Posted by
KsReaganite on Sunday, January 23, 2011 5:24:11 PM
Today marks the 38th anniversary of a decision of the US Supreme Court that ranks in infamy right there with Dred Scott and Korematsu. With one stroke of belabored analysis born of pseudo-enlightenment, Roe v.Wade eviscerated all the protections of law from the most vulnerable amongst us. The culture thus created has yielded deaths in the millions, such deaths being celebrated as rites of freedom by large sections of otherwise intelligent opinion. It is telling that today, the eggs of many a species of birds have far greater protections in federal law than an unborn human child. Destroy the eggs in the nest of a protected feather species, and you could get a few years in a federal penal institution; murder a human child by severing his/her spinal cord with a sharp knife, and you will be reimbursed by taxpayer dollars for your 'noble deeds'.
It is this culture of coarseness that has made it okay to demean, delegitimize, and dehumanize many of our fellow brothers and sisters on one pretext or another. For what is the ultimate measure of civilization if not the tolerance we show for the most vulnerable and least able amongst us?
Surely America can do better.