“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil…therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live…” (Deuteronomy 30:15-19).In context, these are the words of Moses to the children of Israel in the hard labor of their miraculous birth as a nation. God, the Creator, Giver, and Sustainer of life, presented Israel with the most basic choice a person can ever make: life or death. To most sensible people, the right choice may be obvious, but to far too many others, it isn’t. Proof? More than 50 million fellow humans, by conservative estimates, have been killed by abortion in the U.S. alone since the January 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that “legalized” abortion as a de facto law of the land.
Our nation shamefully stands accountable before God and before the world for the sanctioned murder of 4,000 citizens every day for the last 35 years, a mind-numbing thought given the total number of U.S. military deaths in all our wars from the Revolutionary War to the present is 668,622 and the combined number of battle dead in all the wars of the 20th Century worldwide is 38 million. Aside from the staggering numbers, Roe v. Wade initiated a rapid and dramatic devaluation of human life and unleashed an unprecedented culture of death in the U.S., fostering a widespread increase of domestic violence, child abuse, and child pornography, as well as a frightening push for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, and human cloning.
The Supreme Court’s majority opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, candidly admitted that if the “personhood [of the fetus] is established, the appellant’s [Roe] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment…[T]he appellee [Wade] conceded on reargument that no case could be cited that holds that a fetus is a person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
Perhaps the reason why no case could be cited was because up until that time it never would have entered any sane person’s mind to think that the fetus was anything else but a person. Even today, ask any child what is inside the “belly” of a pregnant woman and the answer will undoubtedly be, “A baby!” And modern medical and media technology, along with federal laws like the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004, have clearly and unarguably addressed Blackmun’s required establishment of the “personhood of the fetus.”
More than three bloodstained decades of hard facts, research, and testimony are readily available and easily accessible online, not to mention thousands-of-years-old biblical mandates. Inescapably, then, Americans, in general, and Christians, specifically, are without excuse for remaining silent about the tragedy of abortion that has long ripped the moral fabric of our society in more ways than the obvious. Are we so dull of heart or arrogant of mind to think that God will spare us judgment for nationally choosing death? Speak up. Speak out. Choose life.
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