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Warmongering vs. the Sanctity of Life
Laurence M. Vance
Campaign
For Liberty
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Churches all across America observed Sanctity of Human Life
Sunday on January 24. Literature was passed out on the evils
of abortion. Sermons were preached on the sin of abortion. The
1973 Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade was denounced.
The immorality of being a doctor who performs abortions was
proclaimed. The horrors of partial-birth abortion were explained.
Testimonies were read of women who regretted having abortions
and doctors who felt guilty in having performed them. Prayers
were made on behalf of women contemplating having an abortion.
Gruesome pictures of abortions gone awry were shown. Calls were
made for a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Planned
Parenthood was singled out for special condemnation. Yet, nary
a word was said about the ongoing slaughter of innocents that
is funded by the U.S. government.
Although I sympathize with the pro-life cause, believing with
Ron Paul that "a fetus is a human life deserving of legal
protection, and that the right to life is the foundation of
any moral society," I must point out that many pro-lifers
are hypocrites with a warped view of what it means to be pro-life.
Do adults have the same right to life as unborn children? Do
foreigners have the same right to life as unborn American babies?
Many pro-lifers don't think so. It is hypocrisy in the highest
degree to talk about the sanctity of life, the evils of abortion,
the horrors of partial-birth abortion, and to vocally claim
that one is pro-life, but then turn around and show contempt
for, or indifference to, the lives of adults and foreigners.
Are the lives of unborn children more valuable than the lives
of adults? Are the lives of unborn American babies more valuable
than the lives of foreigners?
Absent from most churches on Sanctity of Human Life Sunday
was any reference to the slaughter of tens of thousands of Iraqis
and Afghans in unjust, unconstitutional, immoral wars instigated
by the United States. U.S. soldiers have now been fighting in
Iraq for seven years. They have been fighting in Afghanistan
even longer. Countless numbers of Iraqis and Afghans have been
killed by American bombs and bullets in senseless wars of imperialism
and occupation. Thousands of U.S. soldiers died in vain thanks
to the lies of the Bush administration. Hundreds more have died
under the Obama administration thanks to the president's failure
to bring the troops home from Iraq as promised and the escalation
of the war in Afghanistan. Do U.S. soldiers have a right not
to have to give their life in vain?
It is never moral to kill someone and destroy his property
unless one is acting in self-defense. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
are anything but self-defense. The United States invaded sovereign
countries thousands of miles away that had not attacked us.
Before the United States invaded Afghanistan, not one American
had been killed by an Afghan. And before the United States invaded
Iraq, not one American had been killed by an Iraqi since the
previous time we invaded Iraq. But have not Afghans and Iraqis
killed, injured, or maimed thousands of U.S. soldiers? Of course
they have. The sobering truth is that Americans would do the
same thing to foreign troops that invaded our soil. We can call
the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq regime change, spreading
democracy, nation building, or even retaliation for the 9/11
attacks, but we certainly cannot call them wars of self-defense.
The idea is ludicrous, of course, that the invasion, occupation,
and destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq were in retaliation
for, or even a legitimate response to, the 9/11 attacks. None
of the hijackers were from those countries. In fact, most of
the hijackers were from our ally, Saudi Arabia. And as Ron Paul
has pointed out over and over again, the departure of the United
States from the noninterventionist foreign policy of the Founding
Fathers in not interfering militarily, financially, or covertly
in the internal affairs of other nations is an important reason
9/11 occurred. It is an arrogant, aggressive, interventionist
U.S. foreign policy that serves to recruit terrorists and increase
the hatred of foreigners toward the United States. The majority
of Osama bin Laden's venom is directed at the West for aggression,
oppression, and exploitation of Muslim lands and peoples, not
because he, like President Bush driveled, "hates our freedoms."
Over twice as many U.S. soldiers have now been killed in Afghanistan
and Iraq than people were killed in the 9/11 attacks. About
250 times as many Afghans and Iraqis have now died than people
who died on 9/11. Yet, pro-lifers who support these wars consider
an American doctor in a white coat a murderer if he kills an
unborn baby, but an American soldier in a uniform a hero if
he kills a foreigner.
It is time for pro-lifers to start being consistent. War is
the greatest destroyer of religion, morality, and decency. War
is the greatest destroyer of families and young lives. Foreigners
who are no threat to this country should have the same right
to life as babies in the wombs of American mothers. The right
to life of U.S. soldiers should not so needlessly be put in
jeopardy. May the next Sanctity of Human Life Sunday recognize
the right to life of all people, American and foreign, child
and adult.
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