Strategic Blunder
Dear Daddy:
I saw what you wrote in your last column--about how you think the Supreme
Court's ruling against a partial abortion ban is not the tragedy that I feel
it is. How in the world can you feel that way?
Sally Sue
Dear Sally:
I stand by my statement mainly because I try not to feel much about
things in the first place.
Sentiment is nice to get one moving along in a certain direction, but it
won't sustain anything. Certainly won't keep an army going in a long march
in a nasty war -- a spiritual war.
I had my first pro-life stirrings back in 1969 when I was in college.
Someone thrust a book in front me that had color pictures of various sized
babies cut up and piled in plastic buckets. "There, that is what abortion is
all about," said the book's owner.
So, several years before Roe v.Wade, before the nation's people and
politicians had invested much in the the abortion industry, before millions
found themselves defending what they or their judiciary had done, little
Daddy-to-be learned something about it. Enough to realize that the slogans
to follow in the next few years were lies.
Visuals were a fine tool to get my attention. They stimulate the emotions.
They can create feelings.
This has been a value of the babes that are still being slaughtered, just
before they might be naturally born. Their little destroyed bodies are
visually striking. Many have seen the reality of the horror of abortion by
seeing the dead late termers.
But, if we believe that the babe killed in a "partial birth" time frame
is any more important than one killed shortly after being conceived, then we
deceive ourselves and deny the Creator. We do not believe His scriptures.
Jesus, the God/man, was created at the Immaculate Conception and not at the
time of his virgin birth.
If the messiness of abortion is what drives us to prayer, thought and
action, then we probably won't be involved much longer, because there is
tremendous work being done to eliminate messiness. There is nothing the
ungodly would rather do than put all this messiness behind them. Get it out
of sight, and out of mind.
Various chemical methods of abortion will become commonplace in our land
and will become more and more efficient. We like our killing neat and clean
here. The baby that manages to almost escape his womb, and is killed at the
last moment before birth, will become the truly rare exception -- a mistake
not to be made very often.
The ungodly pro-aborts teased us pro-life dogs with the bone of a
"partial-birth abortion ban." History may show that they made a terrible
strategic blunder in not tossing it to us. If they had, many so-called
pro-lifers would think that the only winable battle had been won and go on
back to their personal concerns, feeling good about it.
If you focus on more mature babies as somehow being more deserving of
life -- then you are being sucked into the abortion political machine. Either
there is a sanctity of life -- or there isn't.
Don't think that God is ever pleased when you deny any of His Truths. Or
treat them as half... or partial... Truths.
Daddy
Past Issues of 'Dear Daddy'
What is Gunophobia?
Reclaiming Freedom
Loving Correction
Throw Off the Shackles
Death Penalty 'Balance'
Keep Christ in Christmas
Ten Commandment in Schools
The Never-Born and Heaven
Who Do You Serve?
Separation of Church and State
Flag Football
A Letter to Major League Baseball
Diversity of Guilt
Anti-Gun or Anti-Sanity?
Real Creationists
What an Example!
A Jealous Nanny-State
"Feed My Sheep"
Conditioned Response
Allegiance to Pagan Spirits
'Dangerous' Goods?
A Free Press Dream
National Victims
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