Most polls now show that the majority of Americans are against most second- and third-trimester abortions.
This progression toward the culture of life occurred despite the best attempts by abortion activists and the liberal press to suppress the truth that late-term abortions are legal.
(For an example of the media's attempt to cover up that abortion is legal in the United States throughout all nine months of pregnancy, one only needs to look back three days. Last Sunday, the Associated Press used a false statement as the premise for a polling question on abortion: "The 1973 Supreme Court ruling called Roe v. Wade made abortion in the first three months of pregnancy legal" – and then wrote a skewed story on the skewed results.)
Pro-life pundits generally agree that Americans first grasped the magnitude of late-term abortions when partial-birth abortion was publicized beginning in 1996.
Abortion proponents were hoisted by their own petard when President Clinton refused twice to sign a PBA ban into law, thereby prolonging public debate on the gruesome procedure. Even today, PBA shrapnel continues to damage the weakened pro-abort fortress as its leaders fight the newly signed ban in court.
Our battle to build a culture of life now centers on humanizing first-trimester babies. Many Americans still consider them mere blobs of cells or tissue or appendages of their mothers. This particular battle becomes that much more critical when we remember most abortions are committed in the first trimester.
This is where the debate over human embryonic stem cells ties in. Pro-life psyche toward the growing dispute over the morality of dissecting embryos for experimentation could be that of despair and defensiveness – as mine was initially – when we should rather see it as an opportunity to further educate the American public on the medical, scientific and moral evidences that these are simply the smallest of human beings.
We have all that on our side while embryonic stem-cell research proponents have only emotion by which to draw support. Strip away their exploitive and despicable practice of dragging sick children to beg legislators for money, and strip away their hawking sick movie stars, and they have nothing.
The fact is there are many other types of stem cells that are not only more accessible than ESCs (adult fat cells, for instance), they are also morally acceptable and have produced amazing results, while ESCR has only produced negative results.
Thus, the promotion of ESCR is not only illogical, but also irrational ... until one understands the motives of the players.
- Abortion activists promote ESCR because they think it helps legitimize the killing of preborn humans. They also see the prospect for their abortion clinics to make money from dead embryos and fetuses.
- Secularists support ESCR because they will pursue any path that promises longer earthly life.
- Politicians promote ESCR because they get campaign kickbacks and nice thank you plaques from research companies.
- Research companies push ESCR to gain access to the bottomless pit of taxpayer funding. They also like the fact that Uncle Sam does not demand results like mean private investors do.
- The liberal media promotes ESCR and minimizes the advances of all other forms of SCR because it enjoys taunting fundamental Christians whenever possible.
But Genesis 50:20, says, "Even though you planned evil against me, God planned good to come out of it. This was to keep many people alive, as he is doing now."
I believe Him.
The battle over newly fertilized embryos brings us to a critical point in the war to end abortion in America. Because of the evil planned against them, a public debate forum has been created. Along with working to stop ESCR, we must work equally hard to educate Americans on the humanity of these little ones, just as we did when battling partial-birth abortion.
In "Horton Hears a Who," by Dr. Seuss, an elephant named Horton hears a small voice coming from a speck of dust flying by one day. Horton can't see anything on the speck, but he thinks it's "as if some tiny person were calling for help."
Horton finds out there is not just one little person in danger, but an entire village called Who-ville. He still can't see these tiny people, but even an elephant knows "a person's a person, no matter how small." Horton goes on to battle against all odds – including ridicule and foul play – to save the Whos, and in the end he is successful.
We have to help America hear the "Whos."