It is today, the sad anniversary of the Roe abomination – but, also, the glorious anniversary of the rebirth of respect for life:
No one with integrity any longer argues that the child killed through abortion is not a human being. When the abortion occurs through miscarriage we properly enter into the mourning of the mother over the loss of “her baby”. However, when the mother is deceived into a voluntary abortion we use a different vocabulary. Most people now acknowledge that these children killed by abortion are human persons. A few hold on to the dangerous notion that dependency upon others makes someone less of a person. However, medical science has confirmed what our consciences and the Natural Law told us all along, these victims of the first “preemptive war” are human beings just like us. We frame “baby’s first pictures” in their 3D Image through sonogram technology. We use intrauterine surgery to intervene to save them or correct anything which they may need before they are born. We prosecute an offender who, in the evil act of harming their mother, causes their death as well. It is all so very clear what we are really doing in every procured abortion.
The “argument” now used to justify this preemptive war is that the choice to kill them should be left to the mother in consultation with her own Doctor and/or other counselors. This is presented in a language of “freedom” and clothed with a counterfeit compassion. However, there is no moral difference between the killing of a child after birth and the killing of a child before birth. We legally excuse fetal homicide when it is committed by a misguided mother through the agency of a deceived or corrupted Doctor who once pledged to “do no harm”. We call it “healthcare” or a “reproductive” choice.Under our new administration the Government may soon extract tax dollars to pay for it.
It is ironic that this 36th March for Life will take place only days after our nation rightly celebrated a great advance against another intrinsic evil, racism, and the horrid memory of its once institutionalized expression, slavery. The election of our 44th President signals progress against what the Catechism calls a “structure of sin”. However, it is rooted in the same evil idea that some human persons are less worthy of being welcomed within our National family than others. Evil ideas have a horrid way of repackaging themselves.We will mourn, pray and demand justice.
We are not going away – Obama wants us to; heck, in a very real way he even strongly urged us to give up our fight in his inaugural address. But the ground really has not shifted, and the debates of the past are not over – not, at least, until all life is welcomed from conception and protected until natural death. Until then, all the high flown rhetoric we have about freedom and human rights is incomplete and, ultimately, fruitless. Our liberals, in general, also want this debate over – ever solicitous of the political prospects of the conservative movement, liberals advise us that its best if we just give it up and accept the Culture of Death as a settled thing.
Not a chance. While our prospects, for the moment, are bleak and our new President is working hard to expand the Culture of Death, we know that the ultimate victory is to be ours, because we love life and have true hope – and we not only hope, but we pray, that President Obama and all of those hoodwinked into supporting the Culture of Death will come to their senses and realize they have been the merest tools of a diabolical plot against all that is good and true.
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