It is not just about the babies, it is about us.
by David B Severy
Abortion is the most heinous crime, number one in my point of view. First let me lay out some facts:
Every year since 1973 we have abored 25% of our naturally conceived fetuses ( http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html#2). They would each become a part of our nation for better or worse as do the other 75%. But 18 years after they are aborted someone else must be found to fill the gap we make by aborting them. In 1991, eighteen years after Roe vs. Wade was decided, all the fetuses aborted in 1973 would have turned 18 years old , had they lived. In 1992, 1993 and each successive year until 2010 another years "crop" of aborted individuals would have turned 18. Their absence is profound. Between 1973 and 1991, 25,000,000 babies were aborted. All would be between 18 and 37 years old today. So we effectively have made room for the 20 million illegals said to be in the USA to come in and do the work the aborted shoulda coulda woulda have done.
Additionally we must see that to those who provide goods and services to parents, the economic activity resulting from raising children from infancy to early adulthood (18) is effectively cut off. Instead illegal aliens enter and take the place of absent labor and business. They work for under the table wages and do black or grey market “baby” business. Consider the money sent out of the country by illegals. Consider the number of the aborted who would have become engineers or scientists or doctors. America continues to slip in the number of necessary professionals it produces and we look to other nations to supply them.
The loss to our nation due to abortion is enormous. In fact we are now producing on average less than 2 children per married couple. This means we are not growing in population but shrinking. Both the illegal Hispanics and the legal Muslim communities are increasing in population. If the rates hold steady the nation will change dramatically in the next 50 years. That might be ok, but it might not be ok.
We also must consider the question of how our children view their elders when they understand that their own lives were a choice rather than a highly prized right and privilege. This leads to questions about the stability of our national psychology and morality. The estimate is that half of all pregnancies are "unintended." Here we enter into the arena of judgment, and I will share why abortion is the worst crime an individual can commit and the worst a society can sanction.
Humanity is not one step better than gutter rats if it chooses to behave like them. Rats are about one thing survival. Humans have the capacity to live above the lifestyle of the rat, far above it. And by our intellect we do live above it. But when we use our intellect to live only for our selfish pleasures we become nothing more than calculating, perverse, clever rats. I believe in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and all who believe Him. But I will give at least some kudos to any form of religious belief, societal form or political entity that values the child. It is still said in some quarters "the children are our future." They are certainly a part of our future unless we deny them their own.
So we should not fool ourselves about abortion. It is in most cases, easily over 90% of all cases, the elimination of an "unintended" UNWANTED child. It is NOT done for the health of the mother, nor to save her life. It is done because the parents have chosen not to take responsibility for the consequence of their sexual acts. Bottom line people want to go on living and pleasuring without the “burden” of another mouth to feed, another mind to educate, another child’s soul to love.
What passes as an act to improve the life of the parents ultimately has torn down the quality of life of the society in which they live. It is a sad state of affairs. When will we wake up? When will we embrace the results of our sexual acts, even the adulterous and promiscuous acts? Those results are souls just like we are. By aborting them we inhabit the most perverse gutters, dirtier than the worst slum rat ever inhabited.
The baby aborted goes straight to the arms of Jesus while we roll in the filth of our sexual misbehavior and the blood of 50 million abortions. Can the curse we bring on our nation be understood now? Twenty million illegals, 9% unemployment, economic recession, jobs sent overseas, war, drug abuse everywhere, pornography everywhere, no moral consensus, no political consensus… what will it take to wake us?
My answer is prayer and the preaching of the Gospel of God in Christ who loves us enough still to tell us the truth, and in fact to be the Truth we need. It is time for those in the pulpits to lead their preachers and teachers into the streets. It is time for the gospel to become the No. 1 message of the pro-life movement. Only the gospel can empower any man or woman to succeed, for success cannot be found apart from the Living God of the living, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Part of the Gospel requires that we exposed the evil deeds of evil doers. Abortion is a subject we in the church need to understand. We need to not only see that is is a sin (murder, and premeditiated murder at that), but that is often results from sexual sin, and almost always is done out of the sin of greed and selfishness.
Part of the Gospel requires that we exposed the evil deeds of evil doers. Abortion is a subject we in the church need to understand. We need to not only see that is is a sin (murder, and premeditiated murder at that), but that is often results from sexual sin, and almost always is done out of the sin of greed and selfishness.
I need to add this, and thank you Nancy U. for reminding me: It is because the contents of the womb are entirely human from conception to birth that abortion is so evil and wrong. We are valuable in God's sight beyond our understanding. He sent His ONLY Son to be a fetus and baby and child just like each of us were. We may call abortion a choice, and it is a choice. It is a choice to MURDER a human being, a PERSON. It is INFANTACIDE and it is A HOLOCAUST. Fifty million babies have been aborted. Fewer that one million and ten thousand Americans have been killed in ALL the wars this nation ever fought!
.................................................. 50 periods = 50,000,000 babies
. 1 period = 1,000 000 battle deaths