Posted on 09/28/2001 8:44:58 PM PDT by MHGinTN
We need to talk, America!
Anything can happen when human beings allow ideology to trump their humanity, when they elevate an idea above the lives of individuals. Anything can happen, and too often does. It becomes possible to bomb a black church and kill the four little girls inside. It becomes possible to execute a doctor who performs abortions, shoot him through the window of his own home while his children are nearby. Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, September24, 2001
Please, if you just read the above quote, re-read it. There’s a subtle message within that quote that we Americans need to discuss, for future clarity. The saw, ‘for the children’ has been co-opted for subtle inference by the liberal demagogues for too long; it’s time to clear up a few things.
Anna Quindlen is a paid journalist, an editorial writer. I read her column at the end of Newsweek, usually by default when seeking a George Will ending to the detritus found in the too liberal rag. [My wife has a subscription to the magazine and it ends up in the bathroom for quiet reading, though I wouldn’t spend the money to purchase it for myself.]
Do we need someone to tell us it’s an atrocity to bomb a church and kill four innocent little girls? No. Do we need someone to tell us it’s wrong to gun down a doctor in his home, in close proximity to his children? No, most Americans know it’s wrong, though sadly, some would condone it. If it were possible for me to prevent such crimes at the last minute, I would do it, instinctively. But when an abortion doctor is gunned down, I don’t mourn for the person even though I know the act was wrong. Murder is wrong, it violates our common law and order, and that cannot be tolerated else we damage the foundational structure of our Republic.
If our society is to be untwisted from the gordian knot of liberalism, from dichotomous liberal think, condemnation of wrong must be applied equally, or else the paradigm of our common good becomes selective and the thing that Anna points out is fostered in the confusion of emotional reaction. Ms Quindlen cautions, “Anything can happen when human beings allow ideology to trump their humanity, when they elevate an idea above the lives of individuals ... Anything can happen, and too often does.” She then cites the travesty of murdering an abortion doctor.
What does an abortion doctor do? ... Abortion kills individuals, when ‘they’ elevate an idea above the lives of individuals. ‘A woman’s right to choose abortion’ is just such an idea incorrectly elevated. Unborn individuals, if allowed to continue their normal life in the womb, may grow up to become firefighters, policemen, and rescue workers. In fact, I bet that, statistically, ten times as many as were lost in police persons and firefighters at the WTC and Pentagon atrocities would have grown up to become just such valued members of our nation had they not been selectively aborted, really for no medical reason.
Do the math with me: we abort on average 1.2 million individual lives each year; there were over three hundred policemen and firefighters killed in the atrocity; ten times that many is more than 3,000; 3,000 is ~ .0025% of 1.2 million. At least .0025% of individuals in American society become police and firefighters, don’t they?
When a journalist cites the murder of an abortion doctor, yet fails to recognize the individual humanity such a serial killer is aborting, that journalist is spinning, liberally ... and America, we have got to stop letting those spinners delude our reasoning. Murdering an abortion doctor is wrong. Serially aborting 1.2 million individual lives is monstrously wrong, also, and it’s a sickness of our society that we allow liberal rhetoric to obfuscate the truth of that. It’s time to stop it.
Things got so insane in the 2000 elections that a major political party chose to elevate ‘a woman’s right to choose’ as their slogan for election! Anything can happen when an idea is elevated over the lives of individuals ... anything, even the willful killing of 1.2 million individual lives, each year, in the name of a woman’s ‘rite’ to choose.
America, we need to talk.
Clinic Counselors Speak Out
"I have never yet counseled anybody to have the baby. I'm also doing women's counseling on campus at Albany State, and there I am expected to present alternatives, whereas at the abortion clinic you aren't really expected to." -- abortion counselor Rachel Weeping and Other Essays About Abortion. James Tunstead Burtchaell, editor. New York: Universal Press, 1982 pg. 42-43.
"Counselors are just to give the appearance of help. . . [They] think of themselves as company for the women." -- abortion clinic counselor.
"I was trained by a professional marketing director in how to sell abortions over the telephone. He took every one of our receptionists, nurses, and anyone else who would deal with people over the phone through an extensive training period. The object was, when the girl called, to hook the sale so that she wouldn't get an abortion somewhere else, or adopt out her baby, or change her mind. We were doing it for the money." -- Nina Whitten, chief secretary at a Dallas abortion clinic under Dr. Curtis Boyd.
"Every woman has these same two questions: First, 'Is it a baby?' 'No,' the counselor assures her. 'It is a product of conception (or a blood clot, or a piece of tissue)' Even though these counselors see six week babies daily, with arms, legs and eyes that are closed like newborn puppies, they lie to the women. How many women would have an abortion, if they told them the truth?" -- Carol Everett, former owner of two clinics and director of four "A Walk Through an Abortion Clinic" by Carol Everett ALL About Issues magazine Aug-Sept 1991, p 117. "We tried to avoid the women seeing them [the fetuses]. They always wanted to know the sex, but we lied and said it was too early to tell. It's better for the women to think of the fetus as an 'it.' -- Abortion clinic worker Norma Eidelman, quoted in Rachel Weeping, p 34.
"The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it is to have a baby." -- former abortion worker Debra Harry, quoted in the film "Meet the Abortion Providers" 1989.
"When discussing the sonogram, you are supposed to tell the client that it is a measurement as far as the pregnancy is concerned, but not a measure of the fetal head or anything like that." -- Rosemary Petruso, on her training to be an abortion counselor. Her story appeared in the St. Louis Review and was also quoted in "Women Exploited: The Other Victims of Abortion" Paula Ervin, editor. Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor, 1985.
"Sometimes we lied. A girl might ask what her baby was like at a certain point in the pregnancy: Was it a baby yet? Even as early as 12 weeks a baby is totally formed, he has fingerprints, turns his head, fans his toes, feels pain. But we would say 'It's not a baby yet. It's just tissue, like a clot." -- Kathy Sparks told in "The Conversion of Kathy Sparks" by Gloria Williamson, Christian Herald Jan 1986, p 28.
"It is when I am holding a plastic uterus in one hand, a suction tube in the other, moving them together in imitation of the scrubbing to come, that woman ask the most secret question. I am speaking in a matter-of-fact voice about 'the tissue' and 'the contents' when the woman suddenly catches my eye and says 'How big is the baby now?' These words suggest a quiet need for definition of the boundaries being drawn. It isn't so odd, after all, that she feels relief when I describe the growing bud's bulbous shape, its miniature nature. Again, I gauge, and sometimes lie a little, weaseling around its infantile features until its clinging power slackens." --abortion worker Sallie Tisdale "We Do Abortions Here" Oct 1987 Harpers Magazine p 68.
http://www.w-cpc.org/abortion/clinic.html
Ping-a-ling-a-ling
I got this far and jumped down to see the author. I anticipated what might follow and I was right. You are correct, Marvin. We need to make our voices heard everywhere possible. I think your mathematical example makes a striking point and such things often plant a seed.
But I have to honestly admit that I don't know how else to fight the liberal rhetoric other than to always speak up (I do), donate time and money to those who fight for LIFE, vote, pray and educate whenever the opportunity arises. What do you suggest?
Sounds good to me !!! I think we also need to regularly write to our local papers and always counter the "letters to the editor" that excuse or advocate abortion.
A few years ago when my pro-life girls were teens, I had a little game plan. It may have not reached great numbers but I did my best. Once in awhile they would get into abortion discussions with their misguided friends. They would come to me, friend in tow, and I would begin a very reasoned approach to show them the error in their belief. Then we would pop "Eclipse of Reason" into the VCR for a real eye opener. I knew I risked angering some parents but I never got any backlash. I believe that a few girls left our house with changed minds.
I think pictures will make our case. Sadly buying billboard space and TV time is just not working. Networks will show holocaust victims, but will not show aborted babies.
In the face of the terroristic mass murder of thousands, this woman focuses on abortion violence???
One can count on one hand the number of well known Muslim clerics who have repudiated violence in the name of Allah. It is part of their Koran. They cannot repudiate it, for to do so is to repudiate their Koran.
Every time there is violence by a deranged individual against an abortion provider (which is not nearly as common as violence by one abortion provider or organized crime against another abortion provider) all mainstream pro-life groups condemn such violence.
This is a subtle attempt to establish a moral equivalency between pro-life activists and the KKK, not to mention Islamic fundamentalists by inference due to the wounds so fresh in our collective psych.
Yet we now have a radically pro-abortion Republican in charge of "Homeland Security."
This post is charged with curtailing terrorism, domestic and foreign.
By consistently branding Christian pro-life activists as among those who elevate an idea above the lives of individuals this author and many others willfully elevate Christianity along with Islam as a group worthy of investigation and prosecution for terrorism, both domestic and foreign.
Our "conservative, Christian" President Bush has named a pro-abort politician to the post who will be responsible for such investigation and prosecution, with nary a peep from conservative Pro-life Christians.
Anna Quinlin and her types seemingly have won an ideoligical battle without a shot fired, by a Christian community cowed by the threat of war, and the demand that we place Patriotism over bedrock pro-life Christian principles.
Excellent Marvin!
Aha, bingo! Well-aimed shot.
Dan
Over 42,000,000 served ( dead, unfortunately )- why do we kill our babies so much?
Media Ignores Poll Showing Pro-Life Majorities
Induced Abortion: The Number One Cause of Death In The United States
The Best Article Ever Written About Abortion-The sisterhood, 27 years later
I'm kind of pushed for time- Mrs. B, who's in the sixth week of recovering from a plate being put in her neck, is agitating to "go somewhere" and will have scoot soon... if you'll go here:
DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
and backtrack, there are quite a few abortion-related links... I *think* it's been "indexed," too, if you have lost links... ??? abortion_list ???
Life and Liberty
Great post. Just would add what Fr Pavone said the best way to end abortions is to show one on TV. A picture will replace 1,000,000+ denials. A fetus is just a small baby.
In America (and other Western societies), human rights are held to be endowments from God, not creations of the State. And governments, to be considered legitimate, must honor and defend those rights; i.e., they function under God's Law. States are answerable, not only to the people, but also to Him for what they do.
Yet here in Roe v. Wade we have a branch of government -- the supreme judiciary -- doing what it has absolutely no authority or competence whatever to do: "Creating" a right for some people -- mothers -- that other people do not have: the "right" to deprive an unborn child of its right to life. If "other people" were to do that, it would be called murder with malice aforethought -- premeditated murder. The so-called "right" to abortion is literally a license to kill. This is a betrayal of everything America stands for, and makes a mockery of our rule of law.
But some very sick people out there not only condone this sort of thing, they positively promote it, campaign for it relentlessly -- Anna Quindlen famously among them. Did you hear that, right after the September 11th attacks, Planned Parenthood was offering "free" abortions? How sick is that?
It breaks your heart to see such selfish heartlessness and failure of concern for another human being simply because he's (she's) defenseless. God help these people.
Thanks Marvin, for another fine essay. best, bb.
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