“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.” —Isaiah 13:11
There is currently at work in our nation a most dangerous killer. It
consistently takes more lives than any disease, famine, or war we have ever
faced.
Every month this killer takes more American lives than were lost in
the entire Vietnam War. Every six months more die from its relentless onslaught
than in all our previous wars combined or in all the fatal automobile accidents
of the past twenty years. Every 2-3 years it claims more victims than the Nazi
Holocaust. Incredibly, this monumental devastation is carried out by medical
professionals and is completely
preventable.
The name of this vicious
serial killer is ABORTION. God will not hold this nation guiltless for this
great bloodbath. Indeed, the Bible tells us that He hates "hands that shed
innocent blood"(Prov.6:16-17). Certainly there can be none more innocent than
the unborn. Abortion advocates ignore these innocent victims of abortion.
Testimony given at U.S. government
sponsored public hearings indicated that
in the so-called family planning clinics: "The baby is
dehumanized as much
as possible by being termed a 'blob', 'products of conception' or 'uterine
contents'.
Not even the term fetus is used by counselors".
God, however, has a different view of the unborn. He told the prophet Jeremiah, "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations" (Jeremiah 1:5). He said of John the Baptist: "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb" (Luke 1:15). Clearly, God views the unborn as human and precious. From the human standpoint man does not know the potential of the life that is blotted out by abortion. Had abortion been legalized and condoned in earlier times, the world would no doubt have lost the contribution of some of the greatest minds and talents.
A professor at the UCLA Medical School presented the following case history to his students: A woman who suffers from tuberculosis is pregnant. Her husband has syphilis. There are three children in the family. One is blind, another deaf, and the other suffers tuberculosis. Yet, another child died in infancy. Under the circumstances, most of the students recommended an abortion. They were then informed by their Professor: "Congratulations, you've just killed Beethoven!"
Consider some other significant statistics relating to abortion:
- Abortion is not the "safe procedure" its advocates claim it to be. More mothers die from the complications of legal abortions each year than died from illegal abortions in all previous years.
- In many areas of our country abortions actually outnumber live births.
- 1,500,000 - 2,000,000 babies are aborted annually.
- 98% of abortions are for reasons other than rape, incest, or the mother's life.
- 40% of abortions are performed on women who have aborted other babies previously.
- One third of abortions are performed on teenagers without their parent's consent or knowledge.
- The heart of an unborn baby begins to beat at 18 days after conception.
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