Judie Brown, President
American Life League
On
the eve of the tragic anniversary of Supreme Court decriminalized slaughter—Roe
v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton—the opportunity arises to examine what is involved if
we are turn the tide.
To
do that honestly means that the facts should be examined objectively.
The
first of these facts and certainly the most important is that, though abortion
is an act that robs a human being of his life, the public does not perceive it
in that light. To do so would require thoughtful reflection on the difference
between good and evil.
America
prefers to ignore the obvious and relegate the crime to a “choice.”
The
second fact is that abortion occurs in a multitude of ways including the
chemical actions of a birth control pill or other contraceptive device; the
surgical action of an abortion doctor, physician assistant, or nurse-midwife;
or in the reproductive technology laboratory.
Each
act is a horror that should never have been protected by law. Having said that,
once the damage was done, politics took over.
The
third fact is that, from the political perspective, abortion became an “issue”
that defined two distinctly different political groups—conservative versus
liberal. Consequently, one political group chose to oppose surgical abortion in
most cases while never attempting to expose the early abortions caused by birth
control. From May 1973, with the introduction of the flawed Buckley Amendment,
language of compromise crept into pro-life political rhetoric.
The
fourth fact is that reproductive technology came into the picture in 1978 with
the birth of the first in vitro fertilization baby, Louise Brown. Pro-life
leaders, political and for the most part educational, were silent on the
matter. Even the Catholic Church was slow to respond, waiting until 1987 to
definitively expose the evils of IVF and related practices in the teaching
document Donum Vitae.
The
early days exposed a weakness among us, an inability to deal honestly and
frankly with the many evils in our midst that contribute to what was
crystallized in 1995 by Pope John Paul II as the “culture of death.”
Judie Brown is co-founder
and president of the American Life League, a pro-life educational
organization dedicated to the total protection of all innocent human
beings from fertilization to death. ALL has over 300,000 families
sponsoring our work.
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