A rebellion of love to protect mother and baby
Ireland now faces the most important decision we have faced since the coming of St Patrick. Will we decide for a culture of life or a culture of death, for hope or despair, for or against God and his law?
What the politico-media bloc is asking us to vote for in the referendum is horrendous: abolition of the right to life of every unborn child.
Politicians seek the power to decide whose right to life will be protected and what babies will be denied any protection for even their most fundamental right. It is a staggering political power-grab. It is a crime against humanity.
How can we account for the fanatical abortion zeal of people like health minister Simon Harris, truly an Orwellian figure? That many people can’t or won’t see what is at stake is deeply troubling.
The great Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the brutality of Soviet Communism, once said: “We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because the lie is more comfortable.”
Certainly the truth about abortion and about the ‘Repeal’ movement is easily seen. But we must want to see it, we must want to do what is right.
Just one argument
Abortion campaigners say, “trust women”. This is not an argument, it’s a cynical slogan to divert attention from the horror they propose.
Ultimately they offer just one argument for repeal, that women be allowed to do whatever they want, whatever the cost to themselves or others. This betrays a profound contempt for women.
Abortion is not just the killing of unborn children, it is also the deadening of the soul and conscience of a nation.
The evil that went on in the Dáil and Seanad in recent months takes us back to pagan Rome when fathers had life and death power over their children.
If we abolish the natural right to life, which is belongs to each person by virtue of being human, and is the foundation of all civilised society, what will take its place?
Children will receive a pseudo-right to life as a gift from the State, a gift from politicians, that will only kick in at a time fixed by politicians and will apply only to flawless children.
Why not go a tiny step further, and withhold this pseudo right until babies are a few days old? This would allow doctors to examine them and let parents or the State decide whether they will be allowed to continue with life or not.
No authority
We, in fact, have no authority whatsoever to give politicians a right to make such decisions.
Moreover, if we only have a pseudo right to life, coming as a gift from politicians, why should gangland bosses respect it when they have a score to settle? If we reject God’s law why should they respect human law?
Later on politicians may decide to withdraw their ‘right to life’ gift from, say, senile people, allowing them to be given a lethal injection or a bullet to the head.
Or they may withdraw it from the frail, the depressed, or hopeless addicts.
In the late 1930s German leaders withdrew the right to life from disabled people. At least 70,000 were taken from families or institutions and killed, the families being told they had died.
Many doctors cooperated with this evil until Bishop August Clemens von Galen fiercely denounced it. Today some European countries are moving in the same direction once again.
If Ireland were to repeal Article 40.3.3, as we are being urged to do, we would have no grounds whatever on which to condemn the Nazi policy. Surely that is shocking?
Yet all this is ignored or is kept hidden from the public by politicians and the media in their War on Women.
Utterly repulsive
In truth, most people would find the repeal case utterly repulsive, were it put openly and frankly. So repeal campaigners adopt a cover-up strategy.
They seek to avoid all mention of the baby, to deceive voters, to distract from the real issues, to cause confusion, to exploit distressed women and to cynically stir up anti-Catholic bigotry.
That the media, whose job is communication, should be part of the campaign to pervert communication and suppress or distort debate shows how corruptive abortion is.
There would be no need for this deceit did the pro-abortion campaign contain genuine love or integrity.
Pro-abortion politicians and campaigners frame the issue as a clash between the rights and wellbeing of women and the rights of “the foetus”.
Here is The Big Lie at the core of the repeal campaign, that we must choose between mother and baby. What kind of corruption tries to turn mothers against their own unborn children?
What kind of corruption tells men that they are not responsible for protecting their women and children?
The repeal campaign shows just how corrupt our politics and media have become. Pro-life is a rebellion of love against this evil.
What the politico-media bloc is asking us to vote for in the referendum is horrendous: abolition of the right to life of every unborn child.
Politicians seek the power to decide whose right to life will be protected and what babies will be denied any protection for even their most fundamental right. It is a staggering political power-grab. It is a crime against humanity.
How can we account for the fanatical abortion zeal of people like health minister Simon Harris, truly an Orwellian figure? That many people can’t or won’t see what is at stake is deeply troubling.
The great Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the brutality of Soviet Communism, once said: “We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because the lie is more comfortable.”
Certainly the truth about abortion and about the ‘Repeal’ movement is easily seen. But we must want to see it, we must want to do what is right.
Just one argument
Abortion campaigners say, “trust women”. This is not an argument, it’s a cynical slogan to divert attention from the horror they propose.
Ultimately they offer just one argument for repeal, that women be allowed to do whatever they want, whatever the cost to themselves or others. This betrays a profound contempt for women.
Abortion is not just the killing of unborn children, it is also the deadening of the soul and conscience of a nation.
The evil that went on in the Dáil and Seanad in recent months takes us back to pagan Rome when fathers had life and death power over their children.
If we abolish the natural right to life, which is belongs to each person by virtue of being human, and is the foundation of all civilised society, what will take its place?
Children will receive a pseudo-right to life as a gift from the State, a gift from politicians, that will only kick in at a time fixed by politicians and will apply only to flawless children.
Why not go a tiny step further, and withhold this pseudo right until babies are a few days old? This would allow doctors to examine them and let parents or the State decide whether they will be allowed to continue with life or not.
No authority
We, in fact, have no authority whatsoever to give politicians a right to make such decisions.
Moreover, if we only have a pseudo right to life, coming as a gift from politicians, why should gangland bosses respect it when they have a score to settle? If we reject God’s law why should they respect human law?
Later on politicians may decide to withdraw their ‘right to life’ gift from, say, senile people, allowing them to be given a lethal injection or a bullet to the head.
Or they may withdraw it from the frail, the depressed, or hopeless addicts.
In the late 1930s German leaders withdrew the right to life from disabled people. At least 70,000 were taken from families or institutions and killed, the families being told they had died.
Many doctors cooperated with this evil until Bishop August Clemens von Galen fiercely denounced it. Today some European countries are moving in the same direction once again.
If Ireland were to repeal Article 40.3.3, as we are being urged to do, we would have no grounds whatever on which to condemn the Nazi policy. Surely that is shocking?
Yet all this is ignored or is kept hidden from the public by politicians and the media in their War on Women.
Utterly repulsive
In truth, most people would find the repeal case utterly repulsive, were it put openly and frankly. So repeal campaigners adopt a cover-up strategy.
They seek to avoid all mention of the baby, to deceive voters, to distract from the real issues, to cause confusion, to exploit distressed women and to cynically stir up anti-Catholic bigotry.
That the media, whose job is communication, should be part of the campaign to pervert communication and suppress or distort debate shows how corruptive abortion is.
There would be no need for this deceit did the pro-abortion campaign contain genuine love or integrity.
Pro-abortion politicians and campaigners frame the issue as a clash between the rights and wellbeing of women and the rights of “the foetus”.
Here is The Big Lie at the core of the repeal campaign, that we must choose between mother and baby. What kind of corruption tries to turn mothers against their own unborn children?
What kind of corruption tells men that they are not responsible for protecting their women and children?
The repeal campaign shows just how corrupt our politics and media have become. Pro-life is a rebellion of love against this evil.
