The 45th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade

I've been accused of engaging in 'single-issue politics' because of my stance on abortion. I'll accept part of that label - 'single-issue' - for reasons I'll outline below. However, I won't accept the 'politics' portion of the label, because abortion isn't a political issue. It's a moral issue that's been politicized by its adherents, who don't want to hear that it's really a moral issue.

Many years ago, PBS ran a mini-series on the Civil War. It was based on the writings of historian Shelby Foote. In an interview about the series, Foote made the statement, 'the Civil War was so damned important because it determined what kind of a country we were going to be'. I think the same can be said of the abortion issue - it's so (literally) damned important because it has determined what kind of people we will be. 

The legalization of abortion has, indeed, determined what kind of people we have decided to be. We have thrown in our lot with the Aztecs and the Canaanites, sacrificing our children, not on the altar of Moloch, but on the alter of a new god, Self. This god is every bit as demanding as Moloch, however; we have magazines dedicated to it, an entire 'Self'-help industry to encourages us to make sure we take care of Self. And Self will stop at nothing to get what it needs, even to the point of embracing the most heinous of crimes, the willful killing of innocent persons.

This collective decision has transformed us from a compassionate, caring people into a coarse, uncaring breed; it has colored every aspect of our morality, to the point where we can't even call it 'morality' anymore - it's immorality, taken to the nth degree. As Mother Teresa put it, so simply and profoundly: 'if killing an unborn child isn't wrong, what is?'

Indeed. The floodgate has been opened. Only the Maker of the flood can now turn the tide....

May God have mercy on us.