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PAUL E. SCATES

(2/6/2007)

Beyond Rhetoric: The Brutal Human Reality of Roe vs Wade

By Paul E. Scates

Two weeks ago we were treated to the unholy spectacle of feminists and assorted other liberals actually “celebrating” the thirty-fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s egregiously un-Constitutional Roe vs Wade ruling. Let’s look at what it was, exactly, they were celebrating:

Since that infamous 1973 ruling, forty-seven million abortions have been performed in the U.S. That’s an average of 1.4 million dead babies per year. But perhaps you’ve been hardened to such numbers by the incessant overload of information brought on by the 24/7 “news” cycle. Joseph Stalin, who was responsible for his own millions killed, once said, “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” So let’s try to make those numbers more real, more understandable on a human scale.

One-point-four million abortions per year translates to 115,196 babies killed every month. There are approximately 55,000 deaths on America’s highways each year, which is less than 4,600 per month. To stem these “needless tragedies,” local police all across the nation have passed legislation requiring us to wear seatbelts, and several times a year conduct “let me see your papers”-type enforcement drives, complete with roadblocks, to try and lower this number. But the 115,196 babies who are killed each month? I guess that’s not tragic enough for our government officials, on any level.

Still too much of meaningless statistic? Consider this, then: Congressional withdraw-the-troops-now supporters and their comrades in the media have made much of the fact that more than 3,000 U.S. military personnel have been killed since the Iraq War began, yet 3,840 infants will be killed today, as they have been killed every single day for thirty-four years...and not a one of them volunteered, as did every member of the military. If “terrorist” is the correct description of those responsible for these deaths (and it is), then what name do we give the judges, bureaucrats and politicians who have enabled this mass murder?

Still just a number to you? OK, consider that each hour of every day the United States of America murders 160 innocent babies. That applies to every hour since 1973, longer than many of you have been alive. That means that each minute you breathe, three more infants are being prevented from ever taking their first breath.

When you got up this morning we had already killed almost a thousand children today. While you were showering, getting dressed and driving to work, we killed more than 150, a figure that will be matched during your lunch hour. While you spent the afternoon worrying about deadlines, schedules and other important things, your country was butchering 650 babies. While you watch that two-hour movie tonight, you won’t be thinking about the jerks and death spasms of the 320 babies whose encounter with sterile instruments is all they’ll ever experience of life on this planet. Over 500 were killed while you rooted for the Bears or Colts during the Super Bowl football game. Between the time you get home today and the time you go to bed tonight, 800 more babies will suffer the consequences of “a woman’s right to choose.”

Politicians tell us incessantly how many children went hungry last year, how many were deprived of a good education, or decent health care, yet every single year since 1973 we have “spared” 1.4 million children those hardships...by killing them before they ever had to endure them. If it were really “all about the children” – the rationale commonly used by these unfeeling, cold-blooded and self-serving creatures for all manner of legislation that violates the Constitution, and every moral and ethical standard – then in 1973...or fifteen years ago...or today...they would introduce legislation that would, in practical effect, overturn Roe vs Wade and stop these killings of innocent children.

That’s right, contrary to what they’d have you believe, it is the Congress, the supposed representatives of the people, who have more Constitutionally authorized power than the Supreme Court. Yet for all their unctuous concern and phony compassion, they do nothing, worried more about the political ramifications of standing against the feminist lobby, the ACLU, et al. Just as all those in authority in this country seem to knuckle under to the 2% of the population that is homosexual, this excuse, too, is ridiculous on its face: when Roe vs Wade was handed down in 1973, 84% of Americans were opposed to abortion-on-demand. Since then, thanks to the rhetoric and indoctrination of our public schools, that opposition has eroded...it’s now 74%. Why aren’t our elected representatives more concerned with the “political ramifications” of ignoring the will of the people than in confronting tiny but powerful special interest lobbies?

President Bush had the gall to cite the “No Child Left Behind” legislation (that infamous liberal Ted Kennedy wrote) as evidence of the nation’s educational commitment to children. That is...if those children actually make it to birth and school age. The Roe vs Wade decision could be called the “No Child Left Alive” policy, for it is Congress’ inaction, their spineless neglect of their moral and Constitutional responsibilities to protect “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...” that allows this policy of murdering the innocent to continue.

I’ve lived long enough to see this nation descend from a free and moral society, one that righted past wrongs because of the moral outrage of our leaders, elected and otherwise. Slavery and segregation were abolished as policy, the treatment of women as second-class citizens was ended...yet where is the moral outrage at this, the most brutal and shameful of all wrongs ever committed by our country. At least slaves were allowed to live!

Several years ago, when the number of abortions was 40 million, I did some research and found that a country populated by all those we had aborted would be the 26th largest nation on earth. Now the number is 47 million, and growing daily. Beyond the numbers, beyond the horror of what we’ve done, and are doing, there is God, and throughout history He has consistently visited His justice upon nations that sacrificed innocent children to false gods, and rightly so. We have become a nation of death, even though our Founding document declares that it is God Who endows us with rights, and that the first of these is the right to life. By rejecting God, do we not reject our own right to life, individually and as a nation? As Jefferson wrote, “When I consider that God is just, I tremble for my nation.”

Formerly a liberal and an atheist, Paul E. Scates served as a Marine in Vietnam and is a lifelong student of American history, politics and culture. A former contributor to national website TooGoodReports.com, he writes his staunchly independent Conservative and informed Christian commentary for his fellow ordinary, working Americans, the “we, the people” who are ultimately responsible for preserving our Constitutional liberties. He welcomes your , pro or con.