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Pro-Life
Gettysburg Address
One score and
fourteen years ago, seven Supreme Court Justices brought forth upon this
nation an unjust law; conceived without liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are not created equal. Now
we are engaged in a great spiritual war testing whether our nation or
any nation so conceived and so misguided can long endure. Today we meet
on a battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of our
day to remember those nearly 50 million innocent, future Americans, who
had their lives taken from them to uphold a misguided notion of freedom
that says the choice to kill the innocent is more sacred than life
itself. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do this. But
in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot
hallow this day. The innocent children who only desired to live, and
were so brutally killed, have consecrated it, far above our power to add
or detract. The
world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but they can
never forget the holocaust of the unborn. It is for us living, rather,
to be dedicated here to the unfinished work of eliminating all laws that
legalize the slaughter of the innocents, we take increased devotion to
eliminate the cause of their deaths, that we here highly resolve, that
the nearly 50 million unborn have not died in vain, that this nation,
once under God, shall restore our forefathers' original notion of
freedom, that values the sacredness of every human life, and that
government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
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