From my heart ...

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Sanctity of Human Life

Officially, Pro-Lifers have declared this week in January 'Sanctity of Human Life Week.'

Its the week that serves as a bitter reminder of two ill-conceived, irresponsible U.S. Supreme Court decisions thirty-eight years ago:  Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.

Thirty-eight years of exploited, damaged women.

Thirty-eight years of heinous deaths of more than 53 million precious children.

Roe v. Wade:  (1973) The Supreme Court said that a fetus is not a person, but merely a 'potential life.'  One without any constitutional rights.  The not-so-supreme Court also set up a framework in which a woman's right to abortion and the State's right to protect 'potential life' shift in the following manner ...  1st trimester:  The State cannot regulate abortion for any reason.  2nd trimester:  the State can regulate abortion to protect the health of the mother.  3rd trimester:  (This is where the 'shift' comes in.)  The State can regulate or prohibit abortion to promote its interest in the 'potential life' of the baby, except where abortion is necessary to preserve the woman's life or health.

Doe v. Bolton:  (1973)  On the very same day as Roe v. Wade, in another case - Doe v. Bolton - the Supreme Court 'modified' Roe v. Wade.  This is when they decided that a woman's right to abortion could not be limited by the State if abortion was sought for reasons of maternal health.  The Court defined 'health' to include 'all factors' - not just physical - but emotional, familial, psychological, and the woman's age.  This 'health exception' expanded the right to abortion for any reason through all three trimesters of pregnancy, even up to and including the baby's due date.

Our Nation ought to be mortified.  Our Nation ought to be ashamed.  And, our Nation ought to make deliberate work of overturning Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton - for the sake of the children, for the sake of their mothers, and for Heaven's sake.

God loves His little children.  Its a theme throughout Scripture.

This is why Pro-Lifers marched in Washington, D.C. this past Monday.  This is why we've marched for thirty-eight years.  This is why we're devoted to protecting the lives of the unborn.  This is why we're also devoted to restoring hope to their mothers.  And, this is why 'Sanctity of Human Life Sunday' and 'Sanctity of Human Life Week' have been observed in January every year for the past thirty-eight years on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.

Officially, I declare the remainder of my days as my own 'Sanctity of Human Life Years.'

'Speak up for the speechless,
in the cause of all who are appointed to die.'
Proverbs 31:8

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