Posted on 01/25/2009 3:58:50 PM PST by doug from upland
An I bet it is some good cookin. Maybe abortion legalized is the root of the problem??? Never entered my mind but it is possible. After all the Founders put the right to life first. They never could of imagined abortion. Then Liberty...guess we do not want that anymore.
You are incorrect because you underestimate the tragedy of abortion. One of the reoccurring questions from conservatives are where are our leaders. How are we going to get great leaders if we as a country keep aborting them? One great man or woman can help change the way we are going right now.
Also, how can we claim the moral high ground in the world if we OK the willful killing of the innocent. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness becomes a joke.
OK OK OK. Maybe it is the Big Problem that started our other problems. At this point I am open to ANY ideas.
What are Malthusian Ideologies?
Thanks, DFU!
Two different posts (so far) say that this information is inaccurate. What is at issue is surely a matter of historical record: What exactly were the laws regarding abortion when Hitler was in power? I wonder if anyone has information from an unbiased source—or at least a source less obviously biased than Precious-Life Ministries or Gloria Steinem.
The Founders must have known of abortion because they were learned men and, even as far back as Hippocrates, it was known and, in fact, forbidden by the Hippocratic Oath. When we define our rights under the Constitution as those with which we are “endowed by our Creator”, I believe we commit the grossest sacrilege and blasphemy by having our highest court put the right to kill one’s children in there. There are spiritual laws and truths. Violating them doesn’t usually result in an immediate bolt of lightning, but there are consequences nonetheless.
Thanks for your vote of confidence, but dinner was just a few porkchops carried off by a couple ravening teenagers to their respective TVs. They have mothers, but they CHOOSE to live with their Dad. I’m very fortunate.
Typo.
"Malthusian ideology" stems from the 19th century Briton Thomas Malthus, who firmly believed at that time, the world was overpopulated, and that stringent methods would have to be used to decrease the world population (bearing in mind we are talking about a century ago). He was utterly wrong then, and his present day adherents are just as erroneous, today...
the infowarrior
I saw this on a site and thought it was interesting. If you would like to do additional research, we would all welcome it.
A philosopher from the 17th and 18th century who promoted population control. Simply speaking, Malthus, looked down on the poor people.
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/malthus.html
There you go again with your ‘Moral Absolutes’. ;o) Hee-hee!
“abortion is one of the least of our problems”
I strongly disagree. We are now reaping what we’ve sown thirty years ago.
500,000/63,000,000= .008 Nazi Germany abortion rate
1,600,000/300,000,000=.005 Contemporary America abortion rate
Looks like America—in a fully voluntary non-dictatorship—NOT in the midst of the Great Depression, is just 3/100ths less in proportion of abortions than Nazi Germany.
SHAME!!!
Contemporary Germany by comparison, like the rest of western Europe, who’s rate went up when it incorporsated Eastern Germany, has a rate of 1 in 10 pregnancies, verses our rate of 1 IN 4....
GOD HAVE MERCY!
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