When pro-life leaders get more upset over an
abortionist keeping corpses in his home than they do over the murder of
innocent babies, they legitimize abortion — and show themselves to be cowards.
Imagine a world where bold men and women react to former
abortionist Ulrich Klopfer keeping thousands of corpses in his house by
bringing that horror to bear on the Indiana legislature and the Supreme Court
for sanctioning the murders.
These men and women demand the establishment of equal justice and
protection for all. They speak prophetically to a wicked and perverse
generation that legalizes and regulates the exploits of serial killers. They
call for the total and immediate abolition of prenatal murder.
But alas, the world in which we live bears no semblance. We live
in a world where pro-life politicians and lobbyists express outrage at a serial
killer for his regulatory violations.
Pro-Life Leaders’
Message Was Embarrassing
For instance, Americans United for Life Chief Legal Officer Steven
Aden said, “Klopfer’s actions undoubtedly violated Indiana medical waste laws,
but he didn’t care. Nor did he care that thousands of his patients did not give
consent to allowing him to take the bodies of their deceased infants across
state lines for an unknown reason. Was it for the purpose of personal, bizarre
experimentation? Something else? He was effectively running an unlicensed
cemetery.”
Or note the concerns of pro-life Indiana State Rep. Ron Bacon, who
said, “We would like for an investigation done with the three counties involved
to ensure that no fetal remains are being stored there and if Indiana fetal
remains were illegally transported across state lines.”
Indiana Right to Life President Mike Fichter echoed the same,
saying, “These sickening reports underscore why the abortion industry must be
held to the highest scrutiny. We are calling on Indiana authorities to join in
the investigation to determine if these fetal remains have any connection to
abortion operations, or personnel, in Indiana.”
“This tragic case shows why abortion providers must be held to
strict guidelines and face rigorous oversight,” said pro-life Rep. Jackie
Walorski, R-Ind. “I will be looking into federal legislation to ensure the
remains of aborted babies are always treated with dignity, including the
remains of chemical abortions.”
White House spokesman Judd Deere’s comments were chilling:
“Murdering thousands of innocent babies is one thing, but preserving and
hoarding their bodies like trophies is a new level of sickness. … A full
investigation is needed to determine whether crimes were committed and if
anyone else was involved.”
“Murdering thousands of innocent babies is one thing,” says the
pro-life leader. I will not forget that line as long as I live.
Hygienic Disposal of
Mass Murder Victims, Please
“Strict guidelines,” “rigorous oversight,” and “high scrutiny” for
the Ulrich Klopfers of the world that they might dispose of their murder
victims more hygienically and without crossing state lines is the pathetic cry
of these pro-life leaders.
If they accomplish their objectives, these lobbyists and
politicians will have accomplished nothing but sanitize and further legitimize
abortion. Pro-choicers know this. It’s why rabidly pro-abortion Illinois
Attorney General Kwame Raoul is also investigating. He knows that pursuing this
investigation and demonizing the deceased Klopfer distances the abortion
industry from an enormous public relations liability.
Rather than sanitizing abortion, we must put it on trial before
the public, engendering abhorrence for abortion itself, not for regulatory
violations. The regulatory regime that is the pro-life legal strategy does not
enable the movement to bring about the abolition of abortion. Regulating rather
than abolishing abortion is the doom of the United States’ nearly 1 million
annual abortion victims.
Many
pro-life politicians and lobbyists have played directly into the abortion
lobby’s hands. By regulating rather than abolishing, they’ve conceded
that Roe v. Wade is a legitimate court opinion and, worse,
that abortion is health care. If something is mass murder, you abolish it, and
you don’t concern yourself with any opinions that you should allow it. But if
it’s health care, regulate away.
The pro-life
lobbyist and politician will respond by holding up a piece of paper showing a
slight decline in abortion rates, to which abolitionists (those who demand the total and
immediate abolition of the evil of the age) will respond, “Praise
God for every life saved because of a regulatory sanitation of murder. But you
see those 900,000 there who were murdered? They could’ve been saved if the
multimillion-dollar pro-life industry would’ve stood against the Supreme Court
rather than obsequiously obeying their every opinion that child sacrifice
should be legal.”
Too Many Pro-Lifers
Worship the Supreme Court as a God
The pro-life
politician or lobbyist will object to the labeling of their bills as the
regulatory sanitation of murder, but that’s what they are. C.R. Cali’s recently
published book, “The Doctrine of Balaam,”
explained it well:
Regulating abortions gives more than tacit
permission; it definitionally governs, directs, and controls the killing of
preborn children through rule and law. Rather than engendering an attitude of
abhorrence for this slaughter, regulations legitimize the practice by dictating
where, when, and how it is acceptable.
The pro-life-pro-choice paradigm does nothing but cement legal
abortion’s status as health care and the Supreme Court’s status as our
functional god. Too harsh, you say? “We could no sooner ignore SCOTUS than the
force of gravity,” Texas Alliance for Life President Joe Pojman said in April
to the Houston Chronicle, explaining his pro-life organization’s opposition to
the Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act.
Unconditional submission to a legal-political institution akin to
our acquiescence to a law of nature is nothing short of idolatry. Never mind
that this submission entails obeying an order to allow serial killers to
operate with impunity so long as they and those bringing their victims jump
through a few pro-life hoops, and never mind that just about every state is
disregarding a federal law, regulation, or court opinion on one or more other
issues.
Among
pro-life leaders, Pojman is the rule, not the exception. Bills to immediately
abolish abortion and disregard Roe as the evil, unconstitutional,
nonbinding opinion that it is have been introduced in six states. The primary
opposition in four of those states (Oklahoma, Texas, Indiana, and Idaho) has been
pro-life Republicans, National Right to Life lobbyists, and Southern Baptist-affiliated
conventions.
Why does the pro-life establishment get away with treating
abortion like health care and the Supreme Court like a god? Because they’ve
handed the reins of the movement to worldly pragmatists. The biblical term for
such individuals is “fools.” Professing themselves to be wise, they regulate
murder and oppose its abolition, telling their donors and supporters regulation
is the best they can do and that the Supreme Court is due unconditional
submission up to and including obedience to their orders to allow mass murder.
“This is the best way to fight abortion,” they say. “We have to be
as wise as serpents.” As if Matthew 10:16 is commanding Supreme Court idolatry
and the sanitation of murder.
Stop Playing Regulatory
Games
Consider the statement of Abolish Abortion Indiana President Derin
Stidd contrasted with the pro-life leaders at this article’s outset.
These people make their living by murdering
babies by the thousands. They see the arms and the legs that they are ripping
off of these little children every single day. They see the little faces
staring up at them from the heads that they just tore off of the bodies of
little innocent babies every single day. So, it’s hard for me to imagine how we
could possibly be surprised when we hear of the other sort of evil things they
are doing.
This man murdered thousands of little babies,
and hardly anyone cares, but he takes their remains home, and now all of a
sudden it’s a big deal. Why? Of course, the fact that he had the remains of
over 2,000 dead babies in his home is disturbing, but it’s disturbing because
he’s the one that killed those babies, to begin with. What’s even more
disturbing than that is that virtually no one is disturbed that Klopfer killed
the babies, only that he took their remains home. I find that to be disturbing.
Canadian activist Laura Klassen reacted along the same lines: “All
this outrage over babies in jars … is amazing to me. We shouldn’t find it
shocking that an abortionist kept over 2K dead babies as souvenirs. … [I]t
should shock that this guy killed over 2K babies. Legally.”
This is the appropriate reaction to the remains of Klopfer’s
thousands of victims. Not a call for stricter enforcement of laws against taking
corpses across state lines. Nothing coming from a foundation of compromise and
defeatism. No call for regulation that could’ve come from an abortion supporter
as easily as from a pro-lifer. Just a simple expression of abhorrence for
abortion and a demand for its abolition.
Stop playing regulatory games. And that is what’s
going on. It’s a game. Pro-life lobbyists and politicians benefit immensely
from regulating abortion and pretending it’s all they can do. Cease to be a
part of it and demand abortion’s total and immediate abolition and Roe’s nullification. When
more people demand abolition than the number of people who demand murder be
more heavily regulated, abortion will be abolished — and not before.
Praise God, that day is coming near.
James
Silberman is a writer bringing attention to the state-level efforts around the
country to reject Roe and abolish abortion. Read the latest on these bills at
James's author page at The Resurgent and follow James on Twitter.
