Publius Terentius Afer (190-159 B.C.)
As the Roman playwright Terrence quoted above states, “There is a demand these days for people who can make wrong conduct appear right.”
Today, just as 2,100 years ago, such people are swaying our nation into a path of destruction and misery. The most prominent among them all is Henry Morgentaler. Having – by his own estimate – extinguished between 70,000 and 100,000 unborn lives, he has turned a profession of healing into one of death.
Under the title of enlightenment, he has replaced the light of sound morality whereby each human life was counted sacred and protected, with a dark immorality, making life subordinate to a bogus convenience, self-interest and power.
He claims to be a champion of women, yet he assaults, humiliates and ridicules women in the very depth of their being, i.e., in their caring, nurturing, life-giving function. By telling them that the babies they conceived are not fit to live, Morgentaler destroys their hope and love.
Across the country editorial writers of daily newspapers have denounced the bombing of Moregentaler’s Toronto abortuary as “illegal,” as a form of “intolerable violence” and as perpetrated by pro-lifers described as “screaming, abusive protestors.”
Although everyone is deemed to be innocent until proven guilty, the media condemned the pro-life movement without a scrap of evidence that it had anything to do with it. While speaking of decency and honor, the resort to propaganda and abusive word pictures.
Above all, their use of legality and violence leaves out all reference to the violence of abortion, the killing of babies before birth, some one-and-a-half million of them over 25 years.
Finally, not one among them was willing to reflect upon the great moral crisis which the legalization of abortion in 1969 both reflects and, in turn, deepens and spreads.
Morgentaler himself understands the issue all too well. Being a superb propagandist and a bitter, vehement atheist, he exploits to the full the current secular trend to overthrow religious morality in favor of the permissive society.
Thus he rages against “religious fundamentalists” who, according to him, are “akin to the fascist, dogmatic movements that resulted in the Holocaust and the Second World War, which claimed millions of innocent victims.”
Never mind that the Nazis and fascists of that war were agnostics and atheists like himself, and, like himself, hated and waged war on Christians who defied their new paganism.
But Morgentaler is right about one thing, the one thing editorial writers will not admit: between him and his supporters on the one hand and all the decent people of our country on the other, there is a great gulf fixed which no bridge can span.
All abortionists – whether their name is Morgentaler or something else – are bringers of death, death to the unborn child, to women, to men, to all of society. Their one hope is repentance, and conversion.
Meanwhile, what we need today are people who will expose wrong conduct and demand that it be set right. Right is still right; wrong is still wrong; and God will not help the nation which refuses to distinguish between them.
