On abortion, what are we thinking?

Progressive historians, only too willing to point out cracks in the armor of the American experiment, frequently remind us that many of the same Founders who crafted the words “all men are created equal” were slave owners. Today, thoughtful citizens across the political spectrum collectively wonder — what were they thinking?

Today’s esteemed lawmakers and jurists steadfastly defend judicially-established reproductive rights as their self-absorbed rationale for ending human life. Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot together murdered some 35 million human beings and we accurately condemn them as heinous, horrific and evil scoundrels. Yet we Americans, over the 40 years since Roe vs. Wade became the law of the land, have selectively and systematically exterminated 53 million babies under some convoluted, fabricated “right” to an abortion.

We the people, in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, pledge to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,” dutifully represented by the most vulnerable among us, the innocent unborn. Most fittingly, Dr. Martin Luther King dreamed of an America that would “live out the full meaning of her creed.”

Perhaps in our lifetime, we’ll recall this present day from an abortion-free, life-celebrating America and wonder — what were we thinking?

William G. Parrot

McHenry