Rudy and the ‘social issues’

Lots of Republicans and even conservatives are talking about Rudy Giuliani’s being the likely GOP nominee for President in 2008.

But nobody seems to talk about the big irony about Rudy:

He's running mainly on his 9/11 record, but the way I see it, his biggest problem is that he does not get the single most important fact about 9/11: Most of the innocent people brutally murdered on that day in the US had not even been born yet.

And the same is true of 9/12 and 9/13 and every day forward to the present, and every day back through 1970.

Maybe one of the reasons for the widespread lack of clarity on abortion and on Rudy’s position on it is the fact that abortion is neatly pigeon-holed as one of those pesky ‘social issues’, a term which makes it sound like what color shorts to wear at poolside for the cocktail hour.

When will we realize the monsters that Roe v. Wade has created? For example, everybody thinks Scott Peterson deserves the place he occupies on death row. Why? Isn’t he just one of those "pro-choice" guys who chose to terminate a pregnancy? Why, it was just a blob of tissue anyway. And if Laci didn't agree, so what? Wasn't she just a bigger blob of tissue standing in the way? According to Fox News, in the US, about 100 pregnant women per month are murdered by the father of the child they carry.

And is it really a stretch to think that the death cult of anti-American jihad is fueled by our own death cult, epitomized by legal abortion? Well, maybe that's going a little too far, starting to sound like the rantings of some fanatical right-wing religious nut job like Jerry Falwell or Abraham Lincoln.

Joel Brind, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology and Endocrinology

Baruch College, City University of New York

New York, NY