Thinking on January 23rd...

Yesterday was January 22nd. That means we’re going on 34 years since the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down.

Some thoughts come to mind…


· Of the three fundamental God-given rights – life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness – the most important is the right to life. It’s not even close. If we do not have a fundamental right to be alive, we should just hang it up and head home. That so few people recognize this is scary beyond all belief.

· When pro-choice politicians can admit that an abortion isn’t an ideal situation (Bill Clinton, Charles Schumer, Joe Biden), that’s really reassuring to me.

· This is an issue that doesn’t have a political solution. If, tomorrow, Roe v. Wade were flipped, the number of abortions would probably decrease. That being said, the decline would be short-lived without first addressing entrenched poverty. It will mean nothing if pro-lifers stop their work there.

· A culture of life can be created without banning abortion. It, and not a mere political proceeding, ought to be the end in mind for pro-lifers everywhere. Said political proceeding is a fruit of a culture of life, and not the root of it.

· While a majority of Americans believe abortion is morally wrong except in the event of rape, incest, or a threat to mom’s life, ninety-five percent of abortions are performed as a secondary contraceptive. How does one balance the two? The only thing I can conclude we that we are addicted to sex beyond belief, to the point where we're generally unwilling to understand that sex has an inalienable procreative element beyond our control (more or less).

· Whenever the politics of an issue become more important than common sense, nothing good can happen. This is particularly true with the abortion debate. That’s why we have crap like partial-birth abortion and infanticide for abortion survivors.