During World War II, battle hardened American soldiers were shocked and sickened at what they saw in the Nazi death camps. Some soldiers wept, others nurtured a desire for revenge. The onlooking world was horrified, not believing that humanity was capable of such a low level of depravity and inhuman treatment of fellow mankind. When the war crimes trials were held in Nuremberg, many Nazi leaders were sentenced to death because of the death camp holocaust. The extermination tactics of the Nazis have been used as the example of evil. We can only conclude that the minds of those involved in these atrocities were devoid of any moral values.
How heartbreaking it is that less that fifty years after the death camps appalled the world, our society is responsible for an atrocity of a much larger scale, and we do not weep and are not shocked! Like many people of Germany under Hitler, we go on day after day with closed eyes while this abomination continues, pretending it is not happening. But it is. Thirty million American babies have been legally put to death since January 22, 1973. The crime of these innocent children is that they were not yet born. Fifty years ago we sent soldiers across the ocean to eradicate the death camps. In January 1993, the President of the United States issued an order that will cause you and me to promote and participate, by our taxes, in the killing unborn children. Americans once proudly stood against the evils of human experimentation by the Nazis. But now our President has approved using unborn children for human experimentation. Our people were enraged with the torture chambers of Auscwitz, but today by Supreme Court edict we allow children to be torn apart by suction, burned by saline, or carved by medical instruments.
We have come a long way, haven't we. Three decades ago, our enlightened society clamored to throw off the outdated morals of the Bible, so it could have gratification without responsibility. These people called this moral rebellion a "sexual revolution." Now faced with the results of this moral void, rather than calling abortion murder, they call it, in the words of Thomas Foley, "the right of every American." The word "sin" is disappearing from American vocabulary. Politicians, judges, social engineers, and educators are trying to make our society more tolerant of sinful practices and behavior. Bible believers must not be deceived into that thinking pattern.
There are no "unwanted" children. David said, "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward." God wants what our society aborts. Even in the womb these children are under his watchful eye. Psalm 139:16 affirms this, "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." My dear friends, may we care as He does! May God help us to cast the stench of abortion from our land!