Today's "must read" is this op-ed piece from the Birmingham Post (U.K.) which features the straightforward logic and persuasive historical arguments of our dear friend, Dr. Greg Gardner. Here's an excerpt:...As an illustration of this, the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961 convicted one of the Nazi regime's most efficient and zealous bureaucrats. The last charge of "crimes against the Jewish people" of which he was convicted was "directing that births be banned and pregnancies interrupted among Jewish women".
Eichmann was a bureaucrat and never wielded anything more dangerous than a pen or a typewriter. His crime was signing forms and arranging the referral of innocent people - including pregnant women - so that someone else could do the killing. Referring a woman to an abortion provider is participation in abortion to a greater or lesser degree.
The subtitle of Hannah Arendt's book about the Eichmann trial is A report on the banality of evil. It is this "banality of evil" the perfunctory signing away of a human life implicit in the abortion referral which some conscientious doctors are trying to resist.
We should recognise our own corporate guilt: the taxpayer who provides the funding; the doctor who fills in the paperwork as well as the doctor who does the deed; the politician who votes for the status quo as well as the journalist who assists in the cover up; the boyfriend who puts pressure on the young woman to abort as well as the counsellor who withholds information; the suppliers of the abortionist's equipment as well as the suppliers of the means of disposal of the remains of the aborted children; and, the church leaders who refuse even to discuss the subject in public...
