I’m not a Pat Buchanan fan. But this column he wrote today feels exactly right and I think is why all the poll numbers are tightening this campaign season. It’s all about life. Each side knows we’re close. The battle lines are drawn. Whoever gets to choose the next Supreme Court Justice wins, at least for a generation. There is a strong likelihood that the next President will get to appoint one, maybe two Justices. So please don’t stay on the sidelines this election. Please don’t say you don’t agree with McCain on this issue or that issue because all of them pale in comparison to the abortion issue. Pick a side.
This election is America’s last hope to reverse Roe v. Wade. Upon its outcome will rest the life, or death, of millions of unborn children. The great social cause of the Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus, of the Evangelical and Pentecostal churches, of the entire right-to-life movement, hangs today in the balance.
Why? It is not just that Obama is a pro-choice absolutist who defends the grisly procedure known as partial-birth abortion, who backs a Freedom of Choice Act to abolish every restriction in every state, who even opposed a born-alive infant protection act.
Nor is it because Joe Biden is a NARAL Catholic who has been admonished by bishops not to take communion because he has, through his career, supported a women’s “right” to abortion, the exercise of which right has ended the lives of 45 million unborn.
Nor is it even because McCain professes to be pro-life, or Gov. Palin is a woman who not only talks the talk but walks the walk of life.
No. The reason this election is the last chance for life is the Supreme Court. For it alone — given the cowardice of a Congress that refuses to restrict its authority — has the power to reverse Roe, and because that court may be within a single vote of doing so.
Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts appear steeled to overturn Roe and return this most divisive issue since slavery to the states, where it resided until January 1973.
You can read the rest here at Townhall.
Buchanan goes on to say that “if Obama-Biden wins, Roe is forever. If McCain-Palin wins, Roe could be gone by the decade’s end.” The stakes are high. I will not be on the sidelines. Life is the issue of our time.
September 12, 2008 at 1:46 pm
” this issue or that issue…pale in comparison to the abortion issue.”
Well stated. Abortion, especially as practiced and enshrined in our society, is tantamount to pandemic infanticide. We are drenched in blood innocents and no amount of socialist propaganda for questionable programs can ameliorate that ugly fact. And the worst of all the enablers of this atrocity are Catholic politicians who support, in any fashion, its continuance.
September 12, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I voted for Pat in 2000. Yep, I was one of the Buchanan Brigade, and proud of it. He’s right most of the time, and he right this time. Obama would presume the power of life and death over his subjects in pledging to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, and appeals could take years before going to the High Court. Any man so presumptuous is capable of anything, I don’t care how charming he is.
You think Terri Schiavo was an exception? There were State and Federal laws on the books to outlaw what happened. Did it matter? Will it matter to a doctor overseeing our care when we are older and seen as a burden?
Those with reservations about McCain as a true conservative (myself among them) may finally have reason to put that aside, especially with Palin on the ticket.
We are like Rome before the fall. Should we wait until the Visigoths come over the hill to realize it?
September 12, 2008 at 3:19 pm
“If Obama-Biden wins, Roe is forever.”
No, it’ll only last as long as our government would, should we elect men like Obama and his ilk. There’s always hope, even if it’s buried beneath the rubble of our civilization’s future collapse.
September 12, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Blessed Mother Teresa said “The fruit of abortion will be nuclear war”
Seeing the evilness spewing from the media, Obama and feminists over Palin – I agree with Buchanan – we’re at the end.
For all of those people in blue states who say their vote doesn’t matter… your single vote never counted more than it does today.
September 15, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I’m not a Pat Buchanan fan.
Why not? Is it because he is Catholic? Or because he is America first? Or is it that he doesn’t bow to special interest groups like Israel?
I’m with David Alexander. I wish more Americans had the moral fortitude to support practicing Catholic candidates and not simply march lock-in-step with whatever their party says.