Posted on 03/07/2006 10:13:37 AM PST by metalmanx2j
It's been a great few weeks for pro-life Americans.
On Feb. 28, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of pro-lifers to protest outside abortion clinics, and in a few weeks the high court will hear Gonzales v. Carhart, a case which will determine the fate of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban of 2003.
I am hopeful the rearranged court will uphold the legislation President Bush signed into law.
On March 6, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds signed popular legislation making most abortions illegal in the state. Following the Mount Rushmore state's lead, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana and West Virginia all look like they will try to pass similar legislation, according to a Fox News report.
I can't help but feel joy at the prospect of abortion being aborted. However, I am a realist and know two things for certain: One, this is protest legislation meant only to entice the opposition. South Dakota lawmakers are doing this because they know there will be a fight, which brings me to my next point.
A massive legal battle will ensue, ending in an uncertain Supreme Court decision. I welcome the struggle with open arms and look forward to fighting it.
I never could understand pro-abortion views. I've heard it all: "Women's rights," "Privacy," "Don't place your morality on me," "I'm too poor to have a baby," and so on. Yet, if stripped away, all excuses boil down to two things: selfishness and desperation.
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute Web site, three out of four women who wish to have an abortion say having a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities. It's sad that 75 percent said they want to murder their defenseless baby because it would ruin their lives.
While this type of situation is regrettable, these women need to take responsibility for their actions by taking action other than killing their unborn child.
Desperation is different because some really can't afford more children. Yet, this is no reason to kill a baby who didn't do anything to deserve death before even getting a chance at life. There are many organizations that offer help. Many groups and abortion alternatives can be found at abortionalternatives.com.
One amazing alternative is adoption. Adoption provides infertile parents a great opportunity to take a child into their homes and give that child a chance to be loved and live with dignity.
I plan on adopting several children when I get older because I believe people aren't meant to be disposable. Abortion reduces our unique humanity to nothing more than a simple choice.
Another practice that reduced humanity was slavery, and it has many parallels to abortion, as demonstrated in the AgapePress article, "The Underground Railroad of Our Times."
Danielle Parker, the 16-year-old author, clearly shows abortion and slavery draw upon the same principle that the enslaved/aborted are not really people as defined by the law and are property to which the owner can do whatever they wish.
Both practices were established or reinforced by the landmark - and wrongly decided - court decisions of the Dred Scott case and Roe v Wade: the former telling Americans slaves, and the latter, the unborn are not human and can be disposed of.
Pope John Paul II once said, "A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope." Historically, America had been the land of hope. Since Roe v. Wade, I believe she lost a little something, and it's time to fight and reclaim it.
I firmly believe America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion. I kindly ask pro-abortionists reading this to visit abort73.com or priestsforlife.com and look at photos posted of aborted babies and procedures. If these Holocaust-like images don't change minds, then hope will never be restored to America.
Oh please...to equate abortion to slavery is wrong, it's vile and insulting.
How can you say that? Did you read the article, or are you a troll!! Get out of here you lame troll!
Sure, there are lots of similarities - for starters they are both, well, vile and insulting to the sensibilities of civilized humans.
Thanks for bringing that point up Hildy.
Oh no - Hildy is the real thing - has had a real sore spot for this topic on freerepublic for many years.
I may be wrong, but doesn't the central legal argument concerning abortion revolve around the question of whether an unborn child is a person or property?
You are absolutely right!
As evil and inhumane as slavery is, the person still has a glimmer of hope. He is still alive.
Not so with the butchered infant, all hope is permanently extinguished for them.
Actually the slave states all had laws that regulated the treatment of slaves. Slaves did, in fact, have some standing under the laws in all the slave states.
Unborn humans on the other hand have no standing at all as Roe declared that they are not "persons" and therefore have no legal rights.
Absolutely right. Slaveholders never ripped their slaves' arms and legs off, nor did they suck their slaves' brains out of their skulls, nor did they put their dead bodies in jars and throw them into landfills.
Abortion is much worse than slavery. It is insulting to compare the two -- insulting to slaveholders.
Show me one slaveholder who ever said his purpose was to "exterminate" the black race. Margaret Sanger said exactly that -- and she didn't even favor abortion, at least not publicly. She only founded the organization that went on to become the largest abortion provider in the US.
Danielle Parker, the 16-year-old author, clearly shows abortion and slavery draw upon the same principle that the enslaved/aborted are not really people as defined by the law and are property to which the owner can do whatever they wish.
How is the statement vile and insulting? It makes a valid point by showing how they both devalue human life to "property".
I object to the use of the term "slave states." They were "choice states" - people could CHOOSE whether to own slaves or not in those states.
(sarcasm off now)
I see several similarities between the anti-abortion struggle and the abolition and civil rights movements.
The phrase "you can't legislate morality" was coined by segregationists opposing Dr King and his allies.
I have posted elswhere here, recently, on abortion. No need to repeat my views in detail. :)
And the pro-choice folks got so upset when Bill Bennett said something similar, merely as a hypothetical to show how awful it sounded.
If folks think an unborn child is merely "a lump of tissue" then why on Earth were they upset with the hypothetical?
Because they are hypocrites, that's why.
Bennett's example is not the one I would have chosen, but it still revealed something.
Yes, I have been trolling around FR almost everyday for the past eight years! And furthermore, if you don't like to debate ideas, I suggest that YOU leave.
Debate??? You did no suuch thing, you idiot! I'm sorry but even if you have been here as long as time doesn't make you right. I have no tollerance for ANYONE who defends abortion. As far as I am concerned, you are worse than a troll, cuz at least the troll leaves!
Great comparison. I feel stupid for not having thought of it before. It gives me hope too. We got rid of slavery - we can do it with abortion too!
Thanks! If you are interested, read the article mentioned called "Underground Railroad of Our Times." It's wonderful and a 16 year old girl wrote it.
Thanks - just read it - great article. She is right on target.
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