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And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. Romans 13:11-14
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Robert McCurry, Editor & Publisher
January 25, 2010
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U.S. passes 50 million abortion mark
"We've been brutalized, desensitized and paganized by an ever-rising flood of the unborns' blood as our nation continues to abort roughly one out of every four babies conceived," ~Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan 25, 2010, BP)--At some point during the past two years the United States experienced its 50 millionth legal abortion, the overwhelming majority of which were conducted for reasons of convenience.
The tragic statistic -- which spans the 37
years since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in 1973
-- is based on data compiled by the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute and
tallied by the National Right to Life Committee. Guttmacher's data is
respected by both sides of the issue and comes directly from abortion
clinics.
The mark of 50 million was passed in 2008
and likely approached or reached 52 million in 2009, although data is
not yet available for that year. The 50 million figure actually is an
estimate based on Guttmacher data from 2005 -- the last year of data --
when 1.2 million abortions were performed. The abortion rate ranged
between 1.2 and 1.3 million from 2000 to 2005. If the same number of
abortions performed in 2005 were performed in each succeeding year, then
the number stood at 52 million at the end of last year.
To put
the total in perspective, the combined number of military deaths in all
of America's wars –- from the Revolutionary War to the second Iraq war
–- is 1.2 million.
"We've been brutalized, desensitized and paganized by an ever-rising flood of the unborns' blood as our nation continues to abort roughly one out of every four babies conceived," Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said.
"I can still remember the Bible lesson
I heard as a youngster in Sunday School about how the people of God
turned their back on the One True God and went down into the Valley of
Hinnom [2
Chronicles 28] to
offer up in pagan sacrifice their little children to the pagan god
Molech. I could never have imagined then that I would live to see the
day that America would offer up its unborn children as pagan sacrifices
because they were viewed as too expensive, too embarrassing, too ill or
too inconvenient."
Although pro-choice leaders often claim a solid majority of Americans support the status quo on abortion, polling paints a very different picture. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll from September 2008 showed that 10 percent of registered voters believed abortion should always be illegal and 37 percent believed it should be legal only in cases of rape, incest and to save the mother's life -- totaling 47 percent who oppose the current laws. Similarly, a Los Angeles Times poll of 1,039 registered voters in October 2007 found 50 percent believed abortion should either be totally illegal or legal only with those three exceptions.
The reason the abortion rate in America is
so high is because the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling was so far-reaching.
Roe v. Wade -- coupled with the court's companion Doe v. Bolton ruling
-- legalized abortion for any reason at any point of the pregnancy. That
has led to a society in which 86 percent of abortions are done for
convenience, according to a 2004 Guttmacher study of women who had had
abortions. Rape and incest each were cited by less than half of a
percent of all women who underwent abortion. Twenty-five percent said
they weren't ready for a child, 23 percent said they couldn't afford to
have one, 19 percent said they didn't want any more children, 8 percent
said they didn't want to be a single mother or they had relationship
problems, 7 percent said they were too young to have a child and 4
percent said they believed a child would interfere with their education
or career.
The reason that some polls show Americans supportive of Roe, pro-lifers
say, is because they don't know what it accomplished. Pro-life groups
this year once again are sponsoring a website -- RoeIQTest.com -- with
13 multiple choice questions to help educate the public about Roe's
reach.
"In spite of its impact, the true
understanding of Roe and what it accomplished remains relatively vague
in the public consciousness," the website states. "The ongoing
debate over federal funding of abortion in the proposed health care
legislation has demonstrated that Roe continues to be a contentious
issue for many Americans. It is imperative that we, as citizens,
understand the facts about what Roe does and does not do."
~Michael Foust, an assistant editor of Baptist Press
Scott Brown’s Election to US Senate: A Hollow Victory for the Preborn
Angela Wittman, January 21, 2010
Many “pro-life” leaders are applauding the victory of Scott Brown (Republican) to the United States Senate in a special election held this past week in Massachusetts. In all honesty, his victory is at best, a hollow one for the preborn. Let’s take an objective, non-partisan look at Scott Brown’s record and rhetoric on prenatal child-killing as recorded at the website “OnTheIssues.org”:
* 2005: Conscience-based opt out of post-rape contraception. (Jan 2010)
* Provide info about emergency contraception to rape victims. (Jan 2010)
* Support legalized abortion, but not partial-birth abortion. (Jan 2010)
* Supported by right-to-life groups for stem cell stance. (Jan 2010)
* Authored bill for 24-hour waiting period for abortion. (Jan 2010)
* Abortions should always be legally available. (Nov 2002)
Source: FactCheck "Bay State Battle" AdWatch: 2010 MA Senate debate Jan 13, 2010
“Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God. That we have allowed it to continue for 37 years now stands as an indictment against this generation of Americans and bodes ominously for the well-being of our posterity.”
~Pastor Chuck Baldwin, January 22, 2010