Roe v. Wade today

From the web site "christianity.com", Trevin Wax gives these insights on Roe v. Wade and what it means to the church. Wax asked after 38 years, just how pro-life are we?

The full artical can be found at this LINK

In an interview with The New York Times last July, Supreme Court Justice - Ruth Bader Ginsberg - was asked about the federal restrictions that forbid the use of Medicaid for abortion. Listen carefully to her response:

• "The ruling about that surprised me. Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe versus Wade was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of…"

Justice Ginsberg admits that behind the Supreme Court decision in 1973 was the concern that we limit the expansion of "populations that we don't want to have too many of." I wonder what populations she might have been referring to. If the statistics on abortion demographics are any indication, one can hardly miss her point. Abortion has taken a terrible toll on the black community.

14 million black babies have been aborted since 1973. (That number is equal to one-third of the number of blacks living today.)

Black women are almost 5 times more likely to abort than white women.

And get this: although blacks compose only 13 percent of the population, they have 37 percent of all abortions.

The niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Alveda King - has said:

• "Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed."

Of course, we do not oppose the slaughter of unborn children merely because it unjustly targets minorities. We believe that abortion cheapens life for all of us. Once we discriminate against human life in its earliest forms, we soon determine that other lives can be discarded and wasted.

We as Christians must work to bring comfort and care to pregnant women in need, and to the women who have regrets about their abortions. We do not believe that it can somehow be in the best interest of a woman to deliberately kill her unborn child. Difficult pregnancies provide an opportunity for us to embrace the mother and child alike. And that is what churches and pregnancy centers all across America do every day.

So we call on those in government to protect the weak and vulnerable, and to do so without discrimination. We seek to defend those who cannot defend themselves. We speak up for the unborn and the disabled. We welcome the child with Down's Syndrome, the child with abnormalities, the child with AIDS. We financially support the family who adopts children of other nationalities and races.

You can tell how pro-life, pro-family, and pro-child our churches really are by the way we support the youngest in our congregations. Some Christians would give months of their time to campaign for a pro-life candidate, but would not give a few hours a year to sit with children in the nursery or teach a child in Sunday School. A truly pro-life, pro-child church will never have a shortage of nursery workers. The sounds of babies crying are the sounds of life, God-given life that we cannot take for granted.

A truly pro-life, pro-family church welcomes the disruption of children in the foyer, rejoices at the sight of new faces in children's church. and smiles at the thought of families from different countries and backgrounds joining us in praise to God.

Being pro-life is not just about having bumper stickers on your car. It's about loaning your car to a single mother.

Being pro-life is not just shedding tears at the thought of how abortion robs the world of a child. It's about you and I treasuring the children God has given us here and now.