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 counsellors".
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" ( Jer.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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