Aborted Babies: The Memorial is Their Maker
Dr. Jerry MixonAbortion! No word seems to have divided America more than this one word. Place all of the other words together that project images and no word is loaded with baggage like this word. Some sing it as a fight song while others equate it to a freedom song.
In the midst of this struggle to have it one way or another (abortions or no abortions), some have suggested we should settle for simply having less abortions. At first glance, that seems reasonable. Think about crime for a moment. We realize that we cannot stop crime altogether, but we can reduce crime; therefore, we do all we can from neighborhood watches to hiring more policemen. We even applaud cities that reduce their crime rate by percentage points. While it sounds great, ask some politician to try and get elected on a platform to reduce murders in his/her city from 50 to 10. He/she can run on reducing crime but not on reducing murder. The idea that it should be permitted to a lesser extent is insulting. Isolating a single crime like murder allows all to see it for what it really is and that makes even one murder unacceptable. Others would cry out that in the slaughter of the unborn, we have destroyed the lives of potential men and women who could have made a wonderful contribution to society.
Doctors, lawyers, and missionaries, coupled with various other meaningful professions now have been wasted. That argument is flawed because the case may be made that we have also prevented some evil to run rampant through the world because if the previous be true, then it may be assumed that we also destroyed rapists, murderers, and child molesters who may have chosen to use their existence to bring evil upon the world.
The choice to produce evil or good with our lives remains with the individual and is then judged by a society governed by laws. It does not seem just for us to become the source to make the decision to prevent the birth of one life even if we could deem before conception that life would produce good or evil. How can we judge a tree by an acorn? So we have become judge, jury and executioner.
Our courts and justice system have a base assumption that better that one criminal should go free than one innocent man be pronounced guilty. Our courts believe all are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. May God help us to open our eyes and grant the right of birth to all instead of condemning over 50 million unborn babies to be destroyed before they have the opportunity to physically enter into our imperfect world.
A well-known football icon recently was indicted for running a dog-fighting ring and killing dogs. I have two beautiful Labs that I could not think of treating in that manner. I was not upset, I was mad. However, I wondered in the quietness of my spirit, “where is the outrage when over 50 million human beings have been destroyed? Where are the politicians? Where are the clergy who should be the defenders of the weak and helpless? Why are we up in arms, so to speak, over the killing of dogs and not over the killing of the unborn? Unborn babies are cast into waste baskets, flushed down a toilet, or discarded in some other distasteful manner. There are not even grave markers to acknowledge their existence.”
The Memorial to the Missing is their marker. Approximately 6 million pennies are still needed to reach the 50 million penny goal. You can help by sending checks or cash to the Mississippi Baptist Convention and designating your gift to The Memorial to the Missing. With your help, we can help women choose life for their unborn babies.