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Today is the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the day of the March for Life in DC and elsewhere. In addition to commentary on our site by Ken Blackwell and G. Tracy Mehan, III, I recommend you read RedState’s excellent statement on the right wing platform and the abortion issue:
The question does not and should not divide us along conservative/libertarian lines, for even the most libertarian among us must recognize the right of the state to prevent and punish the killing of innocent humans. And we renew our pledge today and every day to work to support candidates who will do everything in their power to someday bring about the day when Roe v. Wade joins Scott v. Sandford as an aberrant footnote to our nation’s great history.
On this day, we remember the nameless and the forgotten, and we lament our inability to even grasp the sorrow or the extent of their loss. Requiescat in pace.
And also this speech by the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus from First Things:
The culture of death is an idea before it is a deed. I expect many of us here, perhaps most of us here, can remember when we were first encountered by the idea. For me, it was in the 1960s when I was pastor of a very poor, very black, inner city parish in Brooklyn, New York. I had read that week an article by Ashley Montagu of Princeton University on what he called “A Life Worth Living.” He listed the qualifications for a life worth living: good health, a stable family, economic security, educational opportunity, the prospect of a satisfying career to realize the fullness of one’s potential. These were among the measures of what was called “a life worth living.”
And I remember vividly, as though it were yesterday, looking out the next Sunday morning at the congregation of St. John the Evangelist and seeing all those older faces creased by hardship endured and injustice afflicted, and yet radiating hope undimmed and love unconquered. And I saw that day the younger faces of children deprived of most, if not all, of those qualifications on Prof. Montagu’s list. And it struck me then, like a bolt of lightning, a bolt of lightning that illuminated our moral and cultural moment, that Prof. Montagu and those of like mind believed that the people of St. John the Evangelist—people whom I knew and had come to love as people of faith and kindness and endurance and, by the grace of God, hope unvanquished—it struck me then that, by the criteria of the privileged and enlightened, none of these my people had a life worth living. In that moment, I knew that a great evil was afoot.
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Pingback| 1.22.10 @ 3:58PM
Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Roe v. Wade Roundup [sp links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
SoCon| 1.22.10 @ 4:31PM
Great evil is always afoot and pro-abortion/culture of death advocates personify it.
God bless Fr. Neuhaus; he was a good and holy man and he is greatly missed.
God bless and protect the innocent unborn.
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Roe v. Wade’s 37th anniversary marked by vigils, demonstrations links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Alan Brooks| 1.22.10 @ 9:14PM
"God bless and protect the innocent unborn"
Original sin means no one is innocent, even the unborn. Which is probably why we don't mind it that the unborn are killed in wars-- we lose little sleep over such casualties. How many Vietnam vets lose sleep over napalmed pregnant women's unborn, never-to-be-born, children?
SoCon| 1.23.10 @ 4:12AM
Rationalize away, Alan--does it help you sleep better at night? Maybe so, but it's not helping your soul.
You don't know WHAT makes me lose sleep at night, Alan-don't presume to speak for me.
Yes, God bless and protect the innocent unborn--and even cynical old fools like you.
Alan Brooks| 1.23.10 @ 1:11PM
"You don't know WHAT makes me lose sleep at night, Alan-don't presume to speak for me."
Perhaps you lose sleep at night, SoCon, because you are a naive fool rather than a cynical fool?
SoCon| 1.23.10 @ 2:54PM
Alan, what's happened to you? You used to be fun.
You have become so mean-spirited and so full of spite. Why provoke nasty exchanges?
Alan, I don't know what's happened to you recently to make you so combative, but this girl won't bite: I still wish you the best and pray that you're okay.
Margie| 1.23.10 @ 12:53PM
Alan,
That's a lie~~
You should look in the Bible (New Testament) if you really care to know the truth about "original sin." James 4:7 tells us what it is. And it is quite clearly written. It says: "For him who knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."
Can a little child go to Hell, then? Of course not. Better look to yourself!
Jesus says "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Mt. 18:3.
Alan Brooks| 1.23.10 @ 1:06PM
"Jesus says 'Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.' Mt. 18:3"
Jesus was referring to innocent children. A child who murders-- for instance-- can, IMO, go to Hell.
And a child who lies to his parents knows he (or she) is sinning or he wouldn't be hiding the truth.
Alan Brooks| 1.23.10 @ 1:08PM
"For him who knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."
A child caught with his hand in the cookie jar knows he is doing wrong.
Margie| 1.23.10 @ 2:04PM
Wrong. He was talking to the disciples. Adults. Read it.
You said the unborn aren't innocent. The Bible proves you wrong. That is part of my point. You say all kinds of things that are flat out wrong.
Then you charge the VietNam Vets with not having a problem with the deaths of csualties. You are truly despicable!
SoCon| 1.23.10 @ 3:23PM
Hi, Margie--hope you're having a good day.
It's so beautiful today, it's the first day it hasn't rained in a week!! I'm just so happy to see the sun again.
Margie| 1.23.10 @ 3:48PM
Hi SoCon,
Thank you! Yes, it's a good day and Sunny, but 40 degrees. Brrrr. Way too cold for me. I am longing for Summer!
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Roe V Wade Online | Tech News links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Real Hope for Change « Politicaljunkie Mom links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
brooksanne| 1.23.10 @ 1:04PM
Don't get bogged down in whether the unborn are subject to original sin.
The point is they are innocent VICTIMS of murder.
Thou shalt not kill.
It's the principle that makes us abhor the killing of civilians in wartime, and it should also make us abhor the killing of the child in the womb.
Let's find a way to bring peace.
Margie| 1.23.10 @ 2:07PM
There is no peace without war. That means you speak the truth to lies. No getting bogged down by that.
SoCon| 1.23.10 @ 2:59PM
Peace through strength and the right of self defense are paramount.
Yosemeti Sam| 1.24.10 @ 2:28AM
Duh!
In wars throughout history it is a given that
innocents of every stage of life are victims of - premature death.
In contrast to the convenient modernity of abortions where a scheduled appointment is arranged for the deliberate doom of a human being.
SoCon| 1.25.10 @ 7:26PM
Yeah! Great shoes help, too!!!