Dan Proft for IL Governor: Comment On Right To Life Issue: Funny Or Vision Into A Man's Soul

RFFM.org ^ | January 12, 2010 | Daniel T. Zanoza

[Daniel T. Zanoza]

Recently, Dan Proft, who is seeking the Illinois Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination, was quoted in the Daily Herald regarding his position on the right to life issue.

Here is Proft's response to the query:

"Roe v. Wade is bad constitutional law, inconsistent with our God-given right to life and should be overturned," Proft said. "In addition to an important policy issue, this is a personal issue for me as I was born approximately nine months before the Roe decision and I was adopted. Thus, had the law been a bit different a bit earlier, perhaps the world would never have been availed of my brilliance."

I was shocked when I was informed of Proft's quote. Some say he was simply being jocular in his response which essentially says if Roe v. Wade were enacted before his birth, we would not be "availed" of his "brilliance."

Of course, the quote could simply be a demonstration of Proft's arrogance, but for a moment, let's give him the benefit of the doubt concerning his remarks.

In 1945, Nazi Germany was surrounded by Allied Forces. A number of death camps were discovered by the Russian army (who were heading towards Berlin from the East) and American troops who were closing in on the German capitol from the West. These death camps, including Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald, where millions were put to death in accordance to Hitler's Final Solution, were no longer rumors. Such death camps lead to the demise of nearly six million Jews and four million other human beings who were considered undesirables, enemies of the state or simply old and handicapped. One of the first death camps discovered by the Russians was Auschwitz. Buchenwald was liberated by the 6th Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army on April 11, 1945.

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[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Maybe it wasn’t the best way to phrase it, but I see in this comment Proft’s own personal identification with the issue of abortion. He was not wanted by his mother and, if abortion had been legal at the time his mother was carrying him, he too might have been aborted.

Such personal identification makes the point that an abortion does not just remove a mass of cells, but it ends a life. So if Dan Proft’s mother had gone that route, the real person Dan Proft would not be here. He would have been killed.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

That’s how I read it, as well.

[mlizzy]

Not too many take abortion as the serious matter that it is; that's why we still have abortion. If everyone pro-life set aside time each day to pray, go to mass/church, Adoration, pray the rosary for life, and fast at times, the heinous act would be eliminated, not the babies from its "fruit."

That being said, the fact he supported a pro-abort politician affects me more than his words. And what he says, of course, is true. He was born "in time." Before the heinous act became law. Otherwise, he could easily have been one that was aborted.