The mortality rate for black infants remains almost twice as high as that for white infants. In the early 1980’s President Reagan’s economic policies – most notably the budget cuts in welfare programs were harming the health of many people, especially poor women and children. Infant mortality increased in several states and cities. In fact, in Detroit, where I grew up, the death rates of infants were comparable to that of 3rd world nations. The infant mortality rate is often considered to be a reflection of overall health conditions and the quality of health care. (Let me note here that the United States is one of only two industrialized nations on the planet that do not provide health care for its citizens – the other being South Africa).

This is the silver bullet that so many liberals use to shoot holes in our cause. I have come to understand that we can be very hypocritical. Why aren’t the compassion issues that Jesus preached about (i.e. helping the poor) fought for with the same urgency?

We should be ashamed.

Those of us who are only concerened about the unborn should be called pro-birth. Those of us who realize how essential it is to take care of the precious gifts that children are once they are brought into this world (like our wonderfully unselfish, family-centric Christain friends in Scandinavia) are the ones that are in fact pro-life.

Michael van der Galiën rolls out some interesting thoughts at his own blog [1] about the Republican Party’s needs for its next election cycle: a general statement of actual, true conservative beliefs; the kind of conservatism that made your mom…

There is no “Freedom” in murdering a pre-born child. What “freedom” does that child have, what “choice” does that child have, when her brains are vacuumed out of her head?

And saying that we should enforce our immigration laws is not bigoted, it’s common sense. Every day, 12 American citizens (remember them?) are killed by illegal aliens.

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53103

That’s worse than the death toll in Iraq, worse than the number we’ve lost to terrorism, worse than anything we’ve ever faced. To ignore that, because the murderers happen to be mostly hispanic, THAT is what’s bigoted.

And the epitome of all innocent lives is the life of the most innocent of all humans: defenseless, voiceless babies in gestation.

With the availability of all preventive devices, substances and sex practices, abortion on demand, which Giuliani supports under the masquerade of “choice� (the “choice� to first-degree-murder a baby in gestation, that is), is not only completely murderous and anti-social, but also completely inexcusable as a way to prevent unwanted procreation.

The first degree murder of a baby in gestation is not just “a social issue�, it is a cancer that is corroding the marrow of the American ethos by making Americans not only insensitive to the premeditated assassination of most innocent human beings, but complicit in the genocide that abortion on demand is.