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To hear the mainstream news media tell it, the only issue really in play in the 2008 Presidential election is the war in Iraq.
And, lest the voting public forget, the media are quick to report each
casualty, mishap, and difficulty in Baghdad as mounting evidence for an
immediate and unqualified U.S. troop withdrawal.
What you’re not hearing about is an issue that is likely to have a decisive impact on the Presidential race: abortion.
That’s right—the issue the media hate to talk about is still important
to a vast number of voters. And, for a majority of those
for whom abortion is the top issue, a pro-life candidate is the only
acceptable choice.
By and large, the Republican candidates for President—with the notable
exception of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani—oppose legal
abortion. In sharp contrast, the Democratic Party’s crop of
candidates trumpet a radical pro-abortion viewpoint which is opposed by
a majority of the American public.
The major media would like you to believe that abortion does not matter
in this Presidential election cycle—but the fact is, it may matter more
today than ever before.
That’s because the next President could appoint the U.S. Supreme Court
justice who could tip the balance against Roe v. Wade, the tragic High
Court decision which has killed more than 47 million young Americans
and left a number of mothers physically and emotionally scarred.
I often find it curious that the nightly news reports a day-by-day
count of fatalities in Iraq, yet completely ignores the millions of
children killed by abortion. Say what you will about the Iraq
war—in terms of a death count, when compared to America’s war against
the unborn, it doesn’t even come close.
And yet, curiously enough, though publicity about abortion is sparse,
it continues to be a key political issue for a number of
Americans. I would argue that that is, in fact, good news.
It means that many Americans are not satisfied to think about what the
media tells them to think about. Rather, they’re
independent-minded enough to see through the media bias and recognize
the fact that abortion represents a devastating American tragedy that
has sapped our strength and undermined our greatness.
Pundits may claim that the unborn child is simply a clump of cells, but
many Americans have seen the evidence with their own eyes of the
humanity of the unborn child, thanks to the development of
Ultrasound. They know it’s a baby in the sonogram—even if a news
anchor making a multi-million-dollar salary cannot recognize that fact.
My prediction for ’08 is that, as it has in other Presidential campaign
years, abortion will continue to be a significant election issue.
And the candidate who espouses the pro-life side will win the White
House, no matter how hard some members of the media work to push the
vote count in favor of the pro-abortion candidate. Pro-lifers are
simply more committed to an electoral victory than those who support
the destruction of the most vulnerable members of our
society. Virtue is, in the end, more likely to achieve
victory than vice is.
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