Embracing Infanticide: The Disposable Lives Chorus Celebrates – by Jim Bratten

Jim Bratten

When New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced that a human life could be taken at the moment of birth and non-physicians could perform the procedure to terminate that life, the assembled state legislators stood up and cheered, heartily.

The mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, instructed city officials to light the Freedom Tower pink. (Why has this color been marked to represent a cult of death and the suffering of the innocent?) It’s ironic, sickeningly so, that at the World Trade Center Memorial to the lives lost on 9/11, where the twin symbols of American exceptionalism and prosperity once stood, a pink-lighted spire should celebrate more tragedy.

On that memorial appear the names of four unborn children, killed in the wombs of their mothers in the most costly attack on the nation famous for cherishing life above all else. Their names are engraved there as casualties of a barbaric attack on Western Civilization; an assault on freedom and man’s right to live in liberty – the right to life. The butchers who attacked our nation that day were devotees of a religion that celebrates death, no matter the stage of life.

The next day, when asked if he supported a bill in Virginia’s legislature that was similar to New York’s “third trimester” offering, Ralph Northam, governor of Virginia and a neurological pediatrician, expressed he had no problem that the fate of a baby could be determined post-delivery. Since Northam has received $2 million in support from Planned Parenthood, his response was no surprise.

Kathy Tran, the Virginia delegate that wrote the commonwealth’s “infanticide” legislation, expanding abortion to the third trimester, admitted that her bill allowed it after. How twisted that, the same day, she introduced legislation that protected the life of an endangered caterpillar. The critter is protected, but the human baby is disposable.

In our nation we have historically, by a large majority, celebrated life. Throughout the long history of the advancement of civil society, Western Civilization has embraced the sanctity of life. We’ve never incorporated the barbarism of Sparta – leaving our disabled or unwanted children on a remote hillside to suffer death by birds of prey. But now, elected officials of some of our most populous states stand proudly, gleefully, for the murder of infants at birth.

At our very beginning as a nation our Founders stood for the right to live; to reach maturity and prosper as an individual. It says so emphatically in our founding document, the Declaration of Independence. It is written for all posterity to see, as the number one gift from our Creator: the right to life. How many of our citizens still stand for that right, believe it or understand it, when it is no longer taught, or professed?

Our society is at a crossroads. Right and wrong are not defined or taught. The young of our nation and, unfortunately, many of their elders, have been morally cast adrift. Houses of worship have abandoned their faith to comply with political pressure and accommodate political correctness. They need to stand as bulwarks against perversion and depravity in a so-called “popular” culture, but many are not.

This massive deviation from truth used to be anything but popular – it was deemed corrupt and an affront to our beliefs. But we have become morally and spiritually inept; our culture devoid of value. If we can take the life of an innocent human being at any time from conception to birth, or after, as the governor of Virginia professed, we are adrift and our anchorage lost.

Many obstetricians and pediatricians state that no reason can be found to take the life of a baby at birth because of danger to the health of the mother. Choosing to kill it is simply infanticide and homicide.

Last week exposed the sickness that loss of faith and reason, replaced by secular progressivism, has wrought. Outrage across the country will grow. There’s no room for this barbarity in post-Gosnell America.

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