41
Years and 50 Million Later
By:
Dr. Jeff Fuller
January 22, Wednesday of this week, was the 41st anniversary of
the Supreme Court decision called Roe vs. Wade. It was this decree handed down by the high
court making abortion legal in our country all the way up to birth, if the
health of the mother is at stake; and the health of the mother has been
construed to mean any discomfort that would come from an unwanted pregnancy. So
what we have had for 41 years is virtually abortion on demand. In that time,
the lives of 50 million unborn children have been ended by abortion in the
United States. Women’s Issues web site estimates that worldwide that
same number of abortions happen each year.
A recent article in The Alabama
Baptist said that Israel will offer free abortions to women ages 20-33
years of age.
“[Making] it easier for economical distressed women to
obtain an abortion. The 2014 “health
basket” of medical services and medications approved by Israel’s cabinet
January 5 includes free abortions for Israeli women age 20 to 33, regardless of
the circumstances.
The $4.6 million earmarked by the Health Ministry
committee will cover some 6,300 abortions for women who cannot afford the
procedure.
In 2013, almost 20,000 women received permission to abort
from hospital termination committees, according to Efrat, an organization that
encourages women considering abortion to have their babies.
Until now, government-funded abortions have been reserved
for women younger than 19 or older than 40, and in cases where the fetus has a
severe defect, the mother’s life is endangered or the pregnancy is a result of
sexual abuse. If a woman believed the
pregnancy would cause harm, physically or emotionally, she had to pay for the
procedure herself.” (The Alabama Baptist;
Volume 179, Number 3; January 16, 2014; page 16)
Fifty million babies, murder for the sake of convenience
or to rectify a bad choice. It is not a
shame? We have legally found a way to
commit murder in America. A friend in
Georgia puts it this way: “Abortion is the used in an attempt to correct the
consequences of a bad choice.”
The story is told that a woman who had gone to the
hospital preparing to be admitted to deliver her first baby, sat in the
restroom, alone contemplated the future and how she could rid herself of this
unwanted child that would soon come screaming from her body. She began a process of trying to self-abort
the baby, but her attempts failed.
She entered the labor room, gave birth to a baby boy and
he was dependent upon her. Of course all
babies are, dependent upon the mother and father for food, clothing, safety,
and life. She did the best she
could. The boy grew both physically and
mentally, not knowing that his life was almost cut short by the ponderings of
the mother.
I remind you today that the Word of God, as communicated
by God Himself says, “You shall not murder.” (Exodus 20:13) In other places throughout the Old Testament
we find the same commandment in various ways.
Why? Why did God say that we are
not to murder?
He said in Genesis 9:6: “Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.” Think about it; when you attack someone else,
you are attacking God. Man is made in
the image of God, the express image of God, and therefore when we attack man,
we attack God.
A mistake it seems many have made is that they have
missed Theology A98 and do not understand that we are created in God’s
image. A Princeton professor, Peter
Singer argues, “The life of an adult pig deserves protection more than that of
a new born human baby, and . . . the parents should be free to kill their young
children already born if they deem them unacceptably disabled.” (Richard John
Neuhaus, “While We’re at It” in First Things; January, 2006, Issue 159;
Page 74)
Faulty reasoning for sure! To compare a pig to a baby, much less
mankind. He is wrong! The reason he is wrong is that the human baby
is created in the image of God, and the pig isn’t.
David goes on to make the declaration: “For you formed my
inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I
am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it
very well” (Psalm 139:13-14).
Personally, God takes great care and involvement in each
of us. It is from the “womb,” in the
belly on the mother, we are crafted by the hands of the Father of
Creation.
Got a problem with that?
Think that we are not anything more than a piece of tissue, then you
need to read the words of the angel to the prophet Zechariah concerning John
the Baptist, “He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s
womb,” then just a few verse down we see that when Mary created the mother
Elizabeth, the Word of God says that she declared, “Behold, when the sound of
your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.” (Luke 1:44)
The fetus within the
mother is a living, growing, protected person God is creating for His
purposes. Yet, today fifty million will
not see that purpose worked out. Let us
pray and work to end Roe vs Wade and the end of this legally protected murder
of our unborn children.
Until next time…
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