Jan
23
Forgive Us Father…
Filed Under Current Issues, Opinion, Politics, Religion
Yesterday marked the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion in the United States. A great deal of discussion has been had in the last few days on both sides of the argument.
I will not drone on about a topic that is so clearly obvious to me and yet still so polarized. Instead, I will offer a fact and an observation.
According to a CRS Report for Congress titled “American War and Militarty Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics” (RL32492) dated 29 June 2007, 1,008,112 American lives have been lost fighting 10 wars and 8 military operations since the formation of our country in 1776. That is one American life every two hours.
The best estimates for abortions, as acknowledged by the abortion industry itself, are that, since Roe v. Wade in 1973, 48,000,000 lives have been lost to abortion in the United States. That is a death rate of 313:1.
That is not to say that war is good; neither is abortion.
~cv