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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Forty-One Years Later the Cruelty Rages


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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