Sometimes all the attention and criticism that the Iraq War gets annoys me. I mean neither to decry nor promote the War in Iraq. What bothers me is that people, shocked and horrified by the casualty reports we receive in the news, cry out for an end to the war so that no more of our soldiers have to die and then turn a deaf ear to the death toll that abortion has tallied on our own soil, in our own neighborhoods, maybe across the street like the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Waco, TX that is opposite an elementary school.
But perhaps some people don’t know where the figure lies. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (an organization established by Planned Parenthood), the number of babies killed by abortion from 1973, when abortion was legalized, to 2003 is 44,711,291. That is more than the number of American casualties from every war the United States has ever fought in. In Waco, a thriving metropolis of 200,000, an average of 22 surgical abortions are performed EVERY WEEK. Now, what was last number coming from Iraq? I mourn every death report that comes from Iraq because each and every one of those lives is absolutely precious. But I also mourn for the 3,598 babies killed EVERY DAY by abortion (AGI) in the U.S. It seems to me that something is wrong if we can ignore the fact that the tiniest among us are dying at the rate of 150/hour.
But perhaps we don’t really know what abortion is? People often justify it in the name of freedom of choice and even in the name of mercy. What are they actually justifying? What do we think of when we think of an abortion? Do we actually think about what happens during the procedure? We see pictures of aborted babies that maybe we wouldrather not see. (But, as Randy Alcorn says, “If something is too horrible to look at, perhaps it is too horrible to condone.”)Here are two, non-graphic YouTube videos made by Priests For Life that actually show the two most common abortion procedures.
- dismemberment abortion: http://youtube.com/watch?v=us_y9GP_-DA
- suction abortion: http://youtube.com/watch?v=QBOAPleF1t0
May we always be mindful of our troops and the unborn.
-Robby, assistant conference director, TxSFL
