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I had originally intended on posting this on Saturday, January 22nd, remembering the tragic anniversary of the Supreme Court case, Roe vs. Wade in 1973. However, I never wrote it. Last night, I watched Glenn Beck on Fox News and his program was about abortion and Planned Parenthood. As a result, I thought it would be fitting to write this post today. Beck aired some clips of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. She was racist in her beliefs and she believed in imposing birth control upon blacks and other "misfits" in America. Beck had a guest on his program named Lila Rose, who is a pro-life activist and is founder of pro-life group Live Action. She is noted for a series of campaigns against Planned Parenthood across the country. She was involved in undercover action exposing the sex trafficking of teenagers taking place in Planned Parenthood centers across America. She founded Live Action when she was 15 and continued involving herself with pro-life issues when she was a student at UCLA. She played a major role in exposing the sex trafficking of teenagers at Planned Parenthood across America. Rose has also appeared on "Hannity", "Glenn Beck" and "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News.
When the Glenn Beck show began yesterday, he was making a comparison to the issue of abortion today vs. the issue of the institution of slavery in America over a century and a half ago. It's interesting because slavery treated the negro as just property rights of the slave owners. A famously, flawed U.S. Supreme Court decision of 1857, "Dred Scott vs. Sanford", stated the slave didn't inherently possess rights. He was the property of the slave owner. The slave was de-humanized. In the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Roe vs. Wade, the baby or "fetus" is just a blob of tissue and isn't a human being until he/she's considered viable or able to live outside the womb. That decision stated women have a right to abort the "fetus" if they so choose to do so. Hence we have the phrase, "A woman's right to choose." However, the fatal Supreme Court decision of 1973 fails to recognize that children are created in the image of God. With the advances of technology since 1973, a sonogram reveals that the "fetus" that's inside the womb of a mother is a live, human being. As a result, technology has rendered the abortion argument that an unborn child isn't a human being a lie. A child is a human being the moment conception takes place. Nevertheless, regardless of technology, we know from God's word that a baby is a human being and nothing that society or politicians can say will change that fact.
During the early part of our nation's history, our country embraced the Judeo-Christian heritage. Our country was built upon Judeo-Christian principles. Christianity gives meaning to life and believes that man's worth is based on the fact that he was created by God. Psalms 51:5 states that in sin did my mother conceive me. Psalms 139:14 states that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Those verses verify that a child in the mother's womb is a live human being. The view that children are nothing more than nuisances that can be aborted if they are an inconvenience is due to the materialist, humanist philosophy that life's value is based upon utility or it's usefulness. If a sonogram determines that a child has Down's Syndrome and will never be able to live a normal life, then why shouldn't the mother have the right to abort her child in that it will be an inconvenience and interfere with her lifestyle. That's the humanist mentality about abortion. One of the things that troubles me is how politicians have relegated abortion to a political issue. It's very foolish.
Years ago when then President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor as the first ever woman justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, many religious conservatives were skeptical of her nomination because of her views on abortion. Dr. Jerry Falwell was one in particular who didn't favor Reagan's appointment of O'Connor. The late Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) made the statement that abortion is a non-conservative issue. I didn't agree with Goldwater's "libertarian" views on abortion, but I do agree with the statement that abortion is a non-conservative issue. I'll go a step further: I believe abortion is also a non-liberal issue. Abortion should be a non-political issue altogether. Just as everyone in Congress would agree the old issue of slavery in America should have never happened nor should it ever have been a political issue. During the early days of our country when slavery was being practiced down South, slavery was a political issue. A century and a half later we would all agree that it's asinine that an issue such as slavery was ever a political issue. Blacks were human beings that deserved to be treated like humans just like the whites. I believe every politician in Congress would stand in agreement. Consequently, abortion has been relegated as a political issue. We have two sides staking positions on the abortion issue. The Left favors abortion rights for women and the Right supposedly opposes abortion except in the case of rape, incest, or the mother's life is in danger. The problem with those on the Right is that many of the Republican politicians give lip service to being opposed to abortion because it's a winning issue with them on the conservative base. In other words, they're interested in the issue, but aren't willing to solve the problem. That's why some Republicans or conservative pundits say we shouldn't place much emphasis on the abortion issue because "conservatives" don't have any intention of overturning Roe vs. Wade or banning abortions.
Regardless of the political ideology or bent of a politician regardless whether they are liberal or conservative, both sides of the aisle should be vehemently opposed to abortion and do everything in their power to right this injustice. This is an issue about life. Life transcends politics. The fate of an unborn child shouldn't be decided by those on Capitol Hill or on the judiciary. Abortion shouldn't be an issue any more than slavery should be an issue. Neither side of the political spectrum should favor abortion. Life is more sacred than to relegate it to politics. Abortion is murder and God hates it when we allow this heinous crime to continue. The issue of life should be common sense when it comes to politics. Always choose life.
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