A Look Back On A Half Century of Roe
This past Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Roe v. Wade case which unleashed a holocaust slaughter of the unborn across our country. When Cain killed his brother Abel, Abel's spilt blood cried out to the Lord in heaven and he heard him. What would the blood of 70 million innocent aborted children sound like? This is the 50 year legacy of the Roe v. Wade decision.
A Harvard Law Professor, Laurence Tribe, wrote that the abortion debate was a clash of absolutes, liberty on one side and life on the other. Although he correctly framed the argument he came down on the side of absolute liberty. By claiming absolute liberty you have the right to destroy another humans right to live. This is moral insanity for any society to believe this, yet we have lived under Roe which has done exactly that.
Roe was passed overwhelmingly by a 7-2 decision. Justice Byron White wrote the dissenting opinion which turned out to be the very reasoning that overturned the decision 50 years later. The decision was a legal and a moral disaster for our country resulting in over 64 million souls lost to abortions. Can you imagine what it would be like if you went to the states of California, Florida and Idaho and found them empty of people? Those three states populations add up to approximately 64 million people, the same number murdered by abortions.
What mind set justifies this perdition? The worldview that sees life as a cosmic accident, random chaos plus billion of years of time and somehow life crawls out of a primordial soup. We are no more than a perambulating sack of chemical reactions. There is no soul or belief in the metaphysical. Everything can or will be explained by science. We live in a mechanistic world where life has no meaning or purpose. Science is our savior and is the god we turn to with all our problems for answers. This is Enlightenment thinking that has slowly poisoned the Christian worldview that once was predominant in the west. This is why in a philosophical sense abortion is practiced today. The Bible calls it "whoring after Molech." Molech was a god worshipped by the Canaanites that required child sacrifices to it. In Leviticus, God expected anyone guilty of this practice to be put to death and anyone who refused to stop this practice was guilty as well.
Now we are back to square one, as if Roe never happened. Each state must decide for itself the abortion issue. Some will outlaw it all together and some will embrace it and remove any regulation or impediment from obtaining one. Before Roe became law New York State had already legalized it. They went so far as placing billboard ads in surrounding states to drum up business. Come to New York and for $250.00 we take care of things for you. Two years after legalizing abortion in the state over 400,000 abortions were performed, 2/3 of this total came from out of state "customers." Do the math 400,000 abortions at $250.00 each, they grossed 100 million dollars, the abortion industry had begun and it was lucrative. Today it is even more so, abortion factories like Planned Parenthood not only perform abortions but sell body parts for scientific research. It is big business.
Everything in our power must be done to stand against this evil. We have a chance for a redo in every state, the stakes are high and it is life or death, there is no middle ground to be found, you must choose a side. Which side are you on?