Posted on 07/03/2004 7:24:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
Left-wing Seattle radio talk host Erin Hart told her audience Thursday that the life and early death of 13-year-old poet Mattie Stepanek is evidence of the importance of "a woman's right to choose [to kill her offspring]." Mattie is the fourth of his mother's children to die of a rare form of muscular dystrophy. Hart asked why in the world Mrs. Stepanek would continue to have children under such circumstances. But Hart stopped short of carrying on the logic of her question, for Mattie Stepanek's inspirational chance at living declares that a "choice" for his life was worth it.
Modern liberal sense would suggest that Mattie Stepanek should have been aborted back in 1991, but instead he accomplished greater things and inspired more people in his little life than most people do in long lives. I would challenge pro-abortion activists to e-mail me and argue that Mattie Stepanek should have been aborted, but I expect no e-mails, for even the most pinko commie pro-abortion leftist can see in the deep parts of his heart that Mattie's life was infinitely precious.
Only in America can a 13-year-old die having accomplished international fame in poetry and inspirational writing, having made it onto the best-seller list for his several published books.
That is the great thing about being a citizen in the United States of America. There is no limit to our dreams, no one stopping us from living out God's purpose for our lives.
But on Tuesday, the Boston Globe ran a story entitled "Early Warning," suggesting that doctors must ensure that first-trimester screening is available for parents to determine if their unborn child has the mentally retarding Down syndrome. The assumption is that early screening is necessary to get the abortion over sooner rather than later.
We automatically assume that some Americans are not fit to be citizens any longer. And yet they're the most promising, most innocent group of all: the unborn.
We view our posterity as nothing more than junk in the disposal of a Planned Parenthood clinic. Since 1973, 44 million Americans have died from abortion. It is the leading cause of death in our nation, yet we are numbed to it, for the voices of the unborn are silent. We cannot hear their shocking, desperate death cries.
We ought to be mindful of the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July, just as the abolitionists were on the eve of the Civil War in regards to slavery. In it we read that awesome sentence, "All men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
God gives life. No man can create it, and no man can take it away and hope to escape the perfect justice of the Creator. It is a sacred thing, and our nation declared independence in 1776 because our Founding Fathers responded to the Providential call they heard to live in respect of those rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But in abortion, we cast aside every principle of the Declaration of Independence, we spit upon the founding, and we declare ourselves a people unworthy of the title of a free people. Our national character is no longer sufficient for the maintenance of a future, for we daily kill thousands of little futures.
Then what worth is our national birthday if we declare some Americans fit to live, and others we simply vacuum away or crush or maim or mangle or burn or poison? What, to the unborn, is the Fourth of July?
In another time, on another issue, that question was asked by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass. It was Independence Day in 1852, at the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, N.Y., that Douglass asked:
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. The Fourth of July is no day for the unborn. The right to life is forgotten. All of our feasting and drinking and fireworking and gaming and vacationing is all vanity when the lives of so many unborn Americans have been denied.
Our national patriotism ought to be strong, but it ought to be tempered by the awful reality that entire generations of American citizens have perished.
Abortion is the most shameful thing in American history. Even with slavery the argument could be made that slavery had existed throughout history, America just took much longer than it should have to see the inhumanity of slavery. Abortion was developed by the left for the express purpose of ending human life.
No birth? No birthrights.
What is shameful is that our civilization was advancing, and beginning to recognize the rights of all, and then our laws stripped one class of human beings of all humanity and all rights.
And the liberals seeking liberty applauded.
Mrs VS
Frederick Douglass was a magnificent orator. Would that some new abolitionist possessed of his gifts, would rise to speak for the unborn.
Mrs VS
44 million killed via abortion. About 800 killed via military action in Iraq. Which killing gets the press? Which killing is the most inhumane? Which of these death statistics was for a worthy cause?
And which group at least had the understanding that their lives may be in danger?
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