America's #1 Killer
There is currently at work in our nation a most dangerous
killer. It consistently takes more lives than any disease,
famine, or war we have ever faced.
Every month this killer takes more American lives than were lost
in the entire Vietman War. Every six months more die from its
relentless onslaught than in all our previous wars combined or in
all the fatal automobile accidents of the past twenty years.
Every 2-3 years it claims more victims than the Nazi Holocaust.
Incredibly, this monumental devastation is carried out by medical
professionals and is completely
preventable.
The name of this vicious serial killer is ABORTION.
God will not hold this nation guiltless for this great bloodbath.
Indeed, the Bible tells us that He hates "hands that shed
innocent blood"(Prov.6:16-17). Certainly there can be none
more innocent than the unborn.
Abortion advocates ignore these innocent victims of abortion.
Testimony given at U.S. government
sponsored public hearings indicated that in the so-called family
planning clinics: "The baby is
dehumanized as much as possible by being termed a 'blob',
'products of conception' or 'uterine contents'.
Not even the term fetus is used by counsellors".
God, however, has a different view of the unborn. He told the
prophet Jeremiah, "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew
thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified
thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations" (
Jer.1:5 )
He said of John the Baptist: "For he shall be great in the
sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink;
and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his
mother's womb" (Luke 1:15 ).
Clearly, God views the unborn as human and precious.
From the human standpoint man does not know the potential of the
life that is blotted out by abortion.
Had abortion been legalized and condoned in earlier times, the
world would no doubt have lost the
contribution of some of the greatest minds and talents.
A professor at the UCLA Medical School presented the following
case history to his students: A woman who suffers from
tuberculosis is pregnant. Her husband has syphilis. There are
three children in the family. One is blind, another deaf, and the
other suffers tuberculosis. Yet, another child died in infancy.
Under the circumstances, most of the students recommended an
abortion. They were then informed by their Professor:
"Congratulations, you've just killed Beethoven !"
Consider some other significant statistics relating to abortion:
- Abortion is not the "safe procedure" its advocates
claim it to be. More mothers die from the complications of legal
abortions each year than died from illegal abortions in all
previous years.
- In many areas of our country abortions actually outnumber live
births.
- 1,500,000 - 2,000,000 babies are aborted annually.
- 98% of abortions are for reasons other than rape, incest, or
the mother's life.
- 40% of abortions are performed on women who have aborted other
babies previously.
- One third of abortions are performed on teenagers without their
parent's consent or knowledge.
- The heart of an unborn baby begins to beat at 18 days after
conception.