Do you want to know how sick the Democratic Party is?
When pro-lifers defend the partial birth abortion ban the best quote they can come up with from a prominent Democrat is this one from Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan who said of the procedure: “I think this is just too close to infanticide.”
That’s the best one we’ve got. Close to infanticide? Close? Folks, I’m not going to get into a detailed description of partial birth abortion because everyone reading this probably knows already but it is infanticide.
Look, calling partial birth abortion “close to infanticide” is not exactly a profile in political courage. But this quote from a prominent Democrat is the closest one to sane we can find on the issue of abortion.
The millions in dollars pouring into Democratic coffers from the abortion industry absolutely silences dissent on this issue. And very often in politics, money means votes. The abortion industry has bought a seat at the head of the table right next to the unions. What they say, goes. If you don’t vote with them, you don’t get money. And getting reelected without money is pretty difficult. It’s that simple.
How can we change this? People could just stop getting abortions and the abortion industry might have no money to buy a seat at the table of power anymore. But I don’t think that’s likely, do you?
But if enough people turn on this sick twisted practice of abortion and refuse to vote Democrat because of it, the Democrats will be forced to shun the abortion industry. But this takes education and education takes money and unceasing effort on our part.
People must be informed of the truth of abortion, a goal which the media isn’t going to help us with. And right now pro-life groups are notoriously low on funds, especially as compared with pro-abortion groups. We have talk radio. We have blogs. And priests and bishops finally seem to be speaking out with authority.
We have much to do. After this election, there’s going to be a lot of talk about the future of the Republican Party. It’ll be a battle between “moderates” and “the extreme right wing” for control of the levers of power in the still pro-life Republican Party. We’ll have to win that fight for the soul of the Republican Party or else in the future we’ll be quoting Republicans calling abortion “a sad but necessary evil like taxes.”
October 21, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I haven’t followed this blog assiduously in the past, so I don’t know quite how this debate has gone before.
I just have to say that I really don’t think the Republicans are going to do much for the freedom (including and especially the right to life of innocents) of American citizens without a radical and revolutionary reversal of all the illegal practices of politicians – declaration of war without congress, heavy taxation, supreme court “legalization” of child-killing, etc. These are the exact things our country abolished in its foundation, and they are brushed aside without so much as an explanation. Nobody even considers the possibility that our current course is in stark contrast to the course for which we were brought together.
Of course, this is anything but an endorsement for Democrats, who are far worse. The point is that there is not much real difference between the two parties, practically speaking, when it comes to the heart of the problem – that government has become way too big and tries to control everything. Only freedom will allow people to follow their consciences, and neither major party has worked toward real freedom (apart from a very few exceptions) for over half a decade.
It’s time for a change bigger than keeping Democrats away from the Oval Office. We need a revolution to free us from the oppression of big government so that we can live as we know we ought and protect the innocent as we know we ought.
October 21, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Joshua –
Amen.
The immediate question that someone will ask is – how do you do this without handing the pro-Deathists a whopping victory?
October 21, 2008 at 2:08 pm
And I’ve been struggling with this question myself so I’m seriously eager to hear any thoughts you have on it.
October 21, 2008 at 3:16 pm
It’s too late for politics.
Midnight draws near and the clock is ticking.
I’m not saying to totally disregard the political arena, but our only hope is on our knees. I think, perhaps, only the intercession of Mary can save us now.
October 21, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Joshua,
A friend of mine constantly reminds me that we are Catholic and not Republican. True enough. However, the two are not of the same species. The Church is a religion while the Republican party is a political organization. It is possible to baptize the political through our involvement; one can inform and transform the other. If we were to adopt a party en masse like the pro-life evangelicals and Catholics did in ’94, we could be heard and work for lasting change. The fact that the Dems squash any substantial conversation about abortion prevents us from moving in and working for change. The Republicans, on the other hand, have welcomed us. There is a possibility for change there. I have not seen too much involvement in the Republican Party by the faithful in Maine. Some of us have adopted the One as evidenced by Obama stickers and pins at mass but these are not the pro-life faithful no matter what they may say. They won’t be working for a pro-life country the day after the election.
October 23, 2008 at 12:42 am
I have had more than one atheist biologist call for me (and those like me – ie Pro-LIFE) to be “culled from the gene pool”.
They are soulless killers with black hearts and dark minds methinks.