A consistent defender of the unborn, Alan Keyes has long been on the front lines of the fight to rid our nation of the evil of abortion.
In the 1996 presidential election, Alan entered the race specifically to make abortion a top priority in our nation's public policy debate. He is credited with bringing abortion to the forefront and influencing the Republican Party to retain a strong pro-life position.
He did so in the face of heavy criticism from party leaders, who told him that such emphasis on abortion was "divisive" and "irrelevant."
On one particular occasion at a GOPAC convention in May 1995, two months after announcing his candidacy for president Dr. Keyes told an audience of top GOP donors, activists, and leaders basking in the glow of the Republican landslide of the previous November that abortion was the single most critical issue facing America, something they were not anxious to hear.
Dr. Keyes' address to this group (and the question and answer session that followed) is considered by many to be one of the most dramatic and important moments in modern American politics. The address has been compared to Lincoln's "House Divided" speech, and is often acknowledged as the most impressive event of the 1996 campaign.
Recordings of the speech were distributed by the thousands during Alan's 1996 presidential race. He took on the elite conservatives in the country and led them by the force of his statesmanship to a conclusion they were determined to resist: that abortion cannot be ignored by any serious candidate for high office in America.
In 2000, Alan ran again for president on the same overriding theme: we as a nation must confront the "culture of death" and sweep it from our land. In the presidential primary debates which he is widely acknowledged to have won he further pushed abortion into the limelight, and forced America's conscience to grapple with the grave consequences of using government power to destroy our posterity.
Alan has many profound reasons for his unflinching opposition to abortion, such as the language of the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that "all men are created equal, [and] that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." He argues that even the weakest among us the unborn deserve the chance to enjoy the God-given blessings affirmed in the Declaration, and that the decision to destroy innocent human life, life created by God, is not a legitimate human choice.
Often, Alan has intimated that the most vital thing our nation can do to preserve its future consists not in military might or economic strength, but in meriting God's approbation and providence something our country's abortion policy places in serious jeopardy. A just God, Alan notes, will not forever tolerate our nation's disregard for human life.
In the wake of September 11th, we felt our vulnerability clearly. But September 11th didn't create that vulnerability. It simply helped us to a greater consciousness of it that somewhere behind the faηade of our material power, and our economic might, and our military machine, there was the truth that the growing weakness of our moral fiber was laying us open to the assaults of the most wicked enemies on earth.
And the issue of life in this country, the issue of whether or not we have the right to reach into the womb and snuff out the life of innocent children, isn't just about killing those babies. It's about killing the sacred principle from which every liberty we claim in this country flows: the principle that our rights are not the subject, not the result, not the consequence of human choice, because they flowed in the first place from the choice of the Creator, God. . . . When things like that are happening, that's the way the republic ends, you know.
It is like the issue of slavery and the issue of civil rights, an issue of whether or not we really acknowledge the transcendent authority on the basis of which we have our rights, or whether we are going to arrogate that authority to ourselves and declare that we have the right to draw the line determining who is human and who is not. If we arrogate this power to ourselves, don't fool yourself. You have dethroned the authority of that Creator; you have denied His will. And this regime cannot survive.
In the 1996 presidential election, Alan entered the race specifically to make abortion a top priority in our nation's public policy debate. He is credited with bringing abortion to the forefront and influencing the Republican Party to retain a strong pro-life position.
He did so in the face of heavy criticism from party leaders, who told him that such emphasis on abortion was "divisive" and "irrelevant."
On one particular occasion at a GOPAC convention in May 1995, two months after announcing his candidacy for president Dr. Keyes told an audience of top GOP donors, activists, and leaders basking in the glow of the Republican landslide of the previous November that abortion was the single most critical issue facing America, something they were not anxious to hear.
Dr. Keyes' address to this group (and the question and answer session that followed) is considered by many to be one of the most dramatic and important moments in modern American politics. The address has been compared to Lincoln's "House Divided" speech, and is often acknowledged as the most impressive event of the 1996 campaign.
Recordings of the speech were distributed by the thousands during Alan's 1996 presidential race. He took on the elite conservatives in the country and led them by the force of his statesmanship to a conclusion they were determined to resist: that abortion cannot be ignored by any serious candidate for high office in America.
In 2000, Alan ran again for president on the same overriding theme: we as a nation must confront the "culture of death" and sweep it from our land. In the presidential primary debates which he is widely acknowledged to have won he further pushed abortion into the limelight, and forced America's conscience to grapple with the grave consequences of using government power to destroy our posterity.
Alan has many profound reasons for his unflinching opposition to abortion, such as the language of the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that "all men are created equal, [and] that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." He argues that even the weakest among us the unborn deserve the chance to enjoy the God-given blessings affirmed in the Declaration, and that the decision to destroy innocent human life, life created by God, is not a legitimate human choice.
Often, Alan has intimated that the most vital thing our nation can do to preserve its future consists not in military might or economic strength, but in meriting God's approbation and providence something our country's abortion policy places in serious jeopardy. A just God, Alan notes, will not forever tolerate our nation's disregard for human life.
Some of Alan's thoughts on the issue of life
In the wake of September 11th, we felt our vulnerability clearly. But September 11th didn't create that vulnerability. It simply helped us to a greater consciousness of it that somewhere behind the faηade of our material power, and our economic might, and our military machine, there was the truth that the growing weakness of our moral fiber was laying us open to the assaults of the most wicked enemies on earth. And the issue of life in this country, the issue of whether or not we have the right to reach into the womb and snuff out the life of innocent children, isn't just about killing those babies. It's about killing the sacred principle from which every liberty we claim in this country flows: the principle that our rights are not the subject, not the result, not the consequence of human choice, because they flowed in the first place from the choice of the Creator, God. . . . When things like that are happening, that's the way the republic ends, you know. It is like the issue of slavery and the issue of civil rights, an issue of whether or not we really acknowledge the transcendent authority on the basis of which we have our rights, or whether we are going to arrogate that authority to ourselves and declare that we have the right to draw the line determining who is human and who is not. If we arrogate this power to ourselves, don't fool yourself. You have dethroned the authority of that Creator; you have denied His will. And this regime cannot survive.
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