A Day of Mourning

On this anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision, read the late Richard John Neuhaus' speech on the pro-life movement. It's been republished over at First Things. The great Father Neuhaus was one of the most eloquent defenders of the unborn in recent memory.

How tragic it is to think of the nameless, faceless generations that would now walk this Earth had abortion remained an illegal practice. This is the greatest of our national sins: that we allowed nine robed dictators to infer a non-existent "right to privacy" from our Constitution that allows a doctor to kill an unborn child on behalf of its mother. I've never been able to fathom the philosophical connection between a right to "privacy" and a right to do whatever one wishes, right up to killing another human being.

Our cowardly politicians continue to hide behind empty rhetoric in order to avoid the consequences of admitting abortion is wrong. "We can't impose our views on others!" "Women can do whatever they want with their bodies!" Such statements, taken as Gospel by the gullible masses, are so at odds with common sense moral principles. If we can "impose" our opposition to littering, tax-evasion, and assault and battery on those whom we penalize for such offenses, why should abortion be any different? Does taking another human's life really count as a mere exercise of control over one's body?

These are the questions that the left does not want you to ask. The answers are obvious, but the implications of the truth would destroy the liberal utopian ideal. Therefore, abortion advocates hate anyone who expresses qualms about unfettered abortion access. Question their permissive, anti-human ideology and they call you a misogynist, a neanderthal, perhaps even a racist for good measure (because Lord knows, if you disagree with anything that the Democratic Party does, you MUST hate minorities). What they will not do, in my experience, is respond in a logical, sensible, or scientifically sound way.

Be thankful that maybe, just maybe, the common folk are waking up and realizing all of this. A majority of Americans are pro-life, according to Gallup. Maybe one day, when the Democratic Party and the pro-choice press have spent their credibility, the majority feeling will translate into action.

Coming Soon to the Western World: Chinese Reproductive Policy

According to the Canadian Financial Post's Diance Francis, the whole world ought to adopt China's one-child policy, due to our problems with overpopulation.

That anyone in the western world would seek to impose the Chinese government's brutal, totalitarian reproductive policy on anyone else is frightening. A couple's freedom to have more than one child is so basic and essentially sacred that only a complete left-wing fanatic could suggest this.

One imagines a white-washed office, staffed by people rehearsed in Pelosian talking points, with posters on the wall that boast sweet, politically-correct nothings like "Strength Through Selectivity", "Healthy Communities Now", and "Family Wellness Planning: Your Right". At bulletproof teller windows, smiling government bureaucrats will hand out reproductive licenses, process applications for babymaking, and so on. Behind the partition, a phone bank is set up, to which good citizens can call and report "unauthorized reproductive activity" to some DSS-style social workers who will promptly dispatch the offenders to punitive sterilization clinics (though these will be given some kind of nice, friendly-sounding name, like "Family Service Centers", or something). Illicit children? They can be retroactively aborted, of course.

Does this sound good to you, Ms. Francis?

Of course, if you call a communist a communist, outrage and whining ensue. Diane Francis, and those like her, are always the first to complain when their communist ideas earn them the accompanying monikers from all the mean, freedom-loving people who disagree with them. Yet what other adjectives can you ascribe to this stuff? It's the wishful thinking of the Obama age. The government should control everything, yes, even the number of children you have.

Sadly, I wouldn't put it past certain elements among the U.S. left to try to consolidate this kind of power with the federal government. They despise the family unit, and they value massive government intrusion on social matters, as the recent healthcare debacle shows.

I actually find it hard to muster much more of a rebuttal to the article in question, beyond my acute anger and disgust that such garbage is even published anywhere west of Beijing. Arguing with the devil is not difficult, but it is tiring. Francis' proposition is so blatantly opposed to the precepts of a free society, so brutish, so narrow-minded, so Orwellian, that picking it apart further would seem unneccesary.

If anyone does agree with this crap: please move to Canada. You will find plenty of other socialist morons that feel the same way, and you can set up whatever sort of reproductive police state you like. Hopefully, we'll still be here to laugh at you when your society has withered and failed.