Tomorrow, half our nation will rejoice when a new President will be sworn into office while the other half will mourn. Although many are disgusted with our new leader, this is not the first time nor is it likely the last. We do pray for healing and unity in our land and that our leaders and media both will work together toward that end.
While much of the nation will watch the inauguration, an unthinkable atrocity will continue with the willful slaughter of over 3,000 more babies. These are individuals who will never have an opportunity to become President, Congressman, or Supreme Court Justice or even vote.
This Sunday, January 22, is the 44th anniversary of when seven justices determined that prenatal homicide was legal, concluding that the parents’ rights to happiness outweighed the unborn child’s right to life. Since that day, medical research continues to eliminate the argument that fetuses are not humans and verifies that they are indeed little boys and girls growing inside their moms. 
Thankfully, this research, along with the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, is changing many American minds and a majority now favors protecting the rights of the unborn. I continue to pray for the day when those rights will be secured in all 50 states.
Those who support abortion do so for various reasons, but one of their strongest involves an effort to protect the unborn child from poverty and underprivileged conditions. While that is a laudable ambition, there are much better ways to achieve it than eliminating a life. Please consider the following situations and determine if you think abortion would be a good solution.
The first includes a couple who already have 17 children. They are very poor and the wife again becomes pregnant with their 18th child. Considering their dire poverty and the world population, should she abort?
The second scenario involves a father who is sick and whose pregnant wife has tuberculosis. They have already had four children and one of them is blind, one is deaf, one has Tuberculosis, and one has already died. Would you advise this couple to visit an abortion provider and spare the unborn predictable misery?
The third situation is the most desperate of all. A white man rapes a thirteen year old black girl and she becomes pregnant. If you were her parent, would you force her to abort?
If you recommended abortion for the first child, you would never have sung Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Christ the Lord is Risen Today, Jesus Lover of My Soul, or over 6,000 other songs that Charles Wesley penned. He was the 18th child who grew up to help found the Methodist Church along with his 15th brother, John, who also would have been a good candidate for abortion. Thankfully their parents chose otherwise and thousands of people were saved under their preaching and millions more through their ongoing influence. I wonder, however, how many other beautiful songs we’ve never sung because they were silenced in the womb.
In the second scenario, to abort this diseased mother’s child, would have destroyed one of the greatest composers of all time, the musical genius Ludwig Von Beethoven. God works in spite of our challenges to bring good results from bad situations. It is tragic to think that we may have terminated even greater composers whose music we will never enjoy.
If you aborted the third child, the great singer Ethel Waters would never have drawn air into her lungs for the first time, much less for each succeeding time to sing His Eye Is On The Sparrow. God is even able to weave sinful actions into beautiful tapestries. It doesn’t justify the rapist nor should we minimize the pain of all involved. But to take the life of a completely innocent unborn child punishes the wrong person and snuffs out a life created in God’s image. The Devil wins twice and we are impoverished by the gifts that child will never give.
Let me share one last situation. An unmarried teenager ends up pregnant and her fiancé is not even the child’s father. In fact, he’s quite upset. Would you counsel her to dispose of this unwanted fetus to salvage her relationship and her future? If so, you would have just killed the child who would later die for your sins, the Lord Jesus Christ.
As we observe yet another anniversary of a decision that curses our nation for not protecting our most vulnerable citizens, please pray for its reversal and for the valuation of all human life. And reach out in love and support to the mothers as well.
Praying, George