Wednesday, October 15, 2008

How Would You Read This In Terms Of Abortion?

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

I'm curious: how does one secure the blessings of liberty to a posterity that one allows to be killed in the womb? Or even imagine that the author of that Preamble could possibly see abortion as consistent with his stated reasons for helping to ordain and establish the Constitution in the first place?

It's amazing how much self-delusion a person has to engage in to find legal and moral justification for such a barbaric practice...

2 comments:

Jonathan Knox said...

Deacon Zmuda recently said that the majority of abortion supporters know deep down that the fetus is a human person.

He said the problem is that our society has elevated the "right to choose" to such a high level that it has become a false god. And all gods require some sacrifice- and the choice god is offered the slaughter of the unborn.

I think there is a lot of truth to that idea.

Gerald Lamb said...

I'll offer only one correction to that: the false god isn't "the right to choose," it's "my right to choose." These idolaters clearly care very little for the right of others to choose, especially when such choices fail to conform to politically correct notions. They care only for their imagined right to make decisions without thought of consequences, and with the imagined right to be able to do what they please without having to worry about being greeted by the disapproving words and actions of others.

As I said before, it requires a great deal of self-delusion.