Fighting Abortion in a
Cultural War
Year after year since the tragic Roe v.
Wade decision we come here to protest abortion on the streets
of the nation’s capital.
Year after year, the devastation caused
by abortion becomes more patent, while its harmful consequences
accumulate.
Abortion and the “Culture
of Death”
Because of abortion, our country must seek
immigrants in ever larger numbers to fill the places left
vacant by the unborn in our labor force, Armed Forces, universities,
and even in the ranks of the clergy.
But abortion causes far more than mere
demographic problems. Its legalization has had a profound
impact in the areas of human behavior, ideas and culture.
It strengthened what Pope John Paul II, in his 1995 Encyclical
Evangelium vitae, so aptly called the “culture of
death.” Indeed, as that Pontiff explained, when people
no longer see attacks on the unborn as crimes but rather
as “rights,” a radical change takes place in
the cultural standards of the nation.1
Pope Benedict XVI called this culture of
death an “anti-culture” in which people seek
to flee reality through drugs, lies and sex, which is turned
into a merely irresponsible entertainment.2
In this culture of death, the state not
only tolerates but also protects through its judiciary and
police establishments a practice opposed to natural and
divine law. This exerts a powerful influence on people’s
mentalities, as they tend to deem what is legally permitted
as being morally acceptable.
Abortion and Cultural War
The legalization of abortion has detached
the juridical order from the moral order, paving the way
for the legalization of same-sex “marriage,”
euthanasia and other aberrations.
This subversion of our laws and longstanding
traditions is a real Revolution or Cultural War. It does
not destroy buildings or property but rather institutions,
customs and mentalities. It subverts the laws, transforms
people’s morals, ridicules the family, and mocks religion.
Abortion is a very bloody and cruel consequence
of this devastating cultural warfare, bloodless though it
may seem.
Accepting Abortion Leads to Persecution
of Christianity
The acceptance of abortion changes not
only people’s morals but their whole view of the world
as well. Their Christian worldview is replaced with a secular
and neo-pagan one.
Any criticism of acts or attitudes opposed
to morals is branded a “hate crime.” Aren’t
the myriads of spiteful attacks against all things religious
“hate crimes” as well? Christian symbols, the
adorable person of Our Lord Jesus Christ and his Blessed
Mother are brutally vilified with impunity.
Among the many examples of this anti-Christian
fury are the “anti-Christmas Christmas special”
by Denis Leary on Comedy Central, and the staging of “Corpus
Christi,” portraying Our Lord and His Apostles as
homosexuals, at the University of Nebraska, both last December;
and in November, the exhibit titled “Full Frontal,”
in the Detroit art gallery, included a nude image supposedly
representing the Blessed Mother (called “Virgin Mary
III”).
But what’s happening is more than
just an all-out effort to push secularism and persecute
Christianity. Sectors of the media and Hollywood are also
favoring the spread of neo-paganism.
A typical example of this is the huge propaganda
about The Da Vinci Code, a novel soon to be released as
a movie. With an absurd and unlikely plot, it exalts a pagan
religious system and violently attacks the Church by parroting
old anti-clerical myths already refuted countless times
in the past.
Why so Much Hatred?
The culture of death which abortion symbolizes
rejects not only life but the very fountain of life—God
our Lord. It instills hatred of everything sacred: Christian
symbols, the Ten Commandments, and the Church, which preaches
observance of natural and divine laws, both of which abortion
denies.
Fighting Abortion in a Cultural
War
In short, the fight against abortion is
today more important than ever. It is vital to counter the
Cultural War that has been unleashed on our country, for,
accepting abortion entails forfeiting the very basis of
law and civilization, that is, the clear notion of good
and evil.
To the degree that new-fangled “rights”
like abortion, same-sex “marriage” and euthanasia
are affirmed, so also “the glorious freedom of the
children of God”3 will
be eliminated in our nation.
We must then forge ahead with this fight
in earnest, always in a peaceful and legal manner, knowing
that the future of our country hinges on this struggle.
Let us move forward with confidence in
the final victory in spite of eventual hardships and reversals.
For, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”4
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