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January 22, 2007
A Matter of Life, a Matter of Heart
by Tina Grazier
Apparently the number of lives lost is staggering now. In fact, the numbers of dead and maimed make it a matter too horrible for any heart to bear and certainly not worth the price we pay. The media has participated, waging its own war of words, hammering away, hoping to bend and shape the will of the people. There’s is a strategy designed to create confidence of legality and correctness of cause. It is a strategy that has served to work against those who would stop the atrocity. So I have to ask the obvious:
In this long and horrible war, would it make a difference if we called it a quagmire? If we said that the judgment that got us into this mess was a BIG mistake, would it then become a terrible thing that had to be ended? If we said the people who made the judgment were incompetent and unwilling to admit mistakes would that change minds? Would the public begin to cry out, demanding that the House of Representatives pass legislation and de-fund it? Would Cindy Sheehan, and other aging hippie gals, take to the streets to spread the word garnering fawning media attention along the way? Would the public be treated to nighttime memorial vigils…people gathered together…swaying back and forth and singing softly with flickering candles…tiny points of light to be snuffed, one by one, to mark the death of each and every lost life?
I’m talking about a gruesome useless war; a war of terrible shame. Does it not deserve the same kind of media hype and public outcry that other recent wars have received? This war destroys the lives of our young, killing and maiming them before they have a chance to experience the good things in life…marriage, children, career. This war is shamelessly and enthusiastically sold, to young women in particular, to prepare them for the inevitable promiscuous life they must and will lead, if ever they are to experienceequality. It is a war that is defended as a right; a war that has been waged for thirty-four years.
Today marks the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, a decision that has resulted in rampant thoughtless abortion. It is a war that was innocuously sold as an effort to make it possible for abortion to be safe, legal and rare. Forty-seven million babies denied the most basic right (life) and treated as waste speak truth to the lie that abortion is a rare occurrence. This is a war of dishonor waged for purely selfish ends; a war waged without moral underpinning or honorable cause. It lacks even the most basic heartfelt justification.
Overturning Roe v. Wade would not make abortion illegal. It would take the issue once again back to the individual states and the people of those states.
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The following demonstrate support, some from unexpected places, to end this war on the unborn. There are other sites of interest as well:
godlessprolifers.org
When Do Human Beings Begin? Scientific Myths and Scientific Facts
On the Abortion Issue -Technology Works Both Ways
Pro-life.liberals.com
Pro-life Liberal Essays that defend life:
Kyle Eller: "It's not that there aren't others like me. In fact, according to the National Pro-Life Democrats Committee, a national poll from 1998 showed that 38 percent of Democrats -- and 40 percent of Democrat women -- took a pro-life position on abortion, to one degree or another. It's that these voices are ignored. Don't expect 38 percent, or 5 percent, of Democratic candidates to endorse those views. The hypocrisy of the Democratic party, which poses as defender of the weak but sanctions the slaughter of more than a million of the most defenseless people on Earth annually, appalls and sickens me." -- Surprise, surprise -- another election spoiled by abortion (originally published in the Duluth Budgeteer News).
Norah Vincent: "The "pro-choice" lobby assumes that people, especially those living in poverty, are no more capable than stray cats of exercising control over their reproductive habits. Among such creatures, goes the theory, unplanned pregnancies are as inevitable as they are in a barn. Thus, preventing the births of unwanted children means "keeping abortion safe and legal," or, to put it less euphemistically, resorting to fetal disposal after the coital fact." Village Voice-Aborting Crime
The following 2 websites contain graphic content and photos:
The Genocide Awareness Project
... [Pro-abortionists] cannot look at their handiwork or the handiwork they defend. Across the country, they shrink from photos of the babies killed in abortions. Through their mighty political groups, the pro-abortionists compel TV stations to refuse advertisements showing partial birth and other abortion artifacts. They will not even allow viewers (or themselves, I suspect) to see what their policies have wrought. They are, at least to my mind, like the Germans who refused to think about what was happening at Dachau and then vomited when they saw -- and never wanted to see again. Ben Stein, May 1989 issue The American Spectator magazine
I found the website protectchoice.org
to be typical of the feminist pro-choice point of view:
Where abortion is illegal, unsafe abortions take the lives of tens of thousands of women every year. The World Health Organization estimates that 20 million unsafe abortions take place each year in countries where abortion is restricted or prohibited. The likelihood of a woman having an abortion is similar in developed and developing countries, although abortion is more likely to be illegal in developing countries. A woman is hundreds of times more likely to die from an illegal abortion than a legal one [17].
Women have abortions for a variety of reasons, and commonly, for more than one reason. Inability to afford a child--or another child-- relationship problems, school and work constraints, for example, are common factors in a woman's choosing to end a pregnancy. Just as no two women's experiences are the same, no one woman's choice is the same as another's [19].
State sanctioning of abortion is a tragic error of humanity with ramifications yet to be realized. An “illegal unsafe� abortion describes an act of desperation by an individual woman, a double tragedy of human ethics, standards and heart.
Posted by Post Scripts at January 22, 2007 06:19 PM
Comments
Oh, Tina, wow...lol, this was great! Brilliantly done. It was the setup, the hook and the a quick pull of the rod to set your hook and it's GOTCHA time!
Well done. Very well done!
Posted by: Jack at January 22, 2007 06:27 PM
Jack, I always did love fishing! Hope it lands a few big ones. Thanks.
Posted by: Tina at January 25, 2007 08:09 PM