Michigan Christians for Life

On January 22, 1973, abortion on demand became legal in all 50 States with the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Roe v Wade.  Today we look back on that event.

It's almost symbolic that the decision was presented in January.  January is a winter month.  Winter is often called the Season of Darkness.  It is almost chilling to consider that the decision which ushered in the Culture of Death had its beginning  in the Season of Darkness.

When we consider all of the lives lost since this ungodly decision we are reminded of  the first part of John 10:10, "The thief (that is the devil)  comes only to steal and kill and destroy" but when you consider the last part of that verse, "I (Jesus) have come that they may have life, and have it to the full",  there is a renewed hope that things will change.

But today we look  back on thirty years that has produced an average body count of  one million five hundred thousand each year and a total somewhere beyond 42 million of our most vulnerable human beings,  developing babies.

January 22nd is good time to go back and look at how all this madness began, where it traveled to and where it is  today.  Only then can we look at the message that we as Christians  bring to a world that desperately needs to hear the message of Jesus Christ,  for it is by Him that we live and move and have our being.

One of the main pro-abortion leaders was Margaret Sanger who founded Planned Parenthood.  Dr. J.C. Wilke of Life Issues Institute wrote; "...Planned Parenthood, is the one organization that has done more in our lifetime to kill unborn babies, to destroy the institution of marriage, and to destroy traditional Judeo-Christian sexual and moral values than any other group in the history of modern times.

(Margaret Sanger) claimed that 7 out of 10 people walking the streets were feeble-minded, and that they were irresponsible breeders whose fertility she sought to control - control, that is, before they bred in such numbers that there would be a revolution.  In order to prevent the breeding of those whom she called mentally defective, she outlined her "plan for peace".  This was detailed in the Birth Control Review, her publication, in April of 1932."

Dr. Wilke then listed many of the things she detailed in the publication.  The following is a sample:

A. To keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as the feebleminded."  (She was referring to Jews, Southern Europeans and Catholics who were the prospective immigrants.  They were to be given IQ tests, graded as "feebleminded", and then disqualified for entrance.)

B.  To apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny (Children) are already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

C.  To insure the country against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring born of feebleminded parents by pensioning all persons with transmissible diseases who voluntarily consent to sterilization.

From their roots in the 1930's  and through the 40's and 50's Planned Parenthood continued their anti-life agenda and slowly became accepted in the United States and throughout the world.

By the 1960's they helped to popularize birth control and sexual  liberty.   This had an impact on organized religion.  Many church members were swayed into hedonistic lifestyles based on the lies of Planned Parenthood.  In 1967, drugs, alcohol, sexual promiscuity and alternate lifestyles all came together in the summer months in San Francisco.  Known as the "Summer of Love" this event would capture a generation called the "baby boomers".

When the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v Wade in 1973 it  was influenced by what was  then known as the sexual revolution.  People who advanced the pro abortion cause pictured women a victims of back alley abortions.  Numbers were inflated.  For example it was claimed that 50,000 illegal abortions in 1972 when in fact no records were kept.  Dr. Bernard Nathanson, an abortionist who has since become a Christian has stated that the pro abortion movement often lied to sway public opinion.

Roe v Wade passed by a 7-2 margin on January 22, 1973.  And the culture of death began.  It took 41 years to accomplish but the evil deed was done.  A developing baby lost its right to life as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.  Surprisingly the court never ruled that the developing baby was not human but rather that it did not have  a quality of life.  This may have serious implications for the sick, the elderly and those whom Margaret Sanger once deemed "feebleminded."

Planned Parenthood refined its organization and began to obtain more Tax exemptions.  It also began to influence more people to its way of thinking through its research arm.

The research arm of Planned Parenthood is the Alan Guittmacher Institute.  They publish a periodical called Family Planning Perspectives. This publication is pro death but is treated as being the final word on life matters by the mainline press and used as a legitimate reference source by people who should know better.

A good friend of Planned Parenthood is the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL)  They are the propagandists of the anti-life movement.  They distort the fact that over 4,000 babies are being killed each day by abortion by calling it "the freedom of choice" when, in fact, the baby is being denied their choice of life.  They further confuse the issue by grouping their pro-abortion agenda  with the history of women's rights issues such as the right to vote.  The long term result is that women are harmed physically, morally and psychologically by abortion.

Every year on the anniversary of Roe v Wade NARAL holds an "anniversary" Dinner "celebrating" the "victory" of a woman's "right" to kill their developing baby (AKA Roe v Wade)  Since their income comes from pro-abortion efforts, it follows that  this dinner is paid for by  blood money. The Dinner  features celebrity guests (several years ago it was Al and Tipper Gore) who make speeches in their darkened room. The dinner is climaxed by a "toast" of champaign after the blood bought dinner.  How  anyone can sit at that dinner and then go home in look  in the mirror is beyond reason.  The event reminds one of a Hollywood horror movie.

Rather then hang their heads in shame, they applaud the multiple millions of deaths in the past years and look on them as the "freedom" to choose.  Last year they flooded the Television airwaves  with a 60 second promotion which suggested abortion was a choice that reflected  other traditional freedoms.  The fact of the matter is that a  freedom of choice presupposes making the right decision, life, instead of the wrong decision, death.  The fact that they endorse  the wrong choice underlines their endorsement for the culture of death.

Other anti-life organizations include affecting public opinion:

Young Women's Christian Association better known as the YWCA.  About twenty five years ago they were taken over by a group of radical, anti-life feminists.  Today they are support the "repeal of all laws restricting or prohibiting abortions."  They are tenaciously pro-abortion.

The League of Women Voters.  Most people think this group is unbiased.  Wrong.  In their 1982 National Convention, they passed a resolution that stated; "The League of Women Voters of the U.S. believes that public policy in a pluralistic society must affirm the constitutional right of privacy of the individual to make reproductive choices."  The term "reproductive choices" is the buzz word for Abortion on demand. They remain pro abortion.  Let us now look at the results of Roe v Wade and the impact it made on the lives of its victims.