GRIZ BEAR COMMENTS: Yesterday marks sad anniversary for Americans

Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision which opened the way for legalized abortion in the United States; and I would have to count that day one of the saddest in American history because, since that day, nearly 56 million babies have been murdered in this country through legalized abortion.

It is as, I’ve said before, America’s holocaust because we have killed - or stood by and done little or nothing while it happened in our own land and communities - 56 million of our own children inside or partially inside their mothers’ wombs. If God graded on a numbers-based curve - and He doesn’t - Adolph Hitler and his Nazi regime would come out looking like saints in comparison to us.

And why have we done it? The argument we usually hear is a woman’s right and her freedom of choice. But the truth is selfishness. People do not wish to be burdened and inconvenienced with the responsibilities of giving birth to and raising a child. They place themselves and their own plans and desires above the needs of another human being and choose to kill a child rather than being responsible and giving of themselves to care for it.

Science itself tells us that the unborn child in its mother’s womb is a human being - a heartbeat at 3weeks, a highly developed brain by 8 weeks, thumb sucking by 9 weeks - and yet we kill an average of 3,700 human beings each day for the convenience of mothers and fathers.

The Bible clearly forbids us to murder human beings (Ex. 20:13; Deut. 5:17). And the Bible also clearly teaches that it is God who creates life in the womb and appoints to that life a number of days on this earth: “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them” (Psalm 139:13-16).

Since, as I said before, God does not grade on a curve, even one abortion is a terrible tragedy and heinous crime. But the crime goes on in America’s death camps; and the judgment of the God who created and gives life and valued each life so much He gave his Son to redeem it will fall upon our nation and people for all the innocent blood shed in our land, whether in abortion clinics or doctors’ offices and hospitals (cf. Deut. 21:1-9; Gen. 9:5-6).

Some would argue and say, “What about cases of rape and incest and those pregnancies which endanger the life of a mother?”

The fact is that they are only a very, very small percentage of the pregnancies which end in abortion. But in cases of rape or incest, why should the child be put to death for the sins of another? Why not put to death the guilty rapist and the sexual predator? Yet, we destroy the innocent and let the guilty off with minimal punishment. And even when medical professionals determine the life of a mother could be at stake, is abortion the right answer? I’ve known of mothers who, without medical warning, gave their lives to deliver a healthy child and of many who’ve been told they would die if they gave birth but went on to have several children and with few complications.

My point is simply this: Pray for God’s mercy upon our people and an end to legalized abortion in our land, use your voice and your votes to protect human life whether young or old, encourage and teach Biblical morals to children and youth regarding God’s design for marriage and bearing children, and stand up for the protection of life against those who would urge us to tolerate their ongoing slaughter of the innocent!

Randy Moll is the managing editor of the Westside Eagle Observer and may be reached by email at rmoll@ nwaonline.com. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Opinion, Pages 6 on 01/23/2013