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The "Un-Woman" on the march in Washington May 03, 2004

As the grime settles from the April 25 "March for Women's Lives," some observations can be made.

Apart from the sheer ugliness of the spectacle, one is haunted by the terrible lie these women have ingested. Everyone knows that this march was not about women's lives, but about ideology, which includes the doomed utopian pursuit of consequence-free sex. This, at least makes some sense, as St. Thomas Aquinas said, "No one can live without joy. That is why a man deprived of spiritual joy goes over to carnal pleasures." ( Summa Theologica, IIa-IIae, 35.4 ad 2. ) Anyone can understand this.

What is more disturbing is the almost complete moral inversion taking place. We have legions of un-women giving anti-birth (abortion) to non-babies. (Or so they would have us believe: "It's just a little glob of tissue.") But this is a little glob of tissue with a soul, with an eternal destiny, who needs its mother. He also needs his father-- who has become the un-man and a predator, user and a feminist sycophant rather than a real man: a protector, provider, and cherisher.

What we have is the reversal of what St. Peter said when he wrote, "Once you were 'no people' but now you are God’s people; once there was no mercy for you, but now you have found mercy." (1Pet. 2:10) There is still mercy, thank God, but like a dog returning to its vomit (See Prov. 26:11, 2Pet. 2:22) part of our culture is choosing to be a "no people" again.

The un-woman is characterized by accusation over understanding, sterility over fecundity, coarseness over tenderness, harshness over gentleness, termination over nurturance, emptiness over fulfillment, the casual over the intimate, profanity over reverence, convenience over sacrifice, death over life. The generation that demanded everything should be natural now demands that their sex be completely unnatural. Above all, the un-woman seems to exhibit a tragic unfamiliarity with love. Pray for them.

This inversion signifies a defining reversal in Western civilization and its Judeo-Christian roots. Far from being "progressive," it is a regression to paganism, with the demon Moloch-- hungry for human sacrifice-- requiring babies to be tossed into his insatiable jaws.

Many who have been to Operation Rescue missions have witnessed and commented on this before—the faces of the opposition, gnarled and twisted in rage, threatening to explode in violence while pro-lifers quietly pray. And the media reports exactly the opposite.

At any rate, this is where we begin to tread into the realm of the demonic. The rhetoric is one of non-stop accusation (The Hebrew word "Satan" is rendered "the accuser," as in "The Accuser of the brethren has been cast out.") It is also fraught with lies in defense of killing the innocent ("He was a liar and a murderer from the beginning.") And rage. Rage is the business of demons.

For some reason, whenever I have heard or read St. Paul's description of the pagans in the first chapter of Romans, I always pictured it as some kind of parade or march-- Pagans on Parade-- and now it has come true before our eyes in this march and in various "Gay Pride" parades. The irony is that they seem oblivious-- even proud-- of the hideousness of their displays and the effect they have on those, one would think, they are trying to win over.

The implication that the government, the Catholic Church, or the "patriarchy" has some vested interest in "controlling" the lives or the bodies of the demonstrators is too ridiculous to take seriously. The issue is their supposed "right" to kill the sovereign innocent human life growing within them-- which, in another demonic inversion, they see as a curse, not a blessing.

There are alternatives, which don't involve coat hangers. The alternative is love, and there are now more crisis pregnancy centers to offer loving solutions than abortion mills to offer only death and despair.

But in the end, the entire pretense that this was a "March for Women's Lives" is a lie. Everyone knows this. The statistics for abortions being justified as done "for the life of the mother," the last I checked, stood at 3 percent, and that number (which is disputed by pro-lifers, who insist that an abortion is never necessary to save the life of the mother), is falling steadily as medical technology improves. It is now public knowledge that partial-birth abortions are never medically indicated to save a woman's life. The pro-abortion lobby has labored to cover up and deny the connection between abortion and breast cancer. And the abortionists, together with their allies, deny outright the experience of millions of women who have suffered the psychic torment of post-abortion syndrome.

The US Food and Drug Administration will decide on May 21 whether or not to make the notorious and very dangerous "morning after pill" (also known as "Plan B" and "emergency contraception") available over-the-counter with no restrictions or medical supervision. (See Phil's Forum: The Back Alley Pill) The secular media turns a deaf ear to concerns about how this decision could affect women's health...

But the tide is turning. Secular pundits are commenting on the ugliness of the march, and how it is turning sympathy away from the cause-- simply by showing it as what it is. The women who carried the crude ugly signs showed disrespect for the viewers, but also for themselves and their bodies.

The abortion lie will eventually collapse under the weight of its own dishonesty and evil, as did Communism, Nazism, slavery, and every other form of tyranny that blithely destroyed the lives of the innocent for the sake of ideology.

Hasten the day, O Lord.

An archive of some of John Mallon's articles may be found at PetersVoice.com and his Blog, Mallon's Media Watch may be found at:http://mallonsmedia.blogspot.com/