Our Real And Continuing Loss
“These children...will never laugh, never sing, never experience the joy of human love; nor will they strive to heal the sick, or feed the poor, or make peace among nations. Abortion has denied them the first and most basic of human rights, and we are infinitely poorer for their loss.
We are poorer not simply for the lives not led and for contributions not made, but also for erosion of our sense of worth and dignity of every individual. To diminish the value of one category of human life is to diminish us all.” --Ronald Reagan--
In the news recently, the abortion drug RU-486 was getting a lot of attention. It seems that the Federal authorities can’t find anything so bad about it and are approving it to be used in the United States. Who can speak for those unborn children whose lives will be taken by the use of this drug? The answer is simple, Christians can!
It is getting to the time of year when many politicians roam the land wanting your vote. Now I am not here concerned about party affiliation, taxes, or other such issues. I am concerned about our children. We need people in the church, in the government, and especially in the home to begin respecting life as we should. Human life is minimized first at home when the decision is made to consider abortion even though the mother’s health is not endangered. This degradation of humanity continues when some in the church are ashamed that abortion is labeled murder, which is exactly what it is. And finally, the babies are not considered when we get to the voting booth and forget our allegiance to life and God, but we do remember our allegiance to party. The result is a cruel set of laws and proposals to protect our children’s killers and then pay for the execution. An execution carried out even though the only accusation that can be laid at our little children’s feet is that they wanted to be born.
God looks upon us with judgment coming and sees where we are taking our stand. Let the word go out that true Christians do not support suicide, abortion, or the killing of our sick and elderly. All people in God’s sight are precious and each one has a unique soul that he wants to see develop and grow for a lifetime. If you can read this article, then you are among the fortunate. Life and opportunity are yours. So what will you do with the life God has blessed you with?
“Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them...” Psalm 127:3-5a
--Tim McHenry—Excerpts from an Abortion Debate
In September 1996, Rep. Henry Hyde closed the House of Representatives floor debate on the override of President Clinton’s veto of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. The following is excerpted from his speech.
Mr. Speaker: In his classic novel Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky has his murderous protagonist Raskolnikov complain that “Man can get used to anything, the beast!”
That we are even debating this issue - that we have to argue about the legality of an abortionist plunging a pair of scissors into the back of the neck of a tiny child whose trunk, arms, and legs have already been born, and then suctioning out his brains - only confirms Dostoyevsky’s harsh truth.
We were told in committee by an attending nurse that the little arms and legs stop flailing and suddenly stiffen as the scissors is plunged in. People who say “I feel your pain” can’t be referring to that little infant.
What kind of people have we become, that this “procedure” is even a matter for debate! Can’t we draw the line at torture? And if we can’t, what’s become of us? We are incensed at ethnic cleansing. How then can we tolerate infant cleansing? There is no argument here about when a human life begins. The child who is destroyed is certainly alive, certainly human, and certainly brutally destroyed.
…The supporters of abortion-on-demand have exercised their capacity for self-deception by detaching themselves from any sympathy whatsoever for the unborn child - and in so doing they separate themselves from the instinct for justice that gave birth to our country.
…There is no moral, nor, for that matter, medical justification for this barbaric assault on a partially-born infant. Dr. Pamela Smith, Director of Medical Education in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Chicago’s Mt. Sinai Hospital testified to that.
…While we are told about some extreme cases of malformed babies, (as though life is only for the privileged, the planned and the perfect), Dr. James McMahon listed nine such abortions he performed because the baby had a cleft lip
Many other physicians, who care about both mother and the unborn child, have made it clear that this procedure is never a medical necessity, but merely a “convenience” for those who choose to abort late in pregnancy, when it becomes physically difficult to dismember the unborn child in the womb.
…By upholding this tragic veto, you join the network of complicity in supporting what is essentially a crime against humanity - for that little almost born infant struggling to live is a member of the human family. Partial Birth Abortion is a lethal assault against the very idea of human rights, and destroys, along with a defenseless little baby, the moral foundation of our democracy. Democracy isn’t after all, a mere process - it assigns fundamental values to each human being - the first of which is the unalienable right to life.
One of the great errors of modern politics is the unavailing attempt to separate our private consciences from our public acts. It can’t be done. At the end of the 20th century, is the crowning achievement of our democracy to treat the weak, the powerless, the unwanted as things to be disposed of? If so, we haven’t elevated justice - we have disgraced it.
…I am not in the least embarrassed to say that I believe that one day each of us will be called upon to render an account for what we have done, and what we have failed to do, in our lifetime. And while I believe in a merciful God, I would be terrified at the thought of having to explain, at the final judgment, why I stood unmoved while Herod’s slaughter of the innocents was being reenacted here in my own country.
This debate has been about an unspeakable horror. And while the details are graphic and grisly, it has been helpful for all of us to recognize the full brutality of what goes on in America’s abortuaries, day in and day out, week after week, year after year. We’re not talking about abstractions here. We are talking about life and death at their most elemental. And we ought to face the truth of what we oppose, or support, stripped of all euphemisms.
…Let their innocence appeal to what President Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.”
Prove Raskolnikov wrong. This is something we will never get used to. Make it clear, once again, that there is justice for all - even for the most defenseless in this our land.
--taken from the American Family Association Journal, Nov/Dec, 1996—