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Calling Evil, Good
SEPTEMBER 10, 2004
By
GREGORY J. RUMMO
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
rite—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 U.S. 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.
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If a comparison
of 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.
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Gregory J. Rummo is an author and
syndicated columnist. His latest book, “The View from the
Grass Roots—Another Look,” was just published. Visit
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