'Abortion Day' 40th anniversary: a day of deep sorrow

"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. ... Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. ... Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish." ~ Matthew 18:6,10,14

Speaking of Orwellian, following an inauguration that appeared to overshadow MLK Day, today is not a celebratory day at all, but one of deep sorrow. For today marks the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade (along with Doe v. Bolton), transforming the state-by-state regulated procedure of abortion into a so-called 'constitutional right' on demand, even though the Constitution addresses nothing of the sort; thereby, constituting legal plunder through judicial fiat. Such destructive action to date has resulted in the murder of OVER 55,000,000 UNBORN HUMAN LIVES. To gain a better understanding of such a staggering number, that's about one sixth of America's current population.

HotAir's Ed Morrissey adds even more perspective...

...consider the fact that the US had approximately 142,394,000 births for the first 39 years of Roe. Assuming for the moment that 2012 added as many births as 2011, the number rises to 146,348 million. That means that abortions accounted for 28% of all known pregnancy outcomes in the US during this 40-year period. We literally threw away more than a quarter of human beings waiting to be born since Roe.

If you believe that a fetus is no more significant than a blood clot, that number won’t horrify you. If you believe that a fetus is an individual human life with its own genetic identity — a scientific fact — that should be disturbing, even apart from any moral considerations. If one believes that human life is sacred, well, this goes from disturbing to horrifying, and beyond.

It seems that the debate isn’t taking place on either the scientific or the moral plane, but strictly on the utilitarian plane, and not just about the pregnancies, either. We aren’t talking about the horror of disposing of humans at the beginning or the end of life, but of the political consequences of championing life, or the financial implications of the disposal rather than the human costs. It’s the ultimate triumph of materialism; we’re not talking about whether, but when, how, and perhaps worst of all, cui bono.

And that, perhaps, is a horror in itself.

We aren’t going to move people to end or even start curtailing abortions on those terms. We have to work in our communities to keep the debate focused on the horror of killing human beings for the sake of convenience, and we have to change minds on the ground by working to provide people with better options when they feel alone and frightened. This isn’t a political campaign — it has to be a cultural campaign that aims to transform the current culture of death into a culture that values individual human life, and a culture that remembers that freely-chosen sacrifice for others should triumph over the convenience for self.

Yet, many still roll their eyes when faced with the truth of this genocidal reality...a cold reality that separates this nation further from Grace...

"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation.

The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has shown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts ~ a child ~ as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign.”

~ Mother Teresa