Partial Birth Abortion

This last wednesday, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold the Partial Birth Abortion Ban passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush in 2003. I am truly thankful! This is a brutal procedure in which a child, usually at 5 or 6 months, is brutually killed when it is inches from being fully delivered.

http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/

The procedure is barbaric and never necessary to save the mother's life. The fact that we even have to argue whether or not to allow this procedure is an alarming sign for our country in my opinion. It just underlines the point that human nature is able to justify great evil. We mistakedly imagine that the horrors of World War II shocked us enough that no civilized nation would ever allow such attrocities to occur again. To me this is a wake up call that no generation is ever far enough from evil to assume that we can rest safely without fear of society condoning and rationalizing the destruction of innoncent life.

I was greatly disturbed by some of the comments I have read in response to the victory over partial birth abortion:

click here to see Seattle Times article

The name of the Seattle Times article says it all: "Pro-choice advocates react with dismay." There are people, groups and organizations that are actually upset that it is still illegal to destroy a 6 month old fetus that is perfectly healthy and all but delivered except for his or her head.

Liberal pro-choice groups are accusing the courts and congress of playing politics. This is not about politics but about decency and civility. It is about life and death. We should not care which political party is involved. The shedding of a baby's blood is just wrong (understatement of the year).

We would do well to heed the wisdom of Proverbs:

Proverbs 6:16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, 19 a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

God is holy and good and can not tolerate the shedding of innocent blood:

Exodus 23: 7 Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Especially abhorrent to Him is when it deals with the most needy and innocent amoung us, namely children:

Psalm 106:38 They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood. 39 They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves. 40 Therefore the LORD was angry with his people and abhorred his inheritance. 41 He handed them over to the nations, and their foes ruled over them. 42 Their enemies oppressed them and subjected them to their power.

May God have mercy and forgive us and deliver us from evil!