Prince Harry is not literally brain dead.

However, he is oblivious.

And his relatives, friends and advisers did him no favor in failing to point out the potential consequences of his wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party.

The outcry against his insensitivity, or stupidity, or both, is justified.

But, Jews were not the only victims of Nazis, and not every comparison to Nazi atrocities like the Holocaust merits condemnation, or criticism.

Recently, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, a German, compared the horror of abortion to the horrors of Herod, Hitler and Stalin.

"First there was Herod, who ordered the children of Bethlehem to be killed, then there were Hitler and Stalin among others, and today unborn children are being killed in the millions," the Cardinal declared during a sermon in the Cathedral in Cologne, Germany.

Obviously, the Cardinal was condemning, not praising Herod, Hitler, and Stalin.

And he was equating the lives of unborn children, born children and adults lost as a result of the failure to respect the sanctity of all human life from conception through natural death.

In order with natural law.

And regardless of civil law.

In fact, the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust is a fraction of the number of aborted babies.

And each of those Jews and unborn children is equally a child of God.

But, pro-abortion opportunists swiftly tried to shift attention from the Cardinal's valid point by claiming that Hitler's anti-Jewish genocide and abortion must not be compared.

They slyly twisted the Cardinal's words to suit their agenda.

Claudia Roth, co-president of Germany's Greens party, insisted that the Cardinal "must apologize to those he has offended."

She didn't call on those who offended God by aborting their unborn children apologize, of course.

Paul Spiegel, president of Germany's Central Council for Jews, announced that the Cardinal had insulted the millions of victims of the Holocaust and that he was contemplating legal action against the Cardinal.

For that sermon.   

Spiegel declared that he "cannot in any way understand" how anyone could compare abortion and euthanasia to Nazi crimes.

Which apparently means that Spiegel cannot understand that human life is sacred from conception to natural death, regardless of race, color, creed or national origin.

Cardinal Meisner expressed "regret that it has got to this pitch" and acknowledged the obvious: that he never would have made the comparison if he had thought it could have been misinterpreted.

But Cardinal Meisner should not be apologizing.

Cardinal Meisner did not insult any Holocaust victims.

He affirmed their right to life and victim status.

It is Roth, Spiegel and their ilk who discriminate against the victims of abortion and owe an apology to Cardinal Meisner for pretending that he had insulted any victims of those who refused or refuse to respect innocent human life.

Gary L. Morella does not understand why "many people...are reluctant to compare the Jewish Holocaust with the killing of babies in the womb, the holocaust of our time."

Either because they value Jews more highly than non-Jews.

Or because they fear the power of the comparison.

Or both.

Mr. Morella effectively explained why Spiegel is wrong:

"Holocaust means 'thorough destruction.'  How anyone can say that a holocaust is not occurring when babies are brutally killed in their mothers' wombs defies description. I would invite anyone who identifies themselves as 'pro-choice' to watch a film on embryoscopy to see the fully formed transparent baby at four weeks with the heart clearly beating and then to watch a film on abortion where baby parts are cavalierly deposited into trays. This is not about a person's 'choice'; it is about life and death. A child is not a 'choice' except in a desensitized society that calls the removal of a fully term baby from the womb by its feet and the subsequent puncturing of its skull and the sucking out of its brains 'dilation and extraction.'  All this when modern science has confirmed that infants in-utero feel pain.  We are talking about abominable barbarism here!

Like the "medical" experiments Hitler let Dr. Mengele perform on innocent Jews, including children, in the name of science.

As Mr. Morella understands, human life begins at conception:

"Everything needed for the adult person is already biologically present with the formation of the first cell. This is recognized by the vast majority of medical schools.

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"...the fruit of human generation, from the first moment of existence, i.e., from the moment the zygote has formed, demands the unconditional respect that is morally due human beings in their bodily and spiritual totality. Thus, human beings are to be respected and treated as persons from the moment of conception.  From that same moment their rights as persons must be recognized, the first being the inviolable right of every human being to life, which is an American guarantee in recognition that man's laws are subsidiary to God's - a basic tenet of Catholic moral theology...."

And Mr. Morella deftly compares the victims of abortion to the victims of Hitler's concentration camps and Stalin's gulags:

"Why complain about exhibits which show babies brutally killed in the womb. I ask 'Why not show them?'  Why not show the horror which man is capable of perpetrating on his fellow man in order to learn from history, sadly a history which we are still living.  The needed reminders of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulags are still there for these reasons.  Why are they shunned when it comes to the murder of innocents on a scale unheard of in the history of the world?  Why the reluctance to educate our students as to what they are really standing for when they say that they are 'pro-choice?'"

Mr. Morella understands exactly what Cardinal Meisner meant:

"Not only do I see a comparison with the 'legalized' killing of babies in the womb since Roe v. Wade and the Jewish Holocaust.  I see the former exceeding the latter by an approaching order-of-magnitude. Both were the function of 'man-made' laws whose results are tragic, but not unpredictable since man has no law except that rooted in the Natural Law given to him by Almighty God. This moral foundation is necessary in society else anarchy reigns, as what happens when A's unlimited freedom conflicts with B's? In the absence  of universal moral absolutes, just what can be appealed to? Thus, saying that 'it is the law' is specious as Dred Scott can attest to in regard to slavery being the law of the land in pre-Civil War America, which was upheld by a Supreme Court with moral failings - something which a democratic republic cannot afford if it is to survive.  Both holocausts resulted in the brutal killing of human beings on a scale measured in the millions with the abortion holocaust ongoing for over thirty years in America alone, eclipsing all others."

So Mr. Morella is outraged for Cardinal Meisner:

"[H]ow dare Jewish leaders threaten to sue a Catholic prelate for telling the Truth... about the holocaust that is abortion!  Far from condemnation, this German cardinal needs to be commended for giving evidence that he is a Catholic in more than name only in the recognition that what is left of the Faithful after years of false ecumenism ala Vatican II need good shepherds, not wolves, to care for them. 

"Far from being offended, Jews should be in solidarity with the Church's teaching against murdering the most innocent in what should be their safest place of refuge, their mothers' wombs.  This is not to demean the Jewish Holocaust, which is an evil assertion, and, as such, the work of the devil.  How could it be otherwise when Catholic priests, speaking out against the deaths of tens of millions using methods, which the world recoils from when forced to confront as happened sixty years earlier in Nazi Germany, are unjustly criticized?"

Amen!

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