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The Pro-Life Movement is Winning the Battle for Hearts and Lives
Southern Evangelical Seminary President Dr. Richard Land: May God Forgive the National Sin of 60 Million Babies’ Lives Lost to Abortion
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Today is the 45th anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in America. And although the approximately 60 million lives lost since then are a stain on American history, God can have mercy and forgive this national sin—if we repent, says Southern Evangelical Seminary (SES, www.ses.edu) President and Evangelical leader Dr. Richard Land.
“There is encouraging news that the country as a whole is becoming more pro-life,” Land said in a recent installment of his daily radio feature of “Bringing Every Thought Captive.” “A Marist poll has found that a broad consensus has emerged among the American public concerning severely restricting abortion on demand. For example, 81 percent of Americans agree that there should be ‘significant restrictions,’ which include limiting abortions to the first three months of pregnancy, and with exceptions only in cases of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother. Perhaps most encouraging, more than three out of four Americans—77 percent—including 71 percent of self-identified pro-choice supporters, say that they believe that the law ‘can protect both a mother and her unborn child.’ Only 17 percent of Americans disagree with that position. So adamant opposition to significantly restricting abortion in America under the law amounts to only 17 percent of the American population, down considerably from even 10 or 20 years ago. The battle for hearts and minds continues, and life is winning.”
Land added that pro-lifers are getting younger and are more pro-life about the issue of abortion than their parents or grandparents. Why? One reason is that technology and the advances in embryology have put a human face on unborn children.
“These children have grown up with sonogram pictures of their siblings on the refrigerator,” Land said. “This is a baby, and they know it. I was at a rally a few months ago where the young people were wearing t-shirts that said, ‘I Survived Roe, But Roe Won’t Survive Us.’ I believe that we will see the end of abortion on demand in America in the next 15 years. I pray to God this is so.”
The Marist poll, Land added, also demonstrates that the idea that abortion is a gender-divisive issue or that a pro-life position is a ‘war on women’ is rejected by women themselves. The poll showed that 82 percent of women favor restricting abortion to the first three months of pregnancy, 69 percent oppose taxpayer funding of abortion and 60 percent of women support banning abortion beyond 20 weeks.
“Since 1973,” Land said, “Americans have killed somewhere between 55 and 60 million babies through abortion because at least one parent considered that baby to be too embarrassing, too expensive, too ill or merely too inconvenient. This level of unprecedented child sacrifice is a dark and guilty stain on our nation’s conscience. The Bible tells us that God has a plan for every life, and God never created a nobody. Every abortion stops a beating heart; a baby’s heart begins to beat at 24 days after conception.
“Have we aborted the next Bill Graham, Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King Jr.?” Land continued. “There’s a 30 percent chance that we’ve done just that, and there’s a 100 percent chance that we have sacrificed the lives of about 60 million—and God had a plan and a purpose for every one of them. Our God has revealed Himself to be a God of judgment and justice, but also a God of mercy and forgiveness. May God forgive us as we repent of this national sin.”
SES recently announced the 2018 National Conference on Christian Apologetics, which will focus on the theme of “The God Who Is.” On Oct. 12-13, the seminary will welcome top thinkers, scholars, authors, apologists and scientific minds to its 25th annual conference, which will be held at Calvary Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
For more information on SES, visit its web site at www.ses.edu or its Facebook page, follow the SES Twitter feed, @sesapologetics, or call (800) 77-TRUTH.
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