Some Reflections on Presidents'
Day --
Part One of Two
Editor's note. Be sure to read
Part Two, which gives you important new information about Planned
Parenthood. Please send your comments to
daveandrusko@hotmail.com.
Good afternoon. It's the day after
Presidents' Day, a day set aside to honor arguable our two greatest
Presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Sorry to get to this late but I
just read a book review in the Washington Post that pointed out
something I hadn't realized: "This year marks the sesquicentennial of
the great debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, which
transformed a contest for a Senate seat into a battle for the future of
the republic." It was 150 years ago that Lincoln and Douglas criss-crossed
Illinois debating slavery on seven different occasions in front of huge
crowds.
I've written occasionally about
Lincoln, stimulated by a new biography [www.nrlc.org/news_and_views/January06/nv010306.html]
or by a brilliant extrapolation of Lincoln's views on slavery and how to
end that abomination to the abortion issue [www.nrlc.org/news/2003/NRL01/comm.html].
This holiday [and anniversary]
brings to mind our current presidential contest, in which Sen. John
McCain has a sizable lead over Gov. Huckabee in the Republican Party but
there remains a fiercely-fought contest between pro-abortion Democrats
Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.
Sen. John McCain is pro-life on
abortion.
By contrast Senators Clinton and
Obama offer the Abortion Establishment a way out of the wilderness after
enduring eight years of a strongly pro-life President. The Planned
Parenthoods and the NARALs know that whatever slight differences they
may have on other issues, on abortion Clinton and Obama are two peas in
a pod.
In this context there are two
valuable resources on the NRLC web page. The first is a comparison of
the staunchly pro-life records of the first President Bush--George H.W.
Bush--and his son, George W. Bush, versus the unrelenting anti-life
record of President Bill Clinton [http://nrlc.org/PresidentialRecords.htm].
The other resource is an updated
comparison of the abortion records of the remaining 2008 presidential
contenders [www.nrlc.org--"Presidential
Comparison Flyer"]. You should download this and distribute it
widely.
Please take a few minutes to read
Part Two. It is always important to
keep track of the latest work of Planned Parenthood.
Part Two
