We Need To Talk, America!

Self ^ | 9/28/2001 | MHGinTN

[betty boop]

Hi MHGinTN! Anna Quindlen just shows how out of sympathy she is with American (and Western) philosophical ideas concerning just government. She's much more on the Red Chinese model, which holds: All civil rights (human rights) are grants of the State. There is no human right unless it is recognized by the State; the State can "create" a human right at will. Plus the State is the Ultimate authority -- it answers to nothing "higher" than itself.

In America (and other Western societies), human rights are held to be endowments from God, not creations of the State. And governments, to be considered legitimate, must honor and defend those rights; i.e., they function under God's Law. States are answerable, not only to the people, but also to Him for what they do.

Yet here in Roe v. Wade we have a branch of government -- the supreme judiciary -- doing what it has absolutely no authority or competence whatever to do: "Creating" a right for some people -- mothers -- that other people do not have: the "right" to deprive an unborn child of its right to life. If "other people" were to do that, it would be called murder with malice aforethought -- premeditated murder. The so-called "right" to abortion is literally a license to kill. This is a betrayal of everything America stands for, and makes a mockery of our rule of law.

But some very sick people out there not only condone this sort of thing, they positively promote it, campaign for it relentlessly -- Anna Quindlen famously among them. Did you hear that, right after the September 11th attacks, Planned Parenthood was offering "free" abortions? How sick is that?

It breaks your heart to see such selfish heartlessness and failure of concern for another human being simply because he's (she's) defenseless. God help these people.

Thanks Marvin, for another fine essay. best, bb.