Last week the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington passed a bill which would outlaw abortions when a child is more than 20 weeks old in the womb of its mother. At 20 weeks it is a medical fact that the fetus or child in the womb can feel pain. Back in the 80’s and 90’s, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who had himself performed thousands of abortions, viewed an ultrasound of an abortion performed in the 20’s of weeks in the womb and became aware that the baby, shown in the ultrasound, was literally eliciting a scream when the baby was being cut to pieces by the abortionist.
Experiencing this, he realized that he had actually been killing babies who felt the pain of the abortionist’s knife; he thereupon became one of the most staunch defenders of the baby in the womb, producing a documentary film showing what he termed was “The Silent Scream” of the baby being aborted.
Decades later we have Representatives who do more than just voice their opposition to “abortion on demand” for any reason, at any time; they have formulated a law limiting abortions when it is clear that the baby can feel pain in the hopes that sensitive people would be responsive to the pain and suffering of fellow human beings. But to hear Nancy Pelosi put it: Republicans are just producing “more danger” for women. Other Democrats in the U.S. Senate have declared this bill as DOA, “dead on arrival” in the Senate, meaning the bill will not even get a hearing, much less a vote.
I do not believe there is a single Democrat politician at any level of elected or appointed office who is more than perhaps “privately opposed to abortion” but certainly not actively opposed to abortion. Starting back in the 80’s and 90’s, no Democrat was allowed to voice opposition to abortion at a National Democrat Convention; a prime example was Governor Casey of Pennsylvania.
In Florida in 2010, a black lady, Daphne Campbell, a representative in the state legislature suffered all kinds of abuse from fellow Democrats when she voiced her opposition to abortion, finding her only comfort in support from Republican legislators. The outlandish crowing of support by abortion advocates, with thunderous applause from the audience, for any kind of abortion at any time under any circumstances within their so-called “safe and legal” canopy at their 2012 Democrat National Convention was nothing less than a Democrat love of abortion as an instrument of power.
It is worth remembering that at this Convention, the mention of God was stricken from the Democrat Platform prior to the Convention by their platform committee and at one of the sessions on the floor of the convention, officials, fearing such a move might negatively affect the upcoming election, could not get, after several tries, even a majority vote from the delegates, much less than the required ⅔ vote to restore God back into the platform.
Nor is the the dedication to the power of abortion restricted only to Democrats; Republications in both houses of Congress who have had positions of power for decades are loath to publicly support such a bill as just passed by the majority of newly elected conservative Republicans who have regard for not only legitimate rights of women but equal regard for the human rights of the unborn struggling to be born.
Without our legislators, and all those in positions of power in government, respecting the natural human rights of all people, born and unborn, because these rights come from God and not from those who deny God while using their positions of power to determine to whom rights are given, if any, there will be no peace, no justice, no freedom.
Abortion is not only the curse of our age but may the harbinger of the end of civilization. Only through our prayers to God, asking for His mercy can we hope to recover the America that depends upon our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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