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The Quiet Conservative January 22, 2008
A Shorter Line at the WalMart
The couple in front of me appeared casually happy as they played with their two kids. The baby in
the basket was adorable. He, or she, I couldn't tell, gurgled as she looked up at her mom’s face. The
boy hanging on the side of the basket appeared to be a handful. He was climbing up and down on
the cart and his dad would grab him roughly in a hug and tickle him to make him giggle. The parents
were talking about what to have for dinner when they got home; and what was on TV tonight after
the kids were down and they didn’t have to watch The Cartoon Network anymore.
I turned to look back at the greeting card aisle for a moment. When I turned back the couple was
gone. The kids were gone. Lines across WalMart were suddenly shorter all around. What I saw
instead were older men and women, silent and alone with their small purchases slowly moving
forward. They didn’t speak to each other.
The happy couple in front of me didn’t exist. They never had a shot at life with all its ups and
downs. They never played in the park, went to school or watched cartoons with their parents. They
never met each other as grown ups. They never fell in love, got married, or had the beautiful baby or
the handsome son. There were many missing people in line at the store.
Thirty five years ago today the United States Supreme Court invented out of whole cloth the
constitutional right to an abortion. Before that time abortion was a law left up to the states to
decide. There were legal abortions in some states, others there were not. The people themselves
made the laws through the legislatures. In 1973 that power was usurped by progressives in a
dramatic social engineering move that took away the restrictions and opened the floodgates to a cruel
death that continues unabated today.
Forty eight million dead and counting, and for what? Convenience? Sex without responsibility?
Political aspirations to destroy the traditional family and replace it with a secular socialist state?
Abortion is the mantra of women’s rights demand the feminists. But it isn’t just male babies that are
being killed. Flip a coin on gender and you have twenty four million girls killed and twenty four
million boys. For all the promised freedom for women it has produced only misery. Studies have
been done that show an increased health risk for women that have had abortions. Studies show
untold psychological damage to the women that have had abortions as they later cannot cope with
what they have done. These studies are usually seen only by the pro life crowd as the mainstream
psychological community shuns to look at the issue, being solidly leftist.
Increasingly, abortion is becoming more and more untenable as a medical procedure. Ultra sound
technology is putting a lie to the concept that the unborn baby, or fetus, is not a person. Watching
the baby yawn or cry or wiggle puts a face on the horror the abortion industry doesn’t want you to
see. So there is no surprise there are efforts to block pro life groups from coming near abortion
clinics to demonstrate and preach. The pictures of dead babies are confiscated and the protesters
arrested as they disturb the public sensibilities. There is also no surprise the abortion industry is
funneling millions of dollars into the Democratic Party in an effort to protect their livelihood.
The two Democratic front runners, Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton have steadfastly proclaimed
their defense of the industry. If elected they have stated they will make sure the Supreme Court is
packed with justices that completely disregard the intent and purpose of the Constitution in favor of
those that will push forward the liberal agenda. (See the May, 2007 editorial- Abortion Lies of the
Left.)
I find no end to the irony that just yesterday, January 21, 2008, the nation celebrated the national
holiday of Martin Luther King Jr. for his civil rights record. Liberals would claim him as one of their
heroes entirely excluding any connection of civil rights with conservatives. Yet, Dr. King was a
Baptist minister and if he were alive today would be very much vilified for his Christian beliefs.
In today’s world the true civil rights movement belongs to the pro life movement who fight for the
right to life for the unborn. I like to think that if Dr. King came back he would be spending most of
his time on the sidewalks in front of abortion clinics attempting to preach help and salvation to the
troubled people entering the clinics; and doing his best to save the lives of babies that would be killed
inside.
On this anniversary of Roe v. Wade, just one day after MLK day, you will find the line in your
store shorter by the forty eight million, plus their children too. You will not hear them laughing or
singing. You will not have to wait behind them at the bank. You will not date them or fall in love
with them. You will not read their books, listen to their songs, or have them over for dinner. They
will not be in the news for sports or curing cancer or because they solved the energy crisis. Because
somewhere in the past, radical people with an selfish agenda declared them a choice, not a person.
If you are reading this, then someone far more decent decided you were a human life, not a choice.
This is a sad anniversary. It is the thirty fifth year of Roe v. Wade.