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Posted on 12/15/2007 9:54:07 AM PST by wagglebee
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the term, "September 11th", almost instantly became a household phrase. It represents a day of great tragedy and outrage wherein over 3,000 people were murdered at the hands of Islamic extremists who chose to callously sacrifice innocent human life to further a narrow and selfish political agenda.
But another date, January 22nd, which is not so well known, signifies an equally outrageous and solemn occasion. January 22, 2008, marks the 35th anniversary of what is, unquestionably, one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most highly controversial and divisive rulings in its two-hundred-plus year history - Roe v. Wade.
The Roe decision, authored by Justice Harry Blackmun, found for the first time that the U.S. Constitution somehow guaranteed the phantom "right" for a mother to have the innocent child which grew within her summarily killed.
Since that time, what seems an endless string of misguided women and innocent children have been victimized by this much more subtle, yet equally deadly form of politically motivated violence. And those to blame are, once again, extremists with an almost religious zeal who "choose" to callously sacrifice innocent human life to further a narrow and selfish political agenda.
It's not at all surprising that what public support there is for Roe v. Wade is typically rooted in a lack of knowledge. Ignorance is bliss, and blissful ignorance relative to Roe is by design. It's intentionally fueled through obfuscation and disinformation, fostered by pro-abortion activists and other like-minded leftists. Polls show conclusively that the more people learn about Roe v. Wade, the less likely they are to support it.
And so, in an effort to help educate the public about Roe, members from a coalition of pro-family organizations are asking America the following question: "Do you really know Roe?"
Concerned Women for America (CWA), Focus on the Family, the Alliance Defense Fund and the Family Research Council have designed a Web site with a brief online questionnaire to test your knowledge about Roe v. Wade. It's a Roe IQ test, and it can be taken in a few short minutes at RoeIQTest.com.
We've all heard the Biblical admonition, "A man reaps what he sows." With Roe, we have reaped a culture of death. The human toll Roe has taken is unfathomable and will only increase until people take the time to learn the truth about this convoluted ruling.
The number of those slaughtered as a direct result of Roe far exceeds that of Americans killed in all U.S. wars combined. Yet, in this war - the war for our culture - it is innocent children whose bodies are strewn across the battle field, buried - unceremoniously - in mass graves behind the local Planned Parenthood.
Although we think of 1973 - the year Roe was decided - as relatively modern, there remained, even then, a raging debate over when life begins. To abortion proponents, the pre-born child was merely a "lifeless blob" or a "nonviable mass of tissue" which could be done away with at any time prior to birth without moral or legal implications.
To the pro-life side, human life begins at the moment of conception with all the associated legal and civil rights of personhood attached.
The Roe Court sided with the pro-abortionists.
But since that time, science and technology have proven pro-lifers right and the Roe Court wrong. Addressing that reality, CWA President Wendy Wright said, "Technology and testimonies have splintered support for abortion, paving the way for more protection for women and unborn children.
"Advances in technology, particularly 3D and 4D ultrasound, provide a window into the womb, a picture that this is indeed a human being, not - as many abortion clinics tell unsuspecting women - a 'blob of tissue.' Whereas Roe claimed we do not know when life begins, ultrasounds show that it is clearly before birth."
History has a way of repeating itself. The Roe decision was not the first time the U.S. Supreme Court has so disgraced our nation. Roe v. Wade represents the twin bookend to the Court's shameful 1857 Dred Scott decision. In Dred Scott the Court absurdly held that African American slaves, even if emancipated, were not fully persons and therefore could never be considered U.S. citizens. Likewise, Roe ruled that children in gestation are not fully persons and are therefore not entitled to their most basic civil right… life.
As with Dred Scott, Roe's fate is inevitable. It's just a matter of time. History will eventually judge Roe v. Wade every bit as harshly as it judged Dred Scott. But until that time, innocent children continue to die on a daily basis.
Knowledge is power, and as more people gain knowledge about Roe v. Wade, the less power the multi-billion dollar abortion industry maintains. Make no mistake, they'll do anything and everything to keep that from happening.
But their ghoulish zeal betrays their true agenda. By any reasonable measure the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is nothing to celebrate. It is a national day of mourning. The post-Roe highway is awash with the blood of countless innocents. And those who have lead these little lambs to the slaughter are responsible.
Even so, this will not stop the mainstream media, radical feminists and other pro-abortion Kool-Aid guzzlers on the left from celebrating the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. They'll break out the streamers and party hats and dance gleefully around the golden calf of euphemistic "choice."
But power is there for the taking.
Please visit RoeIQTest.com before January, 22 and answer the question, "Do you really know Roe," for yourself. Then, when you see the left celebrating Roe v. Wade and the culture of death it has spawned, you can rest assured that you refused to stay in the dark. You refused to remain powerless.
After all… isn't it your choice?
“There is nothing in the Constitution that guarantees a right to have an abortion.”
I agree.
The 50 million Americans slaughtered since 1973 in the aboruaries are the legacy of liberalism in America ... and the 400,000,000 world-wide prove to this old man that the movement is demonically inspired, for humanity was appearing to rise from the inhumane of our past at the turn of the 19th century to the 20th, and then again following the first World War, and then again in the struggle to become more humane following the heinous inhumanity revealed in the Second Wolrd War, yet the planned slaughter of the alive unborn innocent was being institutionalized in the name of ‘liberating’ men and women!
Not really an accurate summary of history. Abortion has been illegal, and almost universally considered immoral, in the US throughout our history. And in western civilization long before that.
The dam began to break in a few states not long before Roe v. Wade, yes. But it was part of the same leftist revolutionary movement, expressed earlier in Griswold v. Connecticut, which legalized contraception—also illegal everywhere in the US until the “sexual freedom” modernizers got to work on it.
The Constitution is not silent on abortion, or neutral, any more than it is silent or neutral on marriage. It’s just that people took these things for granted for 2000 years, and then suddenly the rules were changed. No one thought that marriage had to be defined as only between a man and a woman, because that was too obvious to need saying.
The constitution protects the right of every individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Whether that includes the unborn is a matter of debate, but it can be argued that unborn persons are included in the word “person” in the constitution. Conservative jurists have argued the matter, and it is probably something we will have to debate in the future.
But, meantime, Roe v. Wade was clearly an unconstitution exercise of sheer power that reversed the common consensus of law and morality of centuries.
“Because I could,” clinton once said. A tyrannical SCOTUS said much the same thing, in Roe v. Wade. Because they could.
Sorry, I think I misread you, and we probably agree on most of this. I’ve been doing too much snow shoveling, I guess.
Unfortunately, you are way off on the worldwide abortion rate, more than ONE BILLION babies have been aborted worldwide since 1920:
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/wrjp337sd.html
I was focusing on the world since our step over the precipice with Roe in 1973. My numbers may be in error since I haven’t even looked at a table of stats on abortion since 2004.
Right now, there are approximately 1 MILLION abortions per week worldwide.
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