Posted on 01/23/2011 7:32:47 AM PST by pastorbillrandles
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. (Genesis 4:10)
America has recently passed a gruesome milestone, we have had the fifty millionth abortion. It is staggering isn’t it? Fifty million boys and girls since 1973. They would range in age from 1 to 38 years old, had they been allowed to live.
Fifty million people! By now they would have been husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, skilled and unskilled laborers , professionals, scientists, ministers, leaders, who knows what we have forfeited ?
Fifty million human lives snuffed out, for what? Convenience? Liberation? Liberation from what? Liberation from Love? From the beauty of womanhood? Liberated from marriage? In truth we have liberated ourselves from decency, commitment, and innocence.
Let us not forget that every abortion not only kills the precious baby in the womb, but also the mother who either willingly or is subjected or pressured into the barbaric procedure. She too is unalterably deadened to true femininity, tenderness and the natural affection God puts into all female hearts.
Thus we have the specter of the tough, steely, masculine woman, out to prove she can do it better than any man, she is liberated from the feminine, she “can have it all”! Abortion was to be the sacrament that would liberate women everywhere, “You’ve come a long way baby!”.What a cruel, cruel hoax.
The greatest suffering would be borne by women (After the baby of course). How many spiritually and emotionally scarred women there are, bearing the guilt and shame, all because they believed in the feminist propaganda. In allowing the murder of their own child, they have killed something in themselves.
How many young girls have been put under pressure by immoral “boyfriends”, or by cruel parents and even husbands to abort the life God has vouchsafed in their own womb? Shattered and ruined, many of these are on tranquilizers, many more are in some form of fruitless counseling, others have hardened themselves , seeking solace in the ever increasingly shrill and overly defensive feminist movement.
The plague of homosexuality comes out of the ethic that gave us abortion. Abortion was supposed to equalize the genders, women were going to throw off the shackles of pregnancy, and be just as free as any man to be promiscuous. Women have become more like men, because our perverted generation despises the God assigned role of a woman as supporter, nurturer and life bearer.
They have broken the link between sex and fruitful marriage, but the unforseen consequences have proven that they have also broken the link between sex and love. The abortion culture has cheapened sex, marriage, women, human life,commitment,tenderness, and everything that makes human life noble and honorable.
By now we have begun to reap the consequences of the sexual liberation movement, and its ugly, misshapen offspring, abortion on demand. The explosion of sexually transmitted diseases, the millions of shattered families, the debasement of motherhood, and of womanhood in general, were all made much more likely by the tragedy of Jan 22, 1973.
On top of that the loss of 53 million Americans. Who knows how rich, how secure, how robust our nation would be if we had an ethic of life and not death? We certainly wouldn’t have a Social Security problem, nor would we have an illegal immigrant problem. Death is never the answer, Life is. We need more of the Image of God not less.
God is an avenger, especially of the fatherless and most helpless. That is why I believe we are already experiencing God’s righteous judgment. Blood spilt on the ground cries out to Him, and we should not imagine He doesn’t regard. A sparrow cannot fall out of a tree somewhere without God’s attention, a baby is worth much, much more than a sparrow.
On this anniversary of Roe v Wade, 53 million innocent lives and 38 years later, I tremble when I remember that A Holy God knows still, what a millstone is, and which people and nations deserve to wear one and be thrown into the sea.
We have in Kermit Gosnell a perfect and fitting poster child for the monsters the culture of death has made us into. This Philadelphia “health provider”,(Don’t you just love the Orwellian Newspeak), running a squalid abortion mill in Philadelphia, actually delivered eight full term babies and killed them with scissors. He would often use those scissors to break the infant spines in their mother’s wombs. He was only brought up on murder charges when a young patient of his died in a botched abortion.
Behold the human face of Roe v Wade! Full sanctioned and licensed by the Government, running a clinic so squalid they found a collection of thirty aborted bodies in it, yet it passed all health inspections until the “botched” abortion killed a young woman.
This bloody and deceitful monster is a sign to us that God’s judgment is coming on this evil generation. We have sold out our christian heritage for a mess of pottage, and the monsters are beginning to emerge. God just thrust a mirror into the face of pro-choice America, the Image is doctor Gosnell.
Francis Schaeffer warned us that rejecting the Christian absolute that was the bedrock of our culture would have unthinkable consequences,
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today: abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, the increase of child abuse and violence of all kinds, pornography (and its particular kinds of violence as evidenced in sadomasochism), the routine torture of political prisoners in many parts of the world, the crime explosion, and the random violence which surrounds us. (Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everette Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, Ch. 1)
We need to mourn our nation and preach the gospel while there is time.
The protection and blessings of God have been removed from this country and those of us who are Christian had better be on our knees for personal protection from what is coming. The Bible says that it rains on the just and the unjust but the extra blessings for a Godly nation are gone.
You said it, CB.
Still, praying for forgiveness won’t be enough. We have to end the practice of infanticide.
Punishment will continue unless we “sin no more.”
This generation is so disgustingly evil that I no longer have any desire to help people or to bother loving anyone or to have any joy in anything.
I will not shed a single tear if terrorists butcher the citizens of this country. Most of them deserve a painful death and the rest are better off leaving this cesspool of a world.
Their backs turned, their eyes averted, shaking in their boots as the abortionist murderers feed their bloodlust with the full sanction of the State.
Unbelievable. Jared Loughner ain't got nothin' on Kermit Gosnell.
Of course if those 50 million had been born, many others. probably wouldn’t have been. Children conceived and carried during the lost estation and maybe a year or so after the aborted children would have been born almost certainly would not have been conceived.
Then again some of the aborted children may well have ended up as miscarriages.
Some act as though our population would be swelled by 50 million had no one aborted their child - but probably, I don’t know, half as much.
This is not to defend abortion in any way. Just to point out a more factual result of its legalization.
Join in the next 40 Days for Life!
There’s a lot happening over the next few days — and
I hope I get to see you — but first, two updates ...
** UPDATE 1 ** Applications for the next 40 Days for
Life campaign (March 9 - April 17) are running at
record levels for a spring campaign! If you feel
called to LEAD a campaign where you live, visit:
http://40daysforlife.com/apply
** UPDATE 2 ** We’re hearing rave reviews from the
two-part Focus on the Family radio show about 40 Days
for Life and former Planned Parenthood clinic director
Abby Johnson that aired Wednesday and Thursday! The
recordings of both shows are now online:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/FocusOnTheFamilyDailyBroadcast
Now, about the next few days ...
On January 22, America will memorialize the 38th
anniversary of the unjust Roe v. Wade Supreme Court
decision that imposed abortion on all 50 states —
opening the way for the deaths of more than 52 million
babies and the wounding of millions of women and men.
To mark this somber occasion, hundreds of thousands
of pro-life Americans will take to the streets — from
coast to coast — to speak up for those who cannot
speak for themselves.
I’m getting ready to fly to Little Rock, Arkansas,
where I will be speaking at a huge pro-life event on
Saturday before catching a flight to Washington, DC
for events on Sunday and Monday surrounding the March
for Life.
Our national director, David Bereit, heads out at 3 AM
to fly to San Francisco for events Friday and Saturday
surrounding the West Coast Walk for Life before
catching a red-eye flight back to DC.
If you’re coming to the big events on either coast,
we’d love to see you!
Here’s where we’ll be — and when ...
FRIDAY, JANUARY 21 (SAN FRANCISCO)
12 NOON Oakland Standing Up 4 Life Walk
Oakland City Hall
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, California
DAVID BEREIT will be participating
http://www.issues4life.org/oakland.html
7:30 PM Interfaith Service for Life
St. Mary’s Cathedral
1111 Gough St.
San Francisco, California
DAVID BEREIT will speak, and the service
will be followed by a reception in the
Cathedral Hall
http://www.walkforlifewc.com/event.htm
SATURDAY, JANUARY 22 (SAN FRANCISCO)
11:00 AM West Coast Walk for Life
Gather at Justin Herman Plaza
1 Market St.
San Francisco, California
DAVID BEREIT and ABBY JOHNSON will speak
3:00 PM Youth Rally following the Walk for Life
Fort Mason Center, Festival Pavilion
Entrance at Marina Blvd. and Buchanan St.
DAVID BEREIT will be speaking
http://youthrally.blogspot.com
EWTN TV will be covering the San Francisco
events live and plans to interview DAVID BEREIT
Check cable/satellite listings for channel
or watch live online at http://www.ewtn.com
SUNDAY, JANUARY 23 (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
8:00 AM Students for Life of America conference
Bethesda North Marriott
5701 Marinelli Rd., Bethesda, Maryland
(right outside of Washington, DC, walking
distance from White Flint DC Metro Station)
DAVID BEREIT, SHAWN CARNEY, and ABBY JOHNSON
will arrive and attend throughout the day
http://studentsforlife.org/conference
6:00 PM Evening session at Students for Life
conference; DAVID BEREIT will introduce ABBY
JOHNSON to receive Defender of Life award
MONDAY, JANUARY 24 (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
8:30 AM ProLifeCon (pro-life bloggers and online
technology conference)
Family Research Council headquarters
801 G Street NW, Washington,
DAVID BEREIT will speak at about 11:00
To register or watch the online webcast:
12 NOON March for Life
Rally on the National Mall at 4th St NW,
then march up Capitol Hill to the U.S.
Supreme Court building
DAVID BEREIT, SHAWN CARNEY, and ABBY JOHNSON
will all be participating
EWTN TV will be covering the Washington, DC
events live and plans to interview DAVID BEREIT
and ABBY JOHNSON (tentatively) between 12 and 1
Check cable/satellite listings for channel
or watch live online at http://www.ewtn.com
2:00 PM National Pro-Life Youth Rally
Corner of 1st St NE and D St NE
Washington, DC
DAVID BEREIT will emcee the event and speak
at 2:30 and 4:00, SHAWN CARNEY will speak at
2:59 and 4:29, and ABBY JOHNSON will speak
at 3:15 (all times approximate)
http://www.nationalprolifeyouthrally.com
7:00 PM Rose Dinner (sponsored by March for Life)
Regency Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC
DAVID BEREIT and SHAWN CARNEY will attend
http://marchforlife.org/content/view/65/70/
For real-time updates about where we are at any given
time, follow 40 Days for Life on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/40daysforlife
Well, I’ve got to run to get ready for my flight. If
you can make it to any of these events, please be sure
to come up and say “hello,” Karen!
For Life,
Shawn Carney
Campaign Director
40 Days for Life
well said
My fear is that God has not changed and will do to the abortion world what He did to the original inhabitants of the Promised Land and then the Israelites for doing the same thing after He told them not to: sacrificing their kids. There was only one time God did not forgive Israel. Their national judgment was the theme of Lamentations.
May God bless your efforts Salvation. I will certainly be praying for you and others.
You are exactly right. That’s why joining in prayer at Planned Parenthood Clinics is so important.
We need to shut these places down and do reparation for all the children killed.
I read somewhere that two children were aborted who would have found the cure to AIDS.
Never checked it out on any Urban Legends site, but I believe it was in some kind of revelation to a Catholic nun.
So that's about 12 million who would have added another 22 million or so to the population right about now, in addition to say 45 million assuming a really high mortality rate for the U.S. (10%) on the total population of non-aborted children.
When I really start to think about it I tear up.
What an unfathomable number of innocent people.
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