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Dear Friend,
Here is President Donald J. Trump speaking to the 47th Annual March
For Life in Washington. His speech begins at 37:35 of the video
below.
I watched President Trump speak with tears in my eyes, having lost
my dearest son a few months ago in a car crash. This was not only
personal for me and my family, this was a Sign from Heavens above that
this man whom so many has called a reprobate, a renegade, a man unfit
to lead the United States as the President and Commander-in-Chief, is
truly providential and chosen by Our God, the Heavenly Father, to be
for all of us an example of courage and of faith when the Dark Forces
all around us appear to be jubilant in their ability to trample upon
and ruin all that we hold dear and sacred in our lives.
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity," wrote the German
philosopher Immanuel Kant, "no straight thing was ever made."
This is what we are, each one of us, not angels but humans, and yet
despite our flaws we can rise above angels with the grace of God. But
it requires humility, prayers, forgiveness from the One ever merciful
and compassionate and benevolent, and in seeking wisdom from Him and
displaying courage at all times to know and do what is right and good
in whatever situation we find ourselves in.
President Trump today exemplifies that man of humility, wisdom and
courage marked by providence. He has gone where no other presidents in
my life time has dared to go, as he did today in joining Americans
from all walks of life and across the nation gather at their nation's
capital to pray and demand lives, born and unborn, be protected.
In the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible, God commands:
"This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you
that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now
choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may
love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to
Him."
By addressing the March For Life, President Trump has now raised
the wall of separation even higher between the conservatives and the
progressives, between the Republicans and the Democrats, in the United
States.
There is no further room to wiggle and hide for anyone in public
life and electoral politics in America on the fundamental question of
where one stands when it comes to the sanctity of life after this day
when President Trump joined Americans on the March For Life.
The battle to repeal the US Supreme Court decision of 1973, Roe v.
Wade, that ruled the American Constitution provides for the right of a
woman to have abortion has now taken a huge leap forward. Donald
Trump's presidency might well be the providential instrument to
reverse the 1973 Supreme Court of the United States' decision, as he
gets the opportunity to appoint one or more justices to the highest
court in America in his second term.
But where are we in Canada, the only G7 country where there is no
law to protect the unborn?
For the Liberal-left in Canada the right of a woman to choose to
abort has become a secular religion. How far Canada has drifted away
from the first principle of any good society, the protection of life
especially of the unborn, is illustrated by the refusal of political
leaders of all parties seated in Ottawa to open any public
conversation on the subject of abortion.
This abject cowardice on display, above all by the leaders of the
Conservative party in the past and present, stands in despicable
contrast with what the late Pierre Trudeau, the former prime minister
and father of the present prime minister, had enough fortitude to
state in public in May 1972 in Montreal, as reported by "The Montreal
Star":
"You know, at some point you are killing life in the foetus in
self-defence -- of what? Of the mother's health or her happiness or of
her social rights or her privilege as a human being? I think she
should have to answer for it and explain. Now, whether it should be to
three doctors or one doctor or to a priest or a bishop or to her
mother-in-law is a question you might want to argue... You do have a
right over your own body -- it is your body. But the foetus is not
your body; it's someone else's body. And if you kill it, you'll have
to explain."
Pierre Trudeau understood that a foetus is an unborn child, safe
and growing within a mother's womb, separate and distinct and not
simply another organ of a woman's body. He understood that if a
society cannot or is unwilling to protect the unborn child when it is
most vulnerable and fragile, then that society is adrift without any
moral anchor.
So where do are our political leaders stand, especially our
Conservative leaders, on this most fundamental question in our
society, the protection of the unborn?
The Liberal-left in Canada, as in the United States, has squared
the circle on this question by embracing the godless ideology of
militant secularism.
But it is the leaders of the Conservative party, and the
Conservative party itself, that are not only wishy-washy on this most
fundamental question, they have shown to be abject and despicable
cowards unworthy to lead our country.
I went with friends last May 2019 to Ottawa to attend the March For
Life marking the 50th anniversary of the legalization of abortion in
Canada. The then Conservative leader, Andrew Scheer, was missing.
Scheer not only failed to address the people gathered on the grounds
of the parliament, he forbade, I believe, any other member of his
parliamentary caucus to deliver a message of support to Canadians who
had come to the capital from across the country.
It is no wonder that the Conservative party has been now for a long
while a mere soulless shadow of the party of Sir John A.
Macdonald.
If Canadians cannot hear from those who have led, and want to lead,
the Conservative party, at a minimum their concern that the absence of
any protection for the unborn in Canadian statutes is immoral and
untenable, then it is long past the expiry date for this party to
continue existing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzKgsOSf-Xg&feature=emb_share&fbclid=IwAR0ZldtLZvWaMFTyhduiIF2dhd5j9FQdJ3nIQcCaDnfTaIY-U2BRYFbcXMk
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