Images of innocent children with no place to run, having the backs of their skulls ripped open by masked men under the guise of “freedom” should make us squirm.
No, I am not speaking about the children of Beslan who were slaughtered by Chechen terrorists in a Russian school. I am speaking about American children that are being routinely slaughtered in this country by another group of masked men — the “doctors” who perform partial-birth abortions.
As the events in Russia unfolded last week, stunning the world with their bloody ending, here in the US, a third federal judge ruled the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional.
President Bush signed a law banning partial-birth abortion last year. Nonetheless, black-robed tyrants — terrorists in their own right — have blatantly disregarded the will of the people. Earlier this year, two other federal judges, one in New York and another in San Francisco, arrived at similar conclusions. Some legal experts say these three rulings taken together may be enough “judicial weight” to keep the issue from reaching the US Supreme Court.
The details of a partial-birth abortion are well documented. It is a heinous procedure, barbarically carried out in the absence of anesthesia. In layman's terms, the baby is partially delivered, leaving the head in the birth canal. The doctor, using a pair of scissors, opens up a fissure at the base of the baby's skull, exposing the brain. A stainless steel catheter is then inserted, sucking out the brains and collapsing the skull.
The mother gives birth to a corpse.
If comparing terrorists shooting innocent children in the back to the proponents and practitioners of partial-birth abortion seems to be a stretch, you are a victim yourself, having been sold a bill of goods by the pro-abortion crowd.
There are, however, a few differences worth noting between the events of Beslan and those taking place in your local abortuary.
While there has never been a civilized society that has codified terrorism and the murder of children as a means to ensure freedom, here in the United States our Constitution supposedly contains just such an affirmation, up to and including the day of delivery, for any reason or no reason.
Pro-abortion zealots have managed to pull this off by the use of linguistic sleight of hand. They have framed the debate in terms of “a woman's right to choose,” not a human's right to life. Words such as “baby” and “infant” aren't in their debate lexicon and most avoid the word “abortion,” instead using the word “choice.”
And there are no images to make us feel uncomfortable. No little body bags. No bloody kids screaming and crying in their mother's and father's arms. The carnage is all safely hidden from view behind the sterile confines of the clinic.
We find it difficult to put a face on the 4,000 abortions a day performed in the US. But television, the Internet and virtually every newspaper in the country made the horror of what took place inside a gymnasium in a Russian school all too apparent.
The prophet Isaiah wrote, “Woe to those who call evil good.”
The world had no problem judging the actions of the Chechen terrorists as evil.
But here in America, when it comes to the lives of little innocent babies, the moral fog that has descended from the judiciary has obscured our vision, blurring the line between good and evil to the point where many are mistaking one for the other.
Gregory J. Rummo is an author and syndicated columnist. His second book, The View from the Grass Roots — Another Look, was published in July 2004.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
