This article was first published in the May 2004 issue of The Fort
Wayne Lutheran
By Donna Volmerding
Our Founding Fathers believed that we are endowed by our Creator with
certain inalienable rights. This is the foundation of our government — that our
rights are bestowed by God, not by the state.
Our Founding Fathers set up a system of government with three equal
branches, performing separate tasks and duties but answerable to the people.
When judges and courts make laws that circumvent the constitutional process, we
all suffer, our system of government suffers, and justice and righteousness are
too often ignored.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that each woman had a right to abort
her unborn child, for no more compelling reason than she just didn’t want to
have a baby. The court ruling, Roe vs. Wade, discovered (after 200 years!) a
previously unrecognized “right to privacy.” But there’s more to this story that
must be told.
Norma McCorvey, the defendant “Roe,” has publicly stated that her
entire case was built on lies and fabrications, falsehoods known to her lawyer at the time of trial. McCorvey was a 21-year-old
carnival worker who, at the time, was pregnant with her third child.
According to defense arguments for Roe vs. Wade, “Roe” was raped and
did not want to bear her child. McCorvey confesses that she was not raped, and
she ended up placing her child for adoption.
Eventually, McCorvey joined with anti-abortion activists in 1994 to
have Roe vs. Wade overturned. She cited what she termed as more than 30 years
of evidence that abortions are psychologically harmful to women.
Sandra Cano, the Doe in Doe vs. Bolton, a companion case to Roe that
instituted partial-birth abortion, also has publicly attested to the deception
perpetrated in her trial.
“My case was based upon a fraud upon the court,” Cano said. “I did
not want abortion. I would not want to kill babies. Partial-birth abortion is
wrong, and it should be called murder since they are killing the baby with part
of its body already outside the mother’s womb. It is murder, in my opinion.”
Bernard Nathanson, M.D., co-founder of the pro-abortion group NARAL, “served
as chairman of the executive committee of NARAL (the National Association for
the Repeal of Abortion Laws, and later renamed the National Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League) as well as its medical committee,” stated the December
2002 issue of Whistleblower magazine. Nathanson was one of the principal
architects and strategists of the abortion movement in the United States, the
article said.
He tells an astonishing story.
“In 1968 I met Lawrence Lader,” Nathanson said. “Lader had just
finished a book called ‘Abortion,’ and in it had made the audacious demand that
abortion should be legalized throughout the country.
“I had just finished a residency in obstetrics and gynecology and was
impressed with the number of women who were coming into clinics, wards and
hospitals suffering from illegal, infected, botched abortions.
“Lader and I were perfect for each other. We sat down and plotted out
the organization now known as NARAL. With Betty Friedan, we set up this
organization and began working on the strategy.
“We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a
liberal, enlightened, sophisticated one,” Nathanson said. “Knowing that if a
true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the
results of fictional polls.
“We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60% of
Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the
self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused enough
sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number
of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was
approaching 100,000, but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was
1,000,000.
“Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public,” Nathanson
said. “The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200-250
annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000. These false
figures took root in the consciousness of Americans, convincing many that we
needed to crack the abortion law.
“Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that
legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place illegally
would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a
primary method of birth control in the U.S., and the annual number of abortions
has increased by 1,500% since legalization,” he said.
If a democratic process had been followed in these decisions, in
which all sides can be heard, facts checked, volatile subjects discussed with
cool heads and moral sensibilities, these miscarriages of justice may not have
occurred.
But when these issues are taken out of the governance of the people
by courts and federal judges, “vitally important cultural issues are now
decided for us by a handful of unelected elites,” said columnist Ann Coulter.
“It’s a lot easier to get a majority out of nine votes than it is to get a
majority of 280 million votes.” (The U.S. population is now about 320 million.)
It is imperative that all of us are aware of the lies, half-truths
and misconceptions that deeply harm our country and the spirit of our people.
We have the honor and the privilege to live in the greatest nation on earth.
Let’s not allow her to be destroyed by the enemy within.
