Posted on 01/20/2011 12:45:17 PM PST by wmfights
Saturday will mark the 38th anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision that opened the floodgates for abortion in America. On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the decision, declaring that women have a constitutional right to an abortion. Hard as it is to imagine, the justices in the majority really believed that their decision would end the national debate over abortion. Not by a long shot.
Nearly four decades later, the argument rages on — and so does the carnage. The national abortion rate is over twenty percent. Just last week it was reported that the abortion rate in New York City is over forty percent, and among African-Americans in that city, nearly sixty percent. In other words, an abortion industrial complex now claims over a million unborn lives each year. The carnage just continues.
In recent days, two horrifying accounts of abortion have gripped the human conscience. From Australia, news came of a couple who had aborted twin boys, just because they wanted a baby girl. Having three sons already, the couple aborted the twins because they want a daughter after the death of a previous baby girl who died shortly after birth.
The couple is now appealing to a legal tribunal, demanding the right to use gender selection in the course of an IVF procedure. Australia, unlike the United States, has laws against gender selection. The couple is pressing for an exception.
The abortion of the twin boys precipitated an international outcry, with headlines carrying the news around the world. But, even as millions were morally troubled by the account, many were unable to muster a moral argument against the abortions. Why? Because the logic of abortion has been so widely accepted in the larger society.
The very idea of gender-selection abortions is abhorrent, and most people would almost surely argue that such abortions should not be allowed. But the logic of abortion rights demands that a woman be recognized as having a right to an abortion at any time for any reason or for no reason. Once you accept abortion as a moral option, it is virtually impossible to preclude any abortion for any reason. The Culture of Death is built upon the logic of abortion on demand. Once the floodgates were opened, it is almost impossible to stem the tide.
On January 19, the Associated Press reported that a Pennsylvania doctor had been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of one woman and seven babies, “who were born alive and then killed with scissors.”
The description of Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel. Investigators found bags and bottles containing aborted babies and parts of babies. District Attorney Seth Williams said that Dr. Kermit Gosnell “induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy, and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord.”
Williams described Gosnell’s clinic as a “house of horrors.” Gosnell, it turns out, made millions of dollars by performing abortions, including late-term abortions, by the thousands. According to the prosecutors, Gosnell performed “as many illegal late-term abortions as he could.”
Dr. Gosnell has been charged with multiple counts of murder, and for this fact, we should be thankful. But the reality is that what Dr. Gosnell did is just a more graphic display of the horror inside every abortionist’s chamber.
These two cases illustrate the pattern of moral confusion found among the public. News of the “house of horrors” in Pennsylvania brings prompt moral outrage, and understandably so. But is the abortion clinic on the corner, established for the purpose of killing unborn children, any less a house of horrors?
The couple in Australia openly admitted aborting their twin boys because they want a daughter. Millions around the world seem outraged by their decision, but having accepted the basic logic of abortion, they are hard-pressed to define when any abortion demanded by a woman might be unjustified and thus illegal.
The Christian revulsion over abortion and the destruction of human life is based in the knowledge that God is the Author of all life and of every life, without exception. Abortion is the business of death, and it is the great wound that runs through the nation’s conscience. These shocking accounts may sear their way into the nation’s collective conscience, but unless the basic logic of abortion rights is overturned, such accounts will erupt again and again.
Once we buy into the logic of abortion, there is no end to the trail of tears. In the case of the Australian couple, a professor of medicine commented that they should be able to select the gender of their baby after aborting the twin boys. “I can’t see how it could possibly hurt anyone,” he said.
What about the twins?
When is the end to saying what children are fit to live? I fear abortion could travel on the slippery slope to even more barbaric operations.
I heard that it is not uncommon for mothers carrying twins to abort one of them because having two at once was very inconvenient.
Western society has become so demented that I no longer care if Islam conquers it. The leftists are even worse than the Muslims. At least the Muslim barbarians are somewhat consistent in their beliefs and practices.
It absolutely will. I still hold on to my prediction that toddler homicide will be made universally legal by 2020.
Leftists are totally vile. There is no limit to their evil unless we find a way to destroy these vermin.
There is no goodness left in the world.
I read about this the other day and was sickened by it. This couple don’t deserve the kids they do have. Killing a baby because it’s not the right sex? The only person I can think of that would think like this, is a cold blooded murderer.
Yes I’ve always thought that. Now that the baby boomers are coming of age to put a huge strain on our retirement system. When will the young people coming up, that have always known abortion in their lives, decided that it’s just not worth keeping grandma and grandpa around and start euthanizing them for any reason.
I’ve often found it ironic that atheist-pagan-leftist-liberals defend fundamentalist Muslims who hate the West mostly because of the libertine values of atheist-pagan-leftist-liberals. If Islam ever does take over it’s the liberals who will be the first to feel the bite of the scimitar on their necks.
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
Thomas Jefferson
We are on borrowed time, my friends. I pray we, as a nation, wake up before it is too late - alas, we may already be past that point.
there were laws on the books in the 1700 that allowed for killing a child up to age 7. —not so fun fact.
It absolutely will. I still hold on to my prediction that toddler homicide will be made universally legal by 2020.
Sad part is, that doesn’t sound too far off. Especially considering the paradigm of raising a disabled kid. Especially considering that I was a disabled kid, but still grew up and made it through whatever difficulties neccessary to receive a college education. I know that there are some problem children, but it can be hard to tell how productive a child can become sometimes, and sometimes it’s worth it. I certainly respect my parents, and any set of parents who choose to raise a disabled kid, they took a lot of work to accomplish tasks of that sort. I say this because I am assuming that the major justification for toddler killing would be exactly the fact that some kid is disabled, or less than ideal.
I would recommend some people watch the film GATTACA, given some of the replies I have been receiving on this thread
“there were laws on the books in the 1700 that allowed for killing a child up to age 7. —not so fun fact.”
How the hell did that happen?
“How the hell did that happen?”
Because children were considered property.
http://www.flipkart.com/father-property-children-rights-mary-book-0231080476
Wow!
consider the psychological damage to the living twin as he or she grows older and learns what happened to the twin sibling...UGH! Explain THAT away, Mommie Dearest!
Society did much better when default custody went to the father. It kept illegitimacy and divorce rates down. When American law changed to default mother custody, the divorce rate increased by almost 15 times from 1870-1920.
That's not working so good.
re: “there were laws on the books in the 1700 that allowed for killing a child up to age 7. —not so fun fact.”
What is your source for this?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.