Do We Have a Dog in this Fight?

March 5, 2008 Categories: 2008 Election, politics, law

After the media declared John McCain the Republican nominee, two very revealing things happened. First, Mike Huckabee gave a concession speech that was not only gracious but inspiring. About midway through, he began to talk about the issues he considered to be the most important ones facing our country. The first one he mentioned was protecting the right to life of the unborn. Later in the evening, Senator McCain took to the air to acknowledge his victory. Like Huckabee, he also gave a laundry list of what he considers the important issues of the day. But unlike Huckabee, he never once mentioned the plight of the unborn.

McCain’s cold indifference should serve as a reminder to the pro-life movement of why it is so abysmally foolish for us to put any faith in the Republican Party. To begin with, the gated-community, limousine liberals who control the GOP have no interest in the abortion issue. These people are motivated by money and self-interest, and there is simply no money or self-interest in saving babies. Over the years, their attitude toward the pro-life movement is roughly the same as it would be toward a cockroach they might step on during a 3am trip to the bathroom.

Additionally, even if they were interested in the abortion battle, they are totally unsuited for it. Since the day this struggle began, it has never been an ivory-tower debate by people in plaid smoking jackets with elbow patches. And it never will be. Instead, it is the political equivalent of a brawl in a waterfront bar. The problem is, while McCain is indeed a war hero, the Republican Party as a whole is made up of a bunch of guys whose mammas used to dress them for college. On a fraternity dare, they might go into a waterfront bar, but when the first punch is thrown the only thing you can be certain of is that you’re about to hear the unmistakable pitter-patter of fine leather wingtips stampeding toward the door.

On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of fight their opponents relish. It is hardly a secret that, since the 1960s, the Democrat Party has devolved into a political sanctuary for every brand of godless pervert, social misfit and moral degenerate in America. Naturally, this is reflected in the kind of candidates they run for office. In a political bar fight, they are completely amoral people who will lie, cheat, steal, or wallow in the filthiest cesspool if that’s what it takes to win. In a nutshell, they are the kind of scorched-earth activists who scare the Republicans to death.

The point is, the Democrats are almost always wrong on social issues and will fight to the death for them, while the Republicans are generally right on the issues but don’t care enough to fight. Of course, in both cases, the results for the unborn are the same.

If my fellow pro-lifers want to support McCain as some sort of lesser-of-evils salvage operation, so be it. But right now, the pro-life movement needs to be real clear about one thing. Whoever wins in November, it won’t be us. We’ve already lost. My suggestion is that we not wait around until after the election to acknowledge that fact. This is not the time to put the pro-life effort on hold; it is the time to decide how we are going to proceed. Over 3000 babies are dying every day and they can’t afford for us to be patient. At this moment, our job is to figure out how to stop the killing without any help from the Republican Party. The good news is, for the last 35 years we’ve been proving that we can do just that. We just didn’t realize it.

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The Truth that Deceives

March 4, 2008 Categories: abortion, statistics, language, partial birth

On the surface, it seems illogical that truth can be manipulated to achieve deception. But the reality is that it happens all the time. In fact, it is now the fundamental operating principle of the American media. Of course, it is also a stunt that politicians are not above calling upon when the need arises. No one, however, is more skilled at it than the abortion lobby. It is a clever little game these people play in order to keep uncomfortable and indefensible realities hidden from the American public.

An example of their expertise in this field is evidenced every time they are confronted by the issue of late-term elective abortion. At the moment it becomes clear that they cannot defend the practice, you will hear something along the lines of, “This is a non-issue. The overwhelming majority of abortions take place before the end of the first trimester.”

Of course, it is true that, as a percentage of all abortions, only about 10% are late term procedures. What this truth is intended to obscure is that, because the sheer numbers of abortions done are so large, 10% translates into more than 300 second and third trimester babies butchered every day in the U.S. Further, virtually all of these abortions are carried out for no medically indicated reason and involve healthy babies being carried by healthy moms. And that is a fact. The bottom line is, the sole reason these babies are killed is because someone wants them dead and someone else is willing to kill them.

On April 2nd through the 4th, 1995, George Tiller, the notorious late-term abortionist in Wichita, Kansas, was speaking at the National Abortion Federation’s 19th Annual Meeting, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The subject was late term abortion and Tiller made the following statement: “We have some experience with late terminations, about 10,000 patients between 24 and 36 weeks and something like 800 fetal anomalies between 26 and 36 weeks in the past five years.”

Listen to what this man is saying. He is admitting to killing 10,000 babies between 24 and 36 weeks in a five year period and over 90% of the babies had no fetal anomalies. Moreover, it is illogical to assume that the remaining 9,200 abortions were performed to protect the lives of the mothers involved since, (a) with today’s medical technology it is extraordinarily rare for pregnancy to be life-threatening, and (b) abortions done to protect the lives or health of the mothers are done far earlier in the pregnancies.

The point is, Tiller is admitting that the vast majority of the late-term abortions he does are strictly elective. To understand how sickening this is, consider that a 36-week baby is almost full term and that it is not uncommon even for babies born at 24 weeks to survive without major health problems.

The next year, the 20th Annual Meeting of the National Abortion Federation was held from March 31 to April 2, 1996, in San Francisco, California. At this event, Martin Haskell, the Ohio abortionist who invented the D&X (Partial-Birth) abortion procedure made the following statement: “Two of the criticisms that I've been hearing lately about how our side is structuring its debate is that, one, we seem to be taking a position that—in the case of the D&X—that the fetuses are dead at the beginning of the procedure, which is generally not the case. The second criticism has been that we are really skewing the debate to a very small percentage of women that have fetal anomalies or some other problem that really need the procedure verses the 90% who it’s elected, at least through the 20 to 24 week time period, and then as you get on towards 28 weeks it becomes closer to a hundred percent. But these seem to be very uncomfortable issues for people on our side of the debate to deal with.”

Haskell is openly criticizing his pro-choice colleagues for lying about, (a) the babies targeted by late term abortions being dead before the procedures start and, (b) the women having these procedures needing them for any kind of health reason. Amazingly, he even admitted that as the abortions got later, the percentage that was “elective” went up, with 28-week and later abortions being virtually 100% elective.

This is exactly opposite of what the abortion lobby says when publicly confronted about late abortion. To this day, they still claim that late abortions are never done except when something is wrong with the baby or the mother’s life or health is in jeopardy. They are lying and these quotes from two well-known late-term abortionists prove it. (The actual recordings of these statements are on file at Life Dynamics.)

I realize that, for people who defend legalized abortion, 300 dead late-term babies per day is no big deal. They lack the basic moral foundations necessary for this to matter. But they are smart enough to realize that, for people with even a minimal amount of morality or human decency, it is a big deal. That’s why they always direct the debate toward percentages and away from numbers.

It is time for the pro-life movement to introduce some perspective into this discussion. Our enemies say that late-term abortion is a non-issue but, from a numbers standpoint, 300 dead babies is equivalent to a fully loaded jetliner crashing somewhere in America every single day. That is the sort of thing the abortion lobby does not want the public thinking about.

Our job is to make sure they do. Our job is to show them that 300 babies a day having their legs torn off, their arms ripped from the sockets, their chests crushed, their skulls collapsed, and their pathetic remains ground-up in abortion clinic garbage disposals, is more than just a “choice.”

It’s a disgrace to the human race.

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