A rchive Date
[ 18-06-2000 ]
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[ International Relations ]
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[ U.S ]
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[The deadly lie of abortion
By R. CORT KIRKWOOD-- Ottawa Sun
June 18, 2000
Al Gore, the Democrat Walter Mitty, was to visit a Catholic hospital in Scranton, Pa. last week, but the photo opportunity flopped. The vice president wanted to offload a few drums of campaign bilgewater at Mercy Hospital, but the bishop put a stop to the delivery of the toxic waste.
The reason? Like any Democrat who wants to be president, Gore is pro-abortion. The incident didn't register with the wooden-headed candidate or any of his morally obtuse campaign staff members, but it does speak to Gore in particular and the abortion issue in general. Gore and the evil movement he serves are built upon lies.
Gore's lie was simple enough. After the bishop told him to forget speaking at a Catholic hospital, the AP reported, the vice president simply shrugged it off and pretended "the snub had never happened, telling the crowd at his backup site, 'It was not an accident that I chose this place for the second of my series of speeches.' ''
That's standard fare for The Man Who Invented The Internet. Just as he fabricates things for his resume, he simply lies when the truth is uncomfortable. Happily, some protesters showed up at Gore's ad hoc venue with signs that said "No Mercy For Gore." Someone, hopefully, got the joke.
Given his reputation for stretching the truth, or simply telling tales, Gore's reflexive lie should have been expected. Like Clinton, he lies with the proficiency of Geppetto's wooden puppet.
Yet Gore's fib in Scranton speaks to a bigger lie that politicians, mostly Democrats and liberals, must tell to justify the position they take on the abortion issue; i.e., a mother has the right to murder her unborn child.
The primordial tenets of those who favour abortion are these: An unborn child is not a person, and even if it is, the "right" of the mother to kill the child supersedes the right of the child to live. In one hard kernel, there is the organizing principle of the "abortion rights" movement and the politicians who march under its banner. No mercy for the powerless; only rights for the powerful.
The irony of Gore speaking at a place called Mercy Hospital wasn't lost on those protesters, but such a position on abortion suits liberals like Gore. They also support the power of the megastate to otherwise violate the rights of the powerless. That said, the organizing principle of the "abortion rights" movement is based upon as profound a lie as has ever been told.
The lie is this: That a child, even seconds before emerging from the birth canal, is not worthy of life and is therefore subject to the caprice of the woman who participated in his creation and the ruthless shears of the abortionist.
Never in history, before women and men in the 20th century arrogated unto themselves the right to kill unborn children, had anyone successfully made such an argument. Until recently, abortion was considered an abomination and an odious crime almost everywhere.
The lie that abortion is something that it isn't is accoutered in the language of rights, which is where Gore and his fellow politicians come in. They help "keep abortion safe and legal," as the feminists like to say.
But there's a difference between this lie and all the others Gore has told. In the cosmic scheme things, the others about himself and his worthless career are harmless. The abortion lie isn't. It is lethal, and has been lethal, to millions.
Someone should pay a heavy price for telling such a lie with such conviction to so many people, and for helping enact legislation that consecrates the lie by making it law. Instead, however, that lie has become a path to power.
Then again, power is a tempting reward the Evil One uses to destroy those who achieve it.
Kirkwood writes on U.S. affairs for the Sun. Letters to the editor should be sent to oped@sunpub.com.
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