Only 62-seconds-long "Everyone Against Abortion, Please Raise Your Hand" can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_7jnp--UE

For the first 15 seconds or so all you see are the words written on the script. A tiny hand and wrist of a little baby cupped in the fingertips of an adult then appears. Over the next 10 seconds as the camera pans downward you begin to see part of her arm. At about 28 seconds you grasp that this is all you will see of this baby.

"This is the hand of a child that was aborted," reads the script. "Let us mourn for these children. May our hearts be broken enough for God to enter and stir us to action to defend their lives."

Take a couple of minutes to watch it for yourself and tell me your response [daveandrusko@gmail.com]. What follows are my thoughts.

Even as I was writing that sentence, I knew there was something in the back of my mind. Although it took a long time, it finally worked its way to my conscious brain.

Years ago I read a tremendous essay written by Dr. Ralph C. Wood. If I may, I'd like to quote two paragraphs from "Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: A Christian Classic Revisited."

"Repeated readings do not exhaust its potential to deepen and define our moral and spiritual lives. Young and old alike keep returning to it for both wisdom and delight. True fantasy, Tolkien declared in his 1939 essay 'On Fairy-Stories,' is escapist in the good sense: it enables us to flee into reality.

"The strange world of hobbits and elves and ents frees us from bondage to the pseudo-reality that most of us inhabit: a world deadened by bleary familiarity. Fantasy, Tolkien observed, helps us recover a sense of wonder about ordinary things: 'stone, and wood, and iron; tree and grass; house and fire; bread and wine.'" (Emphasis added.)

On first blush this may seem a strange connection. But Dr. Wood's point for us is that so many people can so easily be "deadened by bleary familiarity," in this case with the horrific brutality, the soul-sapping ugliness of abortion.

"Everyone Against Abortion, Please Raise Your Hand" is a fantasy in a Tolkienian sense. It enables us to flee into reality, the stomach-turning reality that abortion--the ultimate child abuse--violates every core value that defines the American experience.

"Everyone Against Abortion, Please Raise Your Hand" also made me think of the 2006 film, "Amazing Grace." I love the summary at IMDB (the Internet Movie Data Base): "The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament in 19th century England, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade." Well said.

There is a scene that is seared into my memory. Wilberforce understands that he is up against every established power base in England, beginning with the entrenched interests that rule Parliament. Without making African slaves "real" to the ruling class, there was no chance he could ever end the ugly trade in human flesh.

In a memorable scene, Wilberforce takes a group of powerful people out on a boat for a leisurely trip down the Thames. The Lords and Ladies, plied with good food and drink, are having a jolly good time until their noses catch wind of a horrible stench. What can it be? Why is it disturbing our upper-class good time?

It is the stench coming from a nearby slave ship, the smell of men who've died in their own wastes. "The noblewomen weep while the noblemen quail," in the words of the New York magazine review.

Of additional interest to us is the next sentence: "When he is shouted down by his fellow legislators, Wilberforce and a band of fellow abolitionists take their case to the people--publishing books and pamphlets, manufacturing cameos, organizing sugar boycotts, and generating petitions with hundreds of thousands of signatures."

So much of what we see in the new Obama Administration is both more than meets the eye (the radical agenda clothed in "moderate," let's-work-together rhetoric) and less (the utter insincerity of his promised desire to find "common ground"). But we do know two things for sure.

First, pro-lifers will be this Administration's bogeyman. We will be dismissed as "anti-science," motivated "by ideology," and determined to impose our "minority opinion" on a nation whose heart beats in sympathetic harmony with Barack Obama.

Second, the Obama Abortion Agenda operates like a jackhammer. Whether as a conscious decision or an unforeseen consequence, it will shatter the moral cement that holds a civilized society together.

For a season, many Americans will turn a blind eye to the lethal mischief of Barack Obama and his corrupt minions. We haven't, and we won't.