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 People whose persuasion is for life have been known as pro-life
proponents, while people who have favored a woman's right of choice
to terminate the baby through death have been called pro-choice
proponents. Since the time of the legalization of abortion, there
have been almost 56,000,000 (56 million) babies who have been put to
death through the legalized abortion laws in America. These are the
facts of abortion, without emotion, without science, opinion,
debate, spin or religion; simply facts.
During the past 40 years since the legalization of abortion, there
have likely been millions of words written about the practice.
Politicians have won and lost their races based on their position on
abortion. Even the Obamacare insurance law is having a difficult
time with the issue, with the funding of agencies that might
intermingle taxpayer money in their budget that might help pay for
abortions against public opinion. Even with all the words written
and politician wins or losses, the effects of a law that elevates the
right of a small slice of women in society whose condition places
them in a unique position to serve as the emperor of old Rome at the
gladiator games with thumbs-up or thumbs-down to take or spare the
life of another human being, the full effect of the abortion
decision still
has not been felt. We can only catch a glimpse of the horrific
effects simply because of the passage of 40 years of
cumulative carnage.
Think about it in terms of actual loss and the effect it would have
on our modern-day responses. We have experienced things in history
that have kicked off world wars for our society. Pearl Harbor was an
attack that was labeled by the president as a "Day of Infamy" that
prompted Congress to declare war on the aggressors and their axis of
powers who teamed to destroy the American way of life. The
significance of the 38th parallel between the Koreas or the
demilitarized zone between the two Vietnams showcased wars that
claimed thousands of lives. The terrorist attack on the twin towers
on 9/11 that claimed thousands of lives resulted in a 10-year war
with Iraq and a continuing war against terror in Afghanistan. Yet
these events pale by comparison with the war being waged against the
unborn child in America.
Think of the largest city in America, the most populated city in
America: New York, N.Y., with a population of 8,336,697 souls.
Imagine if you can, that city being attacked and each and every
citizen of that city was completely destroyed. It would dwarf the
attack on 9/11 and would make the news all over the world. I suspect
that it would likely start a war with counterattack on the
perpetrator of that attack. As if that would not be horrific enough, think of
the top 74 most-populated cities in America. See the following cities that
combined have 55,871,224 people living there.
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New York, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Calif.; Chicago, Ill.;
Houston, Texas; Philadelphia, Pa.; Phoenix, Ariz.; San
Antonio, Texas; San Diego, Calif.; Dallas, Texas; San Jose,
Calif.; Austin, Texas; Jacksonville, Fla.; Indianapolis,
Ind.; San Francisco, Calif.; Columbus, Ohio; Fort Worth,
Texas; Charlotte, N.C.; Detroit, Mich.; El Paso, Texas;
Memphis, Tenn.; Boston, Mass.; Seattle, Wash.;
Denver, Colo.; Washington, D.C.; Nashville,
Tenn.; Baltimore, Md.; Louisville, Ky.; Portland,
Ore.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Las Vegas,
Nev.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Tucson, Ariz.; Fresno,
Calif.; Sacramento, Calif.; Long Beach, Calif.; Kansas
City, Mo.; Mesa, Ariz.; Virginia Beach, Va.; Atlanta,
Ga.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Raleigh, N.C.; Omaha,
Neb.; Miami, Fla.; Oakland, Calif.; Tulsa, Okla.;
Minneapolis, Minn.; Cleveland, Ohio; Wichita, Kan.; Arlington,
Texas; New Orleans, La.; Bakersfield, Calif.; Tampa,
Fla.; Honolulu, Hawaii; Anaheim, Calif.; Aurora, Colo.;
Santa Ana, Calif.; St. Louis, Mo.; Riverside, Calif.;
Corpus Christi, Texas; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Lexington,
Ky.; Anchorage, Alaska; Stockton, Calif.; Cincinnati, Ohio;
St. Paul, Minn.; Toledo, Ohio; Newark, N.J.; Greensboro,
N.C.; Plano, Texas; Henderson, Nev.; Lincoln, Neb.;
Buffalo, N.Y.; and Fort Wayne, Ind.
What if each and every city listed above with the almost 56 million
people total was completely destroyed? Would that make an impact on our
American society? Would the death of that many citizens cause the
politicians to make war with the killers? Would there be anything
else in history that would even compare with such a mass death of a
society? Would it be enough to take notice that something in society
might be wrong? Would this horrendous act of human destruction in
the 74 largest cities in America go unnoticed because their killing
would somehow be declared "legal"?
Of course that idea would be preposterous and would never be
considered. And yet, here we are, 40 years after the United States
Supreme Court upheld a decision that killing through abortion was
legal. The effect: the equivalency of the killing of the entire
population of the 74 largest cities in America.
Isn't it amazing how logical, rational, reasonably prudent, common-sense minds of so many Americans could be controlled by thoughts so
bizarre and evil as to actually come to believe and even accept as
normal a concept that a pregnant woman in our society should have
the power of life and death over the human being she carries simply
because it has been granted as her choice?
[By JIM KILLEBREW]
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