Posted on 04/29/2013 4:09:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
The trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, facing the death penalty for the deaths of four infants and one woman in his clinic, is over. America has moved on.
It’s exactly what the pro-abortion contingent wants. They want Gosnell out of the news because they want abortion out of the news. Ongoing discussion provokes thought about the status quo. And pro-aborts want to keep things as they are.
And, they have reason to be confident.
Our president, whom no one can accuse of not being politically astute, showed up this week, despite the Gosnell story, as the first sitting president ever to address Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.
When Kirsten Powers brought attention to Gosnell, with her USA Today column, she said it wasn’t about abortion. “This is not about being pro-choice or pro-life,” she wrote. “It is about human rights.”
For Powers, the story was about lack of supervision. And, of course, where abortions are carried out legally, clinics should be supervised and inspected.
But to leave the story there is to be content with the tip of the iceberg. And the whole iceberg is a huge story that all of America should be looking at.
The whole iceberg is bigger than abortion itself. It is about how profoundly America has changed since Roe v Wade, in 1973, made abortion an accepted part of American life.
Let’s be clear that pro-aborts and pro-lifers differ on far more than technicalities about when life begins. They differ about what life is.
In the state of Pennsylvania, where Gosnell was doing his dirty business, abortion is legal until the developing child is 24 weeks - 6 months - old. Among Gosnell’s many transgressions was performing abortions after 24 weeks.
But Planned Parenthood, and their guest speaker, our president, oppose that 24-week limit. They believe abortion should be legal until the child is born.
In 2007, shortly after the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, which banned a brutal abortion procedure most commonly used to destroy infants from 15 to 26 weeks old, then-Senator Obama spoke at a Planned Parenthood event and decried the decision. He called it part of a “concerted effort to steadily roll back” access to abortion.
Justice Kennedy, who wrote the decision, included a description of one of these procedures on a 26-week-old infant. It takes a certain deadening of the heart, of the soul to read the description of the little baby clasping his fingers and toes as the doctor jams his scissors into his skull , and still believe this should be permitted.
Since Roe v Wade, we’ve given birth to a new materialistic culture of narcissism where reverence for life itself is gone. Life has become a commodity and people use each other as cavalierly as they destroy innocent young life.
As our reverence for life has diminished, so has our reverence for the institutions that surround and support it.
Scholars at the Brookings Institution observed in 1996 that Roe v Wade contributed to the collapse of marriage and the dramatic increase in out-of-wedlock births. The idea that children were part of a sacred institution called marriage started disappearing.
The sense of honor, the sense of shame disappears in this culture of self.
In 1965, seven years before Roe v Wade, less then 10 percent of American babies were born to unwed mothers – 24 percent to unwed black women and 3.1 percent to unwed white women. As of 2010, this was up to 41 percent of our babies born to unwed mothers – 73 percent to black women and 29 percent to white women.
Sixty percent of our out-of-wedlock births are to women in their 20’s.
Soon, as our resources diminish to care for our growing aging population, we will start dealing with our elderly as we do our unborn.
But if everything is meaningless, who cares?
Black voters are only 13 percent of the vote when the could have been 20?
Insanity...
My husband was born at 26 weeks at home, and lived to be 75 years old.
My father would have been aborted were the procedure legal and socially acceptable as today.
The trial is over?
Was he found guilty.
Did he get the death penalty?
When adults begin to die, babies will begin to be saved
Once the Pill teased the promise of “no consequences”, abortion was necessary to fulfill that promise.
The coarsening of the culture lead to the acceptance of euthanasia.
There is little hope of the culture turning from this mindset.
Now, turn your attention to the circumstances of the Fall of Man.
Eating the forbidden fruit, from the center of the Garden of Eden.
Are we to suppose God has lowered his expectations of Man?
Last night, I watched a t.v. show that painted in dark tones a poor, almost middle aged woman with 8 children who got a back alley abortion. The 8 kids were painted as doing NOTHING to help her, and they were also depicted as living in a dark, dismal two-room apartment. - Shoot! Two of my aunts had 12 and 13 children; those kids worked and helped their parents.
Just when I start thinking that there might be some ray of hope for this country, I read stories like this.
Radical man-hating feminazis are in control. They determine what the politicians on the left will do. They give money and bj’s to those who obey, and rip to shreds those who refuse to fall in line (Bush, Clarence Thomas, Bork, etc.)
Fear drives the Democrat party. They support abortion because they see life as being like a pie that all must share. If those black babies aren’t killed off, then they’ll be eating pie, and that means their share of the pie might be reduced. There is no concern for women’s rights. There isn’t even any grandiose humanitarian/ecological concern for the earth. It’s just a bunch of dirty, cowardly, self-serving liberals afraid that more people means less stuff for them. We keep letting the Democrats frighten us with their BS about socialism and environmentalism and maybe being Moslem. They’re just a bunch of dirty little greedy cowards.
I have a feeling that Obama would have been aborted by his mother had abortion been as acceptable back then as it is today, too.
I am very glad for you that he was not aborted. You know the next thing will be doing away with the seniors. We are a burden. We are inconvenient. Just like some pregnancies are inconvenient.
When Kirsten Powers brought attention to Gosnell, with her USA Today column, she said it wasn’t about abortion. “This is not about being pro-choice or pro-life,” she wrote. “It is about human rights.”
Babies don’t have human rights in America yet everyone says babies are precious. Precious to whom? Do they become precious when they are full term babies or just when?
We are importing 30-50 million Mexicans to replace the US (mostly) black babies murdered by abortionist.
That’s an interesting way of putting it.
I think I like it.
In the words of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, they are "human weeds".
My test for character for human beings comes from the 19th Century German philosopher/playwright von Goethe:
"You can easily judge a man's character by how he treats those whom [he thinks] can do nothing for him."
The Bible teaches us how we are to treat our elders: "You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD."
The fools - and I use that term in its biblical rather than pejorative sense - in charge "know better". Nevermind history stands as witness against their august social constructions of the past, persistent attempts to create heaven on earth fail miserably each time tried for one simple reason: They fail to understand the human heart.
Plato, in his own such construction restricted to literary form in The Republic understood this as he lamented the impossibility of utopia's realization this side of eternity.
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