Order in the court!

Something wonderful, something momentous and unexpected happened just a few days ago at the Supreme Court. And I'll bet you heard nothing about it. Why, do you suppose?

In this frenzied, fast-paced, turbulent society we're living in, it's a troubling fact that our liberal media seem to find the bizarre, violent and irresponsible more newsworthy than the noble, worthy and traditionally moral to report.

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Rush Limbaugh, just yesterday, reported the results of some current media research saying that people across America are evidencing more outrage about Michael Vick and his alleged dog fighting than the horrific killing by a steroid-crazed wrestler of his wife and son. Rush made a significant point about the avalanche of media coverage showing pictures of starved and brutalized dogs, and the less (though still plenteous) reportage about the wrestler and what he did to his family and himself.

And give Rush credit for a further observation. He opined that there is a lessening visceral concern about human life – and went on to make a direct connection to the constant barrage of lobbying for abortion, in all its forms, including the ghastly, inhuman procedure called partial-birth abortion. That whole movement depends totally on the concept, promoted endlessly by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, National Organization of Women and a plethora of others like them, that a baby isn't a human being with any rights at all, until it takes breath outside the womb.

And as that notion, that perception of what constitutes viable life has taken hold in society, the reliably estimated 40 million babies killed in their mothers' wombs has increasingly drawn no particular reaction in the media, and consequently less and less from the general public.

The mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, a relative handful at worst, has aroused a hue and cry in the media and among politicians that has created an almost unprecedented fury against our own government and military – and in reality, aided and abetted America's enemies in their war against our very existence. The actions in that one Iraqi prison were inexcusable; and they're being dealt with even yet, as they would have been without the endless public exposure. But compared to the wholesale slaughter of 40 million Americans (and counting) within our own borders, in our own hospitals and clinics, the treatment of a few prisoners should barely have merited a paragraph on an inside page of many of our nation's newspapers.

So, what is the sensational occurrence in the chambers of the Supreme Court that our mainly liberal media mainly ignored? The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the national ban on partial-birth abortion, which outlaws the notorious procedure.

The American Center for Law and Justice called it "a stunning victory for the cause of life." The ACLJ'S newsletter reported, "We filed amicus briefs in both cases before the court – including one on behalf of some 80 members of Congress and more than 320,000 Americans. (The 5-4 ruling came in the consolidated cases of Gonzales v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood.)"

"This is a monumental victory for the preservation of human life," said ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Alan Sekulow. "By rejecting the lawsuits challenging the national ban, the high court demonstrated that this gruesome procedure has no place in the medical community. We're delighted and encouraged that a majority of the high court determined that it was time to bring an end to what only can be described as infanticide. Backing the actions of Congress, the high court said the 'government has a legitimate and substantial interest in preserving and promoting fetal life.'"

Will you let this sink in for a long moment?

Since its terribly flawed 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the highest court in the land has tried to distance itself from any consideration of abortion, hoping the matter was settled law and would just go away. But now, astonishingly, in spite of relentless and lavishly funded pressure from all the many "pro-choice" groups, the court has declared it should, and will, work to "preserve and promote fetal life"! Further, the Justices clearly considered factual medical evidence – extensively cited in the majority opinion – that put this "choice" into the proper prospective, exposing the grisly nature of the procedure itself.

Partial-birth abortion is so repulsive and vile that a majority of the Supreme Court correctly concluded what most Americans already believe – that the taking of the life of a fully developed child by sucking its brains from its skull is reprehensible as murder and should be forbidden.

And the justices didn't stop there, either. Their ruling turned attention to the medical profession itself.

Justice Kennedy wrote, "It is reasonable for Congress to think that partial-birth abortion undermines the public's perception of the appropriate role of a physician during the delivery process during which life is brought into this world."

Indeed.

And at last.

Instead of lame-brained, biased and legally unjustified decisions being handed down and made into virtual law by unelected jurists at lower levels, bowing to "politically correct" social pressure, not moral reason or legal precedent, five of the best qualified and wisest judges in the land took a stand for humanity. Who could have predicted such a thing in today's climate? It's monumental.

But it was so against the grain of what our liberal media expected or wanted, that they have largely ignored it. However, you can be assured that the usual pressure groups are licking their wounds and laying plans to assault our reason and approach the courts with other strategies to remove any restraint to abortion – for any reason and by any means, no matter how inhuman.

This is a terrific time to visit www.ACLJ.org, thank Jay Sekulow and his fellows for their role in this astounding achievement, and seriously consider donating to their ongoing work. They have a $350,000 "Battle for Liberty Matching Challenge" available to them, and my wife Shirley and I are definitely going to participate in that. You'll be heartened as you learn more about ways they're working to reclaim freedoms and cherished traditions that are being ripped away from us.

But for now – thank God – there has been some serious order in the court.

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