Big Infanticide
By Judson Cox (09/30/04)
I have noticed that labeling any industry “big” demonizes that industry immediately. For instance: Big Tobacco, Big Pharmaceutical companies and Big Corporations. If the farmers in Idaho were to label themselves, Big Potato Agrarians, angry, torch bearing mobs would drive them out of the state! Given this connotation, I think it appropriate that we finally call the abortion industry, and its cabal of cheerleaders, what they really are, Big Infanticide.
Between the years 1973 and 2003, approximately 44,670,812 abortions were performed in the United States. An estimated 435,000 Americans die each year from tobacco related illnesses. In other words, approximately 1,489,027 are killed each year by Big Infanticide, while only 435,000 are killed by Big Tobacco!
This is assuming that Big Tobacco is actually responsible for anyone’s death, a premise I firmly reject. As an avid smoker of fine cigars, I can attest that no one has ever forced me to smoke. I know the dangers of smoking, but I choose to smoke. A baby does not choose to be aborted; however, I would hardly place any consequences I may experience as a result of my indulgence in tobacco on the same level as a baby being killed by Big Infanticide shoving a spike into its skull!
Millions of dollars are spent by our government to warn us about the dangers of Big Tobacco. Programs in our schools teach children to fear Big Tobacco. Taxes are raised continually to drive Big Tobacco out of business. Movies are made about the evils of Big Tobacco. Lawyers sue Big Tobacco on behalf of their supposed victims. States sue Big Tobacco. Just this week, “After five years of legal wrangling, the nation's largest cigarette-makers are meeting federal lawyers in court for the trial phase of the government's record $280 billion civil racketeering suit against the tobacco industry,” the Associated Press reports.
When have you seen a major movie about the evils of the abortion industry? When has the government sued on behalf of its citizens killed by Big Infanticide? When has a public school curriculum ever encouraged children to protest Big Infanticide?
Abortion is a legal practice, and according to Roe v. Wade, a right guaranteed to Americans. Isn’t tobacco use and the sale of tobacco also legal, don’t we have a right to use tobacco? Why is Big Tobacco hated, but Big Infanticide celebrated? The reason for such disparity is that Big Infanticide has better public relations. Groups like the National Organization of Women, Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) have spent the past four decades lobbying Congress, running relentless advertising campaigns and co-opting public school curriculums. Big Infanticide has convinced much of America that the babies it kills are not even real, live human beings – but, so what if they are, it is a choice, a right guaranteed to women!
Recently, Planned Parenthood issued a t-shirt bearing the slogan, “I had an abortion.” The goal of this activist wear was to make such a statement so commonplace that it would carry no stigma. To Big Infanticide, killing an unwanted child is as innocent a deed as taking out the trash. In fact, they see those actions as very similar.
Finally, someone is fighting back. My friends at www.christian-underground.com are wading into the fray, meeting Big Infanticide on a battlefield of its own creation. Christian Underground is selling t-shirts, with the words “I had an abortion” crossed out, and “My mother did not and I thank God. How about you?” underneath. This powerful message hits home in a way that Big Infanticide and its P.R. flacks never could. It makes clear that we owe our lives to the fact that our mothers did not have abortions. The shirts are available at www.christian-underground.com/store
I applaud Christian Underground. For too long Christians, conservatives, patriotic Americans and all those who stand for traditional values have sat idly by while the Left twists words like “right” and “choice” to mean things that they never have and never should. No one has the right to take an innocent life. Our abortion laws are an abomination. You have the right not to have sex, not to get pregnant and to act responsibly, but not to kill a child… not even your own.
You also have the right to buy, sell and smoke or chew tobacco, but we must deal with graver matters first.
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