ACLU’s Top Priority
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“The deliberate killing of a human being has no place in a society that calls itself civilized and humane.” Though that is an official position of the ACLU’s, it expresses the Union’s sentiments to ward capital punishment, not abortion.
Abortion is no ordinary issue for the ACLU…it is the organization’s top priority! Amost every fund raising letter written by the ACLU in the last decade mentions abortion. For the ACLU, abortion on demand is an unqualified right, deserving absolutely no restrictions of any kind and entitled to full medical coverage.
…Reason writer Charles Oliver was taken aback when he learned from John Powell, the Union’s national legal director, that he considered abortion to be the ACLU’s number one priority; the defense of the First Amendment, the alleged heart and soul of the ACLU’s mission, was listed third, after civil rights. Oliver’s conclusion cuts to the question why:
“Abortion may indeed be a civil liberties issue, but it seems strange to make it the ACLU’s top priority. After all, Planned Parenthood, N.O.W., and National Abortion Rights Action League ably fight for abortion rights. But defending abortion rights seem like a much more lucractive venture than defending the speech rights of Nazis. Or of anti-abortion protesters.Source“
Oliver’s charges are not without merrit. One of the main reasons the ACLU is so committed to abortion rights is pure greed: nothing works to raise more money than, “EMERGENCY MEMO” citing some alleged restriction on abortion rights. As a matter of fact, they are now using it as a litmus test to measure Supreme Court nominees.
According to surveys that go beyond “yes” and “no”, most Americans find abortion a controversial and complex issue in which they express mixed feelings. Most do not want a return to the days of a near absolute ban on abortions, but fully eight in ten oppose abortion on demand. If a woman’s health is endangered by a pregnancy, or if there is a strong chance of a defect in the baby, most Americans favor abortion. But only a very small minority favor abortion for a low income family that can’t afford a baby, the woman who is unwed and does not want to marry the man, or the pregnancy interferes with the woman’s work or education. In short, the public seems to be saying that abortion should be legal only for reasons of health, not for reasons of conveience. Not only do most people see abortion as a conflict of rights, a majority believe that pregnant women have responsibilities to the unborn child. The ACLU fully rejects both of these positions. Source
The ACLU casts all fetal protection laws as oppressive and illegal. As Kary L. Moss of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project sees it, requiring a pregnant woman to abstain from substance abuse is analogous to requiring a woman to risk her life by rushing to save the life of a child in a burning building. It could be pointed out, of course, that when a woman gets pregnant, she reasonably assumes responsibilities toward her unborn child that no stranger incurs when children are at risk in a burning building.Source
For the ACLU it is not a conflict between a woman’s right to abort and the right of someone else to live. The ACLU sees abortion as purely a matter of individual choice, requiring no say from the father or in the case of minors, from parents. The ACLU has even sued over an Illinois birth questionnaire.
According the the ACLU, new mothers in maternity wards should not be required to disclose the number of their previous births, miscarriages, and abortions, nor should they have to answer questions about alchohol and tobbaco. Simply put, the ACLU sees abortion as a birth control.Twilight of Liberty
And after all I’ve exposed about the ACLU, there will still be someone try to claim they are not an extremist organization.
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Posted by Jay on July 14, 2005 7:25 pm
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Abortion is fine, euthanasia is great but execute a serial killer or terrorist? That would be murder. Lord, save us from the ACLU and the other assorted mad hatters in a world where they celebrate the very merry unbirthday.
One can only hope that a right swing to the court will end Roe v Wade. The Lacy Peterson bill was a huge defeat to the ACLU and the left because it recognized that an unborn baby is viable. Now the President can make the court follow suite by his nominations!
Ken Taylor
Excellent points, Bob and Ken.
Bob, I like the contrasts of what “killing” is to the ACLU.
Ken, the Laci Peterson Bill was the best thing to hit the US since 1973.
Excellent points, guys.
Ad for abortion…..I have nothing more to say, other than to agree with the exposition of the ACLU’s immoral stance in this post.
Good Job, Jay.
Come on now…we all know it’s not a real person until it gets past grade 2! I’ll look into your trackbacks Jay but I’m moving next week so it may take awhile…sorry about that.
It’s real hard for me to except any reason for getting an abortion, but then I was put up for adoption at birth. I have a lot of respect for my birth Mother. My adoption papers lead me to believe she was unwed. She still carried me full term and gave birth, that was in 1950. Think of how an unwed woman expecting a child would have been thought of by the public at that time.
God Bless America, God Save The Republic
It’s all about the money –abortion is a HUGE cash cow and that’s what they care about –not the women (and obviously not the babies).
No one ever believes it so I am going to take a picture and post it (I’ll send you a copy too) …there is an abortion doc near my house and his license plate is:
GOLD FINGER
How sick is that.
I’m still waiting to hear how an abortion ever saved a woman’s life. And really I’d like to see some statistics on how a partial birth abortion is a life-saving procedure.
Well, ‘abortion’ has never saved a woman’s life, however, an emergency fetal evacuation during a complicated pregnancy has saved many women’s lives. But in that case, I don’t see it as an abortion.
It’s not like saving a mother’s life is the same excuse all these other whores give that they can kill babies because they ‘got raped’ or just want to escape responsibility. I don’t care if it’ incest or rape. Infanticide is never the answer.
And that idiot CL says abortion is OK because Repoublican Presidents kill serveice members, LOL! What an idiot!
FDR: WWII – Democrat
Truman: Korea – Democrat
LBJ: Vietnam – Democrat
Clinton: Somalia, Grenada, Kosovo – Democrat
Bush 41: Desert Storm – Republican
Bush 43: OEF/OIF – Republican
Total Military deaths under Democrat Presidents: 482,568
Total Military Deaths under GOP Presidents: 2,163
Significant difference there, people.
Good point, David — I wonder why most unwed mothers are now celebrated instead of looked down upon, as they should be.
Your sources all go back to a book so that no one can check them unless they buy the book. You didn’t bother to check the ACLU’s own website to see what it lists as its mission (abortion is not on the list). I’ve received mail from the ACLU and it has never been all about abortion.
As for the deaths in wars attributed to one type of president or another, Republican Vet is forgetting that there are hundreds if not thousands of soldiers that have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan that would have died if they’d suffered similar injuries in WWII, Korea, or Vietnam. Yes, the number of deaths is lower, but the number if troops surviving with grevious injuries is higher.
“Yes, the number of deaths is lower, but the number if troops surviving with grevious injuries is higher.”
I’d be interested to see the statistics that back that up mulligan. I’m not saying you’re wrong but Republican vet provided stats…you provided a theory. Without naming the injury rates of the other wars I don’t see how you can make that claim.
Mulligan. Who are you? Even though I think you are a drop by troll that will not come back, if you really want to do some more research on this…Here are some resources from that book. You’ll have to search them down yourself…however I think your mind is closed and this is a waste of my time.
Mary Meehan’s interview with Ira Glasser, “ACLU’s Main Man.”, National Catholic Register, June 19, 1988, page 8.
J. Anthony Lukas, “The ACLU Against Itself,” New York Times Magazine, July 9, 1978, p. 26
Alan Dershowitz, “ACLU Takes A Wrong Turn,” in Alan Dershowitz, Taking Liberties (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1988), 141
“The ACLU: Impeccable Judgments or Tainted Policies?” New York Times Magazine, Sept 10, 1989. p. 72
Charles Oliver, “The First Shall Be The Last?” Reason magazine, Oct 1990, p. 25
“One Watchdog Missing In Action, ” U.S. News and World Report, Nov 5, 1990, p.23
There is a few, if you are too lazy to go find em yourself, then you aren’t interested in the truth enough for me to entertain debating with you. Go on and believe I made it all up, and be on your way.
Very nice
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