| RIP Henry Hyde |
 RIP Henry Hyde
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Nov. 29th, 2007 @ 09:29 am 
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In an age of wishy-washy wind-checkers, Congressman Henry Hyde stood out by taking stands on issues as bold and as bright as the colors of the flag he loved and served so well.
In the beginning he had many bipartisan allies in his Right to Life cause. Over the years, many of them, for the sake of political expediency, drifted away. The sad case of Jesse Jackson comes immediately to mind.
But Hyde stood his ground. He knew what he believed in, and he fought for his beliefs. He managed to keep the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding of abortions, virtually intact for decades, despite the shifting sands of politics and public opinion.
According to National Review, the National Right to Life Committee conservatively estimates that the Hyde Amendment prevented over a million abortions in the last thirty years. That's a million people walking around today who owe their lives to the tenacity of this one man.
I think it is fair to say that he has justified his life here, and will be welcomed heartily in the next.
Read and comment on my novel The Evil Has Landed. Free!
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| From: | (Anonymous) |
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December 5th, 2007 02:20 am (UTC) |
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preventing a million abortions
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According to your site:
According to National Review, the National Right to Life Committee conservatively estimates that the Hyde Amendment prevented over a million abortions in the last thirty years. That's a million people walking around today who owe their lives to the tenacity of this one man.
That means that there were a million moms, desperate to terminate a pregnancy, who were forced to bring a child into the world--a world who requires the mother to bear the child, but then refuses to help care for it. Mr. Going--you claim to spare the life of the baby in the womb, but your conservative ways would deny the mother food stamps, rental assistance, insurance, day care, etc., in other words---you care about the unborn, but condemn the single mother of the born, and want to deny her help. Hypocrite.
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December 5th, 2007 08:51 am (UTC) |
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Re: preventing a million abortions
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Utter and total nonsense. ALL the people I know in the Right to Life Movement are extremely supportive of desperate mothers and providing them with all the assistance they need.
You don't find killing babies an extreme solution? Or must we pretend that that's not what they are?
Most of us in the movement have personal stories from long ago. Mine involved a 16 year old friend who found herself pregnant by her high school boyfriend. Her parents insisted that she have an abortion. She refused and they ran off to Maryland to get married with the financial help of friends like me and some folks from Right to Life who dug deep. When they returned married they struggled but had plenty of community support. I became godfather to their daughter and have lived long enough to have participated in her wedding decades later.
No part of anyone's life is easy. But choosing Life for your own unborn child is one of the noblest sacrifices anyone can make. Those of us who can't make that choice need to do all we can to help those who do.
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