Sunday, May 31, 2009

Feeling Our Abortion

One month ago, two of my liberty-loving friends and I attempted to produce a weekly two-hour pro-life radio program. We call it, “Pro-Life Unity Radio”, and it airs in Ocala FL, on 104.3 FM, and on the Liberty Works Radio Network lwrn.net. We had a guest last weekend, Pastor Johnny Hunter from LEARN Inc., a group working to educate the African American community to the racial dimension of abortion. During our conversation, we concluded, “What good is affirmative action to an aborted black baby”? We then expanded the question to, “What good are liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, to a dead baby?

These are philosophical concepts that lose their relevance without life. Affirmative action was a brainstorm to correct a perceived imbalance of liberty and the pursuit of happiness. History has shown that a person’s freedom and their ability to move within the economy are interrelated. When these two rights are taken away, the person begins to loose his or her identity. Taken to its extreme, the person could loose life. We use liberty, and our pursuit of happiness, to protect life. This is probably easiest seen with abortion.

In an early term abortion, the killing team can attack the person within the womb. If this occurs at an early enough stage, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are ended, within the veil of an adult female person. No fight! Nary a word. No problem?

The fight, the cruelty, the problem, become more evident when the child is brought out of the womb in the procedure commonly known as partial birth abortion. Its official name is intact dilation and extraction. What is inferred in this official procedural name is the third step in this “procedure”, the “killing” of the partially born child.

Here is the gruesome description:

Usually, preliminary procedures are performed over a period of two to three days, to gradually dilate the cervix using laminaria tents (sticks of seaweed which absorb fluid and swell). Sometimes drugs such as synthetic pitocin are used to induce labor. Once the cervix is sufficiently dilated, the doctor uses an ultrasound and forceps to grasp the fetus' leg. The fetus is turned to a breech position, if necessary, and the doctor pulls one or both legs out of the birth canal, causing what is referred to by some people as the 'partial birth' of the fetus. The doctor subsequently extracts the rest of the fetus, usually without the aid of forceps, leaving only the head still inside the birth canal. An incision is made at the base of the skull, scissors are inserted into the incision and opened to widen the opening,[8] and then a suction catheter is inserted into the opening. The brain is suctioned out, which causes the skull to collapse and allows the fetus to pass more easily through the birth canal. The placenta is removed and the uterine wall is vacuum aspirated using a cannula.[9]

A healthy child in the womb may: float in amniotic fluid, suck its thumb, listen to its mom’s heart, be fed, and stretch. This is the economy of the womb. The womb allows a child to exercise its rights of free movement, within a boundry, that allow for growth. To change the cervix, and contract the uterus, at a premature stage in development is an attack on the economy of the womb. The child’s pursuit of happiness has been taken. To grab the child’s foot, and pull he or she through the birth canal is the attack on its freedom, its liberty. Having lost both protective rights, the child becomes a defenseless victim.

The cervix of our economy has been dilated. Our money is worthless. We have allowed private powerful bankers to expand our money supply, print fiat paper money, and throw economic realities to the wind. The government now controls most aspects of our economy, so they have started the pitocin drip of fear. They are contracting the uterus of our civilized society with war as a way of life, with the unnatural as natural, and with the demolition of skyscrapers and our economic security.

Lets prepare ourselves for the next dose of pitocin: explosions, contrived riots, marshal law. We will need a little more induction before we can be guided into our birth canal camps: something to justify disarming us. Who would grab the foot of a little one if he or she was packing a 357 revolver? Once they take our guns, and the rest of our Bill of Rights, we will be defenseless.

Feel them grabbing for your foot? They will drag us through our canal of freedom, to be prepped for the completion of this procedure, “post birth abortion”, our abortion.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Time to Act!

We did our first two-hour radio program, "Pro-Life Unity Radio", on Liberty Works Radio Network yesterday, May 9th. Aside from some initial technical difficulties, it went fairly well. In the fifth of six segments, we discussed the Notre Dame scandal, as they intend to honor Mr. Obama. Allen Keys and 21 other were arrested yesterday, for "trespassing", to demonstrate their disapproval of this planned event. They were charged with trespass, a misdemeanor, and $250.00 fine. I believe the protest is misdirected.

The only real leverage in this matter is the Church. That really is the point. That is the scandal! The Catholic Church is not a democracy or republic. So, why petition? Why demonstrate? Expect the Church to act. The Catholic Church is an organization with rules, and a chain of command that depends on obedience, with jurisdictional matters decided by the local Bishop. In Pope John Paul II's teaching document Ex Corde Ecclesiae, this authority is referenced in five separate places. The local Bishop has the authority and the responsibility to proclaim a college or university, "Catholic".

As this confrontation builds, the lack of leadership within the Church will be front and center. This problem never should have gotten this far out of hand. The remnant faithful in our Church, and the country at large, will be confirmed in our principles, if and when the local bishop, Bishop John D'Arcy, does more than just "disapprove". It is great that he has enough moral compass to recognize this scandal, but he has a responsibility to his flock. He is responsible for the Catholic Church in his area. What the Catholic or "universal " Church does in South Bend, affects the church in Baltimore.

Bishop D'Arcy should find the Notre Dame administration in violation of Ex Corde Ecclesiae, and give them a deadline, as to when he WILL remove ND's Catholic credentials. It's that simple. The Bishop has to take ACTION! This is not meant to second guess the bishop, rather it is just a statement of the obvious. The Church either acts now, or we scatter. It takes a special father to ACT in this politically charged environment. Pray for spiritual testosterone for Bishop D'Arcy.