"What Starts in Vagueness…."

By Dave Andrusko

As I write this I am in the final hours of preparing the May issue of National Right to Life News as we go to press Friday morning. Waiting for some pictures to download, I took the time to look at some old stories I had saved on my hard drive for such a time as this.

One of them--obviously playing off of the Las Vegas slogan--had this (to me) fascinating line: "What starts in vagueness end in vagueness."

I won't belabor (alright, maybe a little) what that says to us. Abortion--the coldblooded extermination of an absolutely helpless human being--is possible only if we turn our eyes away, if we treat the concrete as an abstraction, and if we allow meaningless generalities about "rights" and "empowerment" to go unchallenged.

Why do you think that pro-abortionists are scared out of their wits by laws that give women an even break? By that I mean, genuinely informed consent made possible by giving women the chance to ponder whom it is they are about to obliterate.

How? By looking--if they choose--at an ultrasound.

I remember the old, low resolution black-and-white ultrasounds used back when my wife was carrying our first child. When we looked at her, you had to pretend to be able to make out the outlines of our child. Now, thanks to real-time color ultrasounds, it's like watching a home video.

Remarkable.

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