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It's true that abortion is legal but, hey, so was the Holocaust
Published in The Orlando Sentinel, Feb 7 1999
By Charley Reese Commentary
Some female columnist was screaming that violence directed against
abortion clinics is domestic terrorism. Her whining is a good example
of feminists' lack of logic.
In building her case, she quotes Bill Clinton's wife as saying that in
the past 10 years there had been seven killings, 38 bombings, 146
arsons and 733 instances of vandalism directed at abortion providers.
She neglected to say, of course, that during the same 10 years
abortionists killed more than 10 million children. One would think one
would wish to keep matters in perspective. But perspective is the last
thing a special pleader wants.
She tries to assert that the handful of crimes committed during a
10-year period constitutes a campaign of domestic terrorism. That's
balderdash.
Take, for example, seven killings during a 10-year period. Homicides
in the United States run on average from 18,000 to 22,000 per year.
Abortionists certainly run no greater risk of getting whacked than
normal people do.
But what about those 146 cases of arson during a 10-year period? Well,
in one typical year, say 1994, 17,000 Americans were arrested on a
charge of arson and 260,000 on a charge of vandalism.
In other words, violence directed at abortion clinics is greatly
exaggerated. It amounts to a mere pittance in the annual toll of
criminal behavior in our diverse, multicultural paradise.
Then she screams, "Hey, abortion is legal!"
Well, so was the Holocaust. The Nazis violated no German laws in
killing people during World War II. In fact, if a guard at a death
camp killed an inmate on his own, he was subject to courtmartial and
punishment. You see, whatever the Nazis wanted to do, they authorized
it by passing laws.
The point being that mass murder can be made legal. The Nazis made
mass murder legal during the Holocaust, and the U.S. Supreme Court
made mass murder legal in Roe vs. Wade. In fact, they both used the
same logic by depriving those earmarked for death of personhood.
To say something is legal is to say only that it has the stamp of
approval of the current government in power. It is not to say that it
is morally right, humane or good. Governments can make evil legal and
do it all the time.
It gives one great pause to reflect that the difference between being
a non-person with no right to life, marked by law for death, and being
a human being with the right to life boiled down to a few birth
contractions and a trip of a few inches down the birth canal.
It's as if the law, in its great politicized wisdom, said it's OK to
kill your children if you do it before they can get out of the
nursery, but once they crawl across the threshold into another room,
you can't kill them.
It seems to me that legalized killing of children, commonly called
abortion, is only one of the parallels between post-modern America and
the Germany that gave birth to Nazism. We have the same decadence, the
same militant defense of decadence by so-called intellectuals, the
same trend toward authoritarianism, the same disregard of human life,
the same unwillingness to make moral judgments.
Oswald Spengler, in his book, Decline of the West, projected that the
1990s would mark the transition between the Age of Money, marked by
the dominance of great cities and greed, to the Age of Caesars, a
return to dictatorships.
The ideological fanaticism of abortion-supporters leads me to believe
that the old gentleman may prove correct in his predictions.
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"The fundamental basis of this nation's law was given to Moses on the
Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the
teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.
I don't think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don't have
the proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a
totalitarian government which does not believe in the right for
anybody except the state."
-President Harry S. Truman
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