On Anniversary of Roe, President Obama Affirms His Opposition to the Right to Life

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act

As I entered the District of Columbia on Sunday, the evidence of the crowds converging on our Nation's Capitol as a part of the great human rights movement of our age was everywhere. The Right to Life is the fundamental human rights issue of our age because without it there are no other rights. It is also the great freedom movement of our day because without the freedom to be born, there are no other freedoms.Thirty Nine years ago, seven Justices of the United States Supreme Court consigned an entire class of persons, children in the first home of the whole human race, to the status of property. Over 50 million have died since that fateful day.

P>WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - As I entered the District of Columbia on Sunday, the evidence of the crowds converging on our Nation's Capitol as a part of the great human rights movement of our age was everywhere.

The Right to Life is the fundamental human rights issue of our age because without it there are no other rights. It is also the great freedom movement of our day because without the freedom to be born, there are no other freedoms.

Thirty Nine years ago, with the stroke of a judicial pen, seven Justices of the United States Supreme Court consigned an entire class of persons, children in the first home of the whole human race (their mother's womb), to the status of property.

As soon as I arrived, I was absolutely appalled to read these words issued by President Barack Obama on the dreadful anniversary of the Roe and Doe decisions:

"As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this Supreme Court decision not only protects a woman's health and reproductive freedom, but also affirms a broader principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters."

"I remain committed to protecting a woman's right to choose and this fundamental constitutional right." 

"While this is a sensitive and often divisive issue -- no matter what our views, we must stay united in our determination to prevent unintended pregnancies, support pregnant women and mothers, reduce the need for abortion, encourage healthy relationships, and promote adoption."

"And as we remember this historic anniversary, we must also continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams."

How very sad. With hundreds of thousands of Americans marching all over this Nation to mourn the loss of over 50 million of our neighbors killed by legal abortion, President Obama chooses to release that awful statement! What about our daughters and sons killed by legal abortion Mr President? Over fifty million and counting! They did not get to fulfill their dreams!

However, what may be more dangerous than the horrible lack of leadership coming out of the White House on this Human Rights issue is the language now routinely used by the media. It reflects just how far those who oppose the fundamental Human Right to Life have advanced in their propaganda effort.

This official statement from the White House simply confirmed that they have a President who is not only using their language but leading their effort. 

There is a real Fundamental Human Right at issue Mr. President. The issue is the Fundamental Human Right to life. You oppose that right in both your words and your deeds in your Presidential leadership. Every procured abortion violates that Fundamental Human Right.

There is absolutely nothing "reproductive" about reaching into the first sanctuary of every human person and - through surgical strikes and chemical weapons - intentionally killing the child. It is certainly not a "family matter" to kill a member of our own human family.

The logical absurdity of the President's words is obvious. If abortion is a "right" why would he pretend to want less of it? What other "Right" do we want less of ? It is time we pulled the mask of this veneer of civility which has covered over America's great wound. We are killing our children.

The claim of a "right" to abort an innocent child is currently protected in the positive law of the United States since the horrendous Supreme Court decisions in Roe and Doe.

Make no mistake; abortion is still an abominable crime. It is a violation of the Natural Law which can be known by all men and women through the exercise of reason. That Natural Law is also meant to inform our positive law - if such laws are to be just. The alleged "right" to abortion is an unjust law - if it can properly be called a "law" at all.   

The current approach to calling abortion a "choice" in the first nine months of life is no different than if the U.S. Supreme Court had somehow found a "right" to kill three week old babies after birth. We are always in development as human persons, throughout the entire spectrum of our life. There is no moral difference at any stage of our life as it relates to our being human persons and recipients of  unalienable rights which have been endowed upon us.

President Obama' feigned concern about what he called this "sensitive and divisive issue" is offensive and insulting. Worse yet, is filled with the kind of deadly language currently accompanying the denial of the Right to Life. This deadly language is being routinely used now by most of the media. 

For example, notice the near universal use of the latest phrase of the cultural revolutionaries by the main stream media - "abortion rights". Abortion is an action and actions have no rights. Only human persons have rights. The first among those rights - and the one upon which every other right depends - is the Right to Life.

Imagine if the proponents of slavery called the evil they engaged in a "slavery right" - just because the Supreme Court said it was legal. Well, in effect, they did just that. The US Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision gave them cover.

Chief Justice Roger Taney, in 1857, wrote "the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." We now look back on that horrid decision and rue the day - as we should.

The US Supreme Court cannot make a wrong a right by the mere stroke of a judicial quill or a keyboard! We will one day look back on the Roe and Doe opinions in the same way we look upon the Dred Scott decision. 

Abortion is feticide. The attempt to hide its horror with deadly loaded language intended to make it sound acceptable is reprehensible.

However, the opponents of the Right to Life repeat the phrase "abortion rights", "abortion rights", "abortion rights".. ad nauseam. Their collaborators in the media now use this deadly loaded language without even thinking about what they are actually saying, or writing. 

The phrase "abortion rights" is one more example of what George Orwell wrote of in a 1946 essay entitled "Politics and the English Language" - the "decay of language".  The great C.S. Lewis in his "Essay on Words" called it "verbicide", the murder of a word.

There is no such thing as an "abortion right."  The true Right is the one being denied in every procured abortion. That preeminent Right to Life is revealed in the Natural Moral Law and is also confirmed by Medical Science.

We surgically operate on our first neighbors in the womb. We then put them back in their home and allow them to continue to grow so they can be healthier upon their birth. We know they are members of our human family.

Our 3D and 4D sonogram technology has made it possible to take baby´s first picture and send it as a birth announcement or place it on a Face Book or My Space page or send it through our Social Networks.

We marvel at the image of those little babies at the early stages of what is a lifetime of development for every human being. However, we then use that same technology to direct the weapons of warfare which will dismember them in the womb and kill them through abortion. We do not want to see those pictures.

When one of these little ones dies due to a "miscarriage" we all empathize and say that the grieving woman "lost her baby." However, when one of those little ones dies due to surgical dismemberment, the effects of ingested chemical weapons, burning by saline or death by suction we call that loss of the baby the exercise of a "right"? 

We all know the truth. Every intentional killing of a defenseless innocent human person is wrong! There must be a moral basis to our positive law or the laws behind which we hide our evil acts are unjust laws.

In the same essay cited above, George Orwell wrote, "the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and - one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end."

Children in the womb are our first neighbors. It is always wrong to kill our neighbors. We all know it and have pretended otherwise. We use deadly loaded language to cover the evil act.

And, we have political officeholders who attempt to placate the national conscience - or what's left of it - with such words as the ones President Obama released on Sunday.

There is another quote attributed to George Orwell which seems apropos, "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

It is time to tell the truth.

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