More hypocrisy

So the SCOTUS manages to get one right today by acknowledging that the Founding Father's might have known what they were talking about when they wrote the constitution...imagine that, 5 of them agreed with the law of the land. Of course i'm referring to the ban on handguns in DC (where for the record only CRIMINALS have been carrying them in recent years) that was overturned by a 5-4 decision today.

Now i'm listening to Dennis Henigan on Just In W/Laura Ingraham speaking on behalf of the Brady Center, which has become yet another left leaning organization that might have begun with good intentions but managed to sell out to those who think America and Americans are the problem, and i can't help but laugh at what he said. And i quote, "Look, the people of the District of Columbia supported this law for 30 years, it is a shame that their judgement has been over-ridden by the United States Supreme Court."

OK...so it's OK for the CA Supreme Court to over-ride the will of the people who voted against allowing this so called gay marriage as a "right", and it was OK for an appeals court in VA to overturn a ban on partial birth abortion (which is killing a child late in term in a barbaric and horrific way); but no court should ever rule in favor of the US Constitution! Made up "gay rights" is great, a so called "right to choose" that kills an unborn child is to be celebrated, but not a true blue American right that is spelled out in the law of the land; uh-uh...no way! Hypocrisy, it never ceases to amaze me.

Roe and The Painful Legacy

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling on the Roe v. Wade case, which has amounted to being nothing more than bad law based on lies (by Norma McCorvey's own admission) that helped usher in a culture of death. As a result of this poorly made decision by our nation's highest court nearly 49 million children have been denied the most principle right promised to us as Americans...the "right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

"Jane Roe" of the infamous Roe v. Wade case was actually Norma McCorvey, and she has fought for the most of the last 13 years since becoming a born again believer to see this horrible law overturned. In her book Won By Love and on her website www.crossingoverministry.org she states:
"Norma," I said to myself, "They're right." I had worked with pregnant women for years. I had been through three pregnancies and deliveries myself. I should have known. Yet something in that poster made me lose my breath. I kept seeing the picture of that tiny, 10-week-old embryo, and I said to myself, that's a baby! It's as if blinders just fell off my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth--that's a baby!

I felt "crushed" under the truth of this realization. I had to face up to the awful reality. Abortion wasn't about 'products of conception.' It wasn't about 'missed periods.' It was about children being killed in their mother's wombs. All those years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit, I was wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was wrong. No more of this first trimester, second trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion--at any point--was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully clear."

Abortion is murder, plain and simple. It ends a life, a life that in God's eyes is precious. Psalm 139:13-16 tells us, "For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When i was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them."
There are no "accidents" in God's eyes, and even a child that came about "unintentionally" based on our own sinful, human standards is never unintentional in God's sight. He has a purpose for each and every child...and for 49 billion children, that potential went untapped in most cases because of some one's selfishness.

God has blessed America, and i believe that He continues to bless us and protect us today, but until we end this culture of death that began with a bad law built upon lies...i'm afraid that hand of blessing and protection may one day be lifted from us.

As an aside, one of the great ironies of this ruling is that Norma McCorvey never had that abortion that the Supreme Court's decision was based on. She had a baby girl who she put up for adoption.

A glimmer of light in the darkness

With the the tragedy at Virginia Tech, increased violence by terrorists in Iraq, and the ever consistent lies and distortions coming from the American left...we can use some good news; and we got it today.

The US Supreme Court, by a 5-4 margin, ruled in favor of a national ban on infanticide...that brutal procedure called partial birth abortion where a baby is partially given birth to before having his or her head crushed by a "doctor of medicine". Ruling for the ban were Chief Justice John Roberts, new Justice Samuel Alito, Constitution Constructionists Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia and then Justice Anthony Kennedy giving the majority opinion. Justice Kennedy said in his opinion, "Respondents have not demonstrated that the Act, as a facial matter, is void for vagueness, or that it imposes an undue burden on a woman's right to abortion based on its overbreadth or lack of a health exemption." Obviously he was looking at this alleged medical procedure from a legal standpoint rather than a moral issue, but the fact still stands that the lives of children are going to be saved as a result of this decision.

Voting against this decision was the usual suspects of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter, and John Paul Stevens. In her dissent, Justice Ginsburg shows how much she really doesn't get it by saying, "For the first time time since Roe, the court blesses a prohibition with no exception safeguarding a woman's health." Eve Gartner of Planned Parenthood, who by the way is the largest provide of abortions in the US (which means that they have a financial stake in this) said, "This ruling flies in the face of 30 years of Supreme Court precedent and the best interest of women's health and safety. ... This ruling tells women that politicians, not doctors, will make their health care decisions for them."

When will these people ever admit that they are not looking out for a woman's health? I want to see statistics showing how many abortions take place because the mother's life is in danger in comparison to those who just want to end the pregnancy...in other words, birth control.
How about these statistics, single women are 4 times more likely to have abortions than married women. Maybe this one, of the estimated 3 million single women who become pregnant...half of them will seek an abortion. OK, one more...60% of the women who have had abortions since 2000 had previous abortions. And this is all for the mother's "health"?

Isn't ironic that while those who support killing the unborn and violating that right to life that is promised in the Bill of Rights also want to ban the 2nd amendment's right to gun ownership?

Anyway, thank you Supreme Court for giving us a little glimmer of light in the midst of the darkness.