Perceptions for September 2007
ABORTION’S IMPACT
~Roger Johnson
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 current 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 and that, 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 alright, 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.
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