Abortion

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    The year is 1933 and in Germany the Nazis have just taken power. For the next twelve years until 1945 the Nazis would kill off many Jews for the sake of purifying their race. This event was known as the Holocaust. What many Americans do not realize is that there has been a holocaust in our own country. This Holocaust has been given another name though, a name that makes less of what it truly is. It’s named abortion; a genocide that within our own country claims millions of lives a year. 
    According to the United Holocaust Memorial Museum nearly six million Jews would be murdered during the twelve-year reign of the Nazis. That comes out to five hundred thousand murders a year. This is approximately equivalent to the entire population of Abilene, times five. Now let’s take a look at our own Holocaust. According to a United States Census in 2009 there were 1,211,500 children aborted. Now I am going to try and put that in perspective. Does everyone remember where they were on 9/11/2001? Now soak in those memories for a second and try to imagine if for the last thirty-nine years the events of 9/11 happened every single day. According a CDC website article titled, “Deaths in World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks --- New York City, 2001” there were 2,726 casualties from the World Trade Center attacks.  But what we fail to realize is that on average the daily abortion rate comes out to approximately 3,319. That is nearly six hundred more deaths than that of the attack on 9/11.
    Senator Brownback in the one hundred and ninth Congress first session in 2005 covered “THE CONSEQUENCES OF ROE V. WADE AND DOE V. BOLTON.” Brownback would state that, “In the years since Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton were decided, it is estimated that around 40 million abortions have taken place in the United States.” That was seven years ago. The Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life produced a current estimate of 54,559,615. This is truly the crisis of our time.
    So what now? For our great, great grandparents it was the abolition of the slave trade, for our grandparents it was the holocaust and now for us it is the fight against abortion. Will we be like those who silently stood by in the slave markets? Or those who apathetically allowed many Jews to die mercilessly because they did not want to risk their own lives for a cause bigger than themselves. Will we go down namelessly in the books of history as the generations that stood by as one of the greatest genocides in history happened on our doorstep? This is no longer a problem that belongs to those before us, it is now our problem. We have the power to change this. God has not blessed us in order that we may hoard all His blessing for ourselves. We have been given strengths, abilities, and talents but the question is will we use them for His glory? Proverbs 31:8 says, “Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable.” And who is more vulnerable and voiceless than an innocent child still within the womb? So whether it is voting, joining non-profits, adoption, counseling or even entering the political battle, there are countless ways to get involved and have a voice for those who don’t. William Wilberforce, the man credited with the abolition of slavery in England, once said, “Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, ‘I did not know.’” In the time it has taken to read this an average of eleven babies have been aborted. Consider that…