A Culture of Death

You may have heard that the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in support of a ban on partial birth abortions. Considering that this barbaric practice amounts to little more than infanticide, you'd think that the news would be well received. Check that, you'd think the vote would be 9-0 and the news would be received with thanksgiving.

But no. Not only was the ban only barely upheld, the Democrats were disgusted with it.

Hilary said, "It is precisely this erosion of our constitutional rights that I warned against when I opposed the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito." Since when does the constitution give us the right to suck the brain out of a viable child who'd been 90% delivered from his mother's womb? I mean really! You're murdering a child here and the health of the mother is almost never in issue in these cases. And even when it is, does that justify a brutal murder? And if you think it does, I dare you read a description of the procedure.

Obama said, "I strongly disagree," and Edwards echoed, "I could not disagree [with the ruling] more strongly." Justice Ginsberg called it "alarming" while Planned Parenthood and other abortion industry entities were similarly upset at the restriction.

I just can't understand how calloused, narrow-minded, and morally challenged a person must be to ignore the unique individual destroyed in an abortion. To allow it or even promote it promotes a culture of death where life is devalued. Brutally kill a baby in the womb, euthanize the ill and the elderly, turn your back on the suffering of Sudanese, Rwandans, and Iraqis – each example is a symptom of a sick culture.

And so are school shootings.

In the wake of the massacre at Virginia Tech, people have blamed gun laws, southern culture, video games, movies, social dynamics and everything else on why 32 students and professors were murdered. But why is no one pointing the finger at Planned Parenthood and Dr. Kevorkian as well as Quentin Tarantino?