Abortion does not think about the future. Seventy six million baby boomers could soon realize that the lives might become a burden because 53 million people who would have supported an aging population were aborted. That’s an economic nightmare.
But, there’s a more personal side to this nightmare. Each one of the 53 million boys and girls who have been aborted in the U.S. alone since 1973 had a name (Isaiah 43:1-2).
I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are Mine,” says the Creator and Lord God
Abortion drops a name placed upon a unique and treasured person. It is a name known by God before all eternity for all eternity. It is a name of a boy or girl who would have impacted this world in ways we’ll never know.
Abortion drops a name from a teacher’s grade book. From 4-H club or Boys Scouts or junior olympics. From schools of music, agriculture, or medicine. From the consumer index and first-time home ownership. For the tax rolls. From bonds of marriage, parenthood, and genealogies.
Abortion drops a name from baptism, confirmation, and the mission field.
There is an emptiness when a name is dropped by abortion. Women we know who have suffered the loss of an aborted child would explain this if only we’d listen. That’s because a mother knows that a child created and named by God can never be replaced.
God named each on of this nation’s 53 million aborted children. For each one He had a future and hope. Even though each would have been born into sin, God had for them a robe of righteousness because of what Jesus did on a Cross for them. Our world is less because these children are not with us. Our world suffers when people created for a purpose and called by name are considered “untimely,” “inconvenient,” or “fearful.”
But, God has also named every mother who feared her child; who failed to see her child’s future and hope; who, deceived by other voices, doubted that God is good and can be trusted in every circumstance. He calls each empty mother by name: “My daughter in Christ! Life your countenance toward Me!” He waits with open arms for each mother with a broken and repentant heart. “Turn to Me . . . acknowledge your sin . . . and I will forgive your guilt” (Psalm 32:3-5). “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; thought they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool” (Isaiah 1:18). “Woman . . . neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more” (John 8:11).
A woman who faces the reality of her abortion is in need of someone else whom God has named. That person is you. It is me. We are “friends.” “Comforters.” “Encouragers” on the journey from the dark valley toward “goodness and mercy” (Psalm 23).
Marriage in the Classroom
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Shortly after same-sex “marriage” was forced on Massachusetts by that state’s highest court, a few parents realized their children were being taught same-sex unions were normal, natural, and the moral equivalent of marriage between a man and a woman. These parents attempted to opt their children out of these public school lessons, but were ultimately unsuccessful in a court of law. Two federal courts in Massachusetts, including the appeals court just below the U.S. Supreme Court, determined that, because same-sex “marriage” was legally recognized in Massachusetts, parents no longer had the right to determine whether or what their children would be taught about these relationships. (Source: Tom Minnery, Focus on the Family)
Marriage is being attacked even as children are being taught that all choices are equal. Here’s the thing. Mentoring, teaching morality, and raising children is the job of parents, not schools. Chuck Colson writes, “If we want our children to know how to behave prudently, how to delay gratification for a higher goal, how to look to the needs of others before pandering to their own passions, then we’ll have to teach them in the context of family — best of all, of course, a loving, mom-and-dad family.”
If the courts decide that marriage is just a contract between any kind or number of consenting adults, what consequences will follow? Colson notes that “we will have, in effect, removed all restraints and social conventions surrounding not just sex and marriage but child rearing and training as well. If morality is anything we want it to be, if it serves only our passions and personal autonomy, we’re doomed as a culture.”
Homosexual activists are working feverishly to convince educators to normalize an unnatural behavior. But, moms, dads, and grandparents can speak with the conviction of God’s Word, science and age-old human experience.
It appears to be very dark out there, but darkness has never overcome the light. (John 1:4)
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