Mike's Comment of the Week - THE LADY FROM BROOKLYN

I've never met her, but I've read several of her articles. We've exchanged a few e-mails, and I've talked to her on the phone a couple of times.

She is infused with a tremendous sense of morality, and seems to be burning up inside over all the injustice in this world. Perhaps it is because she does not have any children of her own that she is so passionate about the crime and triple tragedy of abortion. Why a triple tragedy? The baby is killed, the mother is scarred for life, and God is offended.

She is scandalized by the popular acceptance of abortion, of course, but is most mortified by the willingness of much of the Jewish community (with the exception of the Orthodox) to embrace, and become apologists for this evil. Her righteous anger provided the spark for her to found the organization Jews For Life. On the pages of the website (now dark) you will see that her passion is tempered with scholarship, and even humor.

She makes quick work of the oft-cited passage (Exodus 21:22-25), the so-called lex talionis (law of retaliation), used in desperation to show that Judaism is pro-choice.

When men have a fight and hurt a pregnant woman, so that she suffers a miscarriage, but no further injury, the guilty one shall be fined as much as the woman's husband demands of him, and he shall pay in the presence of the judges.

But if injury ensues, you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

The notion that the secularists who are pro-choice would quote the Bible is hilarious enough, but then, even the Devil quotes Scripture (Matthew 4:6). The biggest joke is that they really think that since the penalty defined for an accident that produces a miscarriage is less than death, somehow it follows that a woman has carte blanche to purposely procure an abortion. Yet, with all their best and brightest, this, unbelievably, is as good as it gets. Just another demonstration that sin clouds the intellect.

The Lady from Brooklyn mixes things up on the streets, as well. Her website is chock full of articles detailing her adventures at the local Democrat Diner. From all descriptions, she is the only Republican in her entire neighborhood! She loves a good argument, and gets into it with the locals all the time. I think this debating takes its toll on her, and I've tried to tell her about casting pearls before swine, but as yet, she hasn't gotten the message.

How rare these days that someone should have concerns beyond their own daily rat race struggle to make ends meet. How good that a lonely voice should cry out, taking advantage of the new forum of the Internet to reach thousands, even millions.

The lady from Brooklyn reminds me of one who came before her, and who even spent some time in Brooklyn. She was driven, seldom backed down, and got things done. She was to become the first U.S. citizen canonized as a saint. Even though there are certainly religious and cultural differences between Mother Cabrini (1850-1917) and the lady from Brooklyn, Cabrini's own order speculates on what she might be doing if she were alive today.

She would: