To many people, America is still considered the greatest country in the world. Despite the horrors of its past that included racism, slavery, segregationists’ laws and policies, The USA’s prevalent ability to learn and grow from its mistakes, though often debatable, has earned our nation this title.
Although we have grown and learned in many areas, the indirect lessons that are gleaned are sometimes the unintentional byproducts of the choices that we all make. In other words, there are no victimless crimes; someone is always watching.
One year ago this week, Roe vs Wade was officially overturned, correcting not only the greatest miscarriage of justice in the history of America- but of the world. While many Americans celebrate this momentous decision, the numerous repercussions, reverberations, and consequences are far from over. As such, we can ill afford to overlook four aspects of the road ahead.
The Collateral Damage
Beginning with the very first murder committed by Cain against Abel, his own brother, humans have shown the capacity for senseless violence toward each other. This very first ‘crime of passion’ revealed even then just how far we are willing to go when personal perception, or an imagined slight overshadow a broader worldview. As a result, the stage was set for millions upon millions of murders to come, with the only thing standing between the act and further action were the coming repercussions. However, without such a precursor in place, this blatant and widespread disregard for human life could not transpire.
Contrary to popular opinion, our youth have grown up, or in many cases our grandchildren and/or children
were reared in a world where many did not for a moment desire for “abortion to be safe, legal and rare” as referenced in the words of some- but rather it has been “abortion on demand”. Due to a deluge of a wanton lack of empathy and humanity, the tragic future that we face only mirrors the lessons from the not-so-distant past that we have yet to learn.
The Past
Take for example, the Holocaust. This systemic, state-sanctioned murder of more than 6 million Jewish men, women & children during World War 2 was once considered the most horrific crime in the history of the world- prior to abortion.
Although the German sadists pushing this called it, “the final solution to the Jewish question”, the original blueprint did not start with Germany; it began with America. More specifically, America’s Democrat party.
Of all the countries historically utilizing and promoting slavery, it was only this group that considered slavery good for the slave.
Why is that important? Because when you remove culpability or responsibility from any situation, guilt is no longer a factor. For the ‘guiltless’ cause of “the greater good”, civilizations were decimated, great cities were
turned into dust, and millions of innocent lives have been lost. For the ‘guiltless’ cause of “the greater good”, there is literally nothing humans are not willing to do. Nothing.
In their quest to answer their “Jewish question,” Hitler and his sadist party, the 3rd Reich, spent the entire war enslaving, abusing, torturing, and experimenting on millions of men, women, children, and defenseless elderly Jews. This included many instances of separating children from their parents, all originally based on a prototype started by the masters of the ‘guiltless good’, once again (you guessed it), the Democrats. Not because of the threat of ‘insurrection’, or danger posed to the population, but rather for no other reason than because the
Nazis, like their Democrat counterparts with the Black slaves, considered Jews inferior. Undesirable. Unworthy of life. Not real people. Once again, all acts committed for the ‘guiltless good.’
Remember, ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’.
Fast forward 30 years. In 1973, through a series of lies, deception and a manipulation of the justice system, the then, Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. ‘Jane Roe’, fought for and won the court decision known as Roe vs, Wade, which gave the right to all women to abort their unborn child for virtually any reason.
Through the founder of Planned Parenthood, eugenicist Margaret Sanger, a baby is aborted every single minute in the United States. That comes to nearly 1,700 per day, equating to approximately 630,000 innocent lives each year.
This centuries old Democrat plan of ‘eradicating the unnecessary’ has come full circle. Hitler and Sanger would both be proud. Despite what name you give it- be it reproductive rights, reproductive healthcare, reproductive justice, pro-choice or the right to choose, over 60 million innocent babies have been murdered through a systemic, legally sanctioned plan for no more than being considered inferior, undesirable, unworthy of life, and once again, not real people. Those individuals that once stated that even with Roe v Wade, abortions should be, in their words, ‘safe, legal and rare,’ surely recognize such efforts created more than 32M murder victims in America over the past 50 years.
The Present
Since Roe’s overturning, the true work now has only begun. For the last five decades, Pro-life activists and many Republicans have been fighting an uphill battle. Regardless of all the work we’ve done and efforts we’ve made, thousands of abortions were still being performed in most cities and states.
Due to this SCOTUS decision however, that has mostly changed. According to a recent article written just weeks before the landmark decision. Guttmacher’s Elizabeth Nash & Isabel Guarnieri wrote:
“All signs point to anti-abortion ideologues on the US Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade outright in the coming weeks. If that happens, 26 states are certain or likely to move quickly to ban abortion, devastating abortion access across large parts of the country and causing potentially severe health, financial and emotional
consequences for people, especially those in marginalized communities.
Of those 26 states, 13 have laws in place that were designed to be “triggered” and took effect automatically or by quick state action because Roe no longer applies—Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Some of these 26 states have multiple types of bans in place, including nine states with pre-Roe bans still on the books, and 11 states with early gestational age bans blocked by court orders. In states with multiple bans, state officials will determine which ban to enforce if Roe is overturned.”
The Future
Despite the hair-on-fire, and the ‘world is coming to an end’ rhetoric, the larger point remains; life going forward can no longer be the same.
With these things in mind, we, the Pro-life community, clearly have our work cut out for us. For millions of women across the nation, there has seemingly been one option for an unexpected or unwanted pregnancy
for half a century. With new bans and laws already in place, we must insure that those seeking options such as adoption and resources related to the keeping and caring of those innocents are readily available.
Now is the time to connect and get acquainted with the many pregnancy care centers, as well as the adoption agencies. We must remind our children and our nation that a baby-not an abortion, is the consequence of sex. More than one year later, we are still dealing with the aftermath of that which we spent half a century preparing for.
The Supreme Court’s decision did not end our challenge, it simply changed the position of the goalpost. While these same groups have basically moved on to redefining women and men, our clear objective yet remains.
Education must begin, so that the murders will end.
***Editor’s Note: Let’s not discount the importance of adoption reform at this integral moment in time. The opportunity to adopt is too often limited to the wealthy. To truly solve the abortion crisis, we must make adoption accomplishable by the millions of American families willing to love and raise these babies in need.
