Some of my fondest memories growing up were when I went to
work with my dad. My father worked for an oil company in California, and would
often have to travel up and down the state. I remember once when he was working
in Los Angeles, the whole family went with him. I’ll always remember how much
fun we had on that trip, but the thing I remember most from the trip was an
image that was on a billboard in downtown L.A. On this billboard was a picture
of a young woman holding the bloodied corpse of a freshly skinned fox in her
outstretched arms, and beneath the grotesque image read the words, “Here is
your fur coat.”
As I look back on that PETA billboard, I think how
interesting it is that such a gruesome image could be put on display for
millions to see, and nobody seems to mind or get offended. Or they see the
image and are repulsed by it to such an extent that they become faux fur
wearing veterinarians for the rest of their lives. But if you put an equally gruesome
image about abortion on the same billboard, I guarantee that it will be asked
to be pulled down. Why? Why is this the case when both billboards display the
horrific realities of what happens when a living creature is killed for the convenience
of man? Possibly, because the same
people who are desperately fighting to save the lives of foxes everywhere are
promoting the onslaught of innocent children. However, I’m not here to talk
about the hypocrisy of liberal environmentalists. I’m here to talk about ours.
The trials of Kermit Gosnell have shown to America what
Abortion really is. It is not simply freedom for women but rather death to
children. The most frightening thing about the Gosnell trial is that what when
on in Gosnell’s clinic is not an isolated incident. It is happening in
clinics all across America. Abortion clinics all over the nation are the same, if not worse, houses of horrors that Gosnell’s was. Gosnell just happened to be
unlucky enough to get caught. What has
happened to our nation that we should embrace so barbaric a practice as abortion?
This has happened because America, the defender of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness, decided in Roe v. Wade that unborn infants are sub-human
and not to be considered life. Interestingly enough, the Supreme Court ruled
similarly to this in the Dred Scott case. In that decision, the Supreme Court
decided that because a person’s skin was black, that person was less human then
a person with white skin and could not obtain the rights guaranteed in the
Constitution. Even so, since the Supreme Court decided that a person inside the
womb is less human then a person outside the womb, that person inside the womb
cannot obtain the rights guaranteed in the constitution. Many people will
testify today of the evils of slavery and racism, yet they see nothing wrong
and even accept that more horrific evil that is abortion. This is what I mean
by our hypocrisy.
We say we stand for liberty and justice for all but yet we
deny it to those who cannot stand up for themselves. Shortly before the Civil
War, it was said that our nation’s flag, that symbol of liberty, was marred by
the chains of slaves. Well now it is marred by the doctor’s scalpel. We must
stop this barbaric practice unfit for a civilized nation such as ours.
Especially when we claim to espouse the ideas of liberty and equality as set in
the constitution. We must stand up and be the voice of the oppressed and
voiceless. We must be like those great men before us, John Quincy Adams and
William Wilberforce, who both gave their lives to ridding their nations of the
monstrous blot of slavery. Let us press on, striving valiantly against abortion
until the day that too shall be removed, and every American, born or unborn, is
recognized to be endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and
that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
