The Truth: Refusing to Handle with Care.(Brief Article)

"You can't handle the truth!"

This famous line from an award-winning movie also describes the American mindset when it comes to the issues of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and, now, cloning and stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos. The "freedom to choose," apparently, is predicated on the freedom to choose NOT to confront the truth, especially inconvenient truth.

At long last, however, a prominent member of Congress has, in effect, publicly admitted, he can't handle the truth. Senator Arlen Specter, in an interview on the topic of cloning, was asked by a reporter when life begins.

With honesty uncharacteristic of many politicians, the senator replied, "I haven't found it helpful to get into the details."

How's that for a clever-sounding, slippery variation of the old line, "Don't confuse me with the facts"?

For three decades Americans have wrapped the violence of abortion and the destruction of unborn children in euphemisms and tied them with a bow of deceptive rhetoric. We have tolerated media stars who weigh in on various life issues with nonsense that is treated like wisdom from on high.

Like the starlet, speaking at a women's rights conference, who said about abortion, "I totally support a woman's right to choose. Of course, there's nothing wrong with pregnancy either, if that's the woman's choice. After all, that's how half of the human race got here."