The Tragedy of Men and Abortion

This Lenten season I participated in a very powerful and moving 40 Days for Life prayer vigil at an Austin abortion clinic. I watched as men dropped off and picked up women at the clinic, and I reflected on what could lead a man to do this. This is a very personal issue for me, not just an academic exercise, so it hit especially close to home.

When a man participates in an abortion, especially of his own child, he violates his primordial impulse to love and protect his family. In one willful act, he destroys his family by killing his child and abandoning the woman he loves at the precise moment that she needs his love and protection the most. No doubt some men do this out of a twisted, selfish desire to avoid responsibility for the consequences of their lust, but I believe that many (perhaps most) men have been so emasculated by society that they assent to the abortion for what they very mistakenly believe are noble reasons.

Men have been brainwashed by over thirty years of abortion industry propaganda masquerading as feminism and have been made to feel that they have no say in the abortion decision. A woman has a right to do with her body what she will, after all, and no man can say otherwise. This is true enough, except for two critical facts. First, an abortion takes the life of a baby who is a wholly unique and individual person with an equal right to control his or her own body, but who also relies completely on his or her parents for protection. Second, abortion is not a real choice for most women but a tragic and emotional last resort when they feel that there is no other option.

The true tragedy of abortion from a man’s perspective is that many of them would not occur if the father of the child and lover of the woman would simply be a real man and honor his most basic male impulse. Sadly, this impulse in a man to love and protect his family has been so battered and twisted by decades of political correctness that many men feel that the impulse itself is somehow bad; a remnant of a less enlightened age. Tragically, this leads a man to believe that he is actually helping his wife or girlfriend exercise her free choice when she, more often than not, would keep their baby if she knew that the man she loves would stand by and support her.

Husbands are called to love their wives “...as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her...” (Ephesians 5:25-26). This is not just a lofty religious sentiment, nor does it apply only to Christian husbands in marriage. It is a fundamental impulse stamped into the very soul and heart of every man at the moment of his conception. It is what leads fathers and brothers to scrutinize every boy our daughters and sisters bring home and what leads men to keep a watchful eye on our female friends at a bar. Tragically, however, when this impulse to love and protect is twisted and distorted by society, it leads a man to yell obscenities from his car as he drives by a peaceful prayer vigil at an abortion clinic and leads a boyfriend to pay for his girlfriend’s abortion.

As men, we must reclaim and restore the noble impulse to love and protect the women in our lives. We need to honor and sanctify them; give our lives for them if we must. We do not honor them and we do not sanctify them by sending them into the arms of an abortionist to rip our babies from their wombs.

Abortion: More Efficeient than the Klan

For anyone who still thinks that abortion is a “personal choice” consider this:

Abortion kills nearly half of all African American babies and nearly 16 million since Roe v. Wade.

Not even the Klan was that efficient.

The Cost of Stimulus: A Rambling Tally

“Our nation will sink into a crisis that, at some point, is going to be that much tougher to reverse. So we cannot afford to wait. We can’t wait and see and hope for the best.” (President Obama)

Thank you Mr. Happy! So much for abandoning the politics of fear for change and hope. Worse, Obama’s Chief of Staff stated publicly, ”You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” This is the clearest admission yet that Democrats are exploiting the fear of the American people to implement their liberal wish list.

Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change.

Confirming this admission, New York Senator Charles Schumer believes that Americans don’t even care that they are wasting millions of dollars on useless pork barrel spending, saying, “To all the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments, the American people really don’t care.” That chattering class is you, by the way, if you have the audacity to disagree with him.

Continuing with the best and brightest of the Democrat party, Senator Harry Reid, believing, apparently, that only the government is capable of solving our problems, says “One option we do not have is to do nothing.” President Barrack Obama also admitted, “I can’t tell you for sure that everything in this plan will work exactly as we hope.” Comforting. But, alas, lest your fear subside, he warns ominously, “I can tell you with complete confidence that a failure to act will only deepen this crisis as well as the pain felt by millions of Americans.” Wow. I hope you had your morning coffee before that bit of sunshine. Hurray for President Obama!

Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change.

Obama’s dire outlook and near apocalyptic predictions fly in the face of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s belief that it is now fear that is driving the downturn. In Congressional testimony he admitted, “The reason the banks and the credit markets are frozen is no longer the legacy sub-prime mortgages and those things. It’s more concern about where the economy’s going.”

Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change.

And when Heath Shuler, former NFL quarterback and current House Democrat from North Carolina, dared to speak out against the failure of Democrat Congressional leadership to pursue an actual bipartisan compromise, instead of the liberal bipartisanship which consists of agreeing with them, Senator Reid (through his spokesman of course) asked, “Let me get this straight,” thus forecasting the impending arrogant sarcasm, “this is coming from a guy who threw more than twice as many interceptions than touchdowns?” Way to stay on message Mr. Reid.

Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change.

And how much are all these bail outs and government stimulus packages going to cost our grandchildren? As best I can figure it, America's bail out and stimulus spending since November will total at least $3 Trillion before the trough runs dry.

Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change.

Here’s the breakdown:

• $2,300,000,000,000 - Original and proposed bank bail outs
  (“Wall Street rescue: $2.3 trillion - the cost of US bank bailout,” Stephen Foley, The Independent, 11-Feb-2009)
  (“Wall Street tumbles as U.S. stimulus package passes,” Sheldon Alberts, Canwest News, 10-Feb-2009 7:01 p.m.)
• $53,900,000,000 - Auto bail out and “research incentives”
  (“The Auto Bailout Keeps Growing, and Growing,” Joseph R. Szczesny, Time Online, 14-Jan-2009)
• $800,000,000,000 - Current “Stimulus Package” (capitalized because it’s important) averaged between House and Senate bill amounts
  (“Senate passes Obama's economic recovery plan,” Associated Press, 10-Feb-2009 6:27 p.m. ET)

That is a total of $3,153,900,000,000 total bail out and stimulus money, proposed and approved to supposedly benefit 305,824,552 Americans
(Current estimated American population, U.S. Census Bureau, 15-Feb-09, 3:04 p.m. CT).

Do the math and it averages to more than $10,300 per living human being in America, or nearly $42,000 per family of four. How much of that do you think you'll actually see?

I’m just sayin’.

Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change. Hope. Change.

Liberals: Put Your Money Where Your Mouths Are

This guy is awesome. I especially love how he slams Will Smith for saying that he's finally proud to be an American when he's been a multimillionaire in America his entire adult life. He slams other Hollywood celebrities for the same reason. They've done nothing but complain for the last eight years out of hatred for President Bush, and now, all of a sudden, they want to do something nice for the world. Well where were you eight years ago!

This is my biggest complaint about the liberal elite: someone who makes $20 million pretending to be someone else in a movie or who inherits millions by virtue of his birth has no business telling me that I'm not doing enough for the little people. Until George Clooney, Matt Damon, Will Smith, and Ted Kennedy give away enough of their money to get down to my income level, they need to shut up. Instead they tell me how much more I need to do to help others and then drive off in a car that I couldn't afford with two year's salary.

Don't get me wrong. I don't begrudge them their money, they've earned it, and more power to them. I just wish they'd start putting their money where their mouths are. If they gave to the poor $19 million of every $20 million paycheck the world would be a much better place and they'd still be richer than most Americans. Until they do that, I don't want to hear a peep out of them.

Watch this guy. He says it all.

Life: Imagine the Potential

This is the commercial that NBC refused to air during the Super Bowl, a commercial that honors Barrack Obama and delivers a message that every American can agree with, yet it was too "political" for the liberal media.

Decide for yourself.