On the 36th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision creating "a license to the kill the unborn," Professor Robert George of Princeton University delivered a stirring call to resolve and action on behalf of the unborn. President Barack Obama, the most anti-life public official ever in the history of the United States, is a looming threat to the lives of millions of human beings with his stated intent to massively fund and promote abortion in the United States and around the world.
At this low point for the pro-life movement, Professor George compared the anti-slavery movement in its early days when the cause seemed hopeless. Yet those who supported freedom for slaves, such as the great crusader Wilbur Wilberforce, were condemned as zealots and worse, but nonetheless they persevered and ultimately brought about the end of slavery. The compelling morality of their cause prevailed. So too can the battle be for the equal protection under the law of every human being from his conception to his natural end.
Professor George warns that whatever Obama might say in trying to win over to his side people of conscience he must be resisted:
Barack Obama is trying to win over religiously serious Catholics and Evangelicals, without altering in the slightest his support for abortion, including late-term and partial-birth abortions, the funding of abortion and embryo-destructive research with taxpayer dollars, the elimination of informed consent and parental notification laws, and the revocation of conscience and religious liberty protections for pro-life doctors and other healthcare workers and pharmacists. He will ultimately fail. We must see to it that he fails.
Read Professor George's rallying cry here.
Professor George said the battle will go on. He suggests for those who care about protecting the unborn to follow the battles by reading First Things (by subscription and online), The Public Discourse (online) and MoralAccountability.com (online).
Moral Accountability states its mission clearly -- to mobilize even those misguided Catholics and Evangelicals whose wishful thinking led them to support Obama's election to now join in "repelling the attacks that will be launched against life and marriage by this administration."
