" Jesus stated: I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." [John 10: 7-10].
Recently, I had a difficult conversation with my pre-teen son. (No; not THAT conversation-- about human sexuality.) The conversation was about how there is something called abortion. And how in multiple states, abortion of a fetus with an audible heartbeat, is still legal! I told my son that the mother could simply choose to get rid of the fetus.
And my son cried. I could see the hurt in his eyes. I asked gently how he felt. He took my hand and told me, "This is very upsetting."
I have a new-found, unfailing barometer for right vs. wrong. If it makes my son cry, it is WRONG!
I decided to look into some statistics, in order to put this issue into perspective. Here they are--
Number of Americans who died in: American Revolution 25,000
American Civil War 625,000
World War I 116,516
World War II 405,399
Vietnam 58,209
War on Terror 6,280
Number of lives eliminated due to abortion since 1970:
6,000,000
That is right. Six million.
Is abortion a war? I believe it is. But it is an underground war.
Underground, because the victims are nameless. And faceless.
There are statues commemorating the American Revolution. There are monuments dedicated to the lives lost in the Civil War, both World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror. There is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington D.C. There are museums and exhibits on the Holocaust, so that we will never forget. And this is how it should be.
But no one dares to mention the 6,000,000 lost to abortion. Did they not also not die? Or do we not bother to notice them, because they never had the Right To Live?
An entire generation is missing-- and we celebrate our (contraceptive) freedoms?
I dream of a day when we regard abortion with as much horror as we now do slavery.
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