36 Years Ago Today

Roe v. Wade was decided 36 years ago today.

This is a note my friend Jared posted on his Facebook page. I don't think he would mind a reprint of it here.

Millions murdered each year.

We've got to get rid of the false dichotomy that you can either work on a grassroots level to bring kingdom healing to the social ills that give rise to abortion or you can work politically, legally to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Who says we can't do both?

If slavery were still legal, would you settle for false dichotomies? Thank God the abolitionist movement did not.
Would you agree we shouldn't make slavery illegal but just work on hearts and minds? Is that what you would say to an African who asked why it was okay for someone else to legally own him and force servitude from him? Would you tell him we can't legislate morality, to just sit tight while you work on changing hearts?

Abortion is the civil rights crisis of the 21st century and the new holocaust all rolled into one. We should do what we can -- lovingly and peacefully, but persistently and stubbornly and militantly -- to turn the tide. We're talking babies, here.

John Piper:
"Abortion remains a moral issue of such huge consequence that, I believe, our grandchildren will look back in a hundred years and condemn us. Me, they'll condemn me. 'Why didn't you do more?' Just like we look back now on all the complicit involvement with slavery.
We think we're doing the best we can, but we're probably not. We are so incapable of mounting a full-blown conscientious resistance to the greatest evil in our culture, that all of our strategizing to do political, educational, and crisis pregnancy things will all look inadequate a hundred years from now. They'll just say, 'You were killing babies!'"