America's Second Chance

The Slave Ship | J. M. W. Turner
Initially titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon coming on.

Our American cousins are approaching a crossroad. An historic injustice could be undone.

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Pro-abortion activists are lashing out in all directions, raging at the thought that a horrifyingly crass decision by the 1973 Supreme Court of the United States will be overturned by the current Court.

By now, many if not most people are aware of the leaked draft-decision prepared by Justice Samuel Alito. Given the politics of these times, a reasonable person could conclude that a clerk serving one of the justices likely to dissent from a majority opinion is responsible for the leak. The Marshal of the US Supreme Court has been tasked with determining who leaked the document. Summonses to acquire the cell phones of every clerk would be a good start to an investigation. Meanwhile, as mentioned, pro-abortionists are beginning to rally. Their numbers have yet to achieve anything close to the support mustered for the annual March for Life - some 150,000 - in January of this year in Washington, DC.

Pro-abortion activists are so desperate to hold on to power and to preserve the murderous culture enacted by the 1973 SCOTUS decision, which robbed Congress of its role to make laws, that they are doxxing justices of the Supreme Court, protesting outside the justice's homes, and making serious threats against them and their families in an attempt to intimidate and influence the pending decision. Tall fences have been constructed around Supreme Court buildings and additional security services have been provided to the justices and their families.

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Pro-abortion rhetoric is habitually filled with euphemisms used in an attempt to downplay the horrors of abortion. An unborn child is merely "a blob of cells", a non-being. "My body, my choice", a common refrain, is to a thinking and morally culpable adult the whine of an morally bankrupt person who has no intention of taking responsibility for her actions. Reason is lost on those determined to perpetuate a genocide against innocent human beings and their mothers, mothers who are supported by a multitude of pro-life organizations in the wake of having had their babies ripped from their wombs, mothers left to suffer with no support from abortionists. Mothers who choose to keep their babies are supported by pro-life agencies that provide mental and physical health services, and education and employment services, typically offered free of charge. Hundreds of pro-life organizations exist to support those mothers who choose to adopt out their children. All of which is to say that the facts suggest pro-life organizations demonstrate care for mothers and children while pro-abortion organizations, focused on profit margins, are indifferent at best.

https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/how-not-to-respond-to-roe-reversal/

Pro-abortion activists would have us believe that slavery to abortion is freedom, and that freedom for the unborn is slavery for others. Sound familiar? The pro-abortion rhetoric of today is an echo from an era that defended the dehumanization of certain human beings because perverted economies and personal advantage depended on it. Substitute 'abortion' for the word 'slavery' and the parallels between the pro-abortion lobby's rhetoric and the pro-slavery lobby's rhetoric are exposed.

Richmond Enquirer, 1856: "Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves . . . freedom is not possible without slavery."

Atlanta Confederacy, 1860: "We regard every man in our midst an enemy to the institutions of the South, who does not boldly declare that he believes African slavery to be a social, moral, and political blessing."

Alfred P. Aldrich, South Carolina legislator from Barnwell: "If the Republican party with its platform of principles, the main feature of which is the abolition of slavery and, therefore, the destruction of the South, carries the country at the next Presidential election, shall we remain in the Union, or form a separate Confederacy? This is the great, grave issue. It is not who shall be President, it is not which party shall rule -- it is a question of political and social existence." [Steven Channing, Crisis of Fear, pp. 141-142.]

During the 1830's occurred the Gag Rule controversy in Congress, during which Southern politicians tried to block even the presentation of petitions on the subject of slavery. The following quotes come from speeches made in the House and Senate during this time, taken from William Miller's book, Arguing About Slavery:

• John C. Calhoun, Senator from South Carolina: "The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail."
• James H. Hammond, Congressman from South Carolina: "Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth."
• Hammond again, from later in the same speech: "the moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject [slavery], it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood."

Fearmongering, threats and acts of violence against the opposition to abortion and the culture of death, misinformation - pro-abortion activists are, like the Democratic Party, on the wrong side of history.

The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s. 

(T)he Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories with the aim of abolishing it entirely. This effort, however, was dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court. In the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that slaves aren’t citizens; they’re property. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery? All Democrats. The two justices who dissented? Both Republicans. - Swain, The Inconvenient Truth About The Democratic Party.

Dr. Carol Swain is a former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities, and a nationally known political commentator and public speaker.

The dangerous - some might say diabolical - myopia of the Democratic Party has led to one injustice after another. The Party has enabled massive societal biases that obscure the inability of citizens to identify and defend inalienable rights that begin at the moment of conception. The reality that human life is a continuum of interdependent relationships is lost on a political agent that inhibits authentic freedom. The Democratic Party, to this day, continues to alienate people by exploiting stereotypes, and by engaging in identity politics to gain and retain power. The idea that the Democratic Party is the party of the people is a clever lie maintained to elevate the few at the expense of the many. True to its founder's eugenics-minded plans, Planned Parenthood locates it abortuaries most often in African American, Hispanic and impoverished neighbourhoods in order to take advantage of vulnerable women, to maximize profit, and to exploit racial politics by touting a false narrative of economic liberation.

A study based on 2010 Census data reveals that Planned Parenthood has located 79% of its surgical abortion centers within walking distance of minority-dense neighborhoods. See Susan W. Enouen, Life Issues Institute, New Research Shows Planned Parenthood Targets Minority Neighborhoods, LIFE ISSUES CONNECTOR (Oct. 2012).

Planned Parenthood tried to counter this analysis of the Census data with a Guttmacher Institute study allegedly finding that only a small percentage of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in “majority-black neighborhoods,” but Guttmacher’s study was carefully manipulated to produce a misleading result. See Willis L. Krumholz, Yes, Planned Parenthood Targets and Hurts Poor Black Women, THE FEDERALIST, Feb. 18, 2016, (explaining the defects in the Guttmacher data and its misinterpretation by defenders of Planned Parenthood).

No. 18-483

In The Supreme Court of the United States

KRISTINA BOX, COMMISSIONER OF THE INDIANA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ET AL.,

Petitioners,

v.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY, INC., ET AL.,

Respondents.

On Petition For Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals

For The Seventh Circuit

BRIEF OF THE RESTORATION PROJECT;

PASTOR JOSEPH PARKER, PASTOR OF GREATER TURNER CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH; EVERLASTING LIGHT MINISTRIES; PROTECT LIFE AND MARRIAGE TEXAS; AND THE THOMAS MORE SOCIETY AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS

Current events are exposing lukewarm Catholics for who and what they are. Biden, Pelosi, et al., they cannot escape the lens being trained upon them by the Holy Spirit, i.e., the lens of the draft decision. A generation of power-hungry abortion promoting Catholics, our misguided brethren, have led more Catholics away from and out of the Church than any other group, though predatory clergy committing heinous acts of abuse certainly qualify as another cause for departures. Third place goes to comfortable clergy who, rather than shepherding their flocks and helping them to confront the challenge of relativism, mildly entertain the troops while the enemy infiltrates homes, parishes, grade schools and colleges. The complacency of many pastors amounts to cooperation with the progressive ideologies that have led to a loss of respect for the dignity of human beings and a loss of respect for inalienable rights. Fourth place goes to those duped by feelgood religion, the willful ignorant now holding strange ideas, even while possessing brains capable of discerning falsehood from truth.

To conclude, an excerpt from a recent article at the American Catholic.

https://the-american-catholic.com/2022/05/07/professor-charles-alan-wright-roe-is-wrong/

Yale law professor, Professor John Hart Ely:

What is frightening about Roe is that this super-protected right is not inferable from the  language of the Constitution, the framers’ thinking respecting the specific problem in issue, any general value derivable from the provisions  they included, or the nation’s governmental structure. Nor is it explainable in terms of the unusual political impotence of the group judicially protected vis-a-vis the interest that legislatively prevailed over it.

It is, nevertheless, a very bad decision.  . . .. It is bad because it is bad constitutional law, or rather because it is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be. [John Hart Ely; The Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade; Yale Law Journal; Vol.82(5), p.920-949 (1973).

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Almighty God, send forth Thy angels to defend the innocent and those who defend the most vulnerable - the unborn, the elderly, the infirmed. Confuse the enemy; expose the culture of death. Inspire lawmakers and all those charged with the responsibility of upholding the law to defend the right to life of every human being. Bring an end to the tyranny of abortion and every injustice against the family. Awaken everyone to the evil of abortion. For those harmed by abortion, grant them peace and every measure of relief, O merciful God. Lead those suffering souls to Thy cooperators who offer consolation and help of every kind. Grant this, loving Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, one God forever and ever. Amen.