Reflections on Roe v Wade at 35 Years and 50,000,000 Dead

This year's juxtaposition of Martin Luther King Jr., Day on January 21 and the anniversary of Roe v Wade on January 22 merits some reflection. As we saw yesterday, in a 1954 speech entitled, “Recovering Lost Values,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said:

Some things are right and wrong, eternally so, absolutely so. It’s wrong to hate; it always has been wrong and it always will be wrong.

As these powerful words would imply, his speech included frontal assaults on moral relativism and pragmatism and on the practical atheism that he saw in churches and church people who failed to stand up for what is right.

So if we believe as Dr. King said that it is always and everywhere absolutely wrong to hate another human being, what does that imply for abortion? My dictionary defines “hate” as “extreme aversion.” And abortion, in fact, involves an aversion to an unborn human being so strong that it requires the destruction of that innocent human being. By Dr. King’s principle, then, abortion must be wrong.

After 35 years and 50,000,000 American lives lost, the American Holocaust continues. O Lord, how long? For encouragement in the endurance always required to defeat evil, I suggest that you turn to Psalm 94 and Psalm 130 .