January 22: Another Day of Infamy
I thought that this article from Bill Ellis at Assist News Service was fitting for the day. Thanks to Bill for being my guest blogger.
Sunday afternoon December 7, 1941, Dad told me that the nation of Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, called it "a day of infamy." It was hard for me to understand that evil then and now.
There were two other infamous days in America. On March 6, 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled, "that black people are not legal 'persons' according to the United States Constitution."
I remember the ruling on January 22, 1973, by the Supreme Court that was just as wrong-headed and ungodly. On that day the Supreme Court, according to Dr. John and Barbara Willke in their book, Abortion Questions and Answers, also ruled, "That unborn humans were not legal 'persons' according to the U. S. Constitution." Black people, thank God, have received their freedom and full rights.
Most informed and intellectually honest people are convinced that life begins at conception.
Our nation was shocked on September 11, 2001. Wicked and evil enemies killed 4,000 people that day.
The real truth, however, is that 4,000 more were murdered on September 12, 2001, another 4,000 on September 13, 14, 15 and every day since. These unborn babies -- 4,000 each day, 28,000 each week, 112,000 each month and 1,460,000 each year. This has been going on since 1973 when our Supreme Court ruled in Roe vs. Wade what has become a perpetual curse to our nation. The "Sanctity of Human Life Sunday" was observed on January 17.
That decision has impacted our nation adversely as it relates to family life, financial stability and social well-being. An article in USA Today speculated on January 21, 1998, that "If only one-third of those who have been aborted were available to start working on their 18th birthday, the demise of Social Security could be put off for decades." We lose when one out of every four babies is killed by abortion.
An interesting article illustrates how weak our excuses are for permitting abortion. The question is, "Would you consider an abortion in any of these circumstances?"
1. A preacher and his wife are living in extreme poverty. They have 14 children and she becomes pregnant again.
2. A mother has tuberculosis and the father has chronic sinus problems. The family has four children already. One has tuberculosis, two are deaf and one is blind. Would you consider abortion?
3. A 13-year old black girl is raped by a white man.
4. A teenage girl becomes pregnant, but not by her fiancé.
If you aborted in the first case, you have killed John Wesley. If you aborted in the second case, you killed Beethoven. If you aborted in the third case, you killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer. If in the fourth case you aborted, you killed Jesus of Nazareth.
Abortion, more than anything else, may be due to ignorance. I know a pastor, now strongly opposed to abortion, who in his early years of ministry believed, like millions of others, that a fetus is just a mass of flesh with no connection to a living human being.
God said, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations" (Jeremiah 1:5). And again, "O Lord . . . you created by inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb" (Psalm 139:1, 13).
Abortion brings suffering and guilt to the mother and father who permitted their baby's death. Learn more by going to www.abortionfacts.com and also check www.hh76.com. We cannot be excused for our ignorance.
Recently, I listened to a beautiful 50-year-old mother explain her agony as the result of an earlier abortion. No woman should ever have to go through that experience. The truth about abortion can be known.
Resources:
Prolife Answers to Prochoice Arguments
You're Not Alone: Healing Through God's Grace After Abortion
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© Bill Ellis, Assist News Service. Used with permission.