Posted on 05/03/2008 9:09:30 AM PDT by tcg
It has been thirty five years since that infamous U.S. Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade.
With the stroke of a judicial pen, unelected Justices consigned an entire class of persons, children in the first home of the whole human race (their mothers womb), to the status of property.
Like millions, I have prayed, marched and worked tirelessly to overturn this horrid decision and end the killing. As a human rights lawyer I went to the U.S. Supreme Court to defend pro-life protestors. I still try to join the thousands annually who travel to Washington, D.C. to pray and stand in solidarity with children in the womb and the second victims, their mothers.
The right to life is the fundamental human rights issue of our age because without it there are no other rights. It is also the great freedom movement of our day because without the freedom to be born, there are no other freedoms.
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Our entire system of rights is at risk in a "culture of death", where human persons are regarded as property to be used rather than gifts to be received.
We are freedom fighters. When "freedom" becomes reduced to a notion of doing whatever one "chooses", including the intentional killing of children in the womb, the elderly, and disdain for the "dependent"… it is gutted from its true meaning and reduced to a raw power over others.
The bad news is that it will probably happen in 100 years when this country is filled with Mexican Muslims.
Oddly, the cause of life was moved forward under President Bush, who appointed two fine justices to SCOTUS and was a staunch defender of life.
Yet at the same time it has been President Bush, as much as anyone, who has stalled the right-to-life movement by repeatedly kicking the social conservative base in the teeth for the past several years.
As a result, the right-to-life cause, which had victory within its grasp, has been seriously set back. Rick Santorum and others lost their seats in congress. And we are stuck with two extremist pro-abortionists running for the Democrats and one feeble compromiser who already supports funding for fetal stem cell research running for the Republicans.
We need one more appointment to SCOTUS to turn things around. And now, thanks to the RNC and Bush’s political legacy, we may instead move in the opposite direction, regardless of which candidate is elected.
Yes, we will never give up, and if our country survives this fiasco we will prevail. But it’s discouraging to have victory within our grasp and then to see it thrown away.
No, ending Roe won’t end the battle. Roe & promiscuity (the pillars of ‘70s feminism) feed off each other. Ending Roe without eliminating promiscuity produces an unintended consequence: immense federal funding either to church-based groups or to local & fed groups. Somehow, returning to ‘50s morality, easily the most efficacious solution, probably won’t happen.
I'm not sure that we were ever that close to having victory in our grasp. Kennedy isn't a dependable vote for the pro-life side of the right to life issue, and if any of the four remaining liberal Justices had retired or died after the GOP lost control of the Senate it would have taken a divine miracle to replace the departed liberal with an originalist cut from the same cloth as Roberts and Alito.
I agree that it's heartbreaking to have gotten this close and then failed to get the righteous victory we have prayed and worked for, and it's even more frustrating that I can't see anything good happening on the right to life issue for at least the next 4 years no matter which one of the 3 remaining viable presidential candidates is in the White House. Before the primary elections I still had hopes for a more favorable USSC because I thought that almost any Republican president would appoint only originalist Justices. But I hadn't counted on an unpredictable maverick like McCain being the GOP nominee. I don't think he actually cares about the abortion holocaust except as it affects his chances of being elected, and after he gets into office, providing he does of course, I doubt that a pro-life Judicial branch will be a priority for him.
No, I’m afraid not. McCain has repeatedly shown that the last thing in the world he wants is a fight over judicial nominations in the senate. He prefers to work with the enemy.
In the past, the Democrats have held firm and the Republicans have compromised, leading to appointments like David Souter. That’s about what we can expect from McCain, unfortunately.
So, he will likely talk pro-life, but he will act as he has in the past. As best I can tell, he is a man with no morals to speak of.
I think your estimate of McCain's moral standards is probably correct. Judging by some of his past acts and statements I strongly suspect that he is only committed to his own personal best interests. However, given the willingness of so many professing Christians today, both Catholic and protestant, to compromise with and in many cases even join forces with advocates for continuing the 35 year American holocaust into the future it may not matter what his beliefs are regarding the right to life of all God-created human beings.
No matter which candidate is elected it will require fighting a very hard fight to make any headway against the well funded proponents of legalized murder in the next few years. But if we love our Lord and desire to carry out His righteous will we can't give up the fight no matter who is in the White House. I am convinced that America is in mortal danger of facing God's wrath in the very near future unless it renounces the legalized murder of the most helpless human beings among us.
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