“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.”

“The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.”

“It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.”

“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.”

“War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.”

“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.”

Quotes courtesy of The Patriot Post (patriotpost.us)

THE PATRIOT PRESS

MARCHING TO THE DRUMBEAT OF FREEDOM

Feb. 1, 2009    Vol. 2  Issue 3

Abortion By Anna Becker

In 1973, a young woman named Norma McCorvey with two young women fresh out of law school, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, made history by taking the most important case in U.S. history to the Supreme Court.  The U.S. Supreme Court issued the ruling that legalized abortion on January 22, 1973.  “We recognize the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child. That right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy . . .” (ROE, v. WADE, 410 U.S. 113).

Many people applauded this ruling since it finally gave women the freedom and liberty long refused them.  A woman has the right to choose in something that would affect her life so deeply.  Who, after all, knows better than she what would be best for herself and her future, and in the case of rape or incest, the woman should not be punished with a baby!  Additionally, it is not fair to the child to be brought up in a home where he is not wanted and loved.  Such conditions would only make a hardened criminal of him and place an added burden on society at large.  Roe v Wade finally gave women the right to be free and independent.

However, many girls who terminate a pregnancy by abortion erroneously believe that it is just a blob of tissue.  The Bible clearly disproves that belief and even medical science has proven that it is a living being.  By four weeks of age, a heartbeat can be heard and ears, eyes, and small hands are visible by the fifth week.  One of the Ten Commandments is that “Thou shalt not kill” Exodus 20:13.  In Ecclesiastes 11:5, an unborn child is clearly just that, an unborn child! “As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all” (Eccl 11:5). Adoptions are a viable alternative to abortions.  A woman, no matter how she became pregnant, has no right to “choose” to kill another human being. America has had approximately 50,000,000 abortions to date.  Just imagine how many future taxpayers, lawyers, doctors, and scientists we have ruthlessly killed.

Josh Davis was a swimmer in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, the only man in the world to win three gold medals there.  His mother became pregnant out of wedlock and gave birth to Josh in 1972.  She later told her son that she would have aborted him if abortion was legal in 1972.  Abortion is murder and breaking God’s laws will never bring His blessing upon our land.  “In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.” Proverbs 14:28

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