The Slippery Slope of Abortion in America

By now I'm sure many of you are familiar with the horrific story of brutal murder that has come ringing out of Philadelphia, PA.  If  you haven't read the story, take a look at it here.  Kermit Gosnell, a 69-year-old family practitioner posing as an abortion doctor, was recently charged with the murder of a 41-year-old woman and seven infant children.  If you read the report of the Pennsylvania DA on the case, you are actually led to believe that Gosnell was responsible for the murder of hundreds more babies and at least one more adult.  Without getting too graphic, Gosnell would fully deliver the babies, jab a pair of scissors into the back of their necks, and cut their spinal cords.  As wicked as partial-birth abortion is, it seems to pale in comparison to this.

Of course, it's unthinkable that this kind of murder could happen in the United States of America.  But did these horrific events take place in a vacuum?  In other words, what circumstances created an environment where this type of murder could take place?  Clearly the legalization of abortion in 1973 opened the floodgates to some of the grizzly practices we're seeing today.  While I'll admit that illegal abortions were commonplace in America before Roe v. Wade, I think it's clear that legalized abortion has done very little to clean up what is a barbaric, abominable act in the eyes of God.

Here's what really gets me in this whole conversation.  How can we say that a child inside the womb has fewer rights than a child of the same age outside the womb?  Do people really believe that a child outside the womb is a human being, but that one inside the womb is not?  You can dress it up, clean it up, and call it whatever you wish, but God's Word calls it the shedding of innocent blood (cf. 2 Kings 21:16).  In Bible times, Judah was judged because it shed so much innocent blood during the reign of Manasseh.  What makes us think that America will somehow avoid the judgment of God for committing similar sinful acts?

There's no question that abortion has created quite a slippery slope here in America.  Legalized abortion led to partial-birth abortion and now this.  Is there any end in sight?  Only if God sends us the revival we so desperately need.  My prayer is that revival will begin in each of our hearts, that it will transform our families, and that it will so move upon the houses of God across this land that finally our culture will be radically changed for the glory of Christ.  Then, and only then, will the slippery slope of death be transformed into a holy pursuit of life.