Wishful Thinking

Jay Anderson of Pro Ecclesia asks Senators Brownback And Coburn: "Are You Listening?"

He offers an excellent opening for either of these esteemed Senators. The money quote:

For over 25 years, the Republican Party has espoused the position that Roe v. Wade's mandate of abortion-on-demand must be overturned. During that 25-year period, Republicans have controlled the White House for 17 of those years. During that 25-year period, the Republican Party has increased its representation in Congress such that they have been the majority in the House of Representatives now for 11 straight years, and have been the majority in this Senate body for 16 of those 25 years. During that 25-year period, the Republican Party has made steady gains across this great nation at the state level, so that Republicans now sit in 30 of this country's 5O governors' mansions, including those in the 4 most populous states in the Union.

And lest we forget, our President has won 2 elections in which he promised to nominate judges just like Samuel Alito to the federal bench.

In short, since 1980, when the Republican Party adopted the policy positions that our colleagues in the minority wish to dismiss as "extreme" and "outside the mainstream", the American people have chosen to see it otherwise. They know that the common-sense policies of the Republican Party with regard to this tragic issue are anything but "outside the mainstream".

Now, let me tell you what IS extreme. Abortion-on-demand up to and including the 9th month of pregnancy is extreme. Partial-birth abortion, wherein a child is partially delivered only to have scissors thrust into its skull to end its life, is extreme. Denying the parents of a minor child the opportunity to know that their child is having a medical procedure - namely an abortion - is extreme. A minor girl can't have her ears pierced in this country without receiving her parents' consent, yet we are told that a parent cannot even KNOW that his or her child is having an abortion. THAT is extreme.

Now, let me also tell you that every one of those extreme positions is held by the same members of this body who today have tried to paint Judge Alito as "an extremist". If those who disparage Judge Alito as "outside the mainstream" had their way, the only judges who could get lifetime appointments to the federal judiciary would be those who hold the extreme positions that I have just described.

Those who favor placing common-sense restrictions on abortion - a ban on the barbaric partial-birth abortion, parental notification and consent laws, an end to abortion-on-demand and late-term abortions - have been frustrated at every step by activist judges and their supporters on the extreme left of the American political spectrum. And, I am sad to say, by our Senate colleagues in the Democrat Party who insist that judicial nominees who share the mainstream philosophy of the Republican Party and the President who nominates them are not fit to sit on the federal judiciary.

Brilliant. He strikes at the heart of the Reasonable Moloch-worshippers utter insanity: their perpetual need to completely illegitimize any attempt to regulate a surgical or chemical procedure designed to terminate human life. Their insidious influence can be seen most painfully in California voters' recent rejection of Proposition 75. The good people of Kalifornia have decided that a parents' right to be informed of--and give consent for--their daughters' abortions is simply too Foolish to allow. This destructive thinking only exacerbates a society that grows more and more incapapble of distinguishing right from wrong. Or even caring that there's a difference.

Jay, you ought to consider speech writing. They need you!