Members of Congress Meet My Baby!
By Nathan A. Cherry
Martinsburg, W.V. – Did you hear about the guy who dared to take on the big, bad liberal machine in Massachusetts and ran for Senate as a conservative? It almost sounds like a sci-fi tale worth retelling. By now we all know it is the story of Scott Brown, the newly elected senator from Massachusetts that defeated state attorney general Martha Coakley. But what makes this stunning upset so interesting is the main talking point of Brown’s campaign, namely health care.
Considering that Massachusetts has not seen a conservative, republican senator in over thirty years, and that President Obama easily captured the state in the 2008 Presidential election, it’s almost surreal to imagine a conservative voice winning this election. But now Mr. Brown and his truck are headed to Washington.
In practically every headline I’ve read about the election healthcare has emerged as the central focus of Brown’s success. Many voters that supported Obama in 2008 voted for Brown simply because he promised to fight the Obama administrations health care overhaul and break up the democratic super-majority in Congress. And why are so many irritated, frustrated, and fed-up with the attempted overhaul of the nation’s health care system? The main reason, it would seem, hinges on the nation’s surprising shift toward life.
A shift in support toward life coupled with opposition of abortion on demand is slowly taking place in America. Since 1991 when over 2,200 abortion clinics were operating the surge towards life has produced such a dramatic drop in the abortion rate that only 712 remain open today. Even many of the well-funded Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are finding it hard to stay open and closing at a rate of more than two per month in 2009. Let’s not forget recent polls that show approximately 61% of Americans oppose federally funded abortion in health care; a bi-partisan group no less. Last but not least, the same poll found that a super-super-majority of Americans, 73%, oppose abortion in nearly every circumstance.
With all the evidence stacked in favor of the pro-life movement it seems reckless and arrogantly snide to consider a health care bill that would even consider federally funded abortion much less advance abortion in any way at all. And yet even after Tuesday’s stunning upset in Massachusetts Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and even President Obama seem blindly undeterred in their goal of funding abortion with tax payer dollars.
By now the harmful effects of abortion on women would be hard to deny. These effects, ranging from physical effects on a woman’s body, emotional and mental effects, and problems with future pregnancies, are well documented. (Click here for a list of articles from Lifenews.com on the “effects of abortion”) Yet with all this evidence of detriment to women caused by abortion, many on the liberal left seem absurdly blind to the dangers and resolute in advocating abortion as a positive “women’s health” option.
I can only assume, as I have said before that abortion is more about money than women’s health and politicians are more interested in their wallets than women’s health.
I am, therefore, thankful for groups like Heartbeat International, an organization representing more than 1,100 pregnancy centers, and the life-saving work they contribute to true women’s health. Today, January 21st, women from across America that have received help from pregnancy centers are bringing their babies to Washington to meet with members of Congress to let them know that these aren’t blobs of tissue, these are real human beings.
America will never be able to claim equality and freedom until the most helpless of our society are protected.
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