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A comment or two on "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation" by Ronald Reagan
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| A comment or two on "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation" by Ronald Reagan |
| 11.04.04 (5:20 pm) [edit] |
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Just today, I stumbled upon a simply stated, yet well articulated, writing by the late Ronald Reagan. Then-president Reagan sent in a much-needed policy essay addressing the moral dilemma of abortion; this essay was done in the light of the 10th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision ruling abortion to be a Constitutional right. Having been a liberal before, I was a supporter of Roe until I stepped back and looked at it from another perspective. I realized I had fallen off of a necessary moral pathway. This straight-and-narrow pathway is called the Walk. As a life-long Christian, I was raised in the very accepting, very lenient United Methodist Church. The Book of Discipline was a second Bible to me. I still, as a Conservative Democrat, accept homosexuals, those who get divorces, those who get abortions, murderers, etc., because I have been taught to love my fellow human as I love myself. However, this doesn't mean we have to support these acts. Here, President Reagan makes a strong point that we SHOULD NOT accept the act of abortion, much less support it. From 1973 to 1983, Reagan said that "more than 15 million unborn children have had their lives snuffed out by legalized abortions" (Reagan, http://www.humanlifereview.com/" title="http://www.humanlifereview.com/" target="_blank"http://www.humanlifereview.co...). He went on to say that this total was more than ten times more than the number of Americans killed in wars. Let me repeat that: the number of unborn children killed by abortion in a span of only 10 years was 10 times more than all the total of Americans killed in wars over a span of 220-plus years. Now, is this not a crisis to the population of this world. For one thing, it will be a sad sight when the death rate is higher than the birth rate. What is hideous, purport, and ridiculous is that the deaths of innocent children by mothers having abortions aren't even included in U.S. death rates! Because some moron sitting in Washington D.C. saying that life begins at birth, innocent babies are killed every day and it doesn't even count against the death rates in this nation. Now, how can you feasibly tell me now that with the passage of Laci's Law -- a law designed to add an extra count of murder to an indictment if the victim was pregnant -- that life doesn't begin at conception? It's a legal case of having your cake and eating it too. How can a person who has killed a pregnant woman AND an unborn child get charged with murder and a person who aborts a child cannot? This is an outrage and another example of this stupid legal system leaving too much room for interpretation. I agree with Reagan's stance that abortion is a HUGE moral crisis for this nation. I also say this to the lawmakers in Congress: regardless of what other's believe, you have just made a law saying that an unborn child killed deserves a murder sentence. How does the method of killing matter? This nation needs a tough stance on abortion. It is now the time to take that stance. Call your politicians in Congress and chide them for trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Remind them that Laci's Law makes an unborn child, even barely conceived, a living person warranting a murder charge. Now is the time to act: thank you once again, Gipper, for showing us the real truth.
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