by John D. Johnson

Created on: July 31, 2009   Last Updated: August 04, 2009

Every person knows in his heart that there is no right to do wrong. The degree of honor this truth is paid may vary from person to person, but it is truth nonetheless. Some of us conform to it; others rage against it. Nonetheless, it stands before each of us as a fact with which every false doctrine, including abortion, must inevitably collide.

So it is that we all know intuitively that no "right" to abortion exists. The illusion of such a thing exists; the lie of it exists; but the reality does not and cannot. Truth will not allow it; the moral law forbids it. Deep down, even in the heart of the most virulent denier, is the knowledge that no debate over the matter is really necessary. The facts are clear. The truth is plain.

Our culture-wide moral freefall began with the mutilation of words, including the word "right"; it has ended in the mutilation of people, including even little babies. But despite our self-imposed illusions, the fact remains that true rights put to good use can never result in the direct, intentional killing of an innocent person. Thus, abortion is not in any sense a right, even though its advocates invest great energy calling it by high-sounding names that seem to ring with virtue and patriotism and democracy. They strive arduously to swindle the public into thinking that legal abortion somehow elevates women and the nation. The sad reality, however, is that these arguments are but an assault on the human conscience, and they have cleared the way for of the vilest of crimes to be inflicted on women, on innocent children, and on the whole of humanity.

It is impossible to exaggerate abortion's venomous strike against the things we Americans hold most dear. We are a People whose founding principles include life, yet we allow abortion to inflict death on our most innocent. We are a People whose founding principles include liberty, yet we permit abortion to strip our most innocent of every freedom. We are a People whose founding principles include the pursuit of happiness, yet in the course of that very pursuit, we have used abortion to deny our most innocent any chance to take up such a pursuit of their own.

The appalling truth is that before 2011 arrives, abortion will have claimed 50 million lives in the United States alone. But abortion has hardly stopped there; its strangling tentacles have slithered into the entire developed world like so many pythons, crushing not only the life from tiny children but also

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