On February 1, a truly exceptional statesman, Sen. Marco Rubio, gave an AMAZING pro-life speech to the Susan B. Anthony List's annual "Campaign for Life" gala. In it, he not only lays out a logical, moral & legal argument to reverse Roe v. Wade, but annihilates the many arguments defending the evil of abortion, while equally honoring the sanctity of life & encouraging the pro-life movement to stay the course. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said of Rubio, "He understands the reality that the rights of women cannot be built on the broken rights of unborn children. We need more pro-life leaders like Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate, and will continue working to add to their ranks." Right on!
This is a MUST SEE:
"Sometimes you feel like, maybe let's just not touch that issue today, it divides people. Let's just focus on the 80% issues and the stuff people want you to talk about. And I know I have, and many of you have as well, had people tell you, 'Why do you have to talk about that, it makes us uncomfortable?' 'Why do you have to speak about this issue, it divides people?' 'Just focus on the economic issues, focus on the economy, focus on jobs, focus on the national debt; that's what people want to hear about.' Well, we can't do that, because the national debt is important, the economy is important, it is the central political issue of our time, but this is not a political issue. In fact, this is an issue, especially for those who enter the public arena and refuse to leave our faith behind, speaks to more than just our politics. It speaks to what we want to do with the opportunity we've been given in our life to serve and to glorify our Creator."
"The truth is, I believe in all my heart, that the future generations will look back in this era of American history and condemn us. They'll look at what's happened here since 1973, and they will characterize this nation as barbarians. At some point, hopefully within our lifetime, but certainly at some point, people will look back at this practice and say, 'how could that be possible?' In the way that we look back at the atrocities of the past, at things that occurred 100, 200, 300 years ago, at institutions that we as a nation banned, and look at it and say, 'how could people have supported this stuff?' 'How could people have turned a blind eye to these things?' 'How could people have ignored that these things were happening?' The way we look at those things in history and condemn them, this era will be condemned for this. I have no doubt about it.
Our job is to accelerate the process of getting there. To insure sooner rather than later, and God Willing, in our lifetime, we can arrive to a consciousness in this nation that this is wrong. That the right to life is a fundamental one that trumps virtually any other right that I can imagine, because without it, none of the other rights matter. There can be no Liberty without Life. There can't be a Constitution without Life. There can't be a Nation without Life. And there can't be other Lives without Life. I cannot imagine any other right that we have more fundamental and more important than this one.
And so, the reason that I am so excited about the young people that are involved in this, is because sometimes in contemporary life here in America, we come to believe that all the great causes are something lost to history, that past generations fought all the great battles: abolition, the civil rights movement, women's suffrage. That all the great causes have already been fought and won. That's not true. In fact, maybe, one of the most important battles that has ever been fought is the one that you're engaged in now. So I encourage you to remain involved, because at the end of the day, our nation can never truly become what it was intended to be, unless it deals with this issue squarely. America cannot truly fulfill it's destiny, unless this issue is resolved. It's that important."
