Posted on 01/24/2015 9:13:09 AM PST by Kaslin
For the past several years there has been a divisive tactical debate within our movement that essentially boils down to this question: how much should we compromise what we believe on behalf of political expediency?
I have been an active participant in this debate. In fact, I’ve been on all sides of it over the years as my views have changed. But I must admit that at times my passion for this issue has gotten the better of me, and I haven’t always been respectful of my fellow pro-lifers who disagreed with me. I’ve also been on the receiving end of unfair vitriol as well.
However, if anything good can come from the Republican Party’s latest betrayal of our movement this week, it’s that once and for all they proved this debate is no longer necessary.
See, if the GOP isn’t even willing to give us a symbolic vote (Infanticidist-in-Chief Obama would veto any attempt to save even one baby) to ban a heinous procedure only seven nations on earth still permit, then they were never going to abolish the gruesome practice of shedding innocent blood in the womb once and for all. Especially given the fact we already agreed to water down this symbolic bill by exempting children conceived in rape and incest from legal protection.
We did everything possible to make it as politically expedient as we could to get the largest House Republican Majority since before the Great Depression to advance the top issue in their party platform, and they still betrayed us. The most loyal and substantial voting bloc the GOP has had for a generation. The GOP even appointed someone as its CFO who is a lifelong advocate of killing children, removing the pro-life plank from the party platform, and has supported and given money to pro-killing Democrats like Joe Biden.
Along with all the empty rhetoric and violated pledges, this party has left us. We’re just standing on the lawn watching the car drive down the street.
The music has stopped playing, and we are without a chair. There is now no more incentive for us to divide our movement on behalf of political expediency or the proverbial “seat at the table.”
The political system has proven it has no intention of reciprocating that relationship, despite the fact we’re winning the debate in the culture—especially with the youth. Instead, political leaders are using these babies as a cynical ploy to garner votes from pro-life voters, like the multitude of those who descended upon our nation’s capitol for the annual “March for Life” this week.
There is no pragmatic incrementalism that passes muster with these cowards and/or deceivers, which they proved this week. Years of pleas for such gestures were just rabbit trails devised to distract from the truth—the people running this party are not really pro-life and have no intention of abolishing the evil of this age.
So we have a choice to make.
This guy sounds a bit defeatist.
We all ready know the Republican leadership is no good.
One step at a time. We have the majority, like he said. Now continue with patience and perseverance to change the leadership.
I would rather he did an analysis of who the specific turncoats were and begin the process to expel them in 2016.
Does he not know we fight against powers and principalities?
I skimmed this one three time. I have NO idea what this guy is trying to say. He is not clear in his message.
Stop acting like Margaret Sanger didn't found Planned Parenthood as part of an Eugenics movement to slaughter black babies before they were born.
Stop acting lie it's acceptable and not murder.
Democrats: stop acting like black lives don't matter. Stop funding planned parenthood.
Then we can chat, you and I...
Nancy Pelosi accepts "Margaret Sanger" award...
Thank you for referencing that article Kaslin. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
With all due respect to mom & pop, as a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are taught to be on their guard against judicial activism, citizens did not, and pathetically still do not understand the following concerning the so-called “right” to have an abortion.
Just as with activist judges now shoving constitutionally unprotected gay marriage down everybody’s throats, citizens do not understand that activist justices wrongly legislated the non-enumerated, vote-winning “right” to have an abortion from the bench, inappropriately using the 14th Amendment to apply that fictitious right to the states in complete disregard for the constitutionally unchecked, 10th Amendment-protected power of the states to regulate abortion.
As I’ve ranted elsewhere, citizens too lazy to study not only the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, but also the differences between legislative and judicial powers DESERVE to be slaves to corrupt government.
There can be no reasoning with mass murderers.
Sniff, sniff.
The author is spot on. You can’t fix a problem until you acknowledge that it exists. The problem here is an unholy coalition between those who are pro-life or claim to be and a political faction that clearly has zero intent of ending the practice of infanticide.
For the pro-life its decision time.
“For the pro-life its decision time.”
What decision needs to be made?
At what point do we equate Abortionists with the Nazis running Auschwitz?
Equate "Pro-choice" politicians, celebrities and spokesmen with goosestepping, stiff armed saluting "Heil Hitler" sycophants?
The ballot box and the legislature have not stopped the murder of babies. What will?
Is there a non-violent (violence toward people) way of closing abortion centers? Of persuading abortion doctors & staff to make a "career change"? Swamp their Facebook & Twitter accounts with excerpts from "The Silent Scream"?
Well, I can’t answer that question for you in detail due to legal concerns, but to say YES, there is a way of closing abortion clinics without hurting people and it would involve timing such an action well.
It is sad to see that the GOP refuses to even attempt to save one baby
His is the tone of a person who's just realized how bitterly determined to traduce, betray, and defeat him, his ostensible allies in DC really are.
He's being remarkably civil about it, everything considered. The French repaid this kind of thing with guillotining.
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