Posted on 01/22/2014 6:51:35 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Jenelle Evans, 22, had an abortion this year. Originally featured on MTV four years ago as a pregnant teenager, Evans, who loves to party, had a son, gave the son to her mother to raise, got into heroin, got married and went to jail; her husband ended up in jail as well on drug charges. They got divorced. He didn't know that Evans was pregnant. She got an abortion. He found out about it on the commercials for "Teen Mom 2."
Now she's pregnant again. With a third guy. Who may or may not be seeing another woman on the side.
Since the legally and morally despicable decision of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade in 1973, American women have aborted some 56 million children. The vast majority of these children have been aborted for reasons that have nothing to do with rape, incest or the health of the mother. We have destroyed an entire generation of children purely for self-worship. Children are difficult; therefore, they can be done away with. Children are burdensome; therefore, they don't exist in the womb. Or, as President Barack Obama once put it regarding his own daughters, "If they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
Meanwhile, the same society that has busily anesthetized millions to the murder of the unborn casually pushes social costs onto the next generation -- a generation that, increasingly, does not exist. According to the 2010 census, just 24 percent of the American population is under age 18, compared with 39.4 percent that is 45 and older. America is aging, and aging quickly.
And what of the young? Their chief concerns these days are legalization of marijuana, state-sponsored same-sex marriage and provision of birth control. If we think the demographics and economics of the country look bad now, wait until America relies on a generation of overprivileged, underachieving Americans convinced of their own moral rectitude based on a puerile libertarianism freed of libertarianism's consequences. Sex and drugs have replaced building for the future; abortion and the welfare state have replaced consequences.
In the end, this philosophy will lead to the dominance of the state. There are only two types of society that can survive. First, there is the heavy-entitlement, heavily regulated society, in which compulsion takes the place of free choice. Second, there is the free society, in which individual actions carry individual consequences. America used to be the second type of society. As we realize that there is no next generation to foot our bills, we will transition more toward the first.
So, how can we solve all of this? Not through the law -- the law follows culture. The only way to restore an American future is to restore the social and religious institutions that fostered genuine American values. This means fighting back against the tyranny of those who conveniently proclaim to "live and let live" while simultaneously demanding that Americans with traditional values shut the hell up. This means emboldening our churches and synagogues to once again speak out on behalf of virtue. This means treating family as a priority rather than an afterthought or punishment.
Evans is a victim of the society that built her -- a society that has enabled her misdeeds and rewarded her sins. But she cannot be the basis of America's future. If she is, America will, quite literally, have no future.
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Ben Shapiro, 30, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, a radio host on KTTH 770 Seattle and KRLA 870 Los Angeles, Editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt.org, and Editor-At-Large for Breitbart News. He is the New York Times best-selling author of "Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America." To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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This is so exactly right. But moral revival? Not gonna happen. Frankly, I no longer believe the USA has a future, and this is the reason.
What a great article.
Sarah Palin on the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3114618/posts
Freep a poll!(When should abortion be legal?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3114602/posts
The moral decline seems irreversible. Jerry Falwell did what he could to reverse it; so did Jesse Helms. But there is no one much left who even understands the pending doom.
Slaughtered babies, abused children, promiscuity, homosexuality, transgender, murder, rape, knock-out “games”, corruption, abusive bullies, deceit, various sexually transmitted diseases, divorce, out-of-wedlock birth rates, on and on and on it goes.
And the world makes fun of God-fearing people. Hard to believe.
More and more, I meet women who will admit, as they enter into their 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, that they remember that one abortion they had, way back when.
Most are not doing as well as we would have all expected, since they got rid of the baby to get it “out of the way” so they could achieve their dreams.
In fact, who really knows of any women doing or bragging about how great their life is now that they aborted a child, way back when?
How has it turned out for women? It would be nice if women would be honest about it for once.
Here it is yet again, the old "she's a woman so she must be a victim" refrain.
No. Try this instead: She is not a victim. She is an adult who is fully responsible for her own actions. Society did not do this to her. She CHOSE to do it. She CHOSE to get married, she CHOSE to get pregnant by her husband, and she CHOSE to have their fetus killed without even informing the father. She is an exalted being in modern America, an Empowered Feminist. I am woman, hear me roar, and just flush those bloody little body parts down the drain.
The only victims here are her fetus and her fool of an ex-husband.
The only way to restore an American future is to restore the social and religious institutions that fostered genuine American values.
Great idea. Best of luck with that.
I know one such, a far-leftist in almost all respects, who every year marks the (estimated) day that her baby would have been born. She knows that she made a horrible mistake.
I’ve posted this to a couple of other threads, but this comparison of post Roe v. Wade abortion deaths to U.S. war deaths really puts it in perspective.
Each “+” (cross) represents 10,000 deaths (or fraction thereof)
Revolutionary War 6,188
+
War of 1812 4,505
+
Mexican War 4,152
+
U. S. Civil War (both sides) 498,332
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Spanish-American War 2,446
+
World War I 116,516
+ + + + + + + + + + + +
World War II 405,399
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Korea 54,246
+ + + + + +
Vietnam 58,167
+ + + + + +
Desert Storm 293
+
Afghanistan/Iraq Liberation 3,500
+
Grand Total all U.S. Wars 1,150,744
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Abortions in the U.S. (Since Roe v. Wade in 1973) 54,559,615
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Where is the Code Pink outcry?
Although I don’t know if any women I know have had abortions, I have no problem believing, as a woman, that many, if not most, continue to suffer from their decision. Decent, normal women wouldn’t see it as something to brag about.
I’ve made enough bad decisions in my life but, thank God, this was not one of them.
The only way to restore an American future is to restore the social and religious institutions that fostered genuine American values.
This statement is exactly true. And your sarcastic rejoinder to it is also exactly true - its probably impossible to restore the attitudes that made America great, but then who ever said that maintaining the great American Republic would be easy? The founding fathers never thought so. Evan's behavior, and that of millions of others, is slowly poisoning American society, but its a very sweet poison, which is why it keeps getting taken. Who doesn't want to do what they want? Who doesn't want to avoid bad consequences? Of course, we know here that freedom and rights are impossible to have without a corresponding amount of responsibilites and duties, but an ever increasing number of our fellow citizens consider duty and responsibility to be boring and hard work and somebody else's job.
Telling.
The Left, in protest slogans:
NO MORE WAR!!!
STOP THE KILLING!!!
NO BLOOD FOR OIL!!!
HEY HEY LBJ! HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU KILL TODAY???
Abortion? Nothing to see, here. Move along.
OBAMA’S CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY- THE TORTURE AND DISMEMBERMENT OF THE UNBORN CHILD
Ken Blackwell
Friday, May 15, 2009
http://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2009/05/15/obama_and_crimes_against_humanity/page/full
Note: Mr. Blackwell served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission from 1991 - 1993. Note: Mr. Blackwell served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission from 1991 - 1993.
“In my opinion, the Obama Administration’s abortion agenda is indeed a crime against humanity.”
This is a tale of two worldviews. It begins not unlike the opening paragraph of Dickens’ immortal work, A Tale of Two Cities. Schoolchildren once memorized these famous opening lines, back when schoolchildren memorized anything.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…
President Obama at his Hundred Day White House séance proclaimed waterboarding to be torture. His was a clear, unambiguous, declarative statement. In making that statement, he opened up former President Bush and former Vice President Cheney to criminal prosecutions, here and before an international criminal court. And not just these men, but possibly hundreds of others, including members of Congress from his own party.
Cliff May, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, takes a different approach to the question of whether waterboarding is torture or not. May was badgered by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart. May’s answer is not as yes/no, as on/off as President Obama’s. May said it depends. May’s answer was more nuanced. Liberals used to like nuance, but that was when John Kerry was nuancing. Here’s how it went:
Jon Stewart: But answer my question: Is waterboarding torture? Yes or no?
Cliff May: Defining torture is not easy. A simple legal definition is that it “shocks the conscience.” Cutting off Daniel Pearl’s head on videotape — that shocks my conscience. Sending a child out as a suicide bomber — that shocks my conscience. People jumping off the World Trade Towers because they’d rather die that way than by burning — that shocks my conscience. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 atrocities, gagging for a few minutes and, as a result, providing information that saves lives, then going back to his cell for dinner and a movie — no, my conscience is not shocked by that.
Are our consciences shocked by subjecting KSM to waterboarding? Apparently, this enhanced interrogation technique didn’t shock the consciences of members of Congress who were briefed on its planned use. Some of us need to re-play those tapes of cell phone calls by people trapped in the World Trade Towers.
The question keeps coming back to whether we extend all the rights of American citizens to captured terrorists. And the question also comes back to whether the terrorists are to be accorded all the protections of the Geneva Conventions.
Increasingly, our courts are saying terrorists are to be given constitutional protections, here, in Afghanistan, and at Gitmo. Geneva is another matter. This treaty binds nations to humane treatment of prisoners of war. In order to be counted as a prisoner of war, you must be in uniform (John McCain was, Nathan Hale was not), you must be subject to military discipline, and you must be taking part in a war conducted by competent authority.
The Geneva Convention also governs respect for medical treatment of prisoners and wounded soldiers. Take Al Qaeda in Iraq, for example. When one of their IEDs went off in 2003 near Baghdad and killed and wounded a number of American soldiers, a U.S. Army medical HUMVEE raced to the scene. Waiting for the medics to arrive, the terrorists set off a second IED. It had been planted there specifically to target the medical help. Inside the HUMVEE, an American female nurse was burned beyond recognition.
The purpose of the Geneva Convention was to give warring nations a strong, positive incentive to behave according to international norms and not to engage in conduct that “shocks the conscience.” When we give Al Qaeda or Taliban terrorists prisoner of war status and Geneva Convention coverage—without demanding anything of them in return—we abandon one of the great achievements of the Geneva Convention.
Of course, some humans are not accorded human rights. Our courts have seen to that. President Obama named Justice Stephen Breyer as his ideal jurist. In 2000, Justice Breyer wrote the majority opinion in Carhart v. Stenberg. That was the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional Nebraska’s law against partial-birth abortion. Justice Breyer’s opinion is worth quoting at length.
He described various techniques of late-term abortion that do not shock his conscience. Nor do these techniques—unlike waterboarding, unlike slapping, unlike sleep deprivation—shock President Obama’s conscience, or the consciences of our liberal rulers.
During a pregnancy’s second trimester (12 to 24 weeks), the most common abortion procedure is “dilation and evacuation” (D&E), which involves dilation of the cervix, removal of at least some fetal tissue using nonvacuum surgical instruments, and (after the 15th week) the potential need for instrumental dismemberment of the fetus or the collapse of fetal parts to facilitate evacuation from the uterus.
When such dismemberment is necessary, it typically occurs as the doctor pulls a portion of the fetus through the cervix into the birth canal. The risks of mortality and complication that accompany D&E are significantly lower than those accompanying induced labor procedures (the next safest mid-second-trimester procedures).
A variation of D&E, known as “intact D&E,” is used after 16 weeks. It involves removing the fetus from the uterus through the cervix “intact,” i.e., in one pass rather than several passes. The intact D&E proceeds in one of two ways, depending on whether the fetus presents head first or feet first. The feet-first method is known as “dilation and extraction” (D&X). D&X is ordinarily associated with the term “partial birth abortion.”
A little translation may be required: “at least some fetal tissue” translates to the unborn child’s arm, a leg, or maybe her head. “Dismemberment of the fetus with nonvaccuum surgical instruments” means cutting off her arms or legs with razor-sharp implements while the child, still alive, is capable of feeling excruciating pain.
Rest assured, this is not torture. It doesn’t meet the legal definition of torture because under the rule of Roe v. Wade, the unborn child does not meet the legal definition of a person.
Terrorists were once defined—like pirates and slave traders—as hostis humani generis, enemies of all mankind. As such, they received no due process rights. They had no right to counsel. They received no protections under international agreements. When seized on the high seas by the Royal Navy, they could be promptly hanged upon determination that they were engaged in the proscribed activities.
It would have shocked the consciences of our ancestors, however, to dismember even such low characters as pirates, to cut off their arms and legs, and to let them bleed profusely to death. The most inhuman of humans in the nineteenth century could not have been treated as the least of humans are treated in our enlightened United States, by order of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Our new president abhors torture, unless it is the torture of the unborn. In that case, it is not torture at all, but simply inducing fetal demise.
This great international uproar over what is and is not torture has been generated because of the treatment of three known mass murderers. The slaughter of innocents in their thousands elicits no international outrage. This is part of what Justice Breyer sees as evolving international standards of decency.
In my opinion, the Obama Administration’s abortion agenda is indeed a crime against humanity.
This weekend, President Obama will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Notre Dame. There, he will be honored, among other things, for his brave stand against torture. He has appointed Kathleen Sebelius to head our nation’s health system. She is a disciple of the most notorious late-term abortionist in the county, a dismemberer, by his own count, of 60,000 fetuses. The President and Secretary Sebelius want to force us all to pay for abortion-on-demand. They want to force doctors and nurses to take part in killing unborn children. They will doubtless tell us our consciences should not be shocked. They’re only inducing fetal demise. Heaven help us all. And Heaven help Notre Dame.
>>>More and more, I meet women who will admit, as they enter into their 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, that they remember that one abortion they had, way back when.<<<
As well as some men. Two of the three children that I brought into the world were aborted by the convenience of the woman. The circumstances are too tawdry to recount here, or anywhere, really, but needless to say, when I look at my 15-year-old son, the ghosts of those other two children are always nearby.
Which is too bad. I’m told that I’m one hell of a dad.
There are millions of other fathers out there right now with the same kind of forgotten existence, too. Sad beyond words.
Time to tell your story. We need to hear from men. Men have given up precious sons, and daughters. Kids who would have been there for them in their old age.
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