John Grant: Progress being made on the abortion issue

 The number of abortions is declining in America

The right to destroy innocent unborn children, a moral and cultural poison injected into the American body politic in 1973 by the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, has led to evils like Kermit Gosnell, the monstrous “doctor” who bizarrely displayed the arms and legs of aborted babies in jars in his office.

Recent news out of Britain is that in more than two dozen government-run hospitals, aborted babies and miscarried fetal remains were burned in furnaces as medical waste without the knowledge of parents. The newspaper The Telegraph reports that mothers were instead told that the remains had been cremated. At least two of the hospitals use the furnaces as “waste to energy” generators to provide heat. Running out of energy? Burn the babies?

I would like to think there would be universal outrage at this news. But I suspect there won’t be. If the unborn child is not a human life worthy of dignity and respect, what difference does it make how it is disposed of?

But, of course, each pre-born baby is made in the image of the same God who hung the stars in the sky so how they are treated makes a great deal of difference.

America performs more than 2,900 abortions a day, under the guise of “choice.” Great Britain, which in one of its finest hours held off the monstrous Adolf Hitler, who specialized in burning bodies in furnaces, now burns babies to create energy?

As long as Western Civilization embraces abortion on demand, it will continue to sink further into the mire of moral relativism and societal decline. Read Joel Rosenberg’s recently published, The Auschwitz Escape (Amazon.com) to understand the ultimate extension of this blatant disregard for human life.

Abortion is nothing less than fetal homicide.

Not only is abortion the taking of precious human life, it is a formula for social and economic disaster. Since Roe, Americans have terminated the lives of more that 50 million future consumers, producers and taxpayers. No wonder we have too many old people and not enough young ones.

According to the office of Social Security, there is now one beneficiary for each 2.9 working contributors. No wonder the system is going broke. What would the numbers be like if there were an additional 50 million contributors under the age of 40? Unfortunately, they lost their life at the hands of an abortionist.

But the issue is far more than an economic one. That’s why I published my book, “The Issue is Life” (Amazon.com), because the issue is life, nothing more, nothing less and nothing else.

As we have aborted an entire generation of workers producers and taxpayers, we have cheapened the value of life.

The solution to stopping abortion in our country may ultimately come from the courthouse or the White House, but for right now it must come from your house and my house.

The good news is that the babies are winning and abortions are declining across America.

Crisis pregnancy centers are the front line of defense and they have saved the lives of thousands of babies. With better funding they can save thousands more. There are 19 in the Tampa Bay area and they deserve our financial and other support.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s number one abortion provider, gets millions in federal tax dollars, while crisis pregnancy centers have to fend for themselves.

These centers have expanded to more than 3,000 nationwide, while abortion clinics are closing. They are the front line in the war against the unwarranted taking of the lives of the unborn.

State legislatures are passing laws to help stop and reduce abortions. In 2013 more state laws were passed to curb abortion than in all of the 40 years since Roe v. Wade combined.

Last year, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill into law requiring that doctors performing an abortion offer emergency medical care if the baby is somehow born alive, something than happens more than most people realize.  Florida became the 29th state to enact this kind of legislation.

Texas passed tough abortion restrictions that shuttered many abortion clinics in the state. Last week, the U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, saying it “does not impose an undue burden on the life and health of a woman.”

A recent front cover of Time magazine, stated: 40 YEARS AGO, ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISTS WON AN EPIC VICTORY WITH ROE V. WADE; THE’VE BEEN LOSING EVER SINCE.

The tide is turning, as more and more people are finding the termination of unborn lives for the sake of convenience to be socially and morally repugnant. There is much to be encouraged about in the war on abortion, but there is yet much to be done.

There are accidental parents, but no accidental children, and who hears their silent screams when they are aborted? More and more people now do and there is beginning to be a bright light at the end of the abortion tunnel.

That’s My Opinion and I am sticking to it.

John Grant is a political columnist who served 21 years in the Florida Legislature and now practices estate planning law in Tampa. He can be reached at [email protected] Column courtesy of Context Florida.