SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN

James Clymer - Constitution Party National Chairman

This January we observe another dreary anniversary of the real “day of infamy”, the 1973 decision in Roe. V. Wade, that remains the most extreme example of raw judicial tyranny in American history. Roe did not merely legalize the abhorrent practice of abortion on demand; it nationalized it and, in the process, stripped from the states any sovereign authority to place any limitations on the practice.

At least that is how federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have ruled on numerous occasions. To date, every state effort to limit even extreme forms of abortion-infanticide, such as partial birth abortion, have been dismissively struck down by a federal judiciary contemptuous of both state sovereignty and the right to life of God’s most innocent and helpless children. The Constitution, Justice Blackmun and a majority of his peers imperiously discovered in 1973, protects a woman’s right to abort her own child at least until the unborn baby becomes “viable” (a term that has since been constructed so broadly as to be rendered meaningless). Now mind you, they couldn’t say just where the Constitution mandated such a right but they were certain it was lurking somewhere in the emanations of the penumbras of the rights intended to be protected! Oddly, none of the Founding Fathers ever mentioned the right to abortion—most likely because the very idea was an affront to Western Christian civilization. To be sure, institutionalized infanticide has been practiced in other times by other so-called civilizations (deformed babies were put to death under Roman law, for example), but always the practice has been associated with remnants of barbarism, the snickering persistence of Baal and Moloch mocking Cicero and Christ.

Little known today is that the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a passionate advocate of eugenics, that is, coercive breeding programs to “purify” the human race. She argued for sterilizing and even euthanizing genetically inferior individuals. Sanger was also an avowed atheist and socialist, and her personal morals were less than exemplary.

Abortion has always been associated with militant socialism, inasmuch as it is the ultimate form of social engineering. Those who deny God as the creator of life, have blasphemously termed the “sacrament” of abortion because it can allegedly emancipate men and women from one of the consequences of sexual misconduct. Abortion without limits has given rise to a generation of Americans boldly and defiantly immoral, obsessed as no prior generation with the pursuit of selfish pleasures and seemingly inured to the whisperings of conscience that once helped to restrain men and women from destroying their own offspring.

Roe v. Wade was the final, essential plank in the manifesto of the so-called sexual revolution that began in the 1960s and continues into the present day. From that day to this, the rise in premarital sexual activity and pregnancy out of wedlock has been staggering; so too has been the dizzying rise of the pornography industry, and the transformation of even prime-time television – once a family-friendly medium – into a soup of illicit sensuality. Our public schools, in keeping with the original program of Margaret Sanger and others, have been turned into indoctrination clinics shilling on behalf of sexual promiscuity and, increasingly, even outright perversion. We are fast approaching the nightmarish future, not of George Orwell but of Aldous Huxley, the citizens of whose “Brave New World” live in a state of unending sexual stimulus and who are nearly all the products of eugenic programs of various kinds. And all of this courtesy, in large measure, to nationalized abortion on demand.

But of all the victims of the sexual revolution and of the abortion holocaust, none are more tragic than the innocent unborn who, because they are deemed inconvenient, have been callously put to death by the tens of millions on American soil since Roe v. Wade became the illegitimate law of the land. The number of aborted children far exceeds the number of dead in the Nazi holocaust, being more comparable to the apocalyptic purges of Stalin and Mao.

Some have argued that legal abortion is necessary to allow the termination of pregnancies occasioned by rape or incest, or to protect the life of the mother. But this is a compromise of the fundamental recognition that the pre-birth child is a person, fully entitled to the protection of his or her life. Who would argue that a one or two month old child who is discovered to have been conceived through rape or incest should be put to death? Why should the pre-born child be denied the same right to life?

But the abortion holocaust continues. The longer America refuses to confront the evils of abortion and abolish the practice, the further we will sink into modern barbarism. But is it irreversible? Recent years have allegedly seen slight declines in both the abortion rate and in premarital sexual relations, suggesting that at least some of our youth are refusing to accept the “new morality” of previous generations.

Moreover, the effort to impose legislative restrictions on abortions continues, most recently in the Georgia legislature, where a new bill, HB1, will define personhood as beginning at conception.

Far too many, however, are still learning the hard way the awful consequences of abortion. Many thousands of women each year suffer almost unbearable remorse after allowing themselves to be persuaded to take the fatal step, only to discover the terrible heartbreak that follows the willful destruction of one’s own child.

The time is long past for Americans to open their eyes to the evils of abortion. The Constitution Party has a solemn duty to oppose this terrible practice and press uncompromisingly for its abolition. We must speak with a united voice on this issue, on behalf of those who have no voice, who are its victims.

We look forward to a day when abortion will no longer be practiced on American soil, when a revitalized, newly-civilized America will feel remorse for past crimes against the unborn and ensure that, like slavery and other relics of our barbaric past, the abomination of abortion will never again taint our national standard. Indeed, we must usher in that day. The survival of our culture depends upon it.

01/22/2007