The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia

The anniversary of an American holocaust

Today we "celebrate" the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that created a "right" to have an abortion on demand whole cloth from the Constitution, a decision that only using the most tortured of logic can make sense. According to National Right to Life, the death toll of legalized abortion in America is approaching 50 million. Dwell on that number.

50,000,000

For comparison purposes, it is estimated that approximately 60 million people died in World War II. So in the course of 3 1/2 decades, we have systematically wiped out whole generations of Americans, sacrificed on the bloody altar of choice.

There is no lack of commentary on both sides of the abortion debate. But in the annals of ignorant commentaries, this one from the Cleveland Plain Dealer may take the cake. Titled Sorry, boys, but abortion is a women's issue, the author Connie Schultz attempts to make the case that men have no say in the abortion debate, due to our lack of wombs.

Every spring, a local boys' high school makes me their class project.

A stream of anti-abortion e-mail suddenly fills my inbox, courtesy of male adolescents whose time would be better spent focusing on their own role in preventing pregnancies they will never have to bear.

How do these boys figure that a woman's womb is any of their business? How do men, for that matter?

Since when do we legislate with only one gender in mind? Ms. Schultz essentially advocates disenfranchsing half of the population. Isn't that something that this country formerly did to women? Let's look at how that logic could be applied. Since technically only men serve in military combat roles, perhaps we should exclude women from voting for President? Or female members of congress could no longer serve on armed forces committees or vote on military expenditures. Should only certain ethnicities be allowed a voice on issue of discrimination? She goes on....

Recently, for example, I criticized in a column those who claim to be pro-life but did not care one bit for the plight of immigrants' children. I still loathe that kind of hypocrisy, but some readers who oppose abortion rights, most of them women, asked me not to lump them in with the extremists.

They, too, deplored the treatment of an immigrant mother who was separated for 11 days from her nursing infant. Many also agreed that men have too many opinions about an issue that affects only those with a womb.

As if only leftists and pro-abortinists care about those children fortunate to have escaped being butchered by abortionists. If you make it through the gauntlet of choice, we are your biggest advocates! Try telling that to the volunteers at crisis pregnancy centers who give time, money and love to scared young women, offering them a real choice other than aborting their child. Tell that to the volunteers at church food pantries, who pass out food cheerfully week after week to those in need, many of whom are single mothers. I guess they don't really care about children after all.

Abortion is a horror in and of itself, and a stain on the national honor of America, but demagogues like Ms. Schultz compound the scourge abortion with hypocrisy and misinformation. I pray America repents of the crime we have perpetrated in our nation and that God will forgive us all for the blood on our collective hands, the blood of innocents.

(There was an excellent discussion of this, sober and broken-hearted, on the Albert Mohler Show today...)