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Copyright: © 2004 Tom Flannery
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WINNING THE ABORTION WAR

By: Tom Flannery

While it may be politically impossible right now to outlaw abortion entirely, the days of abortion on demand are slowly but surely coming to an end in this country.

They are coming to an end first of all because pro-lifers have worked diligently for years to elect pro-life lawmakers, and all that work is beginning to bear fruit.

Just last month Pres. Bush signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act into law. This historic bill, which makes it a crime to harm an unborn child during an assault on a pregnant woman, was dubbed "Laci and Connor's Law," in honor of Laci Peterson and her unborn son Connor. Laci was eight months pregnant with Connor when she was murdered, and her husband Scott is currently on trial for killing them both.

The pro-death crowd wanted Scott charged with only Laci's murder, and they wanted us to pretend that little Connor was just a lifeless, meaningless blob of tissue. They wanted to stop the law from recognizing what they call a "fetus" as a human life worthy of legal protection, because that would undermine the very foundation for legalized abortion.

Despite the fact they know that "fetus" is the Latin word for baby -- and they use it only to avoid actually having to say the word "baby" or "child" when referring to the unborn -- they continue demanding that unborn children be treated in every way as non-persons.

Now, in the wake of Laci and Connor's Law, they are stuck with the problem of defending that ignominious idea at a time when federal law recognizes the status of unborn children and grants them this legal protection afforded all other persons.

The overwhelming public support was due in large part to the work of Laci Peterson's mother, Sharon Rocha, and stepfather, Ron Grantski, both of whom lobbied passionately for passage of the bill and were with Pres. Bush in the East Room of the White House for the signing ceremony.

"His little soul never saw light, but he was loved, and he is remembered," Bush said of Connor, as Rocha and her husband stood nearby choking back tears. "And his name is forever joined with that of his mom in this statute."

Secondly, abortion on demand is coming to an end because of continuing advances in medical technology. Ultrasound obliterated any rational basis for arguing that an unborn child is anything but a living human being. Now we have ultrasound techniques, known as 3D and 4D scanning, which can photograph the expressions on babies' faces in the womb.

The 3D/4D images show them smiling, crying, yawning, blinking, and sucking their fingers. The babies can be seen moving their limbs at 8 weeks into a pregnancy, leaping and turning by 12 weeks, and curling their toes and fingers at 15 weeks.

We know that every abortion stops a beating heart, but now we know as never before -- because we can see it -- just how animated and alive pre-born babies truly are. Like John the Baptist as a "baby [person] leaped [an action based on human emotion]" in his own mother's womb over the Incarnation when in the presence of the unborn Christ (Lk. 1:41).

Of course, those on the pro-death side hate these pictures, just as they do the pictures of Baby Samuel that are all over the Internet. This is the 21-week-old unborn baby who reached his tiny hand out of his mother's uterus while he was being operated on for spina bifida and grabbed the finger of the surgeon who was performing the operation.

Through advances like 3D/4D scanning and fetal surgeries, God is opening a window to the womb and letting us see inside for ourselves. And that is having a profound impact on public opinion, turning it increasingly against abortion on demand and in favor of pro-life policies.

And that, in turn, is progressively bringing abortion on demand to an end in this country.

"Real Answers™" furnished courtesy of The Amy Foundation Internet Syndicate. To contact the author or The Amy Foundation, write or E-mail to: P. O. Box 16091, Lansing, MI 48901-6091; amyfoundtn@aol.com

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