Posted by
KsReaganite on Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:07:51 AM
On the heels of news of the most inhuman carnage of death at Virginia Tech, Americans were greeted today by a small piece of news that gave us reason to believe in the existence of pockets of decency amongst us: the Supreme Court of the United States uphheld the overwhelming will of the American people to outlaw the ultra-barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion. It is a procedure that is so gruesome, so ghastly, so torturous that the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the abortion industry's leading henchmen in the Senate, termed it infanticide and a majority of self declared 'pro-choice' Americans wanted it banned. But court after court packed with radical judges of the Clinton era struck down state level bans enacted by overwhelming majorities of Democrats and Republicans. Congress was left with no choice but to enact the ban at the national level which again fell prey to radical Clintonite judges on the apeals benches in the Ninth and Second Circuits. Today's 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court restores the overwhelming will of the majority of the American people who have said loud and clear that this goes beyond abortion: partial-birth (politely called intact D/E by its grisly supporters) is infanticide.
Let us not be fooled by this judgment. It is only a very tiny step towards the goal of protecting the life of the most vulnerable, helpless, and innocent members of our society. We have a long way to go and, as the 2006 elections proved, the path is a rocky one at best. Arrayed against us are the powerful forces of the bar, the bench, the aborion industry, the radical feminists, the entire Democratic leadership, mainstream journalists, and the noisy liberal wing of the Republican Party. Those interests have lots of money and lots of votes; unborn children don't have either.
But let us not forget the importance of the decision either. This is the first time since the abhorrent Roe v. Wade decision that the high court has upheld the right of the American people to protect even a tiny fraction of their children fromcold blooded death and dismemberment. Even if one life is saved by this decision, a noble cause has been served. The small victory of Wednesday is a victory that richly belongs to the tireless efforts of the hundreds of thousand of women and men whose hard work and selfless sacrifice over the last 34 years made possible the decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 18, 2007.
There will come a day my friends, perhaps long after you and I are gone, that abortion will be relegated to the ash heap of American history like its cousin slavery was. That day is far away. But trust you me, it is there. This decision gives us a small measure of much needed confidence that that day will come. For there is a conscience deep in the American psyche that will wake up someday, like it did in the ante-belum era against slavery, and find it repugnant to affirm that killing a child is a mere choice worth a thousand dollars plus tax.
God Bless the United States and, may I add sincerely today, this Honorable Court.