Peanut Gallery: Is it unseemly to examine the statistics of innocents killed by abortion with innocents killed by gun violence? Is it inappropriate to note that the escalating “Culture of Violence” in America coincides with the legalizing of abortion nearly 40 yers ago… and suggest that they are linked?

Perhaps – I’ll let you be the judge.

But that’s what Jeffrey Lord has done in his excellent article re-posted below.  Please check out the original here… and the comments here.

Effectively, a startling shift blows in the political winds: Planned Parenthood is becoming the NRA of abortion.

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Abortion and Newtown: The Culture of Violence

Mass shootings on rise since Roe v. Wade: Planned Parenthood as the NRA of Abortion?

The American Spectator By JEFFREY LORD on 12.18.12 @ 6:10AM

“The horrifying truth is this: we live now in a culture that not only does not respect life, but discards it like trash — not only at the beginning of life, but also at the end, and every place in between.

“What has happened to us?” — Catholic Deacon Greg Kandra

Discards life like trash.

One does not have to be a Catholic, which I am not, to appreciate the irony today in the words above from over a year ago by a Catholic Deacon named Greg Kandra. (You can find the full text of Deacon Kandra’s remarks here.)

Since the demands for a national discussion about what caused Newtown are already flowing from President Obama, the New York Times, Washington Post and every liberal with tweetability, they should be respectfully yet candidly obliged.

And the very first issue to mention is what has become the great unmentionable in the world of liberalism, and alas too many other precincts as well — and to say it plainly and hopefully politely.

What went on in Newtown, Connecticut this past Friday — what has been going on at intervals for almost four decades in places like Portland, Oregon, Aurora, Colorado, Virginia Tech, and Columbine, Colorado and, sadly, elsewhere in America for some 39 years since January of 1973 is the wholesale discarding of human life like trash.

The perpetuation of a culture of violence in a society that has turned the protection of the most vulnerable —babies — into the unmentionable.

Now, with 20 innocents murdered in Newtown, it is time for someone to say what for millions is the obvious: the abortion movement’s chickens have come home to roost — again.

Will anything be done? Or will the politicians run and hide? Continue reading ““Abortion and Newtown: The Culture of Violence” – Jeffrey Lord (re-post)” →