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ACLU’s Full-Throated Embrace of Gender-Selective Abortion and the Elimination of Down Syndrome Babies

March 18, 2013 by Gerard M. Nadal

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There is good news in North Dakota this week as the legislature there has passed two bills: one outlawing gender-selective and eugenic abortions rooted in genetic anomalies, and the other outlawing abortion once a heartbeat is detectable. Get the N.Y. Times story here.

This news comes hot on the heels of Arizona’s banning abortions at 12 weeks, and adds to the victories in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma, which have banned sex-selective abortions. While this is all good news, we must stop and consider what is happening here, what is being accomplished, and how far we have fallen.

There was a time when the American Civil Liberties Union actually championed the rights of the weakest and least among us to the fullest protection of the law. Times have changed, as we’ve seen last week in North Dakota. From the Times article:

“We urge the governor to veto all of these bills to ensure that this personal and private decision can be made by a woman and her family, not politicians sitting in the Capitol,” said Jennifer Dalven, the director of the A.C.L.U.’s Reproductive Freedom Project.

But again, and again, the central issue remains the great unanswered question, one which Ms. Dalven and her organization would have answered with ease in a bygone era:

Do politicians sitting in the capital, or judges in courtrooms have the right to determine who among us is human and what the criteria for being considered human ought to be?

This isn’t a religious question, but a civil one, and hinging on it is nothing less than the fate of American jurisprudence, as well as scientific and biomedical ethics. Before one can pass a law, make a legal judgement, or perform a scientific or clinical manipulation, one must first determine the identity and status of the object under consideration.

People of reason and good will recoil at the consideration of our slave-holding past in America. They similarly recoil at our segregationist past, as well as our past with eugenic sterilization. All of these issues are repellent to the ACLU as well, and as Ms. Dalven would have to agree, these issues scorched the American landscape precisely because the legislators sitting in capitals failed to rein in justices and judges who were out of control.

Ms. Dalven would also have to agree that these issues scorched the American landscape precisely because a political elite arrogated to themselves the power to define personhood criteria. This was done as the sole means of usurping the ability to control those rights defined by the Founders as unalienable and granted solely by the Creator.

Having abandoned the protection of the weakest among us and championing the “rights” of those who prey upon the weak, the ACLU has gutted itself. In championing the right to murder little girls for being little girls, and for championing the murder of the genetically imperfect, the ACLU has become indistinguishible from the slaveholding and segregationist class it once despised and against whom it found its organizational identity.

Such is the malevolent power of abortion to corrupt.

In Roe v. Wade the justices argued that the absence of scientific evidence supporting a definitive beginning of life was their rationale for permitting abortion. Using arguments from the Middle Ages, such as ‘quickening’, they ignored the embryology texts of their day that fixed the beginning of human life at fertilization. With the advances in embryoscopy and ultrasonography today one would think that the last vestige of doubt would have been destroyed by science, warranting a revisiting of Roe by the Court; but that would require intellectual honesty and human decency.

Instead, today, forty years later we are now arguing the right to target what science shows as fully formed human beings because of their genetalia, or because of some atypical genetic constellation.

Instead,, today, forty years later Planned Parenthood has dropped the euphemisms such as “pro-choice,” no longer seeing them as necessary or servicable.

Similarly, the attempts to defeat the fetal heartbeat bills bespeak a duplicity from the outset. What can be more human or romantic than the sound of a beating heart?

Taken together, those are profoundly troubling developments. We have defined deviancy down. We are arguing over a degree of malevolance that makes the original argument pale in comparison.

The Democrat Party defeated attempts in Congress last year to outlaw sex-selective abortions. In those and other similar measures, both they and the ACLU have abandoned the moral high ground. Let’s hope that the Republican governor of North Dakota has the courage to pick up the fallen battle standard of the left and soldier on.

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Posted in Abortion, Eugenics | Tagged ACLU, Fetal Heartbeat, Montana, sex-selective abortion | 8 Comments

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  1. on March 18, 2013 at 9:24 AM Elizabeth Mills

    Good news, Gerard: Arkansas recently voted on the 12-week ban, as well… hooray! Elected leaders are becoming aware that there is a difference between serving the public… and killing it! Praise be to God for giving them their new-found wisdom! Thank YOU for all your hard work educating them, Gerard! Please extend our gratitude to your entire team, as well!

    Quick question, please:

    We are often plowed over with the “except in cases of rape” statements. There are several thousand men in prison for rape. Many have children living at home. How do you think it makes these children feel when they hear, “except in cases of rape” statements? Their father is a rapist. If new children are not valuable enough to be born… what about the value of the living children? How dangerous is this ridiculous statement to the youth of our nation??


  2. on March 18, 2013 at 9:42 AM A P O'BEACHAIN (@APOBEACHAIN)

    Going to take us a while to reverse the reversal of the early Roman Empire paganism, nihilism and continue to keep up the good fight against today’s The HOLY SPIRIT is our Coach, Water Boy and sees us through. Some are mauled in the process.


  3. on March 18, 2013 at 9:46 AM Por Polilla (@xpolilla)

    Excellent post! where’s de twitter button!!! no twitter button!!! :/


  4. on March 18, 2013 at 10:13 AM mjrowland

    I’d really love to have an abortion advocate like Dalven explain to me the essential difference between aborting a fetus because of Down’s syndrome and the barbaric practice of ancient societies’ killing those infants because of physical or other malformities, and why we should allow the former, but be abhorred about the latter.


  5. on March 18, 2013 at 10:17 AM Gerard M. Nadal

    Thanks, Elizabeth. I’d thank the entire team at Coming Home, but I am the entire team 😉

    One of the last “Mom and Pop” operations…

    In answer to your question, we need to work toward the day when abortion itself is seen as ridiculous.


  6. on March 19, 2013 at 2:35 PM Pro-life blog buzz 3-19-13

    […] Coming Home says the ACLU certainly has fallen far from protecting civil liberties, as they are now defending sex-selective and eugenic abortion of the disabled: […]


  7. on March 19, 2013 at 2:42 PM KJL

    Gerard,
    Your work is so so important, and I just wanted to thank you for having the courage to write posts like this. I have too many of your posts in my “favorites” list to count. May God give you the fortitude to endure in the work you do.
    Thank you so much.


  8. on May 3, 2013 at 7:22 AM Chrystal H. Rutledge

    The 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , which was handed down on Jan 22, 1973, comes as states have added more and more restrictions — 43 state laws passed last year and 92 passed in 2011, according to the Guttmacher Institute , a group that does extensive research on abortion. Just three weeks ago, Texas defunded all Planned Parenthood clinics in the state – many of which do not perform abortions — for being affiliated with an organization that advocates them.



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