Thirty-Five Years of Murder<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
by <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Israel Wayne
 
On January 22, 1973, a landmark Supreme Court decision, now known as Roe v. Wade, changed the moral and cultural climate of our nation forever. Now, nearly thirty-five years later, estimates state that over 50,000,000 pre-born human lives have been snuffed out in "civilized" America.
The shadow of the ominous, yet seemingly hidden, abortion industry has cast its darkness of death over this country for my entire lifetime. The debate has, at times, raged, and has occasionally been silenced by apathy or the busyness of life, but the issue of abortion, or a "woman's right to choose," as it is called in the secular media, remains.
Pro-lifers have not been as effective as they hoped in their efforts to define and control the terms by which abortion is discussed, or to make people aware of viable options such as adoption, or even to convince the public that a "fetus" is indeed a human life. It seems that we, as Christians, being undoubtedly the strongest segment of the pro-life movement, are once again relegated to the reservation of irrelevancy, while the liberal left, such as the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, government schools, and the media have been in the driver's seat, controlling the press, public policy, and popular opinion on issues of "choice."
To our discredit, we are often viewed as more concerned about promoting a right-wing political agenda than caring about human life itself. In all the rhetoric and sociological fervor, I believe the babies themselves are sometimes nearly forgotten.
Abortion, however, is not the only bio-ethics hot-topic in the field of pro-life issues. There is also the cloning of humans, genetic selection to produce a "super-race," euthanasia or "mercy-killing," the death penalty, chemical warfare, embryonic stem-cell research, artificial insemination, etc.
The problem is that as relativism has emerged as the prevailing worldview in our culture, fewer people in the medical and legislative fields believe in a universal standard by which to determine what is right and wrong. Pragmatism and existentialism rule in matters of life and death. Whatever is "best for society" or "works for you" is accepted. Our culture has lost the "ethics" and they are progressively snuffing out the "bio."
We need to avoid being lulled into an apathetic slumber while millions are led to slaughter every year. We must uphold the truth in a gentle yet uncompromising way. (Ex. 33:8-9) We should ask God to use us to end the needless taking of human life. (Esther 4:14)
Has God turned a blind eye to these helpless lives? Of one thing we can be assured, God knows of the down-syndrome child who was rejected and tossed in a garbage can because of the "embarrassment" he would cause his parents. He knows of the unanticipated child who was mercilessly aborted and chopped to bits because she didn't fit into her parents' five-year-plan or career track. He knows every name, every life.
"The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the uterus of my mother hath He made mention of my name." (Isaiah 49:1)
"But Zion said, 'The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me. Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.'" (Isaiah 49:14-16)
Have you ever written something on your hand to make certain that you didn't forget? Our Lord Jesus Christ has the names of each of His children killed by abortion, inscribed on His hand, pierced through with nails of death.
He hates hands that shed innocent blood. (Prov. 6:16-17) "They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan: and the land was desecrated by their blood." (Ps. 106:37-38)
His are the hands that shaped and fashioned these lives in their mothers' wombs, (Jer. 1:5) and the hands that blessed the children. (Mark 10:16) He said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." (Matt 19:14) The marks in His hands are a constant reminder of why He came-to defeat death and bring life abundantly. (John 10:10) He will never forget the children who have been killed, and neither can we. Jesus is The Life, (John 14:6) and if we love Him we will love the life He has breathed into each human soul.
"This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live." (Deut 30:19)
 
Copyright 2007, Israel Wayne.
Israel Wayne was home educated and currently serves as Marketing Director for Wisdom's Gate Publishing. He is the author of the book, <a href="http://www.wisgate.com/hsbw.htm">Homeschooling From A Biblical Worldview</a>, published by Wisdom's Gate, and site editor for <a href="http://www.ChristianWorldview.net">www.ChristianWorldview.net</a>
Israel and his wife Brook (also a homeschool graduate) and reside in Michigan with their four young children. Write to: Wisdom's Gate, P.O. Box 374, Covert, MI 49043. 1-800-343-1943, <a href="http://www.WisdomsGate.org">www.Wisdom's Gate.org</a>