ROE CREATED SCHIZOPHRENIC NATION

 

By Bill Dunn

 

A couple of months ago a 25-year-old Stamford woman was charged with murdering her newborn son by stabbing him with a kitchen utensil minutes after he was born. The woman was held on $1 million bond. A few days later an 18-year-old Danbury woman was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the death of her newborn daughter. The woman was 17 when she delivered the baby in a bathroom and immediately drowned the girl in the toilet. She was sentenced to 18 years behind bars.

 

Maybe if these two young women had gone to medical school, they would have received standing ovations rather than being hauled off to prison. Back in March of 2008, Dr. George Tiller, the controversial late-term abortion provider from Kansas, gave a presentation at the Feminist Majority Foundation’s annual conference, hosted at the National Education Association’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. (What is the NEA doing hosting feminist conferences that feature abortionists, you ask? Oh, don’t be naïve. If you think the NEA is only concerned about teaching children how to read and write and understand math and science, rather than being an extremist group bent on removing all traditional values from our culture, then I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.)

 

During his presentation Dr. Tiller showed bloody, graphic images of children he had aborted. He acknowledged that he had performed abortions on full-term children the day before the mother’s due date. When he was done with his speech, Dr. Tiller got a standing ovation.

 

Where is the standing ovation for the women from Stamford and Danbury? What did they do that was any different from what Dr. Tiller does? Why are those women going to prison while Tiller continues to receive a handsome income along with kudos from upper-middle-class feminists?

 

Do you ever wonder why our society seems to be schizophrenic? On the one hand, we proclaim that women have a constitutional right to privacy, courtesy of Roe vs. Wade, which gives them the freedom to terminate a pregnancy for any reason and at any time. But on the other hand, when women exercise this so-called freedom a few moments after the birth rather than a few moments before, they go to prison. So which is it? Is snuffing out the life of an infant a crime, or is it something to be applauded?

 

Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, addresses this issue head-on. He says society has “failed to establish a morally significant dividing line between the newborn baby and the fetus,” and so he concludes that people should be permitted to kill their children up to 28 days after birth.

 

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe decision. Despite Tiller’s grisly work and Singer’s chilling reasoning, some people still insist Roe has been a liberating advancement. Others, their dormant consciences finally awakened, now realize that Roe has ushered in a “Culture of Death.”

 

A word of caution to those who hold the progressive, “enlightened” pro-choice position: Professor Singer not only reasons that infanticide is acceptable, he also takes the Roe-Tiller-NEA worldview to its logical conclusion. He is a strong proponent of forced euthanasia on the sick, disabled, and elderly. Even upper-middle-class feminists will get old someday.

 

If our society continues down this schizophrenic path, we’re destined to lose our minds. I suspect we’ve already lost our souls.