The Pro-Life Movement Loses the Culture War in the Year of Faith

The Pro-Life Movement has failed.

As the election results rolled in on Tuesday night the devastating defeat of the Pro-Life Movement was more than evident, signaled by the triumph of Barack Obama, who brazenly ignored the worst economy in living memory, and ran on his pro-abortion, pro-gay “marriage”, free contraception platform. These were not mere side issues for the Democratic Party. These social issues were at the heart of not just Obama’s campaign, but the campaigns of Democrats across the nation. Even the so-called “Pro-Life” Democrat Joe Donnelly in Indiana defeated his opponent due to the twisting of his opponent’s position on the dignity of all life, including life conceived in rape. Even that election, supposedly between two “Pro-Life” candidates was decided on the abortion issue, and it was an electorate that wanted abortion that elected the Democrat.

America has decided, and the American people want baby killing. Americans love baby killing, if not abortion on demand, then at least as a treatment for rape or incest, and they think Pro-Lifers are full of it to argue otherwise.

The Culture War over life has been decided for death, and there’s no claiming of future victory or hoping that some good might come of it now, this despite the valiant words from Lila Rose, president of Live Action, who said that the fight to end abortion is not dependent on a single election. However, such bravado is all sound and fury, and it most certainly lacks any teeth once one contemplates the practical results of this one election. The re-election of Obama in the short term means that the courts, including most importantly the Supreme Court, will be stacked with judges who must pass one, and only one, litmus test—their fidelity to upholding Roe v. Wade. Obama will now have at the very least two more appointments to the Supreme Court. That means Roe v. Wade will stand for the next half century if not for the rest of the history of this nation.

In the long term, it means we will never have anything but a pro-abortion federal government. The Republican Party will probably back away from the social issues altogether. From the sounds of Fox News, before the mid-terms, the Republican Party will drop the “Pro-Life” and anti-gay “marriage” planks of its platform entirely. I believe that Fox News is actually pushing for this.

But what is in or out of the GOP platform doesn't matter one wit any more. The Republican Party has just had its last great hurrah, and it was a loss. Never again will the Republican Party be able to even come close to winning a national election. Demographically the Republican Party is doomed. As minority populations grow, the Republicans will lose mathematically every time. The Republican Party cannot win without cutting into the Hispanic vote. However, the only way to get the Hispanic vote is to adopt a liberal position on immigration reform, and if the GOP does that, it will lose its Tea Party base that will not tolerate anything short of deporting mom and dad and building a fence. The Republican Party won’t be able to win without that Tea Party base. Can the Republicans convince Hispanics to vote for them on some other issue? Make no mistake about it. The exit polls just proved, in contradiction to my formerly held belief, that among Hispanics the number one issue is immigration, and it always will be. There’s nothing else to appeal to them on, so the GOP will never come out a winner in that category. Without any good strategy to bite into the Hispanic vote, or the Black vote, or the Asian vote, the GOP voter base will continue to shrink at an alarming rate. It’s the end of the road for the GOP, and everyone else who hitched his horse to that wagon, and this most definitely includes the Pro-Life Movement.

Baby killing is now a permanent fixture of the present political and social landscape of the United States of America.

It is obvious that the Pro-Life Movement bet on the wrong pony. Sure they made a mistake in tying their fortunes to a political Party that will soon be the Grand Old Party of Ancient History, but the movers of the Pro-Life Movement made an even more fundamental mistake. They tied their lot to politics in general, when all along it was never a “conservative” issue to begin with. It was, and still is, a RELIGIOUS issue. That’s right. It’s about God and Man and Man’s place in God’s plan. In the movement’s effort to be “ecumenical” it even came up with the ridiculous possibility of marrying contradictory propositions such as “Atheists for Life”, as though someone whose only measure is disorder could ever understand the dignity of a human being, especially an unborn one. Abortion was born out of a disregard for God and His order! No one who disregards God and His order can truly grasp the sacred nature of human life.

Likewise, it never sat well with me that Catholics walk hand-in-hand with their Protestant “brothers and sisters” at “Pro-Life” rallies and parades. The Protestant Revolt was a pivotal moment in the Revolution that sent our Western culture spiraling down toward sectarianism, confusion, disorder, Socialism, atheism, and finally the hedonistic materialism that drives a majority of people to relish the slaughter of their unborn children. To ignore the errors of Protestant sectarianism for political gain is disingenuous, hypocritical. If we don’t stand up against Protestant sectarianism, why should others take us seriously about the sacredness of human life? Indeed, why should we take ourselves seriously?

I was once accused by a novus ordo Neo-Cat of “not being Pro-Life enough.” How idiotic, I thought. I’m a traditional Catholic—I have no choice but to be anti-baby killing! The reason I’m against killing innocent human beings is because I’m Catholic. It is because I’m religious, and it is because being against baby killing flows logically and dogmatically from my Catholicism. Our Protestant “brothers and sisters” can’t say this. Their religious convictions are fraught through and through with logical and dogmatic inconsistencies that only serve to weaken their arguments against baby killing.  Certainly those Atheists for Life are walking logical contradictions, but in a very similar way so are Protestants for Life. The reason why most people in the United States are perfectly alright with baby killing is because they are irreligious, or they are in error religiously. There’s no other possibilities.

Pro-Lifers across the board, instead of beating their chests and burying their heads in the sand, need to sit down and ask themselves exactly why they are against baby killing. Is it because of a religious conviction? Have they suffered this defeat because they decided to cover over the religious foundations of their Pro-Life sentiments? They also need to ask themselves if there are any logical inconsistencies in their religious beliefs. Do they ignore whole passages of Scripture, or whole centuries of Christian history, because those things don’t fit well with the positions of their given sect or personal beliefs? Is it possible that this sectarianism and internal contradictions contributed to this devastating defeat?

The loss of right religion is the reason why the baby killers won this election. It is something that has been in the making for a long time. Western man lost his religion—specifically his Catholicism. I could write much about the failure of the post-Vatican II Catholic Church, but that should be saved for another time. For the time being, in this Year of Faith, I would like to offer this to all you Catholic Pro-Lifers:

It has just been proven; you can’t be Pro-Life without being thoroughly CATHOLIC. You can’t be Pro-Life unless you profess Jesus Christ as Sovereign King over everything and everyone. You can’t be Pro-Life without having the faith!