As of January 21, 2010, approximately 20,000 dead bodies have been recovered from under the rubble of fallen buildings in Haiti, and officials estimate the death toll may top more than 200,000. But think for a moment about another statistic-since the earthquake hit Haiti, in America alone, more than 20,000 mothers murdered their own babies. However, these babies didn't die because of an earthquake. They died because a young girl, a teenager, an adult woman, a mother, a doctor, a boyfriend, a husband or a father together decided to commit murder, and the politicians, whom many Americans voted for, vigorously fight to protect every American woman's right to practice abortion.
And this happens every day while most Americans just sit idly by and accept it or block it out of their mind by drawing attention to the disaster in Haiti, Katrina, 911, an out-of-control fire in a Californian forest or some other similar national news headline. The humanitarian efforts in response to such devastation are herculean, and rightly so, but what about the massive loss of life in our own country? Why do Haiti, Katrina, 911 and other such similar events, where loss of life is catastrophic, continually make the headline news but the massive loss of life through the ungodly practice of abortion is continually silenced, ignored, or completely forgotten?
I am not downplaying, minimizing or criticizing Americans for wanting to hear about and respond to such devastating world events where loss of life is catastrophic. Compassion ought to pour forth from every human being, and humanitarian efforts ought to be seen worldwide. What I am amazed at is the way in which Americans can respond so quickly to the devastating events in this world with medical workers, construction workers, machinery, medicine, money, and simple resources necessary for survival, but at the same time can be so utterly heartless towards the unborn children in our own backyard.
Where is the same tenacious outpouring of help and resources for the 2,000,000 plus babies that are aborted every year? We lament the fact that thousands of Haitian children will be orphaned as a result of the recent 7.0 earthquake, and rightly so, but where is the same heart of compassion towards the child in the womb? Why do Americans run with breakneck speed to help the starving, homeless, parentless, disease ridden children of other countries but at the same time will not think twice about fighting for a woman's right to kill an unborn child? The American hypocrisy is appalling!
I once heard of a woman in Van Nuys, CA, who had a baby in a bathroom, and she killed it with a razor blade; but because she killed it with a razor blade after it was born she is serving 11 years in prison. Do we think about the fact that if she would have killed the baby before it was born she would not have been charged with murder? This is the "civilized" culture in which we live; a culture that boasts of its humanitarian efforts towards the suffering people of this world but kills millions of unborn children for convenience! But the truth is we live in an exceedingly wicked society; a society where babies are murdered everyday in numerous ways and yet it's illegal to shoot a bald eagle, a seagull, a California condor, a Modoc sucker fish, a black toad, a San Francisco garter snake, a greater sandhill crane, a salt-marsh harvest mouse, a Morro Bay kangaroo rat, or even to ship a pregnant lobster from Maine, which results in a $1,000 fine. I once heard of a wounded bald eagle found in Maryland that was rushed to emergency treatment, and after it died there was a $5,000 reward offered for the arrest of whoever injured it. Do you realize that it's safer in the US to be a black toad, a salt-marsh harvest mouse, or a bald eagle rather than an unborn baby human being who is created in God's image?
We live in a society that provides full government protection to animals that are rare, threatened, endangered, or face possible extinction, which includes many fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, but the killing season is always open on unborn baby human beings! We live in a society where people spend countless dollars and time saving dolphins (think of Green Peace, PETA, etc.), but will not blink an eye at aborting an unborn child created in God's image. Planned Parenthood has said, "Abortion is nothing more than a means of preventing disease; pregnancy being noted as a disease." Dr. Willard Kates, from the Planned Parenthood Physicians Association, wrote a paper entitled, "Abortion as treatment for unwanted pregnancy: The second sexually transmitted disease." What's wrong with our society?
We soothe our consciences by shedding a tear watching the headline news about suffering Haitians or we may even send a check to the Red Cross, and we walk away feeling good about ourselves while unborn baby human beings are daily legally murdered in some city within 75 miles of where most of us live. Clearly the slaughter of millions of unborn baby human beings is one the greatest evils of our day, and we cannot cry out against this ungodly behavior too loudly.
May God have mercy on us and on the millions of little children who are massacred every day as millions of Americans, who are more concerned about their favorite sports team, their vacation home in Cancun, or their prestigious golf club membership, idly sit by and allow such atrocities to continue. Americans who have been educated in a country founded on the principle teachings of God's Word ought to be ashamed, appalled, and repentant regarding the wicked vice of abortion, which is nothing less than legalized murder.
However, many things legally permissible in our country are nevertheless sinful according to Scripture. For example, it's not illegal for a person to be drunk in their own home, to be a glutton, to fornicate, or abort an unborn child, but God's Word declares all these actions sinful. Take heed to God's Word: "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20). Therefore, every believer in Jesus Christ ought to be on the forefront of this battle against infanticide through prayer and by declaring redemption in Jesus Christ to every unbeliever they come across, because when God regenerates a sinner's soul He also begins the lifelong process of changing the way they think through the renewing of their mind by the washing of God's Word.
We ought also to use all legal means which are not sinful to fight against the barbaric scourge of abortion. "Woe to those who enact evil statutes, and to those who constantly record unjust decisions, so as to deprive the needy of justice, and rob the poor of My people of their rights, in order that widows may be their spoil, and that they may plunder the orphans. Now what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the devastation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your wealth? Nothing remains but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. In spite of all this His anger does not turn away, and His hand is still stretched out" (Isaiah 10:1-4). Exodus 21:22-24: "If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if any harm (to the child) follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."
