Sanctity of Life

A few weeks ago at church we were told it was Sanctity of Life Sunday.  The pastor gave some startling statistics.  In all our 238 years as a country, there have been 1.3 million soldiers killed in all of the wars we've fought in.  Since the legalization of abortion, there has been on average, 1.2 million babies killed each year in our country.  That means over 50 million babies have been killed legally in our country these past 41 years.

These facts keep running through my head.  Every year I talk about this with my students and they are quick to say how awful this is.  It is illegal to destroy an eagle egg because it might become an eagle.  But somehow it is legal to destroy an unborn baby because, some convince themselves, that it is not a human being until it is born.  They call it Pro-Choice.  What an awful JOKE of a name.  The baby has no choice!!!

A drunk driver that kills a pregnant woman is often charged with two counts of manslaughter, but what if the woman was driving to an abortion clinic, should he only be charged with one count of manslaughter?

My students always know that abortion is wrong.  It is us adults that are so misguided in our thinking.  Once a woman finds herself in an unwanted pregnancy, this is the place where one poor decision can lead to a far worse decision.  Life is precision and is a gift from God.  "We are fearfully and wonderfully made."

I want my students to know the facts about this.  It is in every person to know that killing babies is wrong.  But it is in some adults to convince themselves that it is OK, when their need requires it to be so.  I want my students to know what is right and wrong about abortion before they find themselves entangled in a situation that may cause them to consider it.

Here again, tolerance is the "virtue" preached to the masses by our society.  The worst thing to do, we are told, is to say that something is wrong.

Abortion is such an awful blight on our society and country.  As we drift from deciding what is right and wrong from the Bible, we make legal, more and more often, that which was previously know to be wrong and even repulsive.

Day 66