Over forty-seven million babies have been aborted in
the United States since 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of abortion
in the Roe vs. Wade decision – a figure that grows at the rate of 4,000 every
day. About 1.6 million lives were taken
just last year – that’s 166 deaths per hour, and one baby lost every two and a
half minutes!! One third of the
generation born in the thirty-three years from 1973-2003 is missing because of
abortion. There are as many abortion deaths each year as there are deaths
caused by heart disease and cancer combined.
The death toll is enormously high, yet we may recite such statistics
without actually considering just how staggering those numbers really are.
Consider this: more Americans have died because of
abortion than have died in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, both World
Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the war in
Iraq combined! More babies are killed every
day in America than the total number of people killed in the terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001.
Where is the outrage?
Why isn’t there an enormous public outcry over such an immense loss of
life? A most perplexing aspect of this
is that so many people who support abortion oppose capital punishment. How can people demand that killing an
innocent unborn child is legal and out of the same mouth argue that executing
convicted murderers should be outlawed?
Groups like the National Organization of Women and the ACLU support the
continued legalization of abortion on demand and oppose the death penalty. They argue that since life begins at birth it
is not the taking of human life to abort an unborn child. The Bible affirms differently in Jeremiah 1:5
and Luke 1:41. Human life begins in the
womb and to abort a child before birth is the shedding of innocent blood. That is something the Lord hates (Proverbs
6:17).
Several years ago a panel of Florida judges upheld a
$108,800 fine against a man who poached 1088 turtle eggs from a state
park. The public defender argued that an
egg isn’t a turtle until it hatches; but the prosecutor affirmed that 80-90% of
marine turtle eggs are fertile, and therefore each egg must be considered a unit
of marine life. The judges agreed with
the prosecutor and fined the man $100 for each egg poached! It is legal lunacy to argue that laws
protecting unhatched marine turtles are perfectly all right, but laws
protecting the life of unborn humans are unconstitutional.
Try as one might to justify this barbaric practice, abortion
does not meet God’s approval. Friends,
when we can open a newspaper or turn on a television and learn of people
protesting the execution of convicted murderers and rapists while “protecting”
a woman’s “right to choose,” we have it all backwards. May God help us to stop calling evil good and
good evil before it is too late. To
prevent an unwanted pregnancy, stop engaging in immoral activity! There are other alternatives besides abortion
for those who find themselves in an unwanted pregnancy. God’s mercy is extended to those who may seek
his forgiveness for their lack of mercy when they aborted a child. Abortion is wrong, but God is merciful.
