Without A Voice WARNING: IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT BE INSULTED, DON'T READ THIS! Tonight I speak for those who can't, for those, whose voices were silenced. For those whose lives were snuffed out, thoughtlessly, as if their lifeforce were a candle flame being extinguished. I speak for aborted children. I am not going to dazzle you with statistics or demographics. Those of us who care, know them. Those of you who don't care, it isn't important to you. I am going to speak from a family perspective. As someone who feels the loss, someone who has watched one of the strongest women I have ever known, one who seldom cries, cry all day from the heartbreak of knowing that two babies who would have been her grandchildren are dead. She is shattered, inconsolable. She is in shock. Disbelief has been her companion this day. There are no words to express the rage I feel! No words I can express to this woman to comfort her. How do you comfort someone who is a family member of murdered twins. I remember when Scott Peterson was in the news. The media talked of trying him for the murder of his wife, and unborn child. I came unglued! Why? Because you can't pick and choose what morality is! You can't say it is okay to murder (abort) an unborn child, and that it is wrong to have caused the death of his unborn child by murdering his wife!! Right is right and wrong is wrong, no matter who does it! In 1973 when abortion was legalized, (Roe V Wade), Congress passed the Endangered Species Act. Yes, that is right. You can have an abortion. You won't be arrested for premeditated murder . In some circles you may even be applauded for your right to choose. However, do not go out and destroy an eagle egg. If you do, you can be fined $5,000.00 or a year in jail or both! People, wake up! Do you not find anything wrong with this picture? Is your conscience so far gone that you actually believe there won't be a reckoning for what has been happening in this country for over 100 years? Yes, go back, do a search. Abortion has been an issue for well over 100 years in America! Do you wonder why today's young people take guns to school and kill their classmates? News Flash! You have been showing them since 1973 that life has no value! It is part of this country's law! The law doesn't negate responsibility for taking the lives of helpless children! I was always so shocked when abortion clinics were bombed and the bombers were arrested for murder. Why? Because those adults HAD A CHOICE to work in an abortion clinic. That is why! Don't get me wrong, the bombings weren't right either. But you know, if someone tries to attack me, I can defend myself. If someone attacks a child of 10, even a child of 10 might just be lucky enough to escape, depending on the circumstances of the attack. If someone attacks an infant of any age, that child has no defense. There is such moral outrage when a young child is attacked or harmed in any way. Why is there no moral outrage when an even younger child is killed? Don't play that, "it isn't a child it is a fetus" number with me! When that 'fetus' reaches full term, what is born? It isn't a rock, it is a precious child! We have a tendency to take deep national pride in America. I have to wonder why. We are still horrified at what happened with the 'non-aryan' races in Europe before and during World War II. Why? Are we really any better? I could argue the point that even Hitler and his henchmen had more mercy, than we do in this country. I hope you will consider what I have written. These are my personal feelings and beliefs. I know that I should have posted this in the writer's gallery, but the image limit there is 300 x 300 and I wanted you to be able to see this image well. Despite the fact that it is rather rough, and not pretty in any sense, the flame is full of faces, eyes, and no mouths with which to speak. Thank you Leanndra 00:50 4/3/2006