These communities, by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the whole world of men: “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This was their majestic interpretation of the economy of the Universe. This was their lofty, and wise, and noble understanding of the justice of the Creator to His creatures. [Applause.] Yes, gentlemen, to all His creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole race of man then living, but they reached forward and seized upon the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their children and their children’s children, and the countless myriads who should inhabit the earth in other ages. Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began—so that truth, and justice, and mercy, and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished.
Abraham Lincoln, August 17, 1858
Thank you State Representative John Rogers (D.Ala.) for perfectly summing up the pro-abort mentality:
“Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later. You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair. So, you kill them now or you kill them later.”
Go here and here to read more about this Solon. The Democrat party has a long history of supporting the dehumanization of parts of what Lincoln called the great family of Man. That they are still doing so is little surprise to me. I give Representative Rogers an A for honesty and an F for humanity.
It recalls the remark of Holmes J in Buck v Bell, “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.”
Representative?
Representative Rogers?
I’m very happy that I don’t live in his neighborhood.
Who elected this menace anyhow?
Oh. I almost forgot. The women who believe that they are in a war. The WAR on women. Well Mr. Roger’s makes a great henchman. He’s right up there with Erwin Rommel. Same beliefs, different era. Kill the useless. Kill the unwanted. Kill the unloved.
You are no representative of Liberty.
Just a traitor to humanity.
Right, so who decides who is wanted or unwanted? Because by that standard, send the majority of those currently in power straight to that electric chair, because these people are useless and obsolete. In fact it would have been better if they were not born.
It’s rhetorically common, but objectively false, just like the “abortion prevents child abuse” claims.
The common thread seems to be that the kids at biggest risk are a useful tool. But not treated as people.
Gosh, just like how abortion objectifies them…..
Rep. Rogers comments reflect a total denial of trust and confidence in eternal God and His providence. There is not one of us on this planet that can foresee what a child might grow up to be like. How many children have had less than ideal beginnings only to succeed later in life simply because they were not aborted and given a chance to experience life and God? I’ve said it before and will continue to say in case someone out there is listening. You cannot vote Democrat and call yourself a true Christian even if you believe you are. It is the party of abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicides and supporters of every sexual deviance and accepting them as normal while persecuting and prosecuting everyone who does not agree.
awful.
Sounds like Margaret Sanger
Philip, I don’t get the comparison of General Rommel and State Rep John Rogers. Rogers is an idiot and a traitor to his race. Rommel was known for his chivalry including his aversion to causing gratuitous human casualties, massacres on both sides. Rommel was not a war criminal, He was part of the group who planned the assassination of Hitler. Rommel was found out and offered three different sentences. To protect his family he chose the sentence of death by cyanide. Hitler had his death styled as a vehicular accident and staged a funeral for a popular hero thus averting possible civil war.
“There is not one of us on this planet that can foresee what a child might grow up to be like.” Spot on. I wonder if this black representative realises how racist and damning his comment and ideas are towards his fellow black man.
This brings to mind Richard dawkins the rambling incoherent twit who tried to slam the beautiful Beethoven example by using Adolf Hitler as a counter example,thus implying pro-lifers are dim fools. As with are most of Dawkins arguments this one is devoid of basic logic and probably designed for his fellow backslapping intellectual buddies to have a chuckle on behalf of us mere pro-life simpletons. Laugh away.
Laugh away is right Ezabelle! Let them laugh now…won’t be so funny later.
By the way, Wikipedia lists Rogers as a “Catholic”. Can anyone verify?