Forty Years of Slaughter

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R.C. Sproul, Jr. writes of A Generation Lost:

It is not my intent to challenge the effectiveness of any organization, any strategy, or any party. I have, in one way or another, been deeply involved in them all. Rather my intent is to highlight the deep gap between how we think about abortion forty years later, and the reality. We think in terms of strategies, movements, parties, and avert our eyes from the body parts. Strategies, movements, parties are all abstractions. The babies are real, and they are really dead. The anniversary is just a date on the calendar. The babies are dead, not fifty million of them, but one of them, fifty million times.

Matt Rodgers has compiled a great list of Outstanding Pro-Life Articles, including a few he wrote himself. I particularly recommend you read this overview of abortion methods:

In the political realm, abortion is debated as an abstract concept. It’s dehumanized. For many, the word evokes only a vague understanding that a “clump of cells” is being removed from a woman’s uterus. Even the word “abortion” is being abandoned in favor of euphemisms like “women’s reproductive rights”.

In this post, my goal is simply to present the various methods used to carry out abortions. I’ll be relying mostly on diagrams, testimonies, and excerpts from medical resources. I’ve intentionally avoided using gory photographs for shock value, but be forewarned that some content is, nonetheless, quite graphic.

If you believe there’s nothing morally or ethically wrong with abortion, then none of what follows should be troubling.

“We have killed fifty million babies,” says John Piper. “And what increases our guilt as a nation is that we know what we are doing.” You can read the evidence here. The aim of Piper’s post is threefold:

1. To make clear that we will not be able to defend ourselves with the claim of ignorance. We knew. All of us.

2. To solidify our conviction to resist this horrific evil.

3. To intensify our prayer and our preaching toward gospel-based soul-renovation in our land, because hardness of heart, not ignorance, is at the root of this carnage.

3 thoughts on “Forty Years of Slaughter”

  1. I heard abortion called “reproductive justice” tonight. Do they even know what they mean?
    For pure Irony, my local newspaper had an article today about how in my state, NH, they want you to be forced to retreat instead of defending yourself if violence breaks out or if you feel threatened in a public place. Their reasoning? “Sanctity of Life!” “Deputy Attorney General Ann Rice testified that New Hampshire’s old law balanced the rights of people to defend themselves with protections for the sanctity of life.”

    So….. the baby has no sanctity of life, but a would be murderer in the mall does.
    Thank you for posting this.

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