A Sad Day for Life

Washington voted for Physician Assisted Suicide 59% to 41% joins Oregon.

Michigan amended constitution to allow embryonic stem cell research 52% to 48%. Most ominously, the amendment overrides any past, present or future laws that would:

• prevent, restrict, obstruct, or discourage any stem cell research or stem cell therapies and cures that are permitted by the provisions of this section;
• or create disincentives for any person to engage in or otherwise associate with such research or therapies or cures.

Initiative to outlaw abortion except in cases of incest, rape, or life of the mother was defeated in South Dakota 55% to 45%

Colorado defeated a measure that would define life at conception 73% to 27%. (just when does it start then?)

California defeated a proposition that would require parental notification before a minor's abortions 52% to 48% (but still requires consent for a tylenol at school for the same minor).

In addition to the above, we have voted in overwhelmingly a candidate with a perfect voting record according to NARAL, who has opposed any sort of federal or state restrictions to abortion, and who opposes "conscience rights" for physicians: that is, opposes a physician having the right to refuse treatment to a patient that they find unethical.

What is the outcome of all this? Either the majority Americans are either completely clueless about what these votes mean, or the long term implications of their votes, or they are simply, overwhelmingly in favor of a culture of death. We will sow what we reap in these matters.

I used to think there was a majority of life honoring, but silent people in this country. The results of these votes reveals to me that this is not so. This is extremely sobering to me.

I'll leave you with a Quote:

"Despite the formidable obstacles before us, we must not lose heart. This is not
the first time our country has been divided by a Supreme Court decision that
denied the value of certain human lives. The Dred Scott decision of 1857 was not
overturned in a day, or a year, or even a decade. At first, only a minority of
Americans recognized and deplored the moral crisis brought about by denying the
full humanity of our black brothers and sisters; but that minority persisted in
their vision and finally prevailed.
"They did it by appealing to the hearts
and minds of their countrymen, to the truth of human dignity under God. From
their example, we know that respect for the sacred value of human life is too
deeply engrained in the hearts of our people to remain forever suppressed."

--Ronald Reagan, “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation," Spring, 1983