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The steady erosion of values in the last three decades cannot be viewed as coincidental. When the heart and soul of a nation becomes so callous that a living, growing fetus struggling to be born, can't rely on the protection of its mother, why should we be surprised at the devaluation of human life in other instances? How can we consider ourselves to be a proud and just people, if we refuse to stand up for the most helpless among us? Furthermore, how can we stand by and allow people to become wealthy by encouraging pregnancy to our children, then tearing the results from their womb and discarding it like a glob of human waste?<<<<With our tacit acceptance of in vitro fertilization and then the 'apparent' necessity for some abortion, our society too quickly arrived at acceptance of, no, DEFENSE OF, infanticide. The Supreme Court's rulings in Roe, Doe, and Casey v Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania have lent the air of acceptable and legal to the slaughter of millions of preborn, alive, in some cases (nearly 100,000 partial birth abortions have been done according to Guttmacher Institute) aware and nearly born, individual human beings. Such is the corrosive nature of 'amoral' court activism.
8 posted on 02/28/2003 11:47 AM EST by MHGinTN
Between Two Holocausts ...questions that all distraught Jews have been asking since the end of World War II: 1) How can a civilized, intellectual and educated society of people, made up of individuals presumably with consciences and souls just like everyone else, choose to systematically target and eliminate another group of individuals in cold blood, without mercy or a second thought?
Death as Deliverance: Euthanatic Thinking in Germany ca. 1890-1933 Writing in 1989, the late Cardinal John O'Connor of New York City, an ardent pro-life advocate, predicted that euthanasia would "dwarf the abortion phenomenon in magnitude, in numbers, in horror." When one considers the sheer number of abortions that are performed each year and that have been performed over the last two decades, this statement borders on fantastic. But Cardinal O'Connor's are not the words of someone given to exaggeration. While there is nothing inevitable about human predictions, O'Connor's words are haunting. What is it that can hinder this "prophecy" from coming to pass?
Good Germans tolerated Jewish extermination. Good Americans tolerated slavery. Good Americans tolerate abortion. What's to prevent the coming generation from tolerating a little euthanasia?