The columns of Michael Moriarty (yes, that Michael Moriarty) are notoriously intense — his manic, in-your-face, free-associating style can be maddening — but his latest one, eviscerating "religious" arguments for abortion, is dead on:

... The Golden Rule, as we all learned in Kindergarten, does not mean, "Let's do unto gestating infants … what we would not want done unto our own gestating infancy."

Now I think that's pretty self-evident, or, as we have all come to understand that now antiquated adjective of self-evident, this is a no-brainer.

However, we have been inundated by the revisionism, the re-interpretation of Christ in light of the on-going scientific discoveries, having been apprised of this very revolutionary New Christ, one that according to Rev. Don Jones of Chicago, the late Rev. W. O. Vaught of Arkansas, Rev. Billy Graham, the virtual Pope of American Protestantism, and, finally, that most colourful of the New Evangelists, Rev. Jesse Jackson of Chicago – with two of these Revisionists from Chicago, Illinois, one might think that "toddlin' town" a New Jerusalem – as I say, we have been told repeatedly that the Catholic Church and her stand on abortion is beyond the Dark Ages, that it is Cro-Magnon, Counter-Revolutionary, comprised of antediluvian reactionaries who, as we all know, will be placed on the "ash heap of history" before even the United States of America is. ...

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... Odd isn't it, or rather selfish, I think, that so many Baby Boomers are determined to see that there will never be another Baby Boom again!

It's a little ungrateful, I think, but … oh, well …

So, "Let's do unto gestating infants what we would not want to have done unto our own gestating infancy. We can forget about the warning Christ gave us that as we do unto the "least" of these children, so we are doing unto Him! Let us not forget, that Christ came - "Hallelujah!" - but he is gone now and there is no fear of ever really seeing Him again, unless, of course, he re-appears as the New Christ of the New Christianity, the one so alive and well in the New Jerusalem of Chicago!" ...

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... Were there any gestating infants around to testify to the legalization of abortion, so effectively institutionalized by lawyers and scientists? Physicians, doctors, lawyers, the medical and legal community showed up at the Supreme Court hearings over Roe v. Wade, entered the well of the court as witnesses and ended up being the Judge.

Apparently they must have all been geniuses, they'd have to be, in order to get away withalienating the entire American Public from their inalienable right to life under the Declaration of Independence, and the right to life when created - not gestated. ... [Read the whole thing]