Let's hope, pray and act for it to be soon, because it remains the greates moral blot on the fabric of our nation and society.
Posted on 06/14/2004 5:04:55 AM PDT by Theodore R.
Champion for the unborn
Posted: June 14, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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It was 1967. California state Sen. Tony Beilenson, a Democrat, along with legislators like Howard Berman and Henry Waxman, were pushing a bill to legalize abortion of unborn babies. The bill was promoted as a very restricted measure and Ronald Reagan signed it into law.
Years later, Reagan lamented his role in legalizing abortion in California and became a solid champion promoting the culture of life. It was during Reagan's watch that the Republican Party drafted the party platform affirming the right to life.
When Reagan was told how the abortion industry had infiltrated the U.S. Agency of International Development program and was using federal taxpayer funds to promote and perform abortions against unborn babies, he demanded in 1984 – in the now famous "Mexico City Policy" – that no federal funds in the program could be used to perform or promote abortion. No longer could Planned Parenthood International use taxpayer funds for killing little babies in foreign countries. No longer could it export child murder disguised as an American gift.
That policy was enforced until Bill Clinton rescinded it on his first day in the presidency. President George W. Bush has reinstated the Mexico City Policy and expanded it to include restrictions of funds from the State Department.
One of the most dramatic moments in Reagan's fight against abortion came in 1982 in Los Angeles. A pathology lab owner named Malvin Weisberg had kept a huge land-to-sea cargo container in his backyard in Woodland Hills. When he failed to make payments, the container company came to repossess it. Back in the storage yard, the men opened the container and were aghast at the overpowering stench of decaying human flesh and the sight of dead baby bodies – more than 43,000 – stacked in buckets or spilled out onto the driveway.
Eventually, the courts decided that these aborted babies, the majority coming from Dr. Morton Barke's Inglewood Women's Hospital and from Dr. Gordon Goei and Dr. Scott Ricke, could be buried. When President Ronald Reagan saw the photos of these babies, he was overwhelmed with grief and sent a letter to be read by Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich at the funeral:
When all is said and done, being confronted with the reality of abortion and its consequences removes all trace of doubt and hesitation. The terrible irony about this sudden discovery is not that so many human lives were legally aborted, but that they are only a tiny proportion of the 1.5 million unborn children quietly destroyed in our nation each year. This is the truth many would rather not face. ... We must strengthen our resolve to end this national tragedy.
Indeed, Reagan was so right again – the truth many would rather not face. Although media in the United States will print some of the most gruesome or grotesque photos of the dead, not one newspaper except for the Los Angeles Times ever published a photo of an abortion victim.
Ronald Reagan was flying from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles after leaving the presidency and a reporter asked him if there were any issues he considered unfinished business. Reagan replied that he wished he could have done more to end abortion. There is no doubt that Ronald Reagan would have opposed the savage partial-birth abortions, stem-cell research on human embryos, the coerced euthanasia death attempt on handicapped Terri Schiavo of Florida and the appointment of pro-abortion judges.
Shortly after the 10th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade abortion decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, President Reagan wrote his unequaled, "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation" essay.
The great majority of the American people have not yet made their voices heard, and we cannot expect them to – any more than the public voice arose against slavery – until the issue is clearly framed and presented ... We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life – the unborn – without diminishing the value of all human life.
More than 100 million unborn American children have been slaughtered by abortionists. As long as we tolerate the killing of our own children, our moral credibility within our own neighborhoods and on the world stage will be very limited.
The United States Supreme Court could play its most pivotal role in the history of this country by simply reversing Roe v. Wade – saving the lives of American children and honoring the right to life legacy of Ronald Reagan.
Let's hope, pray and act for it to be soon, because it remains the greates moral blot on the fabric of our nation and society.
The irony is that liberals are against capital punishment but support abortion on demand..........
The irony is that liberals are against capital punishment but support abortion on demand..........
Liberals see themselves as "utilitarians." They think there is nothing less useful than "an unwanted child," in the words of the popular Clintoid Joycelyn Elders. They think the guilty deserving of capital punishment can be reformed if prisons adopt the popular liberal ideology and subservience to "big government" in order to transform the individual.
I'd encourage everyone also to look at the book "Reagan in His Own Hand".
There is a radio commentary there where he talks about when he first ran up against the abortion issue as Governor of CA.
It's a great picture of the man and how he formed his opinion on this issue.
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From A Brief Catechism for Catholic Voters:
"A disqualifying issue is one which is of such gravity and importance that it allows for no political maneuvering. It is an issue that strikes at the heart of the human person and is non-negotiable. A disqualifying issue is one of such enormity that by itself renders a candidate for office unacceptable regardless of his position on other matters."
From Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics (An On-Line Guide):
The FIVE NON-NEGOTIABLE ISSUES are:
1. Abortion
2. Euthanasia
3. Fetal Stem Cell Research
4. Human Cloning
5. Homosexual "Marriage"
the apostate john kerry disqualifies himself on each of the 5.
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