Roe v. Wade‘s Millions Of Ghosts In The Cradle Haunt Us All
After years of abortion-on-demand, as America's marriage and birth rates plummet, we feel increasingly alone. The ghosts from empty cradles haunt us.
By Nathanael Blake
January 21, 2021
America is broken because it is haunted.
We all agree that something has gone very wrong with our nation, but we all blame different villains, which is itself a symptom of our brokenness. There have been insightful efforts at diagnosis, but too many explanations have remained superficial, presuming that we are just an election away from happy days being here again.
To understand what ails our nation, we must see the things that haunt us — the things that we don’t like to talk about or even think of. We must look at the ghosts we don’t want to see, but are tormenting us. Among the foremost of these spirits is the ghost in the cradle.
It is the week of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision requiring states to permit abortion on demand. At the time, it might have been said: forgive them, for they know not what they do. For most people in 1973, the womb was a black box; few knew much about fetal development.
But we know. We excitedly share ultrasound photos via text and social media, and we stick the printouts on our fridges or display them in picture frames with “sneak peek†emblazoned on the border. We know. We have seen the moving limbs and the tiny fingers and the beating hearts.
The advocates for our regime of elective abortion know, which is why they hide behind euphemisms — preferring to speak of reproductive freedom and choice, without mentioning the “A†word. Most people’s consciousnesses are not as seared as those of the zealots of “Shout Your Abortion†and similar campaigns, so, for the majority of abortion supporters, any rhetorical dodge will do if it avoids invoking the violent reality of abortion. They prefer to cover abortion in the moral haze of a necessary evil in an imperfect world, and then not think about it.
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