Planned Parenthood and America’s Slippery Slope

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville
Like many Americans, I feel great concern for our nation at this point in time – not because there is anything wrong with the vast majority of the American people, or that our problems are any greater than they have been in the past. No; our nation is fundamentally strong. Our problems are due to the misdirected leadership which we have put in place in Washington, leadership which has vowed to follow our Constitution, but instead drive agendas irrespective of our Constitution.
We are failing to engender in our young people the requisite awe for the freedoms and opportunities the common man possesses, supported by this incomparable document.
As we talk about the problem of America’s leadership, heavy on the hearts of many of us is the revelation of the selling of baby parts by Planned Parenthood, about the abortion doctors being careful how they cut up these little children and extract them from the womb, so as not to damage the particular organs which they desire to sell. 
Watching some of the videos where these doctors are casually chatting while they eat their lunch, discussing the particulars, inwardly I turned into a ball of nerves. As I have explained before, my family is of German heritage, and I raised my children to speak the language (my family name was Hohl, later changed to Hall).
From my teenage years on, I have spent countless hours talking to friends in Germany and America about where Germany went wrong. You must understand these were very proud people, and they had a difficult time talking about the enormous blot on the character of their homeland brought about by the actions of their nation up through the end of World War II. But I pressed them, as I have earlier said in other columns, because I felt compelled to learn from them, first hand, what they did wrong, so I could do my part to fight against such atrocities in America, should the need ever arise.
At the time I was grilling them, I could not imagine that my country, the United States of America, could ever stoop so low. But on the other hand, I knew these German people; I am, in blood, one of them. I knew that if such a technologically advanced, Christian nation, could lose its way in such a manner, America was just as capable of losing its.
So I tried to make allowances, saying, those doctors in the video were an exception, not the rule. But as I say that, I answer myself, saying, “Art, you are kidding yourself. Even if the other doctors are not harvesting baby parts, they all are, in fact, cutting these innocent, fragile children up in the womb, before removing them.  Further, Congress has reviewed this organ harvesting practice, and so far has decided not to eliminate Planned Parenthood’s funding, nor does it appear that they will do so. If that remains the case, that will make them complicit – that make all of us complicit.”
We are currently on the path which brought my friend, Frieda Mähler, to tears. As she sat in the chair sobbing, with her elbows on her knees and hands on her face, with the tears dripping off her cheeks to the floor, she said, “What could we do? There was nothing we could do to stop it.” She explained to me that the Germans supported the Nazis (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) early on, but later it went out of the people’s control.
We have to ask ourselves, If America can do this to innocent children, what other atrocity would be beyond our moral capability? It is time to get a grip. Unless we change course, the answer to that question is: Nothing.
 Art Hall
From the Bible:   The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9