Defending Life in a Schizophrenic Nation

January 22, 1973, like December 7, 1941, is "a day that will live in Infamy." The attack on our Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor thrust America into World War Two, and before that war was over, 407,000 Americans were dead. And on January 22, 1973, the majority of the justices on the US Supreme Court declared that our Constitution guarantees the right of a pregnant woman, for reasons sufficient to herself, to kill her unborn child. Elective abortion became the birth control method of last resort. But this war against the unborn became much more lethal for Americans than World War Two, with casualties of well over a million a year. At this point, 37 years later, over 50 million American lives have been snuffed out by means of legalized abortion---more than the entire population of Canada. This message underscores the Biblical evidence for the sanctity of human life, as well as the evidence of life in the womb. But it also speaks to the schizophrenia of a nation that was established on the principles of God's Word, but is now undermining that foundation by teaching, as did the philosophers of Nazi Germany, that we are merely the products of slime and time, with no divine creator, and therefore, there is no great distinction between us and our animal cousins. As Dr. Leo Alexander, who participated in the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials put it: The fatal first step was "the acceptance of the attitude that there is such a thing as a life not worthy to be lived." The consequences of our adopting such a philosophy have yet to be seen in full, but one of them is our callous murder of the innocent.