Where We Are After 30 Years.

"A nineteenth-century German historian wrote that every moment of history is equally present to God. Every moment is also equally present to great evil. But there are moments in which great evil bestirs itself with intentions that are discernable to those who have eyes to see. Ours is such a moment. Evil, as is its wont, employs the language of the good to disguise its purposes. In this case it is the great good of choice that hides the greater wrong of what is chosen. It is a tempting shrewdly contrived for a free society that has forgotten that freedom depends upon devotion to more than freedom."

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, "American Against Itself."

"Trying to plan for the future without knowing the past is like trying to plant cut flowers." >TXHistorian Daniel Boorstin

I read and reread a truck load of materials in anticipation of the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. While it was immensely enjoyable, when analyzing our benighted opposition there was one conclusion I could not avoid:

"Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" - - the more things change, the more they remain the same.

Roe and Doe were carried in on a tsunami-like wave of lies, distortions, hypocrisies, and non-sequiturs. Switching metaphors, the core of what these horrid decisions held continues to stay aloft today because of NARAL hyperbole, Planned Parenthood's well-heeled connections, and a superabundance of media hot air.

If you weren't "of age" back in the late 60s and early 70s it's almost impossible today to appreciate how cleverly abortion proponents took advantage of emerging "isms" and used prevailing conventional wisdoms as powerful battering rams against state abortion laws. They also exploited a genuine desire to help the poor to win an unfettered, unrestricted, and unlimited right to take the lives of unborn children.