Posted on 11/09/2023 12:50:43 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
No Crusade because Jesus did not die on the cross in order to make it okay to murder babies.
Agree
“It was up to both sides to fight hard to convince them of the merits. One side engaged, one side has not”
Agreed
Convince your fellow Citizens.
Move to where you can live under the rules/laws you want.
That is how it’s supposed to be.
You have keyed into the correct demopgraphic.
Final 1/3 of boomers, steeped in the concept of “free love”.
I was there.
I seent it.
The Church (moral center) was sent packing as “old fashioned”.
Progessives.
“No Crusade it’s still a state issue they won’t be able to make the feds going back to foot the bill for their murders.
“They have their 15 minutes of fame for now.”
There hasn’t been an abortion funded by the federal government in 43 years.
The amendments will bring out Dems in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada, three swing states.
Gallup, June 26, 2023:
U.S. church attendance has shown a small but noticeable decline compared with what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. In the four years before the pandemic, 2016 through 2019, an average of 34% of U.S. adults said they had attended church, synagogue, mosque or temple in the past seven days. From 2020 to the present, the average has been 30%, including a 31% reading in a May 1-24 survey.
The recent church attendance levels are about 10 percentage points lower than what Gallup measured in 2012 and most prior years.
The church knows why but won’t lift a finger to correct it.
Orthodox doctrine.
The teachings of the Apostles.
What do you thing the state does with it’s money from the feds just pave roads.
Murder Inc. has feed lines also with bogus names.
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court legislated a national right to abortion-on-demand-and-without-apology by judicial fiat. Now think of that number: 50. Two generations of Americans came to believe they had a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy at any time and for any reason. Men and women were glad to have abortion as a backstop for sexual freedom.
Most opposed to abortion fail to understand that abortion itself has become part of the very fabric of American life. For the average American female, there are three rites of passage:
Loss of virginity between the ages of 14 and 18.
First abortion between the ages of 14 and 21.
Failure of first marriage between the ages of 21 and 30.
Shocked? People conversant with the morality of the Fifties would regard this sexual anarchy as a form of societal madness. But it has become part of the fabric of life. Marriage itself has changed as an institution. The stigma of divorce has vanished insofar as half of all marriages end that way. Multiple marriages during a lifetime are a normal fact of life.
Most arguments against abortion are based on strong religious belief. Catholics used to be the largest faith in America, but now Unbelief has replaced them as Number One. Unbelief is also the fastest growing “religion” in America. God the Hairy Thunderer has been replaced by God the Cosmic Muffin. It’s hard to make a religious argument when so many have put religion aside for a secular or so-called “spiritual” approach. Threats of retribution in an afterlife don’t work when so many reject that premise.
To end abortion, you need to convince people to end sexual freedom, erase the Sixties and return to an earlier, traditional frame of morality. That’s a hard sell. Once the sexual freedom cat is out of the bag, as a rule it doesn’t want to go back in.
Really excellent post. Thank you.
I was a small child watching the world turn from order to anarchy. It was almost like watching an eclipse, a cultural eclipse.
I was taught at (Catholic) church that babies and life were precious. At grade school I was taught that birth control was a boon for married women who otherwise would have out-of-control childbearing and too many mouths to feed, and interfere with her career, and besides the world was in danger of becoming overpopulated anyway. And then just prior to the Roe v. Wade decision, being taught that the sexual act was for “bonding” between the two parties and not just for reproduction.
Creepy.
Women used to enforce sexual morality on other women.
Now they encourage one another to ride the carousel in their 20s, marry late, then divorce for cash and prizes while playing the “strong independent woman” card.
That, together with several other items, has led to demographic collapse.
I can’t remember who said it, but the Republicans need to start showing videos of actual abortions.
I imagine networks have refused to air any such ads.
Imagine that ... something the left pushes SO hard for, is unable to be aired, on national tv.
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