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From the 3/9/2007 Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Zell Miller - who switched political parties a few years ago to the scorn of the same media who applaud those "enlightened" ones who switch the other way ( and let's not forget those who've made the politically expedient switch from pro-life to pro-abortion: Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, etc, etc, etc) - is obviously a man who follows his conscience no matter the cost.
Zell Miller - who switched political parties a few years ago to the scorn of the same media who applaud those "enlightened" ones who switch the other way ( and let's not forget those who've made the politically expedient switch from pro-life to pro-abortion: Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, etc, etc, etc) - is obviously a man who follows his conscience no matter the cost.
Says Zell: Military shortages, Social Security crisis, and illegal immigration linked to abortion
Zell Miller, Life Speech, 7Mar07 | Friday, March 9, 2007, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Too many who believe as we do are hesitant to speak because they think they may offend somone or they may be called part of the Religious Right. I don't mind that at all - I glory in it. I am religious and we are right. It hasn't gotten widespread play yet, but former U.S. Sen. Zell Miller made a little news this week in Macon when he declared that abortion has contributed to the military's manpower shortage, the Social Security crisis, and the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States. "How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years? Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We're too few because too many of our babies have been killed," Miller said. "Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973. If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security," the former Georgia governor said. "Still, we watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America. It is unbelievable that a nation under God would allow this." The comments were made at a Tuesday night fund-raiser for a local anti-abortion counseling center. (7Mar07) State Sen. Nancy Schaefer (R-Turnerville), who has become an ideological ally of Miller on the abortion issue, made a similar statement almost exactly a year ago, but backed off upon press inquiries. Somehow, we don't think Miller's inclined to throw himself in reverse. source: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2007/03/09/says_zell_military_shortages_s.html |
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Zell Miller, Georgia Governor (1991-99), U.S. Senator (2000-2004), and Best-Selling Author Outspoken U.S. Senator, nationally-acclaimed governor, best-selling author, university professor, dedicated Christian, and U.S. Marine Sergeant. That only begins to describe Zell Miller, one of the most popular, colorful, and enduring political figures in America today. A fellow governor once said, "In a world filled with plastic and phonies, Zell Miller is the genuine article with the bark still on. For certain, this fiercely independent conservative tells it like he sees it and no one doubts where he stands on any issue. That's why he's a regular on the nation's talk shows and in great demand as a public speaker.
Zell Miller, Georgia Governor (1991-99), U.S. Senator (2000-2004), and Best-Selling Author Outspoken U.S. Senator, nationally-acclaimed governor, best-selling author, university professor, dedicated Christian, and U.S. Marine Sergeant. That only begins to describe Zell Miller, one of the most popular, colorful, and enduring political figures in America today. A fellow governor once said, "In a world filled with plastic and phonies, Zell Miller is the genuine article with the bark still on. For certain, this fiercely independent conservative tells it like he sees it and no one doubts where he stands on any issue. That's why he's a regular on the nation's talk shows and in great demand as a public speaker.
A Democratic supporter of President Bush, Miller is the only person ever to have been the keynote speaker in both the Republican and Democratic national conventions. His speeches are a unique mixture of analysis, history, humor, scripture, faith, family, patriotism, and straight talk common sense. A tax-cutting governor, he created two far-reaching programs that no other state has been able to duplicate, as well as a scholarship program that provides free college tuition for every high school graduate with a B average and a voluntary statewide pre-kindergarten program for all four year olds.
Author of six books, Zell and Shirley, his wife of fifty years, live with two yellow labs in the same house he grew up in. A large family, including grandchildren and great grandchildren, live nearby. It's an idyllic existence which Miller once described in a song he wrote, "Everywhere I've Ever Been Was On My Way Back Home."
After retiring from The U.S. Senate in January, 2005, Zell Miller became a public speaker, a contributor to The Fox News Channel, and completed a new book.
I asked: "So, now you've actually come all the way around to the opinion that you would like to see Roe vs. Wade overturned, and you would like to see unborn children protected in law in this country?"
"That's exactly right," said Miller. "I've come to feel very strongly about that."
In his best-selling book, "A National Party No More -- The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat," Miller dedicates a chapter (entitled "Abortion and a God Above") to describing his conversion from a pro-choice Democrat who supported Roe v. Wade, to a pro-life Democrat who doesn't. Many sources influenced his thinking. They range from the birth of his great-grandchildren, to Sean Hannity's apt comparison of Roe to Dred Scott, to Newsweek's cover of an unborn child, to two female college students who challenged him on the right-to-life, to signs carried by some women in the March for Life.
"The most poignant sight for me at this year's annual pro-life march and demonstration in Washington, D.C.," wrote Miller, "was the large number of women holding signs saying they regretted their abortions."
Unlike some pessimists who argue that abortion is a settled issue, Miller, a former history professor, brings a positive perspective to the cause. "Just as Dred Scott was overturned, I believe Roe v. Wade someday will also be rejected," he writes.
His optimism reminds me of a concept I learned in college Shakespeare lectures. It is called discordia concors: To mirror nature, art must show how order inevitably emerges from chaos. The perceptible rational design of God's creation is the inalterable template against which all works of music, literature and public policy must be judged. It is the natural law, which St. Paul said is written on every heart, and which America embraced as our founding creed in the Declaration of Independence. Any human law that acts against this divine law cannot be deemed right any more than caterwauling can be deemed a symphony.
Just as sound without design is mere noise, a story of human suffering without moral resolution would be, well, a tale signifying nothing. Shakespeare ends even his most bitter tragedies by pointing the way back to moral and civic order. The weak and vacillating Hamlet gives way to the strong and steady Fortinbras. Things will be rotten in Denmark no more.
Zell Miller is no Hamlet. Ask him a straight question, and he gives you a straight answer.
I asked if he believed that by continuing the debate on abortion in America "more Democrats such as yourself can be converted and that in the end we can actually overturn Roe vs. Wade and return to being a pro-life country?"
"I think without any question it ought to continue to be debated," he said, "because I think there are more and more people out there hopefully like I am who are troubled by the way that it is now. And I think the more discussion, the more troubled they may become, until they finally come to the same conclusion that I came to."
In his book, Miller noted a "national trend" toward the pro-life position. "Support for abortion rights," he wrote, "has steadily dropped for a decade from 67 percent in the early 1990s to 54 percent in 2003." He concludes: "I think the reason this is happening is that the debate has shifted from the right of the woman to the right of the baby."
Pro-lifers take heed. Raise your signs high, and march on. The Supreme Court cannot declare dissonance a song, nor make human hearts embrace the killing of unborn children. There will be a happy ending: the chaos let loose by Roe will give way to restored justice.
Zell Miller, a Democrat, has bravely pointed the way.
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