eyes too blind to see
before this past presidential election, i was told that abortion should not be an issue since it is not a political issue. upon questioning that line of thinking further, i was able to gather that this particular individual felt that should be kept out of the election for two reasons: first, the issue had been settled long ago and it is the law of the land. second, that it is a spiritual, emotional issue...a matter of faith that had no place within the political framework. i'm sure you "got it" immediately, but, conceding that it is the law of the land, i asked my astute friend how exactly abortion became the law of the land. "the supreme court decided," came the reply. then i asked where those judges come from. my leftist friend correctly reported to me that they were appointed by the president and confirmed by the congress. "ah, we're getting somewhere now," i said. "and how do they get their job?" finally, my friend sheepishly admitted that they are elected. now, of course my friend knew the answers to all of those questions, but either he had not put it all together or hoped that i hadn't. to be honest, i really don't know which is the case.
we live in a time when attempts are made to marginalize key issues...issues that really deal with life and death...by a large portion of this country. no, the abortion issue is more than just an "emotional, faith issue," and most people know that whether they like it or not...whether they'll admit it or not. it is a matter of death. frankly, i don't care how you slice it, abortion means death...legalized infanticide. terms are used to try and make it sound more palatable but let's just call it what it is...if you're going to be for something like this, don't sugar coat it. in his blog for today, dr. al mohler addresses the issue related to partial-birth abortion. he relates a testimony inside a san francisco courtroom given by maureen paul, lead author of an abortion textbook, testifying for a planned parenthood attorney:
the doctor's explanation sounds so clean and clinical, doesn't it? what does it really mean? come on, let's say it together: disarticulation...beheading. instrument passes...slices. descriptions of the murdering of human beings within the walls of the place that is supposed to preserve and save lives. what are we doing? what have we become...and what is next? we as a society have succeeded in legalizing the systematic elimination of an entire innocent, defenseless population: something that this country fought against in world war II when the nazis systematically killed innocent, defenseless jews, and something that our troops are fighting against now after a madman systematically eliminated thousands of innocent, defenseless iraqis. how do we fail to see the hypocrisy? we close our eyes to the facts convincing ourselves that since we refuse to see the similarities then there are none. we do not believe it because we simply do not want to. we simply do not care. God, help us.
we live in a time when attempts are made to marginalize key issues...issues that really deal with life and death...by a large portion of this country. no, the abortion issue is more than just an "emotional, faith issue," and most people know that whether they like it or not...whether they'll admit it or not. it is a matter of death. frankly, i don't care how you slice it, abortion means death...legalized infanticide. terms are used to try and make it sound more palatable but let's just call it what it is...if you're going to be for something like this, don't sugar coat it. in his blog for today, dr. al mohler addresses the issue related to partial-birth abortion. he relates a testimony inside a san francisco courtroom given by maureen paul, lead author of an abortion textbook, testifying for a planned parenthood attorney:
mohler points out the weak attempt to soften the edge of the procedure by the practitioner's use of such clinical terms like "disarticulate" by observing that "this word is nothing less than a sinister euphemism used to disguise the dismemberment of a human fetus.""sometimes the fetus comes out in pieces, and I make instrument passes until the entire fetus is evacuated, and sometimes the whole fetus will come down into the [birth canal], at least as far as the head." In other cases, when the head is too large to pass through the canal, the doctor explained: "There are two things you can do. You can disarticulate at the neck . . . . Or what I prefer to do is to just reach in with my forceps, and collapse the skull, and bring the fetus out intact."
the doctor's explanation sounds so clean and clinical, doesn't it? what does it really mean? come on, let's say it together: disarticulation...beheading. instrument passes...slices. descriptions of the murdering of human beings within the walls of the place that is supposed to preserve and save lives. what are we doing? what have we become...and what is next? we as a society have succeeded in legalizing the systematic elimination of an entire innocent, defenseless population: something that this country fought against in world war II when the nazis systematically killed innocent, defenseless jews, and something that our troops are fighting against now after a madman systematically eliminated thousands of innocent, defenseless iraqis. how do we fail to see the hypocrisy? we close our eyes to the facts convincing ourselves that since we refuse to see the similarities then there are none. we do not believe it because we simply do not want to. we simply do not care. God, help us.
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posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 11/17/2004 07:45:00 PM
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