the conservative movement and we’ll be on to great things. That wall was partially created by the conservative movement (when we largely wrote off the once strongly GOP black vote), partially created by a careful and very cynical policy of the Democratic leadership to heighten fear of the GOP in the black community by slanderous attacks on the GOP over race issues - breaking down this wall won’t be easy, but it must be done.
While we have many goals as a movement, the primary purpose of conservatism must be the destruction of the left. We know that the left’s entire worldview is based on a lie backed by a series of subsequent lies. It is a baleful influence on any activity it tries to involve itself in - and the sincerity of its adherents must not blind us to the necessity of destroying the left, as a political force, for good and all. We can’t do it as long as the left is able to reach outside of its urban fever swamps and get the votes of, say, union workers and black Americans who have absolutely nothing in common with left other than a shared fear of the GOP. Take away the fear, and union voters (other than public employee unions) and black Americans will stream into the GOP in ever rising numbers. Reduced to a few kooky places on the map, the left will then be marginalised and we can procede with the certainty that even under a liberal government the people running the show will be animated by a love of America rather than, as the left is today, animated for a hatred of America, and especially its Christian elements.
Some on the left - including here on this little blog - have tried to tell us that the abortion issue doesn’t matter. Actually, it matters more than people imagine. Not because it will, in and of itself, change the election results but because it puts such a stark contrast between left and right, now divided into the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life. Abortion is a piece of the puzzle on how to destroy the left, and we’d be worse than fools to refuse to avail ourselves of the strength the pro-life movement brings to conservatism and the GOP.
Tags: abortion, culture of death, Culture of Life
June 28th, 2008
Excellently illustrated recently in a debate between Donna Brazile (who is actually a very smart woman, but she’s got little to work with these days) and Bill Bennett on CNN’s Situation Room, as noted by Catholics in the Public Square:
WOLF BLITZER: If you had been at that news conference, Bill, and you had a chance to ask one question, today, what would you have asked, if you were a reporter?
BILL BENNETT: I think when he brought up Chicago I would have said “why are you to the left of NARAL, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein when it comes to abortion? Are you really there?” Not that it’s the only issue in the campaign, but I gotta question the guy’s moral judgment, who doesn’t see a problem with killing a baby after it’s been born after eight months.
DONNA BRAZILE: But he’s had an opportunity in several debates to talk about his position on abortion –
BENNETT: What is the answer to that question?
BRAZILE: Bill, look –
BENNETT: What is the answer?!
BRAZILE: You want to have a conversation about narrow issues –
BENNETT: That is not: that is fundamental!
BRAZILE: It is a fundamental issue, but the American people want to talk about gas prices …
More accurately, the American people are concerned with gas prices; it is Democrats who want to talk about it, because Obama and his Democrats have no actual plan for energy, but do feel they can score cheap points off the issue, as well as keep people off the subject of Obama’s manifest incapacity to be President of the United States. That aside, this also shows the very smallness of modern Democrats. Leave foreign affairs to the UN; use the military as a social services agency and please lets talk about gas prices as if the price of a gallon of gas is the largest issue in the whole, wide world. Truth is, it only modestly annoys me once per week when I fill up the tank - but even then I can pat myself on the back for not purchasing an SUV, as so many liberals do (one of the larger problems I noted in getting around Santa Monica, CA is the massive number of SUVs clogging the roads in that oh, so liberal city). Most of the time, the price of gas doesn’t come up - what with worries over the old man’s health, the purchase of a new dog and, you know, that life thingy that we’re supposed to be doing instead of worrying about gas prices.
Meanwhile, a very large number of my fellow human beings will be murdered this year, mostly because some people have been suckered into thinking that its no big deal to kill the unborn. Somehow, the death of a human being looms a little larger in the grand scheme of things than the difference between $3.25 and $4.25 a gallon…
Tags: abortion, energy policy, libderal lies, oil price
June 27th, 2008
Our liberals are very much about keeping in balance with nature - which means that they’ll have a hard time figuring out how to respond to this:
A new report by the British charity ActionAid indicates that unborn baby girls are being disproportionately aborted in some areas of India, while significant numbers who live until birth are being deliberately neglected and left to die. In one area in the state of Punjab, there are only 300 girls for every 1,000 boys among high cast families, the report claims.
ActionAid joined Canada’s International Development Research Center (IDRC) to produce the Disappearing Daughters report, the BBC says. After interviewing more than 6,000 households in sites across five states in northwestern India, researchers found that the proportion of girls to boys was noticeably below the natural rate of 950 girls to every 1,000 boys.
In three of the five study sites, the ratio of girls to boys was under 800 per 1,000. Researchers found the ratios of girls to boys were declining fastest in relatively prosperous urban areas, leading ActionAid to suggest that the increased use of ultrasound exams may be a factor.
Though a 1994 law banned selective abortion based on the sex of the unborn child, many families still use ultrasound scans to detect and abort female children.
ActionAid says other outlawed practices, such as allowing newborn girls’ umbilical cords to become infected, have also contributed to the sex imbalance.
“The real horror of the situation is that, for women, avoiding having daughters is a rational choice. But for wider society it’s creating an appalling and desperate state of affairs,” said Laura Turquet, women’s rights policy official at ActionAid, according to the BBC.
According to the British medical journal The Lancet, about 10 million unborn baby girls have been aborted in the past 20 years.
This is what the Culture of Death and its handmaid, “pro-choice” brings - and there is no liberal argument against it, because if abortion is really a fundamental human right, then there is no grounds for arguing against any particular reason for having an abortion - including sex selection. On the other hand, if there is no right to an abortion (and there isn’t), then the whole thing is disgusting and will soon cause a catastrophic drop in population because if there are, say, only 500 girls for 1,000 boys, then there’s no way for even zero population growth to happen - down, down, down it will go (though a lot of liberals will be temporarily happy about this, given that they believe in the concept of “over population”…but once the tax base shrinks and the government can’t support liberals via grants, then they’ll start singing a different tune about lower numbers of people). India isn’t the only place with this problem - from what I’ve read, its even worse in China where China’s brutal and anti-human “one child” policy has cause such an imbalance between numbers of men and women that women are de-facto kidnapped in poor Asian nations and sold into marriage in China.
There is a need for balance and for keeping in tune with nature - but keeping in tune with nature isn’t about donating to Greenpeace and pretending that recycling actually does something for nature…no, its actually about keeping in tune with nature, including human nature. Human nature isn’t about greedily thinking only of our selves and considering unborn children as disposable - human nature is about living in a community and being willing to sacrifice for same, while at the same time having a massive respect for the rights of the individual within the community - including the unborn individual.
Tags: abortion, demographics, India, sex selection
June 25th, 2008
There are many crucial differences between Senator McCain and Obama - from the war (Obama for defeat, McCain for victory) to energy (McCain for energy, Obama for taxes) to health care (Obama for empowering government, McCain for empowering people) to the issue of life - and McCain’s courageous adherence to the Culture of Life stands in stark contrast to Obama’s cowardly “can I have it both ways, please” march through the morass of the Culture of Death:
After a meeting with Catholic leaders in Philadelphia last week, Sen. John McCain’s pro-life credentials are being questioned some pro-lifers who wonder if he would veto the Freedom of Choice Act, which if passed, would invalidate many of the laws that regulate abortion. Leaders who were present at the meeting informed CNA that they believe McCain would undoubtedly veto the bill.
The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) was most recently introduced on introduced April 19, 2007 — one day after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003.
According to the American Center for Law and Justice the impact of FOCA being passed, would be to “create an absolute right to abortion that would override any federal, state or local law that simply ‘interfered with’ that right, no matter how compelling the justification for the law.”
The Republican National Coalition for Life also was of the same opinion, saying, “The heart of the (FOCA) bill is a ban that would nullify all of the major types of pro-life laws that the Supreme Court has said are permissible under Roe v. Wade, including the ban on partial-birth abortions and bans on government funding of abortions.”
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who introduced the bill, saw the legislation differently, describing it as being about “the absolute right to choose” prior to fetal “viability.” However, the Republican Coalition for Life pointed out that FOCA goes even further. “The no-restriction policy would also apply after “viability” to any abortion sought on the grounds of “health.”
During his meeting with Catholic leaders last Friday, Sen. McCain reminded Philadelphia Catholics of his pro-life voting record and emphasized that he would “maintain that commitment” if elected president.
Deal Hudson, one of the leaders present at the meeting, informed CNA that when it came to McCain vetoing FOCA, “Nobody asked him that question. My view is that, of course, he would veto it.”
Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life agreed with Hudson, saying, “I have no doubt that he would veto it.”
“Moreover, it’s so extreme, I really don’t think it would ever reach his desk, even if the Democrats increased their numbers in Congress,” Fr. Pavone said.
Barack Obama has made his position on FOCA clear by promising at a July 17, 2007 speech to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that signing it into law would be his first act as president.
It is amazing how some things work out - it is good to keep in mind that when a 13th Amendment was first proposed, it was part of a compromise effort which would have enshrined slavery permanently in the United States constitution…the people who back FOCA are hoping that a President Obama will enshrine abortion in American law, rather than have it tenously exist at the sufferance of a transient Supreme Court majority…but what may very well happen is that the extremism exhibited by FOCA will provide one of many rallying points to defeat Obama, elect McCain and start the process of unravelling Roe, and eventually ending legal abortion in the United States. Just as the gay marriage advocates shot themselves in the foot by pushing too hard and too fast so, too, is the Culture of Death pushing too hard and too fast, and they might have stepped over the line.
It is true that abortion, as an individual issue, will play only a small role in 2008 - but the culmulative effect of Obama’s kowtowing to each and every extremist liberal position is how we can - and must - defeat him in November. We won’t beat him by demonstrating he’s inexperienced. We won’t beat him by demonstrating that he’s a leftist extremist. We won’t beat him by demonstrating he’s ignorant of the basics of foreign and military realities. Any one of those things would be given a pass - but if we can demosntrat that he’s an inexperienced leftwing extremist who doesn’t know jack about the world, then we can beat him.
On the other hand, McCain is demonstrating again and again that outside of CFR and his now-defunct immigration reform, he’s entirely in tune with the basic thrust of Reaganite consevatism and, also, has the foresight and courage to complete the War on Terror effort set afoot by President Bush and now reaping such tremendous results. We have a clear choice in November, and we conservatives must rally ’round the man, John McCain, who will do the things we really care about.
Tags: abortion, Barack Obama, John McCain
June 24th, 2008
I know our liberal friends are very kindly advising us to make no issue of things like abortion and gay marriage during the 2008 campaign - ever solicitous of our conservative movement, liberals worry that if we campaign on these issues it might harm us at the polls - but it is good that Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” in “Roe v Wade” will let the American people know the truth about herself:
Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff “Jane Roe” in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, will appear in her first-ever television commercial to lament her role in the case.
Since the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, documented abortions have killed more than 50 million unborn babies in the U.S.
In the new commercial McCorvey says, “back in 1973 I was a very confused twenty-one year old with one child and facing an unplanned pregnancy. At the time I fought to obtain a legal abortion, but truth be told, I have three daughters and never had an abortion.”
“Upon knowing God,” she continues, “I realize that my case, which legalized abortion on demand, was the biggest mistake of my life.
“You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.”
McCorvey is now an active Catholic.
The commercial is produced by Virtue Media, which describes itself as an organization “dedicated to producing and airing powerful and life-saving television, radio commercials and educational films.”
Susan Gerdvil, Communications Director at Virtue Media, told CNA that the organization is working with different pro-life groups to air the commercial but a broadcast is not yet scheduled.
One wonders what motivates people to do that - take a young, frightened woman and bamboozle her into being the instrument of legalised murder? I mean, do the people who did this feel good about themselves? Did they really go home after “Roe” was decided and say, “thank God - now poor, confused women who are feeling abandoned will be able to get rid of a child they think unwanted at the moment”? The people who organized the case and carried it forward - up to an including the Supreme Court Justices who issued their essentially pre-decided ruling - didn’t care about McCorvey; she was just a convenience…a prop is a play, as it were. Joined up with mostly cock-and-bull stories of “back alley” abortions, McCorvey was presented as someone who just wanted to make her own decisions regarding her “reproductive rights”…I was very young, then, but I do remember how midlly it was all put. It was just for the really hard cases; it was a matter of privacy; we must save women from the horrors of “back alley” abortions…but, as with all such liberal ideas of ditching Judeo-Christian morality, the result was very different from the advertisement.
The exception became the rule - rather than just being a few hard cases per year, the floodgates were opened up and groups like Planned Parenthood starting making bank off the procedure, and thus relentleslly propagandised about how quick, painless and liberating it was. The alleged back alley abortionist now became an abortion provider, and just hung out a shingle. A monstrous crime was set in motion which has murdered 50 million so far.
In the fullness of time this will all come to an end. Everything must be paid for, but those who advocated for this, who called it something worthy of protection and proclaimed it a basic human right, they will have to pay the Judge a very high price, indeed.
Tags: abortion, Norma McCorvey, Roe v Wade
June 21st, 2008
A Wall Street Journal editorial via Catholics in the Public Square lays it out:
Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what antiabortion advocates call a “survivor.” Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna’s biological mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion center. Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist’s arrival, Gianna emerged. Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy. But alive.
Had the abortionist been present at her birth, Gianna would have been killed, perhaps by suffocation. As it was, a startled nurse called an ambulance, and Gianna was rushed to a nearby hospital, where, weighing just two pounds, she was placed in an incubator, then, months later, in foster care.
Gianna survived then, and thrives now, because, as she told me recently with a laugh, “I guess I don’t die easy.” Which is what the abortionist might have thought as he signed his victim’s birth certificate. Gianna’s medical records state that she was “born during saline abortion.”
As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as “persons” babies who survive late-term abortions. Babies like Gianna. Mr. Obama said in a speech on the Illinois Senate floor that he could not accept that babies wholly emerged from their mother’s wombs are “persons,” and thus deserving of equal protection under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
A federal version on the same legislation passed the Senate unanimously and with the support of all but 15 members of the House. Gianna was present when President Bush signed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in 2002.
When I asked Gianna to reflect on Mr. Obama’s candidacy, she paused, then said, “I really hope the American people will have their eyes wide open and choose to be discerning. . . . He is extreme, extreme, extreme.”
“Extreme” may not be the impression the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have bought Mr. Obama’s autobiography have been left with. In “The Audacity of Hope,” Mr. Obama’s presidential manifesto, he calls abortion “undeniably difficult,” “a very difficult issue,” “never a good thing” and “a wrenching moral issue.”
He laments his party’s “litmus test” for “orthodoxy” on abortion and other issues, and even admits, “I do not presume to know the answer to that question.” That question being the moral status of the fetus, who he nonetheless concedes has “moral weight.”
Those statements are seriously made but, alas, cannot be taken at all seriously. Mr. Obama has compiled a 100% lifetime “pro-choice” voting record, including votes against any and all restrictions on late-term abortions and parental involvement in teenagers’ abortions.
OBama is, indeed, extreme on the issue of abortion - but the real problem is that this extremism is entirely mainstream in the Democratic party. The article goes on to note that Obama has pledged to sign the so-called “Freedom of Choice Act“, a monstrous bit of pro-death legislation which would undo no only the federal ban on late-term abortions, but also the various common-sense regulations placed on abortion at the State level over the years. This is pro-abortion fanaticism in action, and Obama is hip deep in it.
I cannot take at face value anyone’s claims to care about people if they can’t care about the most helpless amongst us - there is a cold hearted indifference to suffering in the actions of those who work to protect abortion; from those who just use honey-coated words to cover up what it really is, to those who actually seek to ensure that more abortions are peformed. Obama talks a great game about helping the helpless, but when the real helpless have arrived in front of him, he’s slammed the door in their faces, more interested in garnering pro-abortion donations and pro-abortion political support for his blinding ambition to be President of the United States. Abortion is wicked; evil to the core - only the rankest sort of ignorance and cowardice can excuse any support for it; there is just never, ever a valid reason for seeking the termination of an unborn human life.
While many issues will be discussed during this campaign and while abortion won’t register with more than 5% or so as the most vital issue of the election, the central issue or our time has been, is and will be the abortion issue. As long as we permit this barbaric and inhuman practice - a veritible human sacrifice on the altar of the secular god “Selfishness” - just that long will we remain a nation divided against itself, and unsure of its place in the world. Just as we were riven by the stresses of trying to reconcile chattel slavery with our sublime Declaration of Independence so, too, are we riven by the attempts to reconcile cold blooded murder with the right to life our Founders fought and died for. This terrible poison, abortion, must end - and we will not end it by electing as President a man who will talk a lot about how sad abortion is, but who will in practical terms do all he can to advance the cause of abortion in the United States.
In the end, if one has any sense of the sanctity of human life - all life, even that unborn - then John McCain is the only possible candidate for 2008. A man of unscotchable pro-life record and a clear view of the value of life (probably built up by his inhuman treatment at the hands of the North Vietnamese), who is pledged to appoint judges who understand that the US Constitution isn’t a plaything for the latest liberal fads.
Tags: abortion, Barack Obama, culture of death, Culture of Life, Freedom of Choice Act, John McCain
June 15th, 2008
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