Most of the time I am outraged and incensed at the evil that is abortion. I get angry at the debasement of the very image of God.
Sometimes a sense of the reality of the sin we are committing as a nation weighs on me. I feel pain for the people that are part of this dark industry.
I want to be furious. I want to cry out to God, as the psalmist did, “How long, o Lord?” I feel this irrational desire to pray as Christ did on the cross, “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do.” But then my heart sinks deeper as I realize they do know exactly what they do, and they do it anyway, sometimes with glee.
How long will you and I turn a blind eye to this evil? How long will you and I dismiss it as someone else’s problem?
How long will we compartmentalize and rationalize what is plain for all to see? A vulnerable baby, sacrificed at the altar of self? How long will we allow our courts and lawmakers to push this evil on us?
We can close our eyes and try to con ourselves into thinking we have no part in it, God will not hold us accountable, but the truth is we have a part as long as our taxes pay for it. Our tax money allows them to not only murder an unborn child but to sell its body parts for scientific research. We are not innocent.
May God grant us the wisdom and the will to put an end to slaughter of innocent babies in the womb.
