and the GENOCIDE that is occurring in the black community because of this Supreme Court decision in which the “progressives” in the Court KNEW it would destroy that community and continue to kill off the poor blacks as Justice Ginsberg noted just this year It was finally admitted out loud that was how she saw the law.

in the year 2010 when sonograms show that they are NOT just cells but actually humans with beating hearts that Doctors who take the OATH to save lives would actually continue to KILL is insane. A society that would KILL its most defenseless is a society that will not last the test of time!

VB

Forgive us Lord and have mercy on us.

This is why I am proud to be a member of Red State.

This post demonstrates why I hold RedState in such high esteem. Kudos to the directors and of all of RS’s current contributors for fighting the good fight and working to build a culture of life in this country.

God Bless,

Steve Dillard

A nation is judged by how they treat the innocents among them.

Please forgive our great nation, Lord. Such a horrible thing. The fact that the Dem party makes this a sacrament defies logic.

Thanks for the commentary. We must never forget this horrible travesty of the law, and must keep fighting the good fight for the innocents.

God bless all the people who are marching. Our hearts and prayers are with you.

for they are our infants; a genocide “a civilized” society has visited upon its’ people. No words, only tears….

I am an advocate of limited government, but I part ways with conservatives on this one.

Conservatives need to learn that America is not a theocracy, and that freedom can only be preserved by advocating reason, not trying to slip Christian beliefs into the Constitution. That’s one reason why the GOP has lost scads of independent voters, and things like 2008 happen.

An ideology of blind, mystical obedience to a man in the sky cannot be used to support a politics of rationally thinking, freely acting individuals (capitalism). Anti-reason and obedience cannot defend freedom. On the contrary, it will lead to an authoritarian theocracy, i.e. fascism, if put into practice. What makes you think obedience to a supreme being can lead to anything other than obedience in politics?

And if you think the Founders wanted to push Christianity, you are totally dropping the historical context. The first Americans were escaping the enforcement of religion by England. The Founders did not want that to happen again. In their view, religion was a private matter to be protected, but not promoted actively.

Jeff Montgomery

I am an advocate of limited government, but I part ways with conservatives on this one.

Conservatives need to learn that America is not a theocracy, and that freedom can only be preserved by advocating reason, not trying to slip Christian beliefs into the Constitution. That’s one reason why the GOP has lost scads of independent voters, and things like 2008 happen.

An ideology of blind, mystical obedience to a man in the sky cannot be used to support a politics of rationally thinking, freely acting individuals (capitalism). Anti-reason and obedience cannot defend freedom. On the contrary, it will lead to an authoritarian theocracy, i.e. fascism, if put into practice. What makes you think obedience to a supreme being can lead to anything other than obedience in politics?

And if you think the Founders wanted to push Christianity, you are totally dropping the historical context. The first Americans were escaping the enforcement of religion by England. The Founders did not want that to happen again. In their view, religion was a private matter to be protected, but not promoted actively.

Jeff Montgomery

I have a son who was born at 25 weeks gestation. He was less than two pounds at birth. We saw many kids in the NICU over the course of the 4.5 months he spent in the hospital who were born at similar times and even a couple that were born a bit earlier.

It sickens me to think that these little babies would, at that age, still even be vulnerable to murder if a woman simply thought they were a nuisance! These kids were tiny, they needed help from machines to eat and breathe, as did my son, but they were alive! And if they were alive at less than two pounds, they were alive from the moment of conception. They’re either living human beings who have unalienable rights at conception or they never have those rights, even after birth.

Abortion is not only the murder of an individual, but the murder of the collective identity of humanity. Just as slavery here in early America, the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, and the purges of the Soviet Union not only cheapened the meaning of life for those who were the victims but also cheapened the lives of those who committed those great crimes, so does abortion today. If the lives and the inherent rights of innocents are not worth defending, then neither are the rights of the already born worth defending.

May God forgive us of the evil of abortion, an evil which even those who support it take great strides to keep hidden from everyday life, and may He help us in the struggle to defend all life from conception to natural death. And may He accept my thanks for saving my little boy, healing him and allowing him to grow up to be the beautiful, smart, talkative, hilarious and mobile little 20 month old he is today.

From someone who is unable to concieve and unable to afford the 30,000+ dollars needed to adopt a child from a foriegn country, it kills me to think that a beautiful child is thrown in the trash every second of the day.

From someone who is unable to concieve and unable to afford the 30,000+ dollars needed to adopt a child from a foriegn country, it kills me to think that a beautiful child is thrown in the trash every second of the day.

What we must remember is that every day our Republican Representatives remain silent on this issue, is one more day towards the acceptance of this as a way of life. Things might not change and people would get tired of hearing it all the time, but there would be no mistake in knowing that we will not sit by while our country is hijacked. We have to show those for this that intimidation will not work and that we are not afraid. I used to think that this was none of my business until I saw the devastation it caused the mother afterwards. It is something she never forgets and has a hard time forgiving in herself. What a sad commentary on America that we have become so numb to that kind of destruction to the human soul. What a shame that many of us fear persecution for speaking out against the murdering of innocents. God have mercy on us…it is the best we can hope for.

I have decided to quite lurking and finally post my first comment; primarily, because this subject always evokes such strong feelings in me. I find it incomprehensible that anyone with an iota of compassion and moral decency cannot recognize a fetus/embryo as a legitimate and viable living being. I have seen the horrendous images of abortion and as a Catholic and father of two wonderful children, I cannot express the overwhelming sense of joy and awe at hearing the child’s heartbeat at 10 weeks in the doctor’s office…that is a heartbeat!! The distinction between murder and legal abortion being whether or not a CHILD has traversed a 6- to 8-inch canal is a travesty. I pray for an end to all abortion.

But let me relate a personal story.

My wife grew up in California in the 60s. While she is no longer a Democrat, she is still pro-choice. My daughter is the typical college liberal, reliably pro-choice.

I have never discussed my reasoning with being pro-life with them. They knew about it, but I have kept quiet on the topic, and most husbands do when they know they are in the minority among the women in their lives.

One day, they both looks at me, and asked, “Why are you pro-life?” It was the first time they had ever come out straight and asked me.

I told them, “Back in 1960, my mother was unmarried and pregnant. She was living by herself at the Naval Station in Newport, RI. She gave birth to me in the Naval Hospital there, and put me up for private adoption to my parents. I am 100% convinced that if abortion were legal in 1960, I would not be alive.”

This story really hit them hard in a way they had never before considered. They now completely respect my position, and I do feel my wife is starting to move toward the pro-life position.

Something like that hits home with the people you love. My mother was in much the same situation…only it was 1973 and the option was too late for her (I was born in April). By the grace of God she decided to keep me and 37 years later we are the best of friends. My mother was/is fiercly independent and is much more liberal than I care to admit, but I am confident that had she had an abortion…she would be a shell of her former self. Lucky for you that your mother knew enough to give you to loving parents that provided you a chance in life! If only we could get that message to these scared young girls who think abortion is the only option for them.

IF NOT FOR THE MERCY AND LONG SUFFERING OF GOD I’M SURE HE WOULD STRIKE US DOWN FOR WHAT WE ARE DOING BY MURDERING THE INNOCENT. OUR NATION HAS BEEN DIVIDED BY THE VERY PEOPLE THAT ARE TO PROTECT LIFE, THE ELECTED LEADERS OF OUR COUNTRY, IT’S JUDGES, COURTS, VARIOUS CHURCH DENOMINATIONS AND IT’S LEADERS.

TO USE AN EXAMPLE LETS TAKE A LOOK AT NOTRE DAME. THEY INVITED PRESIDENT OBAMA TO SPEAK AT GRADUATION AND RECEIVE A DEGREE. HOW WRONG WAS THIS? AS STRONG AS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND MOST OF IT’S BISHOPS AND LEADERS FEEL ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE INNOCENT, THEIR PRESIDENT FATHER JOHN JENKINS REMAINS IN HIS JOB AND DEFIANTLY WENT AGAINST THE WILL OF THE CHURCH,IT’S LEADERS AND PARISHIONERS.

UNTIL THE PEOPLE RISE AND STAND UP AS THEY DID IN MASSACHUSETTS THIS PAST TUESDAY ELECTION DAY, THE MURDER OF THE INNOCENT WILL CONTINUE.

WHEN YOU VOTE THIS NOVEMBER YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ALL THE INNOCENT LIVES THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY.

GOD HAVE MERCY ON US AS A PEOPLE AND AS A NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!PRAY THAT GOD WILL CONVICT THE HARDENED HEARTS OF THE DOCTORS AND WORKERS THAT PERFORM ABORTIONS AND THE ELECTED LEADERS AND OFFICIALS IN OUR COUNTRY TO REVERSE THEIR ACTIONS AND MOVE OVER ON THE SIDE WHERE LIFE LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember the day this decision was announced. I remember thinking “today its now legal to kill a baby in the womb in the United States of America”. I was 13 years old and immediately began an intense life long interest in politics with the goal of helping turn this decision around. As long as I live I will fight this evil, and I hope I live to see the day that it is ended.

…and I don’t think it will be lifted until abortion is abolished.

How many potential scholars, artists, doctors, actors, politicians, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, chefs, etc. have been sacrificed at the altar of someone’s “choice”?

Which dead baby would have found the cure for Alzheimer’s? The key to faster than light travel? The breakthrough that harnesses 90% of the power of the sun in a solar panel to provide clean cheap power?

The human potential that has been wasted because unelected judges decided that a man and a woman didn’t need to take responsibility for their action and behavior is staggering. I’m not necessarily against birth control, but when it fails, then you have to take responsibility for the consequences.

Abortion is not settled law in my mind and we need to keep working to at least return the decision to make it legal or illegal to the States and let the people decide. I personally think abortion is unconstitutional and should be made illegal, but at least returning the decision to the States is a positive step towards eliminating it.

Thank you so much for putting this out here today.

Homeostasis
Organisation
Metabolism
Growth
Adaption
Response to Stimuli
Reproduction

The criteria for life – all of which are exhibited by a baby in the womb (except for reproduction of course, but even two-year-old born humans can’t do that yet).

Also, there is no equal protection under the law where men are concerned. Women don’t get pregnant without the man playing a part, yet he has no rights when the mother decides to commit the act.

One last point: It absolutely defies logic to believe that an unborn child could be legally extinguished as in abortion or illegally extinguished as in any other murder.

There simply is no reasoning with evil.

Science too is the Providence of Almighty God.

Homeostasis
Organisation
Metabolism
Growth
Adaption
Response to Stimuli
Reproduction

The criteria for life – all of which are exhibited by a baby in the womb (except for reproduction of course, but even two-year-old born humans can’t do that yet).

Also, there is no equal protection under the law where men are concerned. Women don’t get pregnant without the man playing a part, yet he has no rights when the mother decides to commit the act.

One last point: It absolutely defies logic to believe that an unborn child could be legally extinguished as in abortion or illegally extinguished as in any other murder.

There simply is no reasoning with evil.

Science too is the Providence of Almighty God.

So true, so true. It grieves me to see how the hearts and minds of many Americans are blind to the truth. I read Uncle Tom’s Cabin recently and thought of our current fight against abortion from the first page to the last. We need a Harriet Beecher Stowe!! Abortion, like slavery, must be made illegal. We cannot continue on in this way. We must put an end to it! Bravo, Directors, beautifully written.

difficult and dangerous to adopt by returning adopted children to bio parents who pop up out of the woodwork and demand their “babies” back.

No one wants to invest one, two, three or more years in a baby, financially, emotionally, socially, just to have some airhead judge hand him or her back to a stinking crackhead who has figured out they can “draw a check” for the kid.

Also, we don’t have to go through the courts to stop abortion. The Congress can declare that such matters are not in the purview of the SCOTUS and simply pass a law saying that it is a decision rightfully belonging to the individual states.

THAT’S WHY ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. And that’s why we need to elect people of intgrity, not weather vanes like Arlen Specter…

reactions be if headlines read,
50 million plus, Americans, killed by terrorists as a result of a fundamental right wing extremist law.
and another note : more than seventy percent of abortion clinics are in or adjacent to minority neighborhoods, where is the racism outcry? It should be a roar of outrage, by black and Hispanic American leaders! In their silence you find complicity,
Didn’t Ginsburg state, she voted for Roe v Wade because certain types shouldn’t be allowed to breed, or to that effect , had a conservative, said that, they would have been pilloried.
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One Old Dog

this was exceptional to read. I posted something similar on my facebook today and an getting flamed royally by my “friends”.

It is painful at times to bear witness, but necessary.

when you see that tiny hearbeat just a few weeks after conception, my God! how is that NOT a person.

And when that heartbeat stops it is the most painful thing in the world.

I thank God for my 3 children and pray for those lost.

I think back to the pregnancy test that came up positive, and the joy it brought me. I think about the first day I heard his heartbeat, and the instantaneous affection I felt at that moment. I think about that first ultrasound, and the picture I have kept in my wallet since then. I think about all the kicks and punches, gently raising from my wifes belly. I think about the books I have read to my son in utero. I think about, in anticipation, that first moment when I can hear his voice, hold him in my arms, and welcome him to a world of endless possibilities.

I think about these things and I weep.

I weep for the millions of fathers and mothers who never had the chance to experience these moments because convenience has replaced long held convictions that life is a gift from God. I weep for the children who never saw life and never knew their mother and fathers love. I weep for my nation having become a place where killing children can be rationalized.

I weep because my conscience would allow nothing less.

I weep.

1. Everyone alive today was at one time in their lives just one cell, then two…..
2. If an abortion had been performed on any of us while in our mother’s womb, we would not be here today.
3. No one who favors abortion (or any one at all for that matter) has any chance of having the procedure performed on them.

about the horror and tragedy of abortion.

My best friend from high school was married right after college.

Mitch was about 23 when he married Lisa.
I remember one night he called my up and wanted to talk.
Lisa was pregnant but he said they did not feel “ready”.
A few weeks later Lisa had an abortion.

A few years went by and Mitch & Lisa had their first child, a girl.
A few years later on they had a son.
I visited when I could. Seems like when your friends have
kids they get real busy and forget about their bachelor friends.

Mitch would call on occasion and sometimes would talk about the
regret of his wife having an abortion, wondering what that 14 year old child might have been doing with his/her brother & sister.

I finally got married late in life and after my first son was born I sent
Mitch a photo of my son and we had talked about getting together.
Another year went by and about one month after my son’s first birthday, I received a call.

It was about Mitch – he had committed suicide.

I talked with his wife at the funeral. Anger – that was her only feeling that day. I talked with Mitch’s parents who I had know since I was 17 years old. No one saw it coming. Who knows if the abortion had played a role in the suicide. No notes – no nothing.

Just an empty place where life once was.

To not indicate such a fact would be deceptive and counter-productive. We are lucky to live in a country where everyone is entitled to hold different opinions, and yet still be civil. Because of my belief you can villify me is you must. But I am also not of the belief that those who are pro-life are bible-thumping theocrats.

I applaud the efforts of those who are pro-life to defend the rights of those who cannot defend themselves.

With that out of the way, let me say the following:

I oppose partial birth abortion and live birth abortion.

I oppose federal funding for abortions.

I also believe that Roe v. Wade was an abomination of justice in every way imaginable. The court created a right out of thin air, a right not enumerated in the constitution, for the purpose of convenience to reach its result. The decision has always smacked of judicial laziness, that the justices first reached a decision, and then had to find ways to connect the dots to reach that decision. Their decision was painful blow against the 10th amendment. A law which should have been left to the individual states and their peoples, as the founders had imagined, was put into effect by a nonlegislating body that day Roe v. Wade was decided.

play piano at age 5 years and tell me that we humans have the right and the wisdom and the foresight to decide which child should be born and which should be kept from this world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpzQsJkC3u0

Watch more videos of her. She may be the next W.A. Mozart.

Ultrasound video from even the earliest weeks confirms the truth of their humanity in everyone’s heart. Check out You Tube’s countless examples. It all comes down to a matter of perceived immediate convenience weighed against the life of the most vulnerable and innocent. How can any issue in public policy today rise above this one?

Thanks for posting this.

Have you seen the trailer for this movie? Here’s the link to the site:

http://www.bloodmoneyfilm.com/

This is gut wrenching.

Thank you for a wonderful post on the slaughter of the innocents. There is no equivocation here. Just the blunt truth. 52 million American babies have been sentenced to death since Roe V Wade.

UNNAMED

My child never saw the sun in the sky.
It never will laugh, it never will cry.
Murdered before it could draw its first breath,
Is there none on this earth who will mourn at this death?

Like hope in the breast of a man condemned-
Like an joyful flame dancing in the night-
Like a flickering thought in an old fool’s head,
So too was the life of my child.

The long, long walk from cell to noose
Trod ever so gently to hear the sound
Of a saving pardon that never comes.
The trap drops open, and hope falls through.

The lamp burned brightly ’til darkened by hate,
And the one charged by God with guarding the flame
Abandoned her duty and snuffed out the light.
Now He will be judging the worth of her life.

The thought was conceived to awaken our love,
But the love wasn’t hers, only mine.
Now it lives in my heart; the thought, not the love,
For my love has gone with the child.

My child never saw the sun in the sky.
It never will laugh, it never will cry.
Murdered before it could draw its first breath,
It only has me to mourn for its death.

The “Unknown Father”
Jan. 14, 1993

The one child policy in China has resulted in an interesting dilemma. By limiting couples to only one child the abortion rate has skyrocked since the time of its inception. Why? Because China is largely an agregrarian and rural society and they need strong sons to help work the family farm and to perpetuate the family name. Therefore female fetus’ have been aborted at a rate of 3-1. This has had the inevitable result of creating a shortage of females in Chinese society. Now there are stories of kidnappings of females, murders over females, increasing homosexuality etc…Since men now outnumber women 3-1 the society is breaking down. Not to risk sounding all religious (I’m a Christian) but wouldn’t you call that reaping what has been sown? It stands to reason that abortion on it’s face is an evil practice and yes an immoral one as well.

To anyone that chooses not to have an abortion… congratulations.
To anyone that chooses to have an abortion… congratulations.

To anyone that forces a person not wanting an abortion to have one… beware.

To anyone that forces a person wanting an abortion to not have one… beware.

What would overturning Roe v Wade accomplish? You’d make abortion a crime? Are you really that willing to restrict the rights of women? Would you prevent a pregnant woman from leaving the country? Would you ship her off to the pregnancy gulag to accomplish the ends? — That is frighteningly un-american!

because they happen to be the result of the human reproductive process.

Be glad your parents chose to give you life rather than to kill you.

Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton were classic “bootstrap” rulings. Assuming that the Constitution included “unenumerated rights,” and assuming that such rights included the “right to privacy,” and assuming that privacy included “reproductive freedom,” the majority opinion concluded that reproductive freedom included the “right” to terminate another person’s life.

Faced with the shallowness of that logic, the Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey later appended this “right” to the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That same clause has been the basis of Court rulings that guarantee directly or by “selective incorporation” extensive rights for persons accused of crimes.

Thus it is the Court’s interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment that a serial pedophile who kidnaps, rapes, tortures, and dismembers a child is entitled to proper search warrants, clear charging instruments, a speedy trial, bail, defense counsel, an impartial jury, the right to call witnesses, the right to cross-examine witnesses, an impartial judge, proper jury instructions, fair argumentation, and an appeal, while a preborn child who legally is incapable of committing any crime is entitled to be burned alive, sliced into little pieces, sucked out by a vacuum cleaner, and thrown in a dumpster without any protection. This is judicial perversity.

In 1898, the Supreme Court majority in Plessy v. Ferguson embraced segregation. The first Justice Harlan’s eloquent dissent took 56 years to become the majority in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. In 1973, the Supreme Court majority in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton embraced infanticide. Justice White’s eloquent dissent remains the cornerstone of legal argumentation for preservation of life. Let us hope and pray that it does not take 56 years for the late Justice White’s dissent to become the law of the land.

Truth does not depend on belief. Truth is both absolute and independent of our beliefs. We can either believe truth or deny it, but truth remains unaltered by our response.

Either a preborn child is a human being or is not a human being. Either life begins at conception or it does not. These are not difficult biological questions, despite Mr. Obama’s infamous plea that this determination is “above [his] pay grade.”

Truth: every abortion very literally kills an actual human being. All the language about “choice” and “freedom” and “rights” masks the very real extinction of a very human life. Those babies are not “choices.” They are dead.

I am a Christian, and will never apologize for my commitment to Christ. I am a conservative who unalterably embraces the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. And I cannot morally justify supporting any candidate on any ticket who does not embrace the sanctity of life. The right to life is not merely a phrase; it is the conditio sine qua non of all other rights.

Let us not rest until the sanctity of life is uneqivocally embraced in this land.

Just a word of encouragement for the very eloquent post commemorating what is surely one of the darker chapters in the life of our republic. I have not read a better summary of why many of us are completely opposed to abortion and the fact that it is “legal” in this country.

Thanks for writing it. Hopefully someday we will not have to mark this anniversary with each passing year, revising the body count ever higher. It is also yet another reason why it is so important to support and elect those that see the practice for the abhorrence that it is.

May God have mercy on our nation.

Here’s an ultrasound motion picture of a fetus 8 weeks and two days after conception. Such images were not available when Roe v. Wade was decided, and I am not aware that any U.S. Supreme Court Justice has ever seen such a motion picture. But I do know know that one U.S. Supreme Court Justice — who also happened to have signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution too — wrote the following:

With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and in some cases, from every degree of danger.

James Wilson was right on. No line of court cases in human history has been so destructive and wrong, so foolish, and so mistaken.

It’s getting lost! If we can’t rec it, can you just auto-promote it? Thanks!

“On this day, we remember the nameless and the forgotten, and we lament our inability to even grasp the sorrow or the extent of their loss. Requiescat in pace.

Not forgotten, for the conscience is too great to ignore.

Thank God for the resurection and for His gift of mercy and forgiveness as well.

“We renew our pledge … to work to support candidates who will do everything in their power to someday bring about the day when Roe v. Wade joins Scott v. Sandford as an aberrant footnote to our nation’s great history.”

Here is a candidate worth supporting…Bill Johnson is running for the U.S. Senate for Kentucky. After pushing back for over a year, I have come to recognize a genuine conservative when I see one. Please check out: http://www.kentuckybill.com to see his position on abortion. He has been endorsed by Dr. Alan Keyes, a strong anti-abortion activist.

Thank you all!

IF, indeed, America survive another 200 years, how will the future historians view this ugly era in our history? Is there no shame for liberals? They call themselves “progressives” but abortion is a brutal, backward, savage, and cruel procedure. People are not allowed to describe it due to the heinous nature of the procedure but 7 men once upon a time said that it was a right and that this “right” was an extension of a right to privacy. To that, I simply say “orchard muffins”. Do you suppose the millions of children who died in the abortion chambers will not be avenged?

voteindy: registered 15 days, 17 hours

JadedByPolitics: 2 years 8 months

Hitler Holocaust: 6 million innocent human beings

Abortion Holocaust: 50 million innocent human beings

JadedByPolitics: Pro-life

voteindy: apparently pro-choice

RedState: pro-life

Yeah…that just about covers it.

Progressives and Liberals like to use the law when it can benefit them. If a pregnant mother is shot and killed they jump on the band wagon to pronounce it a double homicide.