The Declaration of Independence, America’s “birth certificate,” clearly states our Founders’ belief that the sole purpose of government is to protect and preserve the God-given and inalienable rights of men, which include the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” According to the architect of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, the God-given and inalienable rights of men cannot be secured by government if “we [ever] remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God.”
Interestingly, Jefferson held this bedrock conviction to our system of government without possessing orthodox Christian convictions. He was anything but a Christian, denying both the divine inspiration of God’s written Word (the Bible) and the divinity of God’s living Word (Jesus Christ). Still, Jefferson was smart enough to understand that God cannot be subtracted from the American equation without pulling the foundation out from under our Republic. He understood, as few do today, that the denial of Almighty God transforms government into tyranny, with the inevitable result of men’s inalienable rights becoming alienable in the hands of an “almighty” and tyrannical government.
Positive proof of the above is clearly seen in today’s America. Our removal of God from the public square by outlawing our government’s acknowledgement of God—despite the fact that our government was founded upon an acknowledgement of God—has inevitably lead to our government’s usurpation of the place of God. For instance, our government has tyrannically taken the right to life from the unborn child, which has resulted in the hands of Uncle Sam being stained with the innocent blood of millions of aborted children.
Throughout history, the ploy most often employed to disguise the diabolical inhumanity of godless governments usurping the place of God is their denial of personhood, with all of its accompanying rights, to all of their helpless victims. Ask yourself the question: What does abortion, slavery and the Holocaust all have in common? The answer is: The denial of personhood to all of their helpless victims!
Slavery was justified in these United States by the Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott Decision. According to this infamous decision, slaves were only 3/5ths human. Therefore, the court ruled that they could be legally classified as property rather than persons and bought and sold by their owners.
Likewise, the Holocaust was made possible by the denial of personhood to its helpless victims. In 1935, Germany’s Nuremburg Laws were passed, laws which stripped all Jewish people of their rights. In the following year, 1936, the German Supreme Court ruled that Jews were not to be legally recognized as persons. Instead, Jewish people were viewed by the German government as “sub-humans” or, as Adolf Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, parasites in the body of other peoples.
Just as the denial of personhood was once used by our government to strip slaves of their right to liberty and by Nazi Germany to strip Jews of all of their rights, it is now being used by our present-day government to strip unborn children of their right to life. For the past 43 years, our tyrannical government has played God and justified more than 58 million abortions under the guise of denying personhood to the unborn child.
In what is undoubtedly its most infamous decision ever, its 1973 Roe v. Wade Decision, the United States Supreme Court justified and made possible the unspeakable inhumanity of abortion on demand by dehumanizing the unborn child. What better way to disguise inhumanity than to claim that its victims are inhuman? Writing for the majority opinion, Justice Harry Blackman decreed: “The word ‛person’ as used in the 14th amendment [the amendment that forbids depriving any person of their right to life, liberty and property] does not include the unborn. The unborn have never been recognized in the law as persons in the whole sense.” Therefore, Blackmum concluded, “a fetus is not a person but only potential [human] life.”
This past Sunday, on NBC's Meet The Press, Hillary Clinton masterfully managed to infuriate both pro-life and prochoice Americans by claiming that unborn children do not have constitutional rights. She infuriated pro-life Americans by denying the God-given and inalienable right to life to unborn children, a right guaranteed to them by our Founding Fathers in our nation's birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence. At the same time, she infuriated prochoice Americans by daring to call an unborn fetus a child. By identifying the unborn as a child rather than a lump of inhuman protoplasm, Mrs. Clinton managed to uncloak the diabolical crime of abortion on demand and to expose the inhumanity of all prochoice Americans against the most innocent of all human life.
Typical of a modern-day politician, Hillary tried to play both ends against the middle with this political hot potato. She feigned to be humane toward unborn children by asserting her belief that pregnant women who want to keep their child should be helped by the government to get the "appropriate medical support" to assure their "child will be healthy." Then, at the same time, she showed herself to be as inhumane toward unborn children as Nazis ever were toward Jews by dispossessing them of their right to life on the sole bases of their undesirability. According to Hillary, women have every right to terminate unwanted pregnancies and abort unwanted children, since the unborn child is dehumanized and its right to life nullified if undesired by its expectant mother.
All I can say is that Mrs. Clinton should be glad that her right to life in present-day America is not as precarious as the unborn child's right to life; that is, revokable on the sole bases of undesirability. While Hillary's humanity, as well as the humanity of all prochoice Americans, is undeniable, their inhumanity toward unborn children is indefensible, just as indefensible as slavery and the Holocaust.