One Nation. Whose G-d?

According to the Constitution on which this nation is based, specifically, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." So, no laws respecting an establishment of religion, eh?

According to the Supreme Court, that law needs to be upheld. Public schools, which are entities of the government, are not allowed to have prayer. Back since 1962, in Engel v. Vitale, the Court decided (6 to 1) that any prayer, even nondenominational, even voluntary, is unconstitutional; it pressures kids into believing that the government or school supports religion. And that's simply not fair to families which do not want schools (which their children must attend by law) teaching their children that any religion, or even religion itself, is right, true, or valid. That's for the parents to decide.

And so, according to our laws and court rulings, no religion from government. Right?

Abort, Retry, Fail?

It's a common political image among abortion-issue interest groups:

A woman gets up on stage, picks up a microphone, and, through tears, explains how she almost was never born. She explains that her mother was considering an abortion. There were medical complications with the baby, even complications with the mother. Both lives were in danger, and her mother has serious reasons to consider terminating the child's life. The woman reiterates that she was nearly never born.

Sounds like your typical pro-life speech. But here's the kicker: the mother had the abortion. That was the child before the woman speaking. Turns out, that woman is only alive because of abortion. She would not exist had her mother been forced to have the previous child, in part because, as it later turns out, her mother would not have survived.

I wonder if that's something pro-lifers ever consider; the people who exist because of abortion.