Wishful thinking? Perhaps, but we can hope, can't we?

I mentioned not long ago that one subject best avoided on blogs is abortion.  Almost always opponents on the issue take up extreme positions from which nothing is ever going to shift them.  However, I raise the subject because I have just read a piece over at The American Thinker by Peter Heck in which, whilst the author is obviously anti-abortion, he concerns himself mainly with the possibility (he thinks it is a probability) that this generation of Americans will finally overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling and consign legalised baby-killing to the same fate as the slave trade.  He points to the (dare I say?) 'killer point' raised in the original court case, that is, the question of whether or not an embryo is human?  I have always believed that it is from the very moment sperm hits egg for the simple reason that I consider life to be a process which begins at that instant and continues until death.  Opponents of that view simply dismiss the idea that a bunch of cells can be human but they suffer the terrible weakness of not being able to pinpoint exactly and precisely, and on scientific evidence, when a bunch of cells becomes human.  As I never fail to insist over and over again, it is crucial because one minute's difference either way means the difference between murder, or not.

According to Heck, the pro-abortionists have taken some heavy hits in the States recently.  There was the truly shocking (even in this day and age) story which emerged from the killing factory abortion clinic run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell who specialised in late abortions and who, apparently, stabbed living babies with scissors if they were unfortunate enough to by pulled alive from the womb.  Also, Heck has it that the anti-abortionists have taken some heavy hits from a campaign in which billboards were put up all round New York showing a picture of a little black girl and warning that "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb" - ouch!  The pro-abortionists instantly screeched their outrage but people began to notice that nowhere did they, or could they, dispute the truth of the message for, indeed, "three out of every five black children in New York City are killed by abortionists".

The most recent blow was deliberately aimed below the pro-abortionist's belts when some 'wannabe' news investigators went undercover into an office of Planned Parenthood, the leading abortion advisors, and secretly filmed and recorded their meetings:

After being caught flagrantly thwarting the law to conceal abusive prostitution rings, statutory rape violations and an underage sex slave operation, Planned Parenthood's leadership didn't demand immediate internal investigations to clean up their act.  No, they mused about suing Lila Rose and her organization Live Action Films who exposed them.

All of this and more leads Peter Heck to believe? hope? that the American moral compass point is shifting.  We shall see.

 

Comments

[hank]

David

A milstone of sorts. Dr Barnard Nathanson died last week. He was one of the founders of NARAL but later saw the light.

One of his comments was that improved technology, especially ultasounds leave no scientic doubt. The child is a human being from conception.

http://eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com/2011/02/r.html

[dearieme]

It's quite possible to refrain from being anti-abortion while being quite firmly anti-Roe-Wade. That decision was a triumphalist display of the power of SCOTUS to elevate intellectually frivolous judicial whim over the US Constitution.

[David Duff]

Hank, thank you, that is an amazing personal history and I may well post something about the man.

DM, I simply do not know enough concerning the legal arguments at the SCOTUS hearing, all I do know is that the result is calamitous.

[Dom]

I was about to comment on Nathanson, but I saw that Hank beat me to it. Here is another article on him:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/much-atone_552550.html