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Responses to Abortion as a
"Wedge Issue" and Downloading an Important Petition Part One of Three By Dave Andrusko Good evening and thanks for reading TN&V and National Right to Life News Today. Part Two discusses the poll that shows that people believe abortions are too easily procured. Part Three looks at President Obama's precipitous fall. At National Right to Life News Today, you'll find three stories well worth your time. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter. By far the best part of composing TN&V and National Right to Life News Today is reading the responses of our loyal readers. In just a second I'll pass on some of their keen insights from yesterday's stash of emails.
But first I wanted to remind you of an important resource. It's a petition from National Right to Life to members of Congress asking them to repeal Obama's pro-abortion, pro-rationing health care law and to vote in support of the Protect Life Act (H.R. 5111) which would repeal or correct all of the abortion-related problems in the bill. "Repeal Obama's Health Care Law" is downloadable at http://www.stoptheabortionagenda.com/files/Repeal-Obama-HCL.pdf. Take a couple of moments out to avail yourself of this important asset, and be sure that your social network contacts are aware of it as well. There was feedback to many of the items we passed along to you, but most of all to a piece I titled, "Don't be Fooled by the Nonsense that Abortion is a 'Wedge Issue'" (www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Aug10/nv081610.html). Readers offered numerous true-life stories. The common denominator was how they pointed out the absurdities of the typical case for death by abortion and then went on to ridicule the even more ridiculous conclusion that abortion is a "distraction" employed to take people away from "real" issues. In fact, as they explained, the fight over the fate of millions of unborn children is a first-principle debate about who is a member of the human family whom we have an obligation to protect. Another reader wrote about a garage sale her local pro-life group conducted to raise funds. The goods were largely left over from more affluent neighborhoods. They had a small pro-life display at the end of the driveway. Those who purchased the items were anything but rich. "In all those people for all four days we had not one negative response. Black, white, Hispanic, Middle Easterner--none had anything bad to say." To the contrary their pro-life expressions were touching and moving. "A political 'wedge issue'? she asked? "No, these really poor people know the value of life. There was no waffling." Other respondents fine-tuned some of my distinctions. (I will combine several responses to make a larger point.) People who throw about the term "wedge issue" are suggesting insincerity, an unimportance, and something that is forced in out of the blue that doesn't really belong in polite company. But the minds of many of the same people who can amiably debate almost any other "social issue," no matter how contentious, lock shut when the abortion issue is raised. This can be interpreted in many ways but one thing it illustrates for sure is that the destruction of the little ones makes countless numbers of people very uncomfortable. Why? For a thousand different reasons, but often because in their heart of hearts people know that abortion violates every principle they espouse in every other setting. Living with that inconsistency requires that they not think about abortion. I appreciate your comments, as I do to every TN&V and every item at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org). Please be sure to respond to daveandrusko@gmail.com and download the petition at http://www.stoptheabortionagenda.com/files/Repeal-Obama-HCL.pdf. |
