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ClearCommentary.com on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:42:52 PM
A key difference between the fading memory of 9/11 and the Roe v. Wade decision of 35 years ago is that 3,000 Americans died in one day on 9/11 while the savagery of Roe takes 3,200 lives each and every day.
A revealing theme of the despicable attacks six plus years ago is that we've allowed our collective conscience to become lulled into a false sense of security while seeming to forget the horrors of that day. Yet before our very eyes, a quiet moral killer takes the lives of the innocent unborn and many of us fail to register even the slightest ethical pang, much less the kind of outrage that it warrants.
When the Supreme Court rendered its decision--a gross breach of judicial restraint which constitutional scholars across the political spectrum agree was a textbook example of fabricating law--the nation had already been on a glide-path to moral anarchy, compliments to the post-modern 60s. We can trace that abrogation of core moral values to the radical left's blind assertion that marriage is a quaint--read, obsolete--social convention and that sexual intimacy is an unsacred expression of love--an apt oxymoron.
Once the bond between sexuality and marriage was broken, it also sundered the moral underpinnings that had been tacitly internalized for generations in the form of an understanding of the religious value inherent in postponing sex until marriage. With sexual intercourse redefined as recreational, an entire generation was given the cultural green light to glut its lust sans consequences--except for the occasional "unwanted" pregnancy.
It's been well documented that a vital precursor for sending millions of Jews to the gas chambers during World War Two was the process of dehumanizing them. When you subtract a person's humanity from their existence you become convinced they no longer have the same rights as others. Therefore, whether it was the Germans during that war or Saddam Hussein during his reign of terror, torturing and murdering those poor souls was of no consequence.
The same process of dehumanization takes place as people convince themselves of the anonymity of the unborn. With the advent of ultrasound technology that act becomes less facile, but it's a testimony to the perverse resilience of the human mind that people are able to find comfort in the notion that it's not a person in the woman's womb.
The arrogance and supreme selfishness of people who would snuff the life of a helpless unborn human is simply staggering in its moral depravity. Yet about every 30 seconds that happens and since 1973 over 47 million human beings were slaughtered before they took their first breath.
Many on the left decry the barbarity of war yet fail to see their moral blind spot when it comes to abortion. They may assert that they abhor abortion but never left a finger to stop it and reflexively vote for candidates who support that so-called right.
It's an especially vicious kind of tyranny--the tyranny of the unaborted.