The March for Life
January 24, 2018
St. Joseph and the Christ Child, Guido Reni
LIFESITE NEWS reports on Trump’s live-streamed speech to the March for Life in Washington, D.C. last Friday, marking the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Jan. 22:
“Under my administration, we will always defend the very first right in the Declaration of Independence, and that is the right to life,” the president told cheering crowds of hundreds of thousands that packed Washington Mall Friday.
Dr. Thomas Droleskey at Christ or Chaos was less enthusiastic. :
][T]he truth remains that no one but no one, despite their good intentions, should be termed “pro-life” who believes [there] are certain supposedly “exceptional” circumstances in which babies may be vacuumed up, sliced and diced, and burned alive in their mother’s wombs. Good intentions do not redeem flawed premises.
For instance, Trump’s mention of the “Mexico City Policy” was very misleading …
The George Walker Bush version of the “Mexico City” policy, as the “gag” order is called, was fraught with holes and exceptions as to make it an utter sham that convinces the average “pro-life” American that “something” is being done to save lives when the truth of the matter is that Bush’s executive order that Trump has now restored permits employees of international “family planning” agencies in foreign countries to refer for abortions on their own time in any off-site location of their choosing. In other words, the “Mexico City” policy permits an employee of the International Planned Parenthood chapter in Nairobi, Kenya, for example to say, “Look, there are things I can’t tell you now. Meet me at the Nairobi McDonald’s after I get out of work. I can tell you more then.” The employee is then free to speak frankly about surgical abortion, to recommend the killing of a child as the only “sensible” option, to recommend a specific baby-killer and a specific place for the baby to be killed.
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Unfortunately, for the self-sacrificing Americans who attended the March for Life four days [ago] now, the truth of the Mexico City Policy will never pierce through their false beliefs that “something” is being done. It is not.
While some will contend that it is a “victory” that the “bad” that would be done by a “President” Hillary Rodham Clinton is enough of a reason to celebrate, the fact remains that a disserve is done to the cause of truth if we accept falsehoods as “progress.” A just social order must be founded on truth, and it is not in the service of truth to believe that a meaningless executive order that is nothing other than a legal sleight of hand is an instrument to save even one innocent human life from execution. American taxpayer dollars are still being used to fund baby-killing when it is alleged that a mother’s life is endangered and, of course, to fund the chemical execution of the preborn by means of abortifacient contraceptives.
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The “mainstream” media usually ignores or disparages the annual March for Life each year as thousands upon thousands of Americans gather in the nation’s capital for an event that has become much too celebratory over the years. We have nothing to celebrate. We have much to mourn as the American slaughter of the preborn continues on a daily basis, both by means of surgical and chemical abortions. We have much to mourn when one considers how indifferent most people, including most Catholics are, in the face of the daily slaughter of the preborn.
