Safe, Legal, and Rare?

I ran across a very disturbing article yesterday that really highlights something that the abortion enthusiasts never talk about. It was a very tragic story of a woman who was pregnant with twins who decided to have an abortion because her boyfriend didn't want the children.

An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: "I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum."

Emma Beck was found hanging at her home in Helston, Cornwall, on Feb 1 2007. She was declared dead early the following day - her 31st birthday.

Her suicide note read: "I told everyone I didn't want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies: they need me, no-one else does."

Not surprisingly, everyone at the hospital is contradicting Ms. Beck's claim. Tragically, she isn't here to argue.

The slogan of America's Planned Parenthood is that they want to make abortion safe, legal and rare. I have talked about this organization's duplicity in another article, citing PP's attempts to thwart laws that would require abortion clinics to adhere to the same cleanliness standards as hospitals. If they truly cared about the safety of these procedures, then they should have been meeting that standard all along.

Of course, it goes without saying that the procedure isn't safe for the child. All of the abortion methods are pretty gruesome at best - others are purely barbaric. So strike two for safety.

Ms. Beck's story points to a third contradiction in the butchers' dishonest claim that they desire that abortions be safe. There are often (I'd dare say always) emotional wounds as a result of a mother's choice to kill her child. Sometimes, as in Ms. Beck's case, the guilt is so great that it even leads to suicide. Strike three.

Let's consider who abortion was safe for in Ms. Beck's case. Was it safe for her twins? No. They are dead. Was it safe for Ms. Beck? Not really. She's dead too as a direct result of having the procedure performed. The doctor's hand didn't kill her, but the abortion did.

So who was the abortion safe for? Oh yes, the doctor. He (or perhaps she) was able to commit murder without having to risk being arrested. But was it safe for the doctor in the long run? No, not even for the doctor. For there is a just King who has declared, "Thou shalt not murder." He is the one who has declared that there is a penalty for murder, and that penalty will be paid one way or the other regardless of what the laws of Great Britain, The United States, China, or all of the countries in the world say.

Morality and justice aren't democratic. If everyone on earth were to decide that it is OK to kill anyone you want (regardless of whether that person was a fetus or a full-grown adult) it still wouldn't make it right. We don't decide what is right and wrong. God does. If all of the humans decide that we won't put a murderer to death for his or her crimes, God still demands justice.

And it doesn't matter whether an abortion is achieved through a surgical procedure or a pill. RU-486 is merely, as another writer has described it, chemical warfare on an unborn child. The penalty for murder is the same regardless of the weapon that you use to carry out the crime.

That's pretty heavy, I know, but it is the truth. Here is the good news. Jesus took the penalty for EVERY sin upon Himself when He died on the cross. When a sinner recognizes his depravity, he can repent of his sin, cry out to Jesus for mercy and receive it. Even abortionists. That is perhaps more gracious than I would be in one of my more outraged moments. God is truly amazing.

There was an article at Townhall.com on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade that I had meant to comment on earlier, but wasn't able to. In the article, Ken Connor wrote:

Since that fateful decision (Roe v. Wade), over 48.5 million children have perished at the hands of abortionists. One out of every four children conceived in America will be killed by an abortionist. In 2003 alone, more children died from abortion than the total number of Americans who died in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Gulf War combined. Two-thirds of all abortions are performed on single women. Statistically, the womb has become the most dangerous place in America. (Emphases mine.)

It turns out the numbers on the graph I posted around that time needed to be updated even more. I went conservative because I couldn't find reliable numbers. I'm trusting that a nationally-syndicated columnist has his facts straight. This is the way it should have looked:

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You have to add 40 additional marks (each representing 25,000 murdered babies) to bring my old table up-to-date. That's a lot of innocent blood, America. It is time to end this slaughter now.