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What’s airing on Pro-Life Perspective Today? “Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation,” Part Five

Jun 15, 2012

By Dave Andrusko

Editor’s note. There is still time to register for the National Right to Life convention June 28-30 and to reserve a hotel room at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in  Arlington, Virginia. Just go to www.nrlconvention.org.
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National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias has devoted all week to the pro-life classic, President Ronald Reagan’s Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation. If you missed any episodes this week, you can go back and listen to them on our website at www.prolifeperspective.com.

Mrs. Tobias returns for a third day to a neglected part of President Reagan’s pro-life legacy: his ferocious resistance to infanticide, his unalterable determination not to allow babies born with disabilities to be fatally neglected—up to and including starving these newborns to death!

As the President noted then-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop had done

“perhaps more than any other American for handicapped children, by pioneering surgical techniques to help them, by speaking out on the value of their lives, and by working with them in the context of loving families. You will not find his former patients advocating the so-called ‘quality-of-life’ ethic.”

He added poignantly:

“I know that when the true issue of infanticide is placed before the American people, with all the facts openly aired, we will have no trouble deciding that a mentally or physically handicapped baby has the same intrinsic worth and right to life as the rest of us. As the New Jersey Supreme Court said two decades ago, in a decision upholding the sanctity of human life, ‘a child need not be perfect to have a worthwhile life.’”

Mrs. Tobias notes that President Reagan quoted from the famous English writer, Malcolm Muggeridge, who went right to the heart of the matter: “Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.” Reagan added, “The sanctity of innocent human life is a principle that Congress should proclaim at every opportunity.’

As she brings her week-long series to an end, Mrs. Tobias reminds us of something that can easily get lost: President Reagan’s essay was the first time a sitting president had written at length on the abortion  issue.  “His words have been a source of inspiration to millions of Americans who have worked so diligently to see that a respect for human life is restored to our nation,” she adds.

Mrs. Tobias concludes

“All human life is valuable. We cannot say that one is more valuable than another.  Either we all matter or none of us do. As we work to turn the tide of abortion on demand and the Culture of Death that is so pervasive in our society, will you please join us?”

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Categories: Abortion