Posted by
KsReaganite on Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:56:28 PM
In one of his last official acts as President of the United States, George W. Bush, rightly and courageously, proclaimed this coming Sunday, January 18, 2009, to be the National Sanctity of Life Day. As we face a tyrannical rule by the most pro-infanticide President coupled with a big pro-infanticide majority in both chambers of Congress, it is apt to make the symbolic point that the outgoing president makes: America must live up to the promise of its birth certificate that " that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
.
Calling infanticide a choice or a surgery or any of the other euphemism, even when in the context of sob stories and heart rending fairy tales, does not take away from the fact that killing is kililng is killing. Calling a human being 'property' did not make slavery any more decent. Having the abonimable Roe v Wade as the basis of righteousness for infanticide makes no more sense than having Dredd Scott v Stanford as the basis for of righteousness for human bondage.
It is all the more fitting that January 18, 2009 be the National Sanctity of Life Day..as it does precede the January 22 anniversary of the second most abohorrent exercise of judicial malfeasence in American history, Roe vs. Wade.
Only the most barbaric societies killed their own children. We are better than that. And some day, despite all that is arrayed against us, we we shall overcome the basest instincts within us that say, 'it is a mere choice for a child to be killed because the parent has been inconvenienced'.
Not this year, not in my lifetime perhaps, but there will be a day that America will live up again to the fundamental promise of her birth that Life is an unalienable right. For that is the story of American redemption. The President's proclamation is a reminder of our long but necessary road to that very redemption.