PRO-LIFE ADDRESS
One score and fourteen years ago, seven Supreme Court Justices brought forth upon this nation an unjust law; conceived without liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are not created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great spiritual war…testing whether our nation or any nation so conceived and so misguided…can long endure. Today we meet on a battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of our day to remember those nearly 50 million innocent, future Americans, who had their lives taken from them to uphold a misguided notion of freedom that says the choice to kill the innocent is more sacred than life itself. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate…we cannot consecrate…we cannot hallow this day. The innocent children who only desired to live, and were so brutally killed, have consecrated it, far above our power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but they can never forget the holocaust of the unborn.
It is for us living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work of eliminating all laws that legalize the killing of innocent people. It is also for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us…that from this slaughter of the innocents…we take increased devotion to eliminate the cause of their deaths…that we here highly resolve, that the nearly 50 million unborn have not died in vain…that this nation, once under God, shall restore our forefathers original notion of freedom…that values the sacredness of every human life…and that government of the people…by the people…for the people…shall not perish from the earth.
Composed and given by Fr. Michael G. Peters
January 22, 2007 at the Des Moines Capital
34th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade
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