Read. Weep. Repent. And Respond. 50 Million Babies...Gone.

I have a deadness in my stomach after reading the headline story yesterday about Kermit Gosnell (I cannot bring myself to call him doctor), a man who made millions of dollars over 30 years, murdering late term babies.  How did he kill them?  He would induce labor and proceed to cut through the baby's spinal cord with scissors.  The injustice represented here is none other than horrific, wicked, and worthy of Divine vindication.


The news just grows dimmer when we understand that Mr. Gosnell represents only a small segment of the abortion industry.  I do not accept the premise that killing late-term delivered babies is worthy of charges, while killing early-term undelivered babies is not.  We must resist the tendency, even amongst pro-lifer's, to presuppose an ontological difference between the two.  Six inches down the birth canal does not change the ontological status of a person.  Stanek furthers this point when he poses the question, "Does where you are define who you are?"  The answer is a moral and obvious "No."

It is also worthy of bringing to light the fact that these horrible acts are legalized in our nation - but unjustly so.  Cal Thomas, in his post Thirty-Eight Years and Fifty Million helps us to understand how this practice became permissible by law:

On January 22, the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, think of it this way: 50 million branches of family trees cut off; 50 million regrets over what might have been; 50 million babies who could have brought joy out of sadness and a future that might have contributed substantially to the human race, snuffed out at the beginning of their lives.  


It is precisely because of the 7-2 Supreme Court majority vote in 1973 read something into the Constitution that isn't there, to wit, that a "right to privacy" means the right to ill an unborn child - even when it is capable of living outside of the womb - that Congress must restore the original intent of the Framers, which includes the "endowed by their Creator" clause in the Declaration of Independence.  The Constitution cannot be separated from the Declaration, its philosophical and moral foundation.


For more current reading about abortion and what we, as Christians, can and should do to confront it, I suggest the following:


Al Mohler's What About the Twins? The Deadly Logic of Abortion
Abort73.com