Father Kleppner - May 6, 2007I thought you might find the following worth considering.
What a Wake-upWhy didn’t you save the school children at: Virginia Tech 4/16/07, Amish Country, PA, Wisconsin, Columbine High School, Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96, Bethel, Alaska 2/29/97, Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97, West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97, Stamp, Arkansas 12/15/07, Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98, Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98, Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98, Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98, Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98, Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99, Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99, Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99, Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99, Santee, California 3/5/01 and El Cajon, California 3/22/01?
Sincerely,
Reply:
How did this get started? . . . Let’s see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O’Hare complained she didn’t want any prayer in our schools and we said, OK. Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible that says “thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbors as yourself,” and we said, OK . . . Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. And we said, an expert should know what he’s talking about so we won’t spank them anymore. Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. And the school administrators said no faculty member in school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don’t want any bad publicity, and we surely don’t want to be sued. And we accepted their reasoning . . . Then someone said, let’s let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won’t even have to tell their parents and we said, that’s a grand idea . . . Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they’re going to do it anyway, let’s give our sons all the condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won’t have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we said, that’s another great idea . . . Then some of our top elected officials said that it doesn’t matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. And we said, It doesn’t matter what anybody including the President does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is good. And someone else took that attitude a step further and published pictures of nude children and then stepped further still by making them available on the Internet. And we said, everyone’s entitled to free speech . . . And the entertainment industry said, let’s make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence and illicit sex . . . And let’s record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes . . . And we said, it’s just entertainment and it has no adverse effect and nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead. Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, classmates or even themselves. Undoubtedly, if we thought about it long and hard enough, we could figure it out. I’m sure it has a great deal to do with . . . “WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.”
Speaking of violence, I share with you the following letter to the editor from the Monday, April 23, 2007 edition of the Beaver County Times. Last year in our country, 2,200 partial birth abortions were reported in addition the 4,000 early term abortions that take place every day just in our nation. Violence at the very beginning of life will engender violence all through life. I wonder when we are going to get it?
Drop the nice medical termsThe Supreme Court upheld President Bush’s ban on partial-birth abortions and gave victory to morality, sensibleness and to life itself. Thursday’s paper had a shaded box titled “The abortion procedure” and described partial-birth abortion as “late term abortion, D&X or Intact D&X. It involves dilating the cervix and removing the fetus.” Those are nice medical terms, but they hardly describe the procedure. Let me put it into terms that the lay public not only will understand but will comprehend this heinous, gruesome “procedure” for what it is. The abortion can be done right up to the due date. The abortionist turns the baby in the womb so that it is no longer head down. The feet, legs, arms, and shoulders are delivered. The head is kept inside the mother’s body. While that baby’s arms and legs move and swing and jerk in the abortionist’s hands, the abortionist jams a pair of surgical scissors into the base of the baby’s skull, twisting into the brain until a pathway is made to make it easy to suck out the baby’s brain. Once the brain has been extracted, the skull is crushed and then “delivered.” That is partial-birth abortion. That, my friends, is murder, and it is never needed in order to “save the mother’s life.? Never. If you can deliver that much of a baby before killing it, you can deliver the rest of it at no cost to the mother’s life. Yolan Shetty Editor’s note: The writer is secretary for Pennsylvanianians for Human Life, Beaver County chapter. |
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