Legalization of ‘murders’ came 45 years ago
Forty-five years ago on Jan. 22, 1973, seven black-robed men declared war on helpless, innocent little unborn baby boys and girls with the passing of Roe vs. Wade. Thus began the national sin of abortion, the most cowardly murder of all murders, the killing of defenseless babies in their mothers’ wombs. Think about it: Seven men set the stage for the most brutal and massive slaughter ever in America. The court ruled the unborn child was not a person, but only a “potential person.” To date, approximately 59 million baby boys and girls have been murdered.
America’s birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence, granted life to all Americans, including the unborn. The cowardly murder of the unborn violates “the laws of nature and of nature’s God” as mentioned in the very first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration. Many would argue “I can do what I want with my body. ” I agree, as long as only the mother’s body is involved. In pregnancies , there are two bodies involved. In case of twins, three bodies are involved. The most important question of all is what does God, who creates life, say about the shedding of innocent blood? His word, in Jeremiah tells us, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee.”
In God’s Ten Commandments, the Lord’s word is very clear about the sin of murder. “Thou shalt not kill.”
FRED COLEMAN
Fort Smith
A few relevant words
from our president
Now, 160 years later, we might do well to listen to what Abraham Lincoln said in a speech at Lewistown, Ill., on Aug. 17, 1858:
“Wise statesmen as they were [the Founding Fathers], they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began — so that truth, and justice, and mercy, and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built.”
MAYA PORTER
Johnson