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Posted on 01/19/2003 11:47:36 PM PST by prezhz
THE LOST GENERATION: 30 YEARS OF ROE V. WADE by Hans Zeiger
In a sad sort of way, I am blessed to have survived the year 1985. That was the year I was born, and the year that 1.6 million of my fellow American citizens were murdered in abortion clinics. 1985 was the year that more abortions were performed than in any other year before or since except 1988 and 1990. Numbed by the widespread cultural acceptance of abortion, I lack the emotional regrets that old soldiers do when they reflect on their friends lost in battle. But the year I was born, abortion claimed more of my peers than all of the deaths in all of America’s wars combined.
I once heard someone reflect on the terrible, hypothetical concept that certain great men and women of America’s past had never been born. Flip through a history book and begin crossing out the names of the presidents, the pioneers, the inventors, the writers, the scientists. Spread black ink over the photographs of Lincoln and Edison, of Einstein and of King. It is much easier to engage in this awful exercise of the imagination when we know where we have been.
But when we consider where we have yet to be as a society, the great voices, leaders, and figures of the future have yet to be known. Thus, I don’t suppose that young Americans, born in the past thirty years, have ever taken much time to reflect on the idea that a great number of their generation has already departed from this world. 43 million souls is quite a significant number, but since they aren’t really souls, it doesn’t matter. They are fetuses; they are tissues; they are inconveniences. We are better without them, say their killers.
Even if we accept the humanitarian justifications of the killers, that my late peers are mere fetuses that lack any type of spiritual dimension, there is no reasonable person who doubts that they were once living human beings. The great national debate no longer questions what the definition of life is, it questions whether there is any value in life at all. Those who deny that life is spiritual as well as physical commit their highest value to convenience instead.
Abortion doctors and pro-choice activists know quite intimately the fact that pre-born children are alive from conception. The object of their war is not to stress denial of life’s existence within the womb; that would be like trying to prove fire is freezing cold. The point of the pro-abortion movement is that life has no intrinsic value, and if possible, avoid it. For the pro-abortion forces in America, the issue is not one of spiritual dignity, it is of bodily expedience.
Indeed, if the fetuses butchered around me in 1985 were simple organisms taken mercifully from this world to spare them from the hardships of life, and to make the burden less stressful for society, convenience carried greater benefits than preserving life. But if the fetuses butchered in 1985 were souls made in the image of God, I find great sorrow in the hypothetical. For in one clinic, my best friend was killed by the dilation and evacuation procedure. A doctor inserted a crushing instrument into the mother’s uterus and pulled off a piece of my best friend. He continued to do this until he had assembled all of the newly lifeless parts on a sterile, white table to make sure they all came out. In another clinic across the country, the future president of the United States was burned to death by amniotic infusion when he ingested a poisonous saline chemical. Before dying, he struggled against the severe pain of the burning in his new lungs and against his soft skin.
In the past thirty years, abortion has become one of the most common surgical procedures performed, and it is done in the safety and serenity of modern, plush clinics operated by exceptionally profitable non-profits like Planned Parenthood. Since Roe v. Wade, government social service agencies have taken advantage of the legality of abortion to add it to the list of public services provided to low-income citizens. Today, 3 out of every 10 abortions are funded by taxpayers. Since 1973, one in four pre-born children have been numbered among the victims of the war against life.
If we accept the obvious, the most recent World Almanac should have listed the leading cause of death as “abortion.” To anyone, including those who perform abortions, abortion is the unmistakable taking of human life. What is not so clear in America after Roe v. Wade is what value life carries with it. To anyone who invests great dedication to abortion, life is meaningless, life is disposable. But to Americans who understand we are more than animals, life is price-marked by the Creator, God.
Today, 43 million ghosts of infanticide walk the halls of America’s abortion clinics. Victims of murder, their invisible presence moves hauntingly, silently through our nation. The abject condemnation of life, legalized and advertised by so many since 1973, thrives and grows in every state. But the innocent ghosts of infanticide cannot speak for themselves. We must do all we can to speak for them.
How do we speak for the dead? We join the pro-life movement as Americans joined the abolitionist movement of the 1850s. We speak and we write, we rally and we minister, we encourage and we contribute, we pray, until every life in every place of America is legally protected.
The Life War has gone on for too long. For the 43 million dead, we can only commit to intensify our efforts, through God’s grace.
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As they are being replaced by tens of millions Third World immigrants. Makes sense.
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