Posted on 01/23/2007 7:54:52 AM PST by sitetest
America, we won’t go away. Many people wish we would, and heaven knows we would rather be doing almost anything else. But we can’t go away, and we won’t.
BY the Editors
January 21-27, 2007 Issue
Posted 1/17/07 at 8:00 AM
I’m sure you’ve seen us. We may have made you angry, or sad, or we may have made you turn quickly away and find something else to look at.
You may have seen us two days before Christmas outside the Planned Parenthood building. The old man with the rosary, the college kids in sweats, the sad-looking woman clutching brochures and an “I Regret My Abortion” sign — that was us.
Maybe you felt offended that we stuck abortion in your face as you rushed out to do last-minute shopping, cheered by Christmas songs on the radio. Well, we felt offended that the “clinic” was open that day. We wanted to enjoy ourselves, too.
Or maybe you heard one of us at a town meeting you attended at the school or the senior center. Maybe it was a savvy young woman lawyer that you heard voice the pro-life argument. Or maybe the voice of the pro-life movement you heard was a halting, nervous voice that got a little too angry or whose words got a little too tangled. In either case, that was us, too.
We may have made you uncomfortable that day. We’re sorry for that. But we’ll be there again at the next town meeting, too. And the next. And the next.
We won’t go away, and we won’t stop talking about abortion. We won’t stop saying, again and again, that this is wrong, and it has to stop.
America, you know more about the unborn than you ever have before. Life magazine used to sell out when they put an unborn baby on the cover. Now, we’ve seen National Geographic’s “In the Womb.” We have sonogram photos at the front of our baby books and we saw our children for the first time in utero, through a video monitor.
America, you know more than ever that abortion hurts women. Those of us who have had an abortion know the guilt at what we’ve done and the anger at those who made it seem inevitable, who refused all help except the kind that kills. Those of us who have a friend who has had an abortion know it is a topic that we must never, ever discuss. It causes too much sadness, inflicts too much pain that can’t be relieved.
America, you know what abortion is, and we know you know. We won’t stand by and pretend with you that nothing is happening.
And we won’t go away, because we can’t make abortion go away from our own consciences. Abortion stings us. The sting is there when we see an empty playground and remember that 1 in 3 children in America dies by abortion. The sting is there when we read of successful surgery saving unborn children in the womb, and remember that babies don’t survive the most common surgery in the womb.
Is abortion necessary for women’s rights? Ask the teens impregnated by older men and brought to the “clinic” by them, too. Is it a matter of choice? Ask the women who wanted to have their babies but were badgered and pressured and tricked and even forced to kill instead.
But doesn’t abortion help women? Ask the ones who died on the operating table, — or the ones who say they wish they died because the depression is too much to bear.
What would America be like without abortion? We can’t even imagine. In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey gets a glimpse of what Bedford Falls would be like if he hadn’t been born, but then he returns to a world where that tragedy never happened.
We won’t get to return to the world we could have had.
Did we abort a statesman who would have changed the course of this country? Did we abort the musician who would have taken that art — and our emotions with it — to new heights? What cures, stories, jokes, athletic feats or technological innovations did we abort? What great actor is missing from our movies, what great teachers will never inspire our kids at school?
No, America, we won’t go away, no matter how much you want us to or how much we want to go.
We want to think we would have told the slave-sellers, “No way. Not here. I will use every legal means to stop you.” We like to think we wouldn’t have sat still in World War II Germany as the trains rumbled by. We wish we could have sat with Rosa Parks or prayed with Ruby Bridges on the way to school.
But we can’t do any of that. What we can do is remind you, America, in season and out of season, of the words you were founded on: “All men are endowed by their Creator with the right to life.”
So you’ll see us shivering in the cold again this January for the March for Life. And you’ll see us next January, and the January after that, and the January after that, until we wear you down at last and there’s no more reason to march.
And if we die before you change, America, we’ll be able to stand before God and say, “I defended the defenseless. I stood for the weak. My brothers and sisters couldn’t cry ‘Stop,’ so I cried it for them. And I refused to go away.”
I won't go away.
I didn't see this posted. If it's a duplicate, my apologies.
By the way, although the source is a Catholic periodical, this belongs in the news forum because it speaks about an entire political movement - the pro-life movement - not just one group of religious believers. As well, it is news in that it is timely to yesterday's march of many tens of thousands of (born) persons in Washington yesterday.
In the meantime - FIGHT! I like this organization - The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (abortionno.org). And my contributions are tax deductible!
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I agree.
Good for you. I'm not going anywhere, either. Thanks for posting this.
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Dear ishabibble,
"Does this Catholic periodical have a listing of all the pro-abortion Catholics in the Congress? I can think of the Kennedys, Pelosi, Kerry, and Reed. Who are the others?"
I don't know.
If by "Reed," you mean Sen. Harry Reid, he's actually a member of the Latter Day Saints. We Catholics have enough losers without adding him to the list. ;-)
The National Catholic Register is a pretty orthodox Catholic periodical, and has been known to offer criticism of pro-abort Catholic politicians.
Would that more of our bishops would do the same.
sitetest
A good article.
This is the bottom line that over the past several decades, as the abortion holocaust has continued, has drawn millions of Catholics out of the Democrat party, where their families had always lived. Working class stiffs, Italians, Irish, Poles, scum of the earth in the eyes of the old, increasingly liberal WASP establishment, the people who ran things and decided they needed a right to abortion so they could have fun without any consequences.
From being maybe 90% Democrats, Catholics have gone to less than 50% Democrats, and those who have gone over are reliable votes, like the people who wrote this article. They will NEVER vote for the party of abortion and perversion unless they change their ways.
Then the Evangelicals came on board, after having initially been suckered into approving of abortion, and they have joined the Republican camp in even larger numbers. Many of them, too, traditionally voted for the old Democrat Party, before it became the new Party of Abortion and Perversion.
Those conservatives who don't much care about abortion, or who think the right to abortion is a personal liberty, should think again. Abortion violates the basic, unalienable right to life on which our constitutional law is founded. Rip that away, and there's no stopping the perversions of our traditional liberties. Moreover, they will never get the things THEY want, unless they are willing to support the social and religious conservatives on this one issue above all others.
Unless ALL conservatives come together in support of this basic issue, there's no way conservatives can win at the ballot box. The MSM and the DNC love to divide and conquer, and they succeeded in doing so last November, with regretable help from feuding and discontented voters, spineless Republicans in congress, and a stupid RNC that neglected its base.
What I'm saying, I suppose, is what the editors here are saying. This issue will NEVER go away, because it is just too fundamental, too basic, too close to the heart of what it means to be human.
Great post. Thanks.
Actually, I'm not sorry for that. Americans should be uncomfortable, knowing that for the unborn, every day is September 11.
Thank you.
You're welcome! ;-)
This pro-lifer is not going away either. Our greatest hope is that many bright, intelligent and well-informed youth (my oldest is 15) are also pro-life. They can see right through the the lies of this "choice." I was so happy to see so many youth at the rally yesterday in Washington.
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