"This Means War"

With Taliban forces only 87 miles fom Islamabad and Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, I thought I'd discuss something happier...like the fact that China has 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls. Why? Some horrific disease that strikes girls in childhood? 

Well, yes, in a way. In fact, these missing girls were never given a chance of life outside the womb. Ultrasound technology revealed to their parents that they were of the "undesirable" sex, and because of China's One Child Policy, they are not given the chance of life outside the womb. They are aborted. More than 30 million lives snuffed out in 20 years, because their parents cannot abide a girl child and their government mandates only one child per family. 

This is a disgrace. This is sexicide. 

And worse, according to Rod Dreher, it means war. 

What will the Chinese governmnent do with these surplus young men? Just take a guess. 

"For the sake of stability, the Chinese government in the future will have to find some way to channel all that masculine aggression and frustration outward. Not good for the rest of us. Just another fruit of abortion. How is it, exactly, that feminists here maintain their unqualified support for abortion rights when abortion is used to carry out a holocaust of baby girls abroad?"

The Down Syndrome Holocaust

I have never been comfortable with people who have Down Syndrome. I've had limited exposure to them, but they have always disturbed me. They are humans constrained by a chromosomal accident; a defect that has left them impaired but in no way sub-human. They are largely dependent on others throughout their lives. Even in adulthood, they remain much like children.

I am not comfortable around them because I, like many other people, sense that they are defective. If humanity was an assembly line, they would be miscast rejects.

But humanity is not an assembly line. It is, or should be, a compassionate race.

The human race's conduct towards Down Syndrome children has been a shameful travesty in recent years. 91-93%, yes, that's 91-93% of unborn children who may have Down Syndrome are aborted. Out of one hundred Down Syndrome babies, only seven or nine survive the womb. Abortion is always a terrible thing, but when victims of a certain genetic disorder are singled out like this, it reeks of holocaust. The Left's worse crime in recent years has been the resurrection of the culture of Eugenics: perfection of the human race through selective breeding and, implicitly, the destruction of "unfit" individuals. It is this motive that underpins much Leftist thinking on Abortion, assisted suicide, and the recent move in the United Kingdom to deny healthcare to old and obese people in the hope that they will die and cease being a burden on the system. When healthy, strong men and women of the world look at the old, the obese, the disabled, and those with Down Syndrome, they say or think, "You freaks! You impede our evolutionary progress. It is not economical to care for you. You will now be slaughtered for the good of the tribe."

This post-"Enlightenment" age claims to be the most civilized and advanced yet. But beneath the shiny veneer of technological progress, our barbarism is just as blatant and poisonous as anyone before us. We shake our heads at bloodthirsty soldiers from the past, but are our abortion providers, our Dr. Kevorkians more civilized? The answer is, not at all. The same mindset of purging the world of those you see as unfit to live is the very essence of Nazism and fascism. Thus, the Left in supporting the Eugenecist abortion doctors and the Michael Schiavos of the world comes full circle; in the end there is no difference between communism and fascism.

There is open revulsion in the affluent leftist classes for anyone who chooses to keep a Down Syndrome baby. In Ramesh Ponnurru's excellent "Party of Death," one woman who told another woman that she had a child with Down Syndrome met shock and something along the lines of, "But why didn't you dispose of it?" This sentiment also underpins much of the unflinching animosity towards Sarah Palin in leftish circles. She dared to keep an imperfect child, instead of letting its brains be suctioned out, where the Left insists that all women must abort their defective children, to keep their lives uncluttered. In dark corners, you will find people dissing Palin for the most idiotic reasons, but it all circles back to the fact that she's Pro-Life. Feminazis are scandalized. But we did this for you, dearie. They insisted on choice, but it is unthinkable to make the right choice to them.

CNS News has an interesting article, about a British study that found that for every six hundred Down Syndrome babies (almost all aborted), four hundred more babies without the defect are miscarried due to the invasive testing. In their zeal to protect civilization from the malformed, the Eugenecists have caused the death of thousands of normal babies. The first and last enemy of civilization is the persecution of the weak by the strong. The Jews by the Nazis. The Armenians by the Turks, the Kurds by Hussein, the Chechnyans and Georgians by the post-USSR Russia. And the innocent Down Sundrome babies by the abortionists. A tragedy, but beyond that. A lasting bloody stain on the tapestry of civilization.

If I sound angry, it's because I am. The blood of these children is on the hands of the abortionists, and beyond that on us as a culture; we let it happen. These crimes will be answered for.

I'm not uncomfortable with Down Syndrome people because of them, it's because of me. It's entirely my attitude, and my fault. I viewed them with sympathetic distaste, only one step away from the mindset of so many, who view them as pitiable, brain-dead things.

Hitler had deformed babies burned alive. The abortionists of today just suck out their brains.

Book Review: The Party of Death by Ramesh Ponnuru

I've decided to do my "Book Reviews" more often. Even if I don't get any credit for them, they're good exercises in Journalism. So, here's another one. Of course, half the work is picking the right book...

Ponnuru's book is a cool and streamlined defense of the Pro-Life philosophy; not just regarding Abortion but the sanctity of life in general—Euthanasia, the utterly bogus “Right-to-Die,” and the New Eugenics of the Left.

His arguments, when he deigns to give them, are excellently formed and well nuanced. They are just simple trains of logic; as all good arguments are. However, Ponnuru does not concentrate on giving a Pro-Life manifesto, although he certainly succeeds, but on the failures and outright intellectual dishonesty of the Left when it comes to the sanctity of life. He gently points out the inaccuracies and the lies of the original Roe v. Wade court decision, other court decisions, and the sometimes very odd screeds against Life.

It's interesting to note that Ponnuru focuses most on the court decisions regarding his subject matter. Although he never uses the term, he points out the Constitutional refutations of so-called “Judicial Activism.” He highlights the basic truths that made Roe v. Wade one of the worst, the most ill-thought-out court decisions in the history of American jurisprudence: that one court of nine people appointed by various Presidents, could change the laws of every single state with a single court decision. 35 years and 45 million destroyed lives later, we still haven't ridden ourselves of that misbegotten, amateurish and fanatical opinion.

Even at the very beginning, Ponnuru shows clear-headedness and a willingness to consider the evidence that I could never have done. He shows that he understands the Abortion debate clearly when he says on page 8, "Abortion is a sign that our society is pitting them [Women] against their children."

The book was widely panned on its release. After reading it, the only reason I can think of for this is that almost every member of the literary press in a FANATICAL PRO-CHOICE IDEOLOGUE. The Media whitewash of Abortion, in place since the 60s, has succeeded particularly well in the literary and Academic, who are generally the first to denounce the media as too of the people.

The book painstakingly tears apart Roe v. Wade and virtually every Higher-Court Abortion decision before and since. Ponnuru shows that he has a sense of humor when he talks about Justice Blackmun's bumbling opinion from the original Roe v. Wade case. Blackmun ludicrously mangled the Constitution, twisting himself in circles to show that the Constitution did not protect any rights of the unborn child; in fact, it prohibits any such rights. How? Geez, I don't know. I thought I knew the Constitution. Well, actually, the "Right to Abortion" was cunningly hidden in the "Right to Privacy" by the Founders, who by the way were all members of NARAL Pro-Choice America. Also, the Constitution DEFINITIVELY states that fetuses are not alive in when it talks about Extradition. You see, since fetuses aren't likely to commit crimes, they aren't alive. Well, as Ponnuru points out, neither do Toddlers.

Ponnuru also covers the Left-ward march of the Democratic party, showing how many rather well-known Democrats have been Pro-Life in the past. Harry Reid, The Rev. Jesse Jackson, and even Bill Clinton once counted themselves as Pro-Life, or said they did.

"'I was born out of wedlock (and against the advice that my mother received from her doctor) and therefore abortion is a person issue for me,' wrote the minister. He went on to compare Abortion to slavery. 'If one accepts the position that life is private, and therefore you must have the right to do with it as you please, one must also accept the conclusion of that logic. That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to be concerned.' He asked, 'What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?'" Was this a noted Pro-Lifer, a staunch Republican? It was neither. It was Jesse Jackson in 1977. In later years when Jackson ran for President, he shied away from defending life.

In conclusion, Ponnuru's book shows the utter depravity of a society that kills its young, when we have more than enough resources to care for them. There are forty-five million fewer Americans. More, actually. A person born in 1973 could have several children by now. Indeed, the Governor-elect of Louisiana, Republican Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, was born only two years before. Consider how many great Americans were never born. As Ponnuru says, "Perhaps some future society, no doubt with its own smugness and its own sins, will condemn our barbarity.”