Murder She Wrote: Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation
Ronald Fox
Staff Writer
This is one of the hot button issues of our time. Scholars,
commentators, politicians and citizens alike have debated on whether abortion is moral enough to be practiced in our society.
I, for one, say "no" to the highest heaven.
The consequences of the Judicial decision “Roe v. Wade" are now obvious. Since 1973 more 43 million unborn children have had their lives snuffed out by legalized abortions. That is over 10 times the number of Americans lost in all our nations wars.
Abortions concerns not just the unborn child, it concerns every one of us.
The English poet John Donne wrote, “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
I, Ronald Fox, believe this to be the greatest moral crisis facing our country today.
The revered Mother Theresa, who worked in the streets of Calcutta, India ministering to dying people, in her world-famous “mission of mercy,” stated,” The greatest misery of our time is the generalized abortion of children.”
The real question is clear. What is
the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and
legs of a tiny baby to make sure all it’s parts have been torn from
it’s mother body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being.
--John Donne
I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future. The Declaration of Independence gave the majestic Interpretation of the economy of the Universe. When Congressman John A. Bingham of Ohio drafted the Fourteenth Amendment to guarantee the rights of life, liberty, and property to all human beings, all are entitled to the protection of American law because it’s divine spirit of equality declares that all men are created equal.
This means that these rights apply to all men. Which strongly affirms the sanctity of life. The cultural environment for a human holocaust is present whenever any society can be misled into defining individuals as less than human and therefore devoid of value and respect.
The great Abraham Lincoln recognized we could not survive as a free land when some men and women could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men and women decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion and infanticide.
I’m dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom then affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.
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