Sanctity of Human Life - Sunday January 24, 2010

Today we are remembering the 50 million innocent lives that have been terminated for the sake of comfort and convenience. The legalization of abortion, a decision made by a very liberal Supreme Court that viewed itself as God, has brought to our nation a holocaust 11 times larger than the murders perpetrated by Hitler during his reign of terror. Many of these innocent babies actually faced a more horrific death than most of the Jewish victims under Hitler.

Two weeks ago, Haiti was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake. As we should have, America and many other nations responded immediately in order to save lives. As a result, many lives have been saved. Thousands of severely wounded have been treated and will return to normalcy in the near future. Great organizations such as Feed the Children and Convoy of Hope have responded to meet the physical needs such as food and care for orphaned children. These are steps a great people take when called upon.

I am having a hard time reconciling in my mind the opposite reactions to critical needs shown in the two paragraphs above. How can a nation like America care so much for life in Haiti and other devastated parts of the world, yet allow an atrocity like abortion to take place on our own shores? How can the lives of Haitians, Nigerians, Sri-Lankans, or citizens of Indonesia be worth the billions we have spent to save them, yet an innocent American baby have such little value that we actually pay to have their lives extinguished.

On our own shores, we protect some children from abuse, even by their parents (which we should). We go so far as to place the abusers in prison or give them the death penalty (which we should). We protect these yet allow a member of the medical profession to brutally murder the unborn. We even turn our heads when the abortion attempt fails and the medical community, through active or passive participation, takes the baby’s life.

It is time that we demand that every innocent life receive the rights guaranteed by our founding documents. Physicians around the world agree that life begins at the moment of fertilization. Life must be protected from this point on. Houston now boasts the world’s second largest abortion mill Houston is treading on dangerous ground. We must band together to right this wrong on behalf of the unborn.

Please consider getting behind the Story for Congress Campaign in an even bigger way. I will not stop fighting on behalf of the unborn until their Constitutional Rights and their value has been restored.