Abortion in the US would not be as ironic as it is if it were not for the fact that this country holds itself also to the principle of equality with respect to human beings, as in 'all men are created equal'. Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address makes the point again:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
I think that we should be here dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and that this includes those in the womb for all of us were also in the womb and were not sub-human by virtue of being there, but in the first phase of our human lives, following conception, lives which include our early development. The world may little note nor long remember all of those whose lives have been taken by the abortionist. Hopefully, though, we can be dedicated to the great task remaining before us--- that these shall not have died in vain, that this nation can have a new birth of freedom, under God-- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall extend to the youngest amongst us so that we can finally be free, as a country, from our own internal inconsistency, first with the slaves, and now with the very young. How important is this principle to us? Is it to be tossed aside when this or that group is inconvenient or when their death might serve some other purpose for this or that person or group?
