Exasperating Evil

Aborted Baby At 10 Weeks, Mere Tissue? I Don't Think So.

Yesterday I received the May/June issue of the Care Net Report. What is Care Net? According it its website Care Net was founded in 1975 to encourage practical and compassionate solutions to reduce abortions in the United States and Canada. In 1980, Care Net opened its first affiliated pregnancy center in Baltimore, Maryland. Today, Care Net is the largest pregnancy center affiliation organization in North America with a network of more than 1000 Christian pregnancy centers. The first article I read in the current Care Net Report was an article by its editor, Matthew J. Water, simply titled, “Evil” . His words struck me powerfully and I am excerpting a significant portion of that article below. It clearly identifies and crystallizes the essence of one of the greatest if not THE greatest evil and on-going atrocity happening in America today, or ever to occur in her 230 year history.

“You may notice an emphasis on the topic of evil this month (current issue of the Care Net Report.) We believe on our fight for the unborn and many deceived mothers and fathers is one against the very principalities of darkness of which Scriptures speak. To date, abortion is responsible for nearly 50 million deaths in the U.S.1 Worldwide, abortions account for nearly 50 million deaths each and every year, going back several decades. This makes abortion public enemy number one, far outpacing

Communism (100 million);

Nazism (12 million);

Radical Islam (5 million since 1971) (1) .

. . . . In the U.S. 3,000 abortions take place every day – with the courts protecting the practice and your tax dollars underwriting organization like Planned Parenthood ($254.4 million annually) (2) that perform it.

“And abortion doesn’t end in the womb. It has had devastating ramifications on the children who survive the none months in the womb. Today child abuse and child murder are both at all-time highs (3) . The cheapening of vulnerable, innocent lie by abortion s largely responsible for the fact that statistically speaking, the first day of one’s life is also his most dangerous.

“Don’t believe the lie that “abortion is the safest medical procedure in the world” either. Abortion has SPIRITUAL, EMOTIONAL, and PHYSICAL consequences. Abortion increases

the risk of breast cancer (4) , and

gives rise to depression (5) ,

substance abuse (6) and

suicide (7) .

The clinical term is Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (8) . And the fact that abortion remains a legal and socially acceptable option gives reluctant would-be fathers carte blanche to insist that their wives and girlfriends abort their children – or else. Abortion is responsible for making murder the leading cause of death among pregnant women (9) .

“Given these facts, I don’t think it’s a stretch to point to abortion as one of the culprits largely responsible for the breakdown of relationships, marriages and families. Abortion promised to liberate women. It has broken millions of them and men suffer as well. Abortion has given rise to a culture violent towards its children. . . “

You can see the nine documented footnotes at the end of the on-line article. Wow, doesn’t this article summarize well the current state of affairs of our nation? We have allowed evil to take root like weeds in a vegetable garden choking the potential nourishing, life sustaining fruit of the ground. Like weeds evil must be identified and must be systematically removed, converse to the way it once was allow to grow, mature and freely thrive. It is time that we once again conscientiously tended our once bountiful, great, grand exemplar garden, America. It is time to do the hard work of tending our garden and restoring it to its full potential so laboriously designed and cultivated in its earlier years . . . Make A Good Choice . . . and get to work.