I'm Voting for Those Not Yet Born
My, how the landscape of elections has changed. Remember when the issue of abortion used to matter to conservatives in political races? Today presidential nominees can get away with murder, literally. They can smoke, toke and hang out with terrorists who do. What were once considered legitimate leadership litmus tests are now regarded as off-limit character assassinations and hate language. Recently, some nonprofit organizations have been threatened with the withdrawal of their tax-exempt statuses because their leaders merely voiced opposition to what they consider a moral issue: abortion.
Some people think after 35 years of ceaseless controversy since the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade that abortion is an "old" issue better dropped. I disagree. I do believe the economy is an important issue in this election, but it's certainly not the only issue. We can't just be concerned about our finances. We also must be concerned about America's future and those who will occupy it. Our posterity matters. Their rights matter. And that includes their "unalienable Rights," with which they have been "endowed by their Creator," and among them are the quintessential rights: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Abortion is not about a woman's "right to choose"; it is about a more fundamental "right to life," which is one of three specifically identified unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence (and the Constitution, through Article VII and the Bill of Rights). And it is a violation of government's primary purpose: to protect innocent life.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1809, "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." He was not, of course, writing about the America of today, with state-sanctioned and even subsidized abortion and a movement to promote the killing of the elderly through euthanasia. But he could have been. His belief in what should be "the first and only legitimate object of good government" still should stand. Like Jefferson, our next president needs to uphold those same concerns, not say that such arenas are "above his paygrade." If he and his administration won't protect the rights of the living (even in the womb), then who will? A left-leaning Congress?
The truth is if Obama is elected, we will place a man in the highest office in the land who has the most liberal views and voting record on abortion of any president in American history. As a state senator in Illinois, he led opposition three years in a row (2001-2003) to a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of babies unintentionally left alive by abortions. He also opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion and strongly disapproved of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the partial-birth ban. He also voted to block a bill that would have required a doctor to notify at least one parent before performing an abortion on a minor from another state. He does not support the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion through Medicaid. Before a Planned Parenthood Action Fund last year, Obama promised to give first priority as president to the signing of the Freedom of Choice Act, which would make partial-birth abortion legal again. Strangely, Obama even once said he would not want his daughters to be "punished with a baby" caused by an unwanted pregnancy. With the next president likely adding two justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is clear that as president, Obama would appoint and support the most liberal judges and legal eagles, resulting in a pro-abortion advantage in our courts that would push abortion liberties to every extent of the law and land.
America's Founders shared a basic view of human life and conception: Humanity is special, unique and should be set apart from the rest of creation. In fact, in early America, there were two basic beliefs that shaped most people's views of humanity: God created us equal, and we are the highest creation of God. Their views were based on creation narratives in the Bible and expressed in the Declaration of Independence. In order for us to get back to our Founders' understanding, we need to get back to a view of humanity that emphasizes the immortal worth of every human being. (That's why I've devoted an entire chapter to "Reclaim the value of human life" in my new cultural manifesto, "Black Belt Patriotism.")
My friend and prolific author Randy Alcorn recently was asked by a young woman, "Should we vote for who we think should lead our country solely based on their stance on abortion?" You can read Randy's insightful response to that question on his Web site and blog (www.epm.org). I would respond to it by simply saying we all will answer that question in just one week, when we go to the ballot boxes.
Winning the election is not just about what the underdogs — such as John McCain and Sarah Palin, two maverick pro-life advocates — should do. But it's about what the citizens who are fighting for the underdogs can do. We the people must stand up, go back to the basics, and once again vote our values.
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Thanks Chuck. Abortions here since 1967, when they were legalised, are approaching 6,500,000. Though spread over a longer period, this atrocity has taken as many lives as the systematic death camp exterminations of WW2 and shows no sign of being halted. This is one reason why I believe that in the not-too-distant future, God "will send a fire...among them that dwell carelessly in the isles; and they shall know that I am the Lord" Ezekiel 39:6. This part of the world, of course, just happens to be known the British Isles.
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Posted by: Alan O'Reilly
Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:26 AM
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Sir;... The two most common sort of political criminal in America are those claiming rights from the living on behalf of the unborn, and those claiming rights on behalf of the long dead... I don't know which kind are worse... If some clown came out, and said: Hey, I am claiming your political rights on the authority of my divine being; then most people would object... Instead they say: because a human life is created at conception, your political rights must give way to theirs... More nonsense... More metaphysics... People are not created equal because they are not created at all. -People hand off their lives to their babies, with their rights... If you take their rights for any nonsense reason, they have no reason to have children because the essentials of a happy, healthy, and free life are no longer theirs.. All people with rights also have wealth and property and every reason to want children, and no reason to hate children or life... Put rights in their proper order man... First give people what is their due... When they have freedom, they have choice... There are plenty of common criminal who want to mug people and take what is theirs... Only the most brazen say they have the authority of God or the founding fathers to justify their behavior... Join the real people man... Vote for equal justice and rights for all because those with that treasure have plenty to share... . Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:07 PM
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Sir; ... Why not learn the truth before you try to spout it.. Close to six million Jews died at the hands of the Germans, and nearly another four million of Russians, Catholics, Roma, Homosexuals, and Jahovas witnesses, Labor Unionists, and Communists...In a war that killed 65000000 people... Hell, Chiang kai Chiek, ruler of China may have let ten million of his own soldiers starve to death out of incompetence or corruption... The fact is, that until the life we have is worth something, and until we value the people we have, you are not going to get all of them to want children even if they do want love and intimacy... We need hope to want children... Hope is sucked out of our lives with our rights and our wealth... No one has the courage to say it isn't working for them... They blame themselves for their pain, and kill the babies inside them, and feel the wound forever as they try to keep alive for another day... As bad as it is; with the courage to admit this grevious waste of wealth, our only wealth, our lives for the God Capital, we would be better off, and fit for something better... When we give up, and kill our babes so we can be slaves for nothing we are morally finished... Look at what money has done for us... Look at what capital has created: half human beings unable to love, born for hate... Was it supposed to make us free from want??? Was it supposed to make us free of pain???It reminds us always how much slave, and how little free we are... It is anathema to the human spirit... Abortion is a blessing delivered by the mother without hope. Society should thank them, and not judge them. The mother knows when no one cares, no one loves, and no one shares...... Thanks... Sweeney
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:47 PM
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Re: 'Sir; ... Why not learn the truth before you try to spout it.. ' I suggest read the context of the passage. God's judgement in this way will take in all of Europe. I simply used the figure cited for comparative purposes w.r.t the UK. I am aware of the full number of casualties for WW2 and later atrocities like Cambodia. As a wise man once said, 'War is God's judgement on sin here, Hell is God's judgement on sin hereafter.' There is more to come. I also note you seem to have a serious chip on your shoulder w.r.t. anyone you disagree with - what Chuck rightly refers to in Black Belt Patriotism as a lack of ordinary civility so prevalent these days. And regrettable.
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Posted by: Alan O'Reilly
Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:00 AM
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Alan O'reilly, Sir;... What non sense you spout... It is the innocent in the greater part who are the victims of war and their killers who are the guilty... War is God's punishment???. You just have to be shetting me... Why do people blame God for the evil they do???. Why do they suggest the consent of God for the evil they allow??? It is like Mr. Norris wanting rights for the unborn... People get their rights from people; their parents. Prehistoric evidence suggests that no one but your own would kill you if you needed killling, unless the killer wanted war... Instead of depriving the living of authority over their own, their right in defense of their own should be recognized.... It should be recognized that if Mommies are killing their babies for society, because society does not want to trouble with loving them, and caring for them, and providing for their needs until they can provide for society then it is the Mother herself who is the injured party... I will never vote to criminalize the victim... It is society that is asking something for nothing when it asks people to have children when it, Society, will not lift a finger to help... If some one wants to kill their child for me, so I will not have to see my wealth taxed, or my time used to bring that child up with equal opportunity and rights; I think they should get an award... Call it: The Great Recognition of Reality Award, for getting the picture that society has no love, and no money it cares to share... For all the Norris's of the world I would say: Sell all you own, and follow me... That is just a message, I am not actually going anywhere, so you may as well stay put... If you want to put your money where your mouth is, I am more inclined to believe you have morality... If you want to make the moral argument, I will be happy to listen... As soon as you advocate for coersion as a substitute for actually caring for people you have lost me... Making laws is easy... Making laws, building prisons, and filling them with human beings is easy... Actually caring for people is very difficult, and you cannot possibly care for people and blow your own horn about it at the same time, because to do it, to try to do it, to love and to care is a constant reminder of how pitiful is our ability and how great is the need... No one in their right mind looks for that reality... But to fall back on force, even political force, to drive an empty morality producing numbers of poor, damaged, and helpless people at every turn is criminal... I will not be a part of that... Thanks....Sweeney
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:29 AM
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Alan O'reilly; Let me apologize for any lack of ordinary civility... Were these ordinary times I think we would all feel more at home with civility... If it seems I am all too willing to pick up a blunt object and pursue the rectified right in their cowardice; then let if bleed... The fact as I see it is this: We have a lot of people under the flag of liberty who take every opportunity to dimantle liberty and substitute economic or religious tyranny in its place... I'm not buying any of it; and I am not counting on a river of justice flowing from the rock of self interest either... If people want civility then they must allow consent, and they must truly seek consensus... Those people pushing religion in this land don't care to make their point to more than is necessary to have their control... They do not want freedom, and they don't allow dissent... If they can make their point with fifty one out of a hundred they will not bother for five out of nine; but that is a minimum before rights can be even unjustly denied... Society should exist to defend the rights people feel are necessary... When society reaches a point where its power can be turned to the denial of rights; civility is gone... There is no point of pretense... I do not deny the moral arguments people make against abortion, and I have a few myself... But it is immoral to expect individuals shall, or will be more moral than their societies.. In fact; it is societies that are moral, and the individual becomes moral in accepting the common morality... To think society can be half way moral is a mistake... If it allows profit it must some day allow prostitution... Please consider: It is wrong to think that people have children... People bear children, and it is society which supports them, and if society says that those who make the ultimate sacrifice of effort and enthusiasm to have children are then stuck with them, and their entire cost- then it is wrong... We do not own our children... They are not our property, and we are not theirs... Having childeren is only a manor of speech... It is society that is supported by children, and society which should bear their responsibility... WE punish people for having children for us because they may have enjoyed the process... Screw that... If we are a nation, we belong to each other, and there should be more than a casual relationship there... So, while I prize civility, without a government that is truly representative and we suffer a winner take all ad game, there is no hope of civility... Government should thrash out our differences, but they are elected out of our difference from districts built to frustrate and confound our differences... They will not act to end their gravy train -which is our discontent, dissatisfaction, and mis communication... Government should, and it does not... So we must address our own differences... Thanks... Sweeney
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:51 PM
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Dear Mr Sweeney, you assume that God's definitions of 'innocence' and 'guilt' are the same as yours. This is risky, to say the least. If you think God (and the KJ Bible) can be factored out of world events, I suggest wait a few years. Re: murder of the unborn, rest assured that the vast majority of abortions performed in this country (the UK) are simply matters of convenience, i.e. the perpetrators in principle don't operate any differently from the Mob (in the US) - or suicide bombers, to use a more contemporary analogy. You appear to set great store by 'society,' however defined. Your first president didn't. He once said 'It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.' I believe that he was a successful leader. I note your apology in your later post, thank you. P.S. The earlier quote wasn't mine. It came from the late Dr Bob Jones Snr., who founded Bob Jones University in Greenville SC. BJU graduates were noted for being able to pursue successful careers in the great depression of the 1930s. I believe it is sensible therefore to take notice of leaders who have achieved something of significance in difficult circumstances - or as Mr Norris might put it, 'against all odds.'
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Posted by: Alan O'Reilly
Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:58 AM
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This issue will always be unresolved because only half of the population can give birth, yet 100% of the population has an opinion.
Rather than fight for the whole pro life pie, wouldn't it a be wonderful compromise if the man who helped created the pregnancy agreed to raise the child, that that would be enough to allow the child to be born? Or, would men possibly use women to have their offspring purposely without any other involvement? Even the simple compromise ideas may contain hidden agendas.
My reason for being a Hillary Clinton Supporter, voting for John McCain can be found in this YouTube Video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzK2ndwrFYI
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Posted by: Alessandro Machi
Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:19 PM
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