World Views

Thoughts on 49 Years of Roe v Wade

Before 1973 and the Roe v Wade decision, there were thirty states in which abortions were illegal. That all changed when the Supreme Court struck down the laws in those 30 states and made abortion on demand legal and a "constitutional right" in all 50 states. Legal scholars on both sides of the issue agreed that Roe was decided wrongly. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 63,459,781 babies have been aborted as a consequence of this decision. We have been witness to a holocaust right under our very nose for 49 years. A national industry of slaughterhouses aka Planned Parenthood sprung up to provide abortions on demand. Techniques were experimented with to provide the least amount of damage to sought after fetal tissues that were then sold to tissue banks for further distribution and sale to the scientific research community, a lucrative sideline for the abortion provider and banks.. Never before has there been a more heinous dehumanization and callous disregard of human life victimizing such a vulnerable population (the unborn) in history.

Friday, June 24th, 2022 things came to a screeching halt, Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood were overturned in a landmark decision by the conservative justices on the SCOTUS.  Dobbs v Jackson was the catalyst for overturning the wrongful decisions made so long ago. Abortion  issues will now be decided at the state level. Women who make up greater than 50% of the voting population will have their say in electing pro-life or pro-choice legislators and governors in their respective states. The ball is in the court of the people to decide, not unelected judges. In a way it is a hollow victory, abortion is not going away overnight with this decision. It is, however, a legal victory for upholding the constitution and the rule of law.

Pro-Lifers, we need to roll up our sleeves, the fight has just begun! We need to define legislation to protect the rights of the unborn from conception to birth. This and nothing less should be our goal. The spilled blood of Abel cried out to the Lord and he heard. What does the sound of 63 million innocents crying out to the Lord sound like? I shudder to think about it.

A Memorial Day Poem

                                                                                          Watering the Tree

We've spilled our blood on Flanders Field, the Belleau Wood and the muddy trenches in France.                                                               On a quiet night when the stars shine bright and you can hear the crickets sing, those who have fallen join the chorus:             "Please don't forget the sacrifice we made, we've fallen here with our brothers. Patriots all we answered the call and gave our all, to water the tree of liberty."

The beaches of Normandy we stormed, and little known islands in the Pacific. We fought through jungles, swamps, hedge groves, forrest and fields and deserts. We braved the ice, snow, we were cold and wet and fought when wounded.  On a quiet night when the stars shine bright and you can hear the crickets sing, those who have fallen join the chorus:             "Please don't forget the sacrifice we made, we've fallen here with our brothers. Patriots all we answered the call and gave our all, to water the tree of liberty."

Over the Chosin Reservoir and the barren mountains of Korea we battled and fought. It was called the forgotten war, how can this be when we still left behind our precious blood and treasure?                                                                                                                     On a quiet night when the stars shine bright and you can hear the crickets sing, those who have fallen join the chorus:             "Please don't forget the sacrifice we made, we've fallen here with our brothers. Patriots all we answered the call and gave our all, to water the tree of liberty."

In the steaming jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam , Khe Sahn, A Shau Valley,  Hamburger Hill, we were called once again to protect and defend, 58,220 were laid to rest, their names all, etched on a black granite wall.                                                       On a quiet night when the stars shine bright and you can hear the crickets sing, those who have fallen join the chorus:             "Please don't forget the sacrifice we made, we've fallen here with our brothers. Patriots all we answered the call and gave our all, to water the tree of liberty."

We fought house to house from Baghdad to Fallujah in the forsaken towns all across Iran. We have stained the desert sands red with patriot's blood, all too to eager for more.                                                                                                                                                     On a quiet night when the stars shine bright and you can hear the crickets sing, those who have fallen join the chorus:             "Please don't forget the sacrifice we made, we've fallen here with our brothers. Patriots all we answered the call and   gave our all, to water the tree of liberty."

For 18 years we fought this country's longest war in the god forsaken land of Afghanistan. From the caves of Tora Bora through mountains with no names , valleys and villages and cities like Kabul, we've paid the price in spades.                              On a quiet night when the stars shine bright and you can hear the crickets sing, those who have fallen join the chorus:             "Please don't forget the sacrifice we made, we've fallen here with our brothers. Patriots all we answered the call and gave our all, to water the tree of liberty."

 NEVER FORGET!

"But We Have Forgotten God" (Abraham Lincoln 1863)

                                                                                                 Today is the National of Prayer. Abraham Lincoln 160 years ago wrote the following proclamation, calling for a day of fasting and prayer.  His words ring true today. In 1863 we were engaged in a great civil war that divided our country. Today we are divided in a "civil war," fought not with guns but with ideas. One set of ideas will lead to the destruction of our great republic the other side seeks to preserve it. Why is this happening today? I think Lincoln summed it up quite succinctly, "But we gave forgotten God."Lincoln's reasons calling for this day of prayer are still relevant for today. So read Lincoln's great proclamation and get down on your knees, humbling yourself before the Lord, confess your sins, and pray for our great country. May God bless you and this great nation.

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.

All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.