Pray To End Abortion

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

I said in an earlier post that, “[r]ather than discard it, we should seek to strive for the ideal.” Thus,  Republicans, after first having sought to end slavery, seek now to end abortion. Meanwhile, the Democrats, after first having been the party of slavery, are now the party of abortion.

And yet the Democrats, in their guilt, must over-compensate—in the case of slavery, with the doctrine of Affirmative Action, which does nothing but to perpetuate what President Bush has called “the soft bigotry of low expectations,” and in the case of abortion, with the push to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring countries to “act in the best interest of the child” (an irony considering that they see no rights for the unborn).

The right to life enshrined in the Declaration of Independence should extend to the unborn; adults have a responsibility to defend the defenseless.

Idealists

Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot, anecdotally, about how the flaws of the country’s Founding Fathers make the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution flawed documents—that the statement “that all men are created equal” is the height of hypocrisy given that some of the Founding Fathers were slave owners.

The Founding Fathers were, in some ways, idealists; the Declaration of Independence and, to an extent, the Constitution were and are statements of ideals.

The ideals are valid. The fact that the Founding Fathers were imperfect individuals should in no way invalidate the perfection of the ideals contained in a document stating “that all men are created equal”.

Rather than discard it, we should seek to strive for the ideal.