Abortion: Un-American, Un-Godly & the Undoing of Our Future

On this 36th anniversary of U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in which abortion was legalized:

The Oklapologist is in Dee Cee with the annual March for Life Day contingent, hoping to impress the new administration that there are still a goodly number of people who believe that the right to life, to liberty and to the pursuit of happiness are still self-evident and still granted to us by our Creator. Without the right to life, the rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness don't amount to much. Abortion deprives the most vulnerable among us -- future citizens who have yet to acquire their voice -- of that most precious of all rights.

To deprive a people of their right to life, and I think it is safe to say that 50 million or so abortions constitutes a considerable "people", is the most un-American of any action the citizens of this land could undertake. It would shock and shame our Founding Fathers and the American people of their time.

Abortion is un-Godly, in that the Creator would not approve of the wanton destruction of His creation, this genocide hidden behind the facade of science and medicine. Whether it is the G-d of the Jews; the God of the followers of Jesus (Christians); or Allah of Muslims (radical or otherwise), the Creator would not approve.

It is a crime against humanity made especially heinous in that there are no lofty ideals at stake here. Those who believe in and practice abortion do so because of their own convenience or because there is tremendous money to be made, especially if you can convince regular people that there is nothing evil about it. To end life for the sake of monetary gain is the worst sort of evil.

The Prophet Isaiah declared, "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who change darkness into light, and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!" (Is. 5:20)

Woe? What woe? If you read on a bit farther, he said this:

"Therefore, as the tongue of fire licks up stubble, as dry grass shrivels in the flame, Even so their root shall become rotten and their blossom scatter like dust; For they have spurned the law of the LORD of hosts, and scorned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

"Therefore the wrath of the LORD blazes against his people, he raises his hand to strike them; When the mountains quake, their corpses shall be like refuse in the streets. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, and his hand is still outstretched.

"He will give a signal to a far-off nation, and whistle to them from the ends of the earth; speedily and promptly will they come. None of them will stumble with weariness, none will slumber and none will sleep. None will have his waist belt loose, nor the thong of his sandal broken. Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses seem like flint, and their chariot wheels like the hurricane."

"Their roar is that of the lion, like the lion's whelps they roar; They growl and seize the prey, they carry it off and none will rescue it."

-- Isaiah 5: 24-30 (North American Bible)

In Biblical terms, 40 years was considered a "generation." The Israelites were not permitted to leave the wilderness for the Promised Land until the generation that had wickedly abandoned God had been suitably punished through death and aging, so that a new generation would inherit the blessing.

Do the math: 36 years is very nearly 40. How long will this "generation" of Americans be allowed to thumb its collective noses, whether through avarice or apathy, at the Almighty.

Dear friends, the time is short. God is patient, and merciful, slow to anger and quick to forgive the truly repentant. But He does keep His promises, and Isaiah lays them out for us to ponder.

Pray for an end to abortion.