A recent study printed in the medical journal, The Lancet, said, “prenatal diagnostic testing should be offered to pregnant women irrespective of maternal age or risk.” Keep in mind that among those in the medical community, it is commonly accepted that most parents who discover their child will have some kind of serious chromosomal defect choose to terminate the pregnancy.

Such decisions are cause for celebration. At least they were to the California State Assembly, who passed a resolution last week calling on all Americans to “participate in the national celebration, ‘The March for Women’s Lives,’ on April 25.”

The declaration came on the 31st anniversary of the 1973 court ruling on Roe vs. Wade. Ironically, the same year the Supreme Court gave mothers the right to abort, Congress passed the Endangered Species Act – a bill that protects the lives of unborn turtles on the beaches of Florida today.

Sadly, it became apparent that the most dangerous place for an embryo today is inside the nurturing womb of a human mother. Since the court ruling in 1973, there have been an estimated 43 million abortions in America alone. Unfortunately, our unborn children would stand a better chance if they could grow up alone on a beach in Florida.

In the 30 years following Roe vs. Wade, Democrats have effectively canonized the “right to choose” into their liberal gospel. At some point it was etched into stone- the Supreme Court calmly reversed a law involving sodomy, but anyone who even questions the science and logic behind the so-called right to abort is labeled a misogynist.

If life began logically and scientifically at conception, then mothers would have no constitutional right to choose. The fetus they are carrying is also a person – a person created with certain inalienable rights – including the right to live. Making abortion about “choice” is dancing around the real issue. Choice is irrelevant if it’s a choice involving the life of another human being – more importantly, an extremely vulnerable child who cannot yet stand up for him or herself.

It will remain a mystery how the same people that have fought for the civil rights of so many minorities in this country would let the most vulnerable fall by the wayside. The most significant candidates for abuse among us are those among us who cannot yet speak up for their own rights – those who do not yet have the strength to even kick. American children have become the silent victims in the greatest instance of genocide the world has seen.

We are told to separate ourselves from the emotion involved with abortion. We are told, “It only looks human; it’s really just a bundle of tissue,” while at the same time environmentalists are using companies like Disney to personify baby turtles. They are spreading their propaganda and emotionally baiting the country to go along with their politically-driven agenda.

At the rate we are going now, Americans will continue to abort a million babies every year, and the Democrats will continue to fight for the only issue still holding their party together.

Derrick Maxey is a junior in music education. He can be reached for comment at [email protected].