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The Legalization of Child Sacrifice Turns Forty...

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, comments on the duplicity of abortion's apologists, champions and profiteers:

“An abortion kills the life of the baby after it has begun. It is dangerous to your life and health.”

Those are not the words of a pro-life activist in 2013—those are the words of Planned Parenthood fifty years ago. So what’s changed since 1963? After all, abortion still kills. What’s changed is the decision of Planned Parenthood to float a fiction: it decided that the nascent feminist movement had to include the right of a woman to kill her unborn child. In doing so it broke ranks with the first feminists.

When President Obama invoked Seneca Falls yesterday in his Inaugural Address, he sought to call attention to the first women’s rights convention in that upstate New York town in 1848. What he didn’t say is that the organizer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, saw abortion as another case of treating women like property, “and it was degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”  Susan B. Anthony also branded abortion as anti-women.

Pro-abortion feminists know that abortion kills. Here’s an example. Gloria Allred, the famous feminist lawyer, was once asked on TV whether it would be better if there were no abortions. She refused to budge, saying, “Not necessarily.” Yet three years later when she took the side of a pregnant woman, Laci Peterson, who had been killed by her husband after naming her unborn baby Connor, Allred contended, “The fact that there are two individuals who are dead here, Laci and Connor, that has to be the most important consideration of everything.” She got it exactly right—there were two individuals who were murdered.

Hillary Clinton upset some feminists in 2005 when she said, “We can all recognize that abortion in many ways represents a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women.” She did not say why abortion is sad, or how it was different from any other surgical procedure, and she didn’t have to: everyone knows abortion kills.

NOTE: Make no mistake.  The American Birth Control League, which now bears the euphemistic misnomer Planned Parenthood, was pro-abortion from the very beginning.  Margaret Sanger, its racist founder, counseled and procured abortions for poor and minority mothers at every opportunity.  A fiction was created that Sanger's efforts were aimed only at education and contraception, that she felt abortion was wrong; the intention was to disarm her critics, especially the Catholic Church.  The truth is that she knew she couldn't sell abortion and infanticide to Americans until they'd first grown accustomed to contraception and sterilization. By the mid-Sixties, morality had so declined that Planned Parenthood felt it was safe to go public with their demonic agenda.  Roe v. Wade was just a matter of time.

Tears for some, but not many...

Don't get me wrong; I'm not suggesting Barack Obama did anything but play to the cameras during his Sandy Hook press conference. After all, he has demonstrated utter disregard, even contempt, for children and adults alike. Remember, this is someone who, as a state senator, tried repeatedly to decriminalize the murder of unwanted newborn children. Recall that later, as a US senator, he made chilling remarks about Terri Schindler Schiavo, saying it was "a mistake" to allow her family to petition Congress in an effort to save the disabled woman from court-ordered killing by starvation and dehydration.

Now consider what Obama's heartlessness means for the rest of us: the inevitable denial of medical care when bureaucrats decide we're too sick, injured or old. This is the lynchpin of what he considers his greatest achievement, a government-run health care system. But like everything else he's inaugurated, Obamacare is a travesty; it cannot possibly stave off insolvency without denying medical care to the very persons who need it most.

Unless, of course, "care" includes euthanasia. The Democrat Party, along with much of the public, has long considered abortion to be health care. And what is abortion if not prenatal euthanasia?  Indeed, the denial of lifesaving treatment implicit under Obamacare is merely a passive form of euthanasia. Either way, active or passive, the objective is the same: death.

Obama and his fellow atheists refuse to admit the truth about today's mass murders, whether they occur in public schools, abortion mills, nursing homes or anywhere else: They are symptomatic of a culture they themselves have wrought, a culture that is anti-human precisely because it repudiates Judeo-Christian tradition. Right and wrong are matters of opinion; life has no purpose; I come first.

The only solution to such violence is obvious to anyone with a properly formed conscience. It's the same solution Mother Teresa offered when asked how we might prevent war: Love your children. But as we see, it goes unheeded by a culture bent on contracepting, aborting, sodomizing and euthanizing itself out of existence.

America Slouches Past the Tipping Point

Clearly, I underestimated the lack of character...

...among American voters.  I sent this cartoon, which I thoroughly enjoyed drawing, to my syndicate Sunday, fully expecting it to be published this morning.

Alas.

I've never been one to give the electorate much credit; after all, our elections have put some of the most ruthless people into positions of power.  But rejecting a candidate renowned for turning around failing companies at the very moment our economy requires exactly his talents?  In favor of a proven incompetent who's spent almost four years making things worse?  This election was a no-brainer not only because the right choice required so little thought, but because most of the voters were so utterly thoughtless.

Yesterday's election was further confirmation that ours is a country in decline, her people not so much a nation as an aggregation of individuals far more interested in themselves than their own families and communities.  Of course, in a country that has legalized baby-killing, codified homosexuality and stripped millions of citizens of their First Amendment rights, confirmation is hardly necessary.  The greatest generation has given way to the lousiest.

Once again, self-styled "Catholics" (those who've abandoned the faith, but for some reason still identify with it) were decisive; without these baptized pagans, as author George Weigel refers to them, Obama could not have won.  Among these was the majority of Latino voters.  Like Esau, who traded his birthright for a bowl of victuals, they've cast away their salvific Catholic heritage for Uncle Sam's trifles.

But, hey!  When ya got free food and condoms, who needs Jesus?

The Left's Culture of Entitlement & Victimization

There are a lot of things the Democrat leadership doesn't get.  The self-defeating nature of entitlement and victimization is one of them... and one of the reasons November 6 will be a gray day for socialism in America.

Joe Biden is "personally opposed" to abortion...

...but that hasn't stopped him from supporting the legislative agenda of Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) one hundred percent of the time.  His is an absolutely perfect record of advancing the culture of death here in the US and around the world.  And that includes human cloning and lethal embryonic experimentation, contraception, homosexuality, euthanasia and the global depopulation programs of both the US State Department and the United Nations.

Amazing that someone who was educated in the Catholic faith, has raised children, lost a wife and child to an auto accident and now is well into the autumn of life has yet to accept the simplest, most profound truths, the things author Robert Fulghum wrote about in his bestselling All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.

A worse candidate for public office would be impossible to find.