Take Note of 43 Years of Carnage

Today marks 43 years since the Roe v. Wade judicial overstep of the supreme court, and in that time over 57 million human babies have been killed. One writer notes that if you put their names (if they had them) on a memorial like the Vietnam Memorial in DC, it would have to stretch for 50 miles.

We must continue to shine the light of the gospel into the darkness that ruins so many babies, mothers, fathers, and even abortion workers.

To help you reflect on this issue (which would be a good thing to do on this anniversary), I recommend one article and one podcast.

The article is from Frederica Matthewes-Green at the National Review and is entitled "When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense."  She makes a stunningly clear case for the fact that abortion is not about women's rights. In fact, it harms women. It makes like easier for everyone around her, but it leaves her (and the baby) in ruins. Along the way, the author also brilliantly dismantles many pro-choice arguments. Here is the next to last paragraph (read the whole article though, it is great):

In time, it’s going to be impossible to deny that abortion is violence against children. Future generations, as they look back, are not necessarily going to go easy on ours. Our bland acceptance of abortion is not going to look like an understandable goof. In fact, the kind of hatred that people now level at Nazis and slave-owners may well fall upon our era. Future generations can accurately say, “It’s not like they didn’t know.” They can say, “After all, they had sonograms.” They may consider this bloodshed to be a form of genocide. They might judge our generation to be monsters.

The podcast episode is The Briefing's January 21, 2016 edition. Dr. Albert Mohler is, as usual, insightful, clear-minded, and very  helpful. Take a listen.