Abortion : The Slaughter Of The Innocent

ABORTION : THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENT - PT 2

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Published On : June 28, 1997

Last Updated : March 19, 2009

Abortion Not Listed As Fundamental Right In US Constitution,
US Bill of Rights, Supreme Court Adds Abortion To Recognized
Fundamental Rights Via Roe v. Wade, Justice Harry Blackmun
Rules That Abortion Is Encompassed By The Right To Privacy,
Only Justices Byron R. White & William H. Rehnquist Dissent,
Roe v. Wade A Very Poor Ruling Which Defied States' Wishes,
Public School System - Sex Education Condoms And Counseling,
Not Old Enough To Vote But Old Enough To Decide On Abortion,
Partial List Of Pro-Abortion Advocates, Dr. Vanessa Cullins,
Parental Support And Endeavors To Break The Parental Bond,
Abortion Clinics Are Money-Making Businesses Bent On Profit,
Rosa Acuna, Dr. Sheldon Turkish & "Nothing But Some Tissue",
Big Deception - Just A Clump Of Cells And Not A Real Person,
Abortionists' Subtle Attempts To Relieve Women Of The Guilt,
We Are Recognized By God As Humans Even Before Conception,
Psalm 139:13-16 And The Earth Of The Womb, When Life Begins,
God Called Prophet Jeremiah Prior To His Actual Conception,
God Stated "Before I Formed Thee In The Belly I Knew Thee",
Jews Sacrifice Children To Molech In The Valley of Hinnom

As I concluded in part one, a fundamental right is simply a
right that finds its origin in the US Constitution, or that's
implied by the Constitution, according to the interpretation
of the U.S. Supreme Court. Some of the rights which the court
views as being fundamental rights are the following:

- The right to life.

- The right to freedom of movement.

- The right to own property.

- The right to marry.

- The right to procreate.

- The right to raise children free from unnecessary
governmental interference.

- The right to freedom of association.

- The right to freedom of expression.

- The right to equal treatment or equal protection before
the law (fair legal procedures).

- The right to freedom of thought.

- The right to religious belief.

- The right to choose when and where to acquire formal
education.

- The right to pursue happiness.

- The right to vote.

- The right to freedom of contract.

Now, let me ask you something. Abortion is obviously not a
right which finds its origin in the U.S. Constitution as per
the previous definition. In other words, going by the first
condition, abortion is not a fundamental right. That being
the case, how did the Supreme Court arrive at the conclusion
that abortion is implied in the Constitution? In the United
States, most fundamental rights can be found in the Bill of
Rights. The U.S. Bill of Rights is comprised of the first
Ten Amendments to the Constitution, which are the following:

1st Amendment : Includes the Establishment Clause, Free
Exercise Clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of
assembly; right to petition.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or
the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

2nd Amendment : Protects the right to keep and bear
arms.

"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the
security of a free State, the right of the people to
keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

3rd Amendment : Protects citizens from the quartering of
troops.

"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any
house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of
war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."

4th Amendment : Offers protection from unreasonable
search and seizure.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no
Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported
by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
place to be searched, and the persons or things to be
seized."

5th Amendment : due process, double jeopardy,
self-incrimination, and eminent domain.

"No person shall be held to answer for any capital, or
otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or
indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in
the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in
actual service in time of War or public danger; nor
shall any person be subject for the same offence to be
twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be
compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against
himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor shall private property
be taken for public use, without just compensation."

6th Amendment : Covers trial by jury and the rights of
the accused; Confrontation Clause, speedy trial, public
trial, right to counsel

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy
the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial
jury of the State and district where in the crime shall
have been committed, which district shall have been
previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the
nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted
with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory
process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to
have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense."

7th Amendment : Protects civil trial by jury.

"In suits at common law, where the value in controversy
shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury
shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall
be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United
States, than according to the rules of the common law."

8th Amendment : Covers the prohibition of excessive
bail, and cruel and unusual punishment.

"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive
fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments
inflicted."

9th Amendment : Covers the protection of rights not
specifically enumerated in the U.S. Bill of Rights.

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,
shall not be construed to deny or disparage others
retained by the people."

10th Amendment : Regarding powers of states and people.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are
reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

Okay, it is quiz time again. Did you happen to notice that
ugly word "abortion" listed in any of those Ten Amendments?
Well, you are not alone, because I didn't either; and that
is where the problem lies. There are also some fundamental
rights which the U.S. Supreme Court has legally recognized,
that are not actually enumerated in the U.S. Constitution,
or more specifically, in the Bill of Rights. These include
the following:

- The right to interstate travel.
- The right to marriage.
- The right to privacy.
- The right to procreation.

Sadly, on January 22, 1973, the supposedly wise justices who
sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, added the right to obtain an
abortion to the above short list of recognized fundamental
rights. What in the world were they thinking, and how could
they possibly arrive at such a terrible conclusion? The way
that it happened is simply this: Justice Harry Blackmun and
six other justices, embracing a very liberal interpretation
of the Bill of Rights, determined that the "right of privacy
. . . is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether
or not to terminate her pregnancy"; and that, tragically, is
how the Roe v Wade ruling became the deadly instrument for
legalizing abortion throughout the United States of America.

Ever since that historic determination was made, many legal
experts have argued that it was a poor ruling that was based
on an extremely weak interpretation of the US Constitution.
While I myself am no legal expert and have never studied law,
I must concur with their opinion. Yet despite their protests,
the right to obtain an abortion has endured for thirty-six
years now, and millions of innocent unborn children have been
slaughtered, to the shame of the American people.

The two judges who dissented and did not go along with the
majority ruling were Associate Justices Byron R. White and
William H. Rehnquist. In his dissent, Justice White stated
quite emphatically:

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"I find nothing in the language or history of the
Constitution to support the Court's judgment. The Court
simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for
pregnant mothers and, with scarcely any reason or authority
for its action, invests that right with sufficient substance
to override most existing state abortion statutes."

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For his part, Justice William H. Rehnquist basically said
that the majority had fabricated the right to an abortion
out of thin air, because not only did it not exist in the
Bill of Rights, but prior to the Roe v. Wade ruling, the
precedent was that the majority of the states wanted to
limit abortions. In other words, the Blackmun court even
went against the precedent, and overruled what the States
clearly wanted. Rehnquist wrote in part:

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"To reach its result, the Court necessarily has had to find
within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment a right that
was apparently completely unknown to the drafters of the
Amendment. As early as 1821, the first state law dealing
directly with abortion was enacted by the Connecticut
Legislature. By the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth
Amendment in 1868, there were at least 36 laws enacted by
state or territorial legislatures limiting abortion. While
many States have amended or updated their laws, 21 of the
laws on the books in 1868 remain in effect today."

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Thus we see that, despite President Bush's personal position
regarding abortion, and despite the fact that he succeeded in
appointing conservative-leaning judges to the Supreme Court,
as well as to many courts of appeal, legalized abortion still
remains the law of the land; and surely, this is to our shame.
Furthermore, due to the fundamental right to privacy, to this
day, a woman retains full control over her body when it comes
to the issue of abortion. Under normal conditions, neither a
spouse, boyfriend, or anyone else, can override her personal
decision to obtain an abortion. Thankfully, at least there
are restrictions, although by no means bullet-proof, when it
comes to a minor girl attempting to do the same.

What aggravates the abortion problem even more, is the fact
that we now have sex education being taught in the American
public school system. Furthermore, to add insult to injury,
it has also become common practice for some schools to make
condoms available to their students. In my view, doing this
only contributes to the problem of sexual promiscuity, which
will obviously increase the opportunity for abortions to be
sought out. It's also my belief that sex education is a very
private matter, and is something that children should really
be taught in the privacy of their own home, by their parents.

I also find it quite disturbing, and in fact alarming, that
due to the right to privacy, and the current status of some
abortion laws in some states, a teenaged pregnant girl can
now receive counseling at school, without her parents even
being notified about it. The fact that the girl is still a
minor, under the care of her parents, and the fact that her
parents are legally responsible for her, should nullify the
minor's right to privacy, when it comes to abortion. As we
saw earlier, in some states, a pregnant minor can not only
get counseling regarding her pregnancy, but she can proceed
to have an abortion without her parents' consent, or without
their being notified, or without both. I find it rather odd
that this same minor is not old enough to vote, and yet she
is deemed wise enough to make a decision regarding abortion,
which will slaughter and terminate the life of another human
being. Surely, this is the epitome of hypocrisy and madness.

While we have been discussing the legal and political aspects
of the long fight to overturn Roe v. Wade, there is another
aspect which we have yet to examine, and that is the various
arguments which have been put forth by those people who are
intent on keeping abortion legal throughout the United States
of America. In addition to common everyday American citizens,
I'm referring to the big names and the national organizations
which have waged a relentless fight to keep the evil practice
of abortion alive. These people and organizations who condone
the slaughter of the innocent include, but are not limited to
the following:

American Civil Liberties Union
Center for Reproductive Rights
Former President William Jefferson Clinton
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Former Vice President Al Gore
Guttmacher Institute (former division of Planned Parenthood)
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, Democrat of California
Naral Pro-Choice America
National Organization for Women
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
President-elect Barack Hussein Obama
Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy
Supreme Court Justice David Souter
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
Vice President-elect Joseph Biden

One has to wonder what goes through the minds of people who
so adamantly resist outlawing abortion. Well, perhaps I can
shed a little light on this issue with the following remarks.
One comment I came across while conducting research for this
series, which I found rather disturbing, was made by Doctor
Vanessa Cullins, who currently serves as vice president for
medical affairs for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
In a statement, this woman made a remark regarding how, in
her opinion, "draconian parental notification laws endanger
the health of young women".

What Dr. Cullins is basically saying, is that we should just
trust that young teenaged girls, who are obviously already
under a lot of stress due to their situation, and who are by
law still minors, possess the wisdom and the maturity to make
such an important decision by themselves, without any input
whatsoever from their much wiser parents. As a parent myself,
I cannot possibly agree with Doctor Cullins' position, and I
must strenuously object to her misguided, biased mentality.

Now obviously, some of these minors are probably fearful that
their mistake will be discovered; and then not only will they
suffer embarrassment, but they'll have to face their parents'
disappointment and anger as well. However, I would posit that
in many cases, while the parents may not approve of what the
child has done by getting pregnant, and may even scold them,
they will also offer their child the comfort, understanding,
and support that she will need at such a time. If we are only
there for our children during the good times, and not for the
bad times, what kind of parents are we? Furthermore, a wise
parent will encourage their child to give birth to the baby,
even if she still chooses to offer it up for adoption at some
later date. Isn't this a lot better than murderous abortion
which will mercilessly slaughter an unborn, innocent child?

It seems to me that one of the problems is that some of these
abortionists don't want to allow this parent/child encounter
to occur. These unscrupulous baby killers obviously know how
vulnerable a young pregnant girl can be. Likewise, they know
that the minor may not go through with the abortion, if the
child has any opportunity to consult with her parents first.
Thus, they endeavor to break the parental bond when it comes
to the all important issue of abortion. They want to isolate
the child, and in fact replace the parents, and substitute
their opinion, for the parents' opinion. They want to usurp
the parents' position. Of course, the abortionists will try
to comfort the girl prior to the abortion; but once the deed
has been done, it is done, and it most certainly cannot be
reversed; and the child will have the rest of her life to
regret her decision, while the abortion clinic goes on its
merry way, and continues to turn a handsome profit.

Folks, let's not forget that this is precisely what abortion
clinics are really all about. Don't be deceived by the false
notion that they are just there to help young teenaged girls
and women in distress. That is a bunch of nonsense. The fact
of the matter remains that abortion clinics are businesses,
and no person goes into business for any other reason than to
turn a profit. Yes, all businesses may provide some kind of
beneficial service or product to the community; nevertheless,
they are in business to make money, and not just enough to
barely get by, but enough to make a handsome profit and live
comfortably. These abortion clinics are no different. If they
can't make it as easy as possible to obtain an abortion, then
they won't be in business for very long. They will go broke.
It is for this reason, and this reason only, that these evil
abortionists fight tooth and nail, and use every means, and
every argument at their disposal, to keep abortions legal.

I am reminded of another cold-hearted statement from a case
which made the news towards the end of 2002. It involved one
gynecologist/abortionist in the state of New Jersey by the
name of Sheldon Turkish, and a woman named Rosa Acuna. News
reports state that Ms. Acuna sued the abortionist, because
at the time of her abortion in 1996, he failed to inform her
that aborting a baby in the first trimester was in reality
terminating the life of a human being. According to Acuna,
when she asked Turkish whether or not a baby was already in
her womb, he responded that it was "nothing but some blood".
This deceptive abortionist in fact admitted in depositions,
that he informs pregnant women that there is "nothing but
some tissue". Sadly, this is the attitude of many of these
cold-blooded, licensed killers, and it has to be one of the
biggest, most evil deceptions that surrounds the abortion
issue.

In other words, many abortionists intentionally attempt to
dehumanize the human embryo, and to desensitize people to
the reality of what actually occurs during an abortion, by
promoting the false notion that there is "nothing but some
tissue". "It's not really a living human being, it's just a
clump of cells", they claim; and on and on the argument goes.

Tragically, I even had one individual tell me recently that,
in his view, until the baby takes its first breath, and the
umbilical cord is cut, it is not even a real person. So what
is it then; a breathing, humanoid non-human? So by promoting
the utterly false impression that what is in their womb is
not really human yet, or a person yet, these abortionists in
fact help to relieve pregnant women and minor girls of the
guilt which they would surely feel, if they realized that
they were in fact murdering an unborn child, who is created
in the image of God, in the most horrific of ways, and it is
indeed very horrific. If you doubt my word, then you really
need to examine the various abortion images which you will
find in the abortion section of our Endtime Prophecy Net web
site. Abortion is nothing short of wholesale slaughter of
innocent unborn human beings, as the images make very clear.

Thankfully, God, the Creator and Giver of life, doesn't view
a fetus or an embryo as just a clump of unrecognizable cells.
As I have mentioned a number of times before, God sees us as
real, living human beings, long before we are ever conceived
or born. This is clearly revealed in the Book of Psalms where
we are plainly told that God knew us, and designed us, even
before He created us in our mother's womb. In the powerful
set of verses below, this is what it means when it uses the
word "earth". After all, does not Genesis tell us that Adam
was made from the dust of the ground; and did not God cause
life to spring forth from the earth? So too, life springs
forth from the womb in the same way:

"For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in
my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul
knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when
I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest
parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet
being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were
written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet
there was none of them."
Psalms 139:13-16, KJV

Once we open our hearts and accept the above verses as being
true, the argument of when human life begins falls apart. It
simply vanishes, and becomes a moot point. By accepting the
previous verses as being true, we place the final nail in the
coffin of the abortionists, because then they can no longer
argue the point that a days-old embryo, or a months-old fetus
is not human, or a real person. God has spoken, and His Word
is the Final Authority, when it comes to our Christian faith.
By accepting these verses, the abortionists' heinous sin of
mass murder is fully exposed; and that is why they work so
hard to try to conceal this truth from pregnant women, and
minors. It is their evil lie, ("nothing but some tissue"),
versus God's truth. Which are you going to believe?

The previous verses are not the only Biblical evidence which
points to the fact that God knew us, and viewed us as human,
long before He ever formed us in our mother's womb. In the
Old Testament, there are many books which were written by the
Prophets. These were men who were called and ordained by God
to be messengers to the nation of Israel. One such Prophet,
who heard his prophetic calling at a very early age, was the
young child Jeremiah. Similar to the Prophet Samuel, we know
that Jeremiah was called by God at a very young age, because
he even complained to the Lord about it in the book that is
named after him.

The Bible informs us that the Prophet Jeremiah warned the
people of Jerusalem and Judah for forty years to repent of
their rebellion against the Lord, right up until the very
day that the armies of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar,
utterly destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon's Temple. However,
many years before these dark days arrived, the Lord gave the
following message to this young boy Jeremiah, when He first
called him to be one of His messengers to the rebellious
Jerusalemites. Please notice the very first words of the
very first verse:

"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before
thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I
ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah,
Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the
LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go
to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee
thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am
with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 1:5-8, KJV

"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee", the Lord
tells Jeremiah. So just as we saw in the set of verses from
Psalm 139, God reveals that He knows us even before He ever
physically forms us in our mother's womb. So taken together,
these two sets of verses tell us that God personally knows
us; that He has designed our organs and physical appearance,
and thus knows exactly what we will look like, and that He
has even planned and predestinated our lives, long before
the moment of our actual conception in our mother's womb.
In light of these facts, again I ask, how can abortionists
dare claim that we are nothing but an unidentifiable clump
of cells, "nothing but some tissue", and not a person or a
real human being? Someone is obviously lying here, and it
most certainly is not God.

What the previous verses also tell us, is that by condoning
and engaging in abortion, people are trying to destroy what
God has already chosen to create. They are defying His Will.
They are interfering with His plans. How dare anyone do that!
Just who do you people think you are, to so haughtily place
yourselves, and your will, and your foolish medical opinions,
above the Almighty God, El Shaddai, the Creator of life, and
the Creator of the Universe? Shame on you all!

Returning to the ministry of the Prophet Jeremiah for just a
moment, as I explain in some of my other articles, such as in
the in-depth series "The Fruits Of Disobedience", the Bible
plainly tells us that one of the primary reasons why the Lord
allowed Jerusalem and the temple to be destroyed by the army
of King Nebuchadnezzar, was because they were worshipping the
false gods of the heathen nations around them. This worship
included regular child sacrifices to the god Molech, in the
Valley of Hinnom. This valley, known as "geenna' or "Gehenna
of fire" in Greek, was located to the south, just beyond the
walls of Jerusalem. It was where the Israelites burned their
trash, as well as the bodies of dead livestock and criminals.
How fitting, albeit tragically so, that this is also where
they chose to slaughter their children on the fiery altars of
Molech. Consider the following revealing verses:

"And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah,
and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this
place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom
neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of
Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of
innocents; They have built also the high places of Baal, to
burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal,
which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my
mind: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of
the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. And I will
make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place;
and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their
enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and
their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the
heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. And I will make
this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth
thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the
plagues thereof. And I will cause them to eat the flesh of
their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall
eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and
straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek
their lives, shall straiten them."
Jeremiah 19:3-9, KJV

"Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the
abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem,
and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon."
1 Kings 11:7, KJV

"And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the
children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire to Molech."
2 Kings 23:10, KJV

"And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their
daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I
commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they
should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin."
Jeremiah 32:35, KJV

To some modern readers, the above verses must sound rather
horrific. Yet ironically, some of these same people seem to
find absolutely nothing wrong with slaughtering millions of
unborn children through the murderous act of abortion. If
God punished the ancient Israelites for their wickedness and
evil infanticide, how can He not some day soon also punish
wicked America for the death of millions of unborn babies at
the hands of heartless abortionists? Is America not asking
for severe judgment by the Almighty? The ancient Israelites
certainly did not escape His wrath, and it is a safe bet to
conclude that neither will America.

Please go to part three for the continuation of this series.

Go To Part Three . . .