I greeted Ronald Reagan’s counter-revolutionary ascent to the White House while I was still a Liberal.
An embarrassing confession, I know.
However, Reagan himself had, at one time, been a Liberal himself.
On June 5th, 2004, this editorial by Ronald Reagan for the National Review was reprinted after its first appearance in the National Review’s Spring 1983 issue.
Nothing could be clearer about abortion being the antithesis of America than this closing paragraph:
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.
Five days following the reprint of this implacably pro-life article, Ronald Reagan died on June 10th, 2004.
On July 30th, 2004, this article, possibly written in a rather desperate response to the National Review’s reprint and pro-life declaration – was printed in the Colorado Statesman. It concludes with this bitterly resigned prophecy:
Ronald Reagan set out to make abortion a political crime against the state. Even in death, he may yet succeed. We will remember him for that.
Warren M. Hern, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Boulder Abortion Clinic
So far, Colorado has defeated a pro-life amendment twice!
Dr. Hern and abortionists in Colorado are still winning at their self-defined “crime against the state.”
Abortion is a crime against the meaning of “created equal” and the “inalienable right to life,” isn’t it? Therefore a crime against the very meaning of America.
Dr. Hern makes his living destroying gestating infants.
Ronald Reagan committed his life to defending their right to live.
Which is the hero in your eyes? Dr. Hern or Ronald Reagan?
It is clear from the record that President Reagan’s war against abortion was as unrelenting as his battles with the Soviet Union, starting with his first day in office.
Eventually the Iron Curtain dividing the world was torn down.
The Abortion Holocaust in America, however, has not ended.
One argument for Roe v. Wade and legalized abortion is that abortion will happen anyway and why imprison a poor woman and her doctor? Murder still happens despite laws against it, so what do murder charges in any degree amount to?
I’ll let George Will answer that:
When you have a society where murder is not stigmatized, you will soon not have a society at all.
The irony is that George Will also says:
But regarding abortion itself, what a candidate thinks about abortion rights is not especially important.
Obviously Ronald Reagan would not have agreed.
Therein lies the ongoing tragedy of the American Conservative Movement.
Many still disagree about what America actually stands for: the sacredness of the individual human being. Without a national commitment to that distinctively American, common denominator, America is essentially without integrity.
That is why I still live in Canada.
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