Forty-Five Million and Still Counting
23 Jan 2006
I long ago concluded and am evermore convinced that the atrocity of abortion has ensured for our nation an impending outpouring of divine retribution. Since our Supreme Court dehumanized the unborn and legalized abortion 33 years ago today, 45 million babies have been exterminated in these United States. This amounts to about 1.5 million abortions a year, 3,600 a day, 151 an hour, and 1 every 24 seconds.
Our country loses more casualties to abortion each year than it has lost in all of its previous wars combined—the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the war in Iraq. While much is made today of the more than 2,000 casualties our country has suffered at the hands of Iraqi insurgents since the beginning of the Iraq war, there is a conspicuous silence in our land over the daily deaths of more than 3,000 defenseless unborn children at the hands of American abortionists.
If we were to execute one American for every unborn child aborted in America since the Supreme Court legalized abortion 33 years ago today, we would wipe out the equivalent of the combined populations of Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.
To imagine a nation with so much innocent blood on its hands escaping divine retribution is truly a preposterous proposition. It is made even more preposterous when one considers the incurring of divine hatred by “hands that shed innocent blood” (Proverbs 6:16-17) and the kindling of divine wrath against any nation “polluted” by the “innocent blood” of its own sons and daughters (Psalm 106:37-40).
Don Walton
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