A good example of the above is our president’s controversial appearance and commencement address at Notre Dame this past Sunday. In his address, President Obama called upon both sides of America’s abortion debate to respect the basic “decency” of the other. In other words, I’m suppose to look at all supporters of abortion on demand, partial birth abortions and live birth abortions as decent people with whom I have a slight disagreement. Well, I’m sorry Mr. President, but that dog won’t hunt.
According to Mr. Obama, a pro-life supporter like myself should not be “demonizing those with just as strongly held convictions on the other side.” Yet, I don’t see myself as demonizing those determined to see to it that the onslaught of the innocents continues unabated in these United States. As far as I’m concerned, they’ve demonized themselves. It is their calloused disregard for the sanctity of human life and their bloodstained hands, hands stained with the blood of more than 49 million unborn children, that has demonized them. I didn’t have anything to do with it.
What makes pro-abortionists mad is for you to point out to them the obvious; namely, that good and decent people are appalled by abortion, not advocates of it. This fact infuriates abortion’s defenders, because it strips them of the pretense of piety. It proves that they are not what they pretend to be, virtuous people with a slightly different point of view on the sanctity of human life.
Now, the pro-death crowd will never admit that they are for abortion, but only for a woman’s right to choose. It’s not that they don’t love the little unborn darlings, it’s just that they believe a woman’s right to choose trumps a child’s right to life. Every woman should have the right to make her own choice, a personal and private choice made according to her own conscience and in consultation with her pastor and physician. “We’re not pro-abortion,” they insist, “just pro-choice.”
The disingenuousness of this “pro-choice” crowd is both blatant and beyond doubt. For instance, if they are really all about the right to choose, then why do they vehemently oppose the conscientious objections of pro-life pharmacists to filling prescriptions that cause abortions? If our president is, as he claims, in favor of choice and not abortion, then why is his administration quietly considering rescinding the US Department of Health and Human Service’s Conscience regulation, which protects healthcare workers from being forced into performing medical procedures that violate their conscience, such as abortion.
Make no mistake about it; when it comes to this pro-choice crowd, they’re only in favor of their right to choose, not anyone else’s. It’s okay for pro-life supporters to be coerced into violating their consciences, as well as denied their right to choose. It’s just not okay to deny pro-choice supporters their right to choose. Of course, when it comes to them, they’re not worried about being coerced into violating their consciences. Instead, their only worry is that their consciences might somehow be awakened. If their consciences were ever awakened, they wouldn’t be able to live with themselves.
If pro-choice proponents are all about a woman’s right to choose, then why do they oppose educating women on both sides of the issue? Why don’t they want women fully informed, so that only informed choices will be made? If they really care about unborn children, then why did they oppose Laci and Conner’s Law (Unborn Victims of Violence Act), which was enacted to assure that criminals committing acts of violence against pregnant women can also be prosecuted for injuring or killing unborn children?
It doesn’t take “rocket science” to figure out that none of this adds up. There’s simply no way that this pro-choice crowd is all about choice. What they’re really all about is abortion; and the only explanation for their rabid support of the slaughter of the innocents is their absolute moral degeneracy.
For too long now we’ve let politicians like Barack Obama talk us into whitewashing the darkest and most sinister things in America. No matter how morally reprehensible or repulsive something may be, we’re expected to whitewash its practitioners and proponents as “good” and “decent” people. Consequently, anyone daring enough to scrap whitewash off dark things is excoriated in our present-day society. Pro-abortionists are to be carefully glossed over as virtuous people bravely defending women’s rights, while anyone brave enough to point out to others that the most dangerous place for a baby in America today is in the womb of its mother is to be quickly brushed over in the dark tones of an intolerant hate-monger.
Today’s morally challenged Americans will not stand idly by while someone disrobes them of the pretense of piety and exposes their moral degeneracy. Instead, they’ll start sending out smoke screens of their claimed values to distract us from their conspicuous vices. Permit me to provide you with a couple of excellent examples.
Many attempt to persuade us of their piety by protesting against the use of advanced interrogation technics on avowed terrorists. They are vehemently opposed to waterboarding someone like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, despite the fact that waterboarding him reportedly led to information about impending terrorist attacks that may have enabled us to save American lives.
Interestingly, many of these same people who oppose waterboarding are in favor of partial birth abortion. While they protest against a little water being run off the nose of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, they apparently have no problem with stabbing scissors into the heads of partially delivered babies so that their brains can be sucked out and their little skulls collapsed. Now, I don’t know about you, but this doesn’t sound like good and decent people to me.
Along this same vein, many of today’s pious pretenders get themselves all up in arms over the care of captured enemy combatants, insisting that an enemy combatant’s every need be immediately attended to. Yet, when it comes to the subject of live birth abortions—the abandoning of newborn survivors of botched abortions until their little lifeless bodies can be thrown into hospital dumpsters—these same “compassionate” souls are all but silent. Take our president for an example. Although he has promised to shut down Guantanamo Bay, he once opposed the outlawing of live birth abortions in Illinois. Apparently, it is more important to our Commander in Chief that excellent care be given to Gitmo detainees than basic care and human compassion to newborn survivors of botched abortions. Once again, I don’t know about you, but this doesn’t sound like a good and decent person to me.
In his search for the source of American greatness, Alexis de Tocqueville came to the following conclusion: "I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers and it was not there...in her fertile fields and boundless forests and it was not there...in her rich mines and her vast world commerce and it was not there...in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great."
Today’s America has ceased to be great because we have ceased to be good. Furthermore, we have ceased to be good because the fire in our pulpits and pews has all but died out. No longer are our pulpits aflame with righteousness. No longer do our churches boldly, fearlessly and uncompromisingly stand for what’s right and against what’s wrong. Instead, like the rest of the country, our pulpits and pews have joined in the whitewashing of wrong so that it passes for right and the toning down and grayscaling of right so that it is indistinguishable from wrong.
