Posted on 07/06/2009 1:23:04 PM PDT by wagglebee
LifeNews.com Note: Tom Glessner is a pro-life attorney who is the president of NIFLA, the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates. NIFLA is an organization that provides legal, medical and practical help for pregnancy centers across the country.
Recently the nation has seen a wave of deaths of celebrities — Ed McMann, Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett and Billy Mays. Very few people in the general public had personal relationships with these departed public icons. Yet, the intensity level of mourning that the nation has exhibited upon the news of these deaths shows that millions of people identified with these celebrities in a very personal way.
The public mourning for the death of Michael Jackson has been particularly intense. For several days after his death the news concentrated on both the details of his death and of his life. His music was replayed on both television and radio broadcasts and video images of him dancing to his music were shown over and over again to a grieving public. Likewise, the deaths of Farah Fawcett, Ed McMann and Billy Mays brought forth many special broadcasts on television to commemorate their lives.
Indeed, when a cultural icon passes away we all feel sadness. We all feel that even a part of our lives has also died, and the grieving families of these celebrities should be recipients of our prayers and compassion.
If we contrast, however, the public show of grief to these celebrity deaths with the public response to the deaths of 3,300 unborn children that occur from abortion every day we will have to make a disturbing observation about our nation.
It appears that when a celebrity dies the entire nation mourns but when 50 million unborn children die the nation pretends it didn't happen.
Abortion has since 1973 taken the lives of over 50 million unborn children. Abortion today takes the lives of 1.3 million unborn children every year. 3,300 every day. One every 25 seconds.
Where is the public mourning for these lives?
Each life taken by abortion was a unique person made in the image of God. Abortion has destroyed the lives of future doctors, lawyers, artists, authors, missionaries and others who could have contributed greatly to the quality of life we all enjoy.
Where is the public mourning for these lives?
Abortion has not only taken the lives of 50 million children but also ends the generational lines that would have followed such children had they been allowed to live. Millions of human beings who would have loved and been loved and provided so much joy and fulfillment to others will never exist because of abortion.
Where is the public mourning for these lives?
As a nation we mourn the passing of celebrities whom most of us did not know personally. But we ignore the deaths of millions because the manner in which they died is a topic that is not politically correct to bring up in social circles.
I suspect that the topic of abortion is to most Americans an uncomfortable topic that one does not enjoy discussing. Certainly, the passion of people on both sides of this issue makes for stress at your everyday dinner party. Yet, continued silence about this issue will not hide the fact that innocent lives are being taken every day.
Who is to mourn for the lives of the innocent taken by abortion everyday?
Until true public awareness of abortion and its ramifications is achieved then there will be no mourning for the deaths of these little ones. Only continued public silence will ensue.
Let us work for an America where this public silence is ended and is replaced by an outcry that will usher in a time period where every human life, born and unborn, is respected and the death of every person, whether a celebrity or an unborn baby, is mourned.
Well said!
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It helps when that celebrity represents the reigning freak and weirdo culture.
This country’s public culture is a sewer.
More “inconvenient” truth...
This is what the Dark Ages must have been like.
Great link, thanks.
The same hypocrites that today promote abortion were often the same people in the 60’s and 70’s that were calling our returning American warriors, “Baby Killers”.
That pretty much tells me all I need to know about their agenda.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285551/posts
Hey, Luke 21, would you please forward my thanks to Wagglebee? Thanks. {;^)
Exactly. To a large degree, the baby boomers are the most selfish and short-sighted generation in history.
I'm curious, if OJ Simpson were to drop dead of a heart attack on the golf course would we be hearing what a great football player he was?
Geez, what's Karl Malden, chopped liver?
Nothing like this should shock conservatives. We have as the insult-in-chief a man who worked on at least three occasions to protect the abortionists in Illinois killing born alive infants via purposed neglect that sometimes took up to eight hours to kill the struggling child! A man with a wicked soul isn’t elected by a moral people. The affirmative action figure in the Oval Office is a reflection of the nation the democrat party has created with their ‘abortion as an empowerment scheme’ politics.
The correct term is worm chow.
No, we would be hearing about how he escaped from jail.
Though it was published today, I think this may have been written before Malden died.
Truer words have never been spoken.
When a Celebrity Dies the Nation Mourns
I’ve never fallen into that mode.
I mourn for those I choose to mourn for.
I mourn for those babies who are murderred every day.
I also mourn for the morons responsible...cause they’ll need it.
The media is not "the nation."
It’s the difference between a tragedy and a statistic.
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