Commentary

Today marks the 43^rd year in which America has been shackled by an edict which allows for the mechanized destruction of some 4,000 innocent babies every day.  The official total is something like 58 million babies lost to abortion – but that figure understates the carnage by a considerable degree.

A day like today is one in which we should take stock of the price being paid by this great nation for legalized abortion. The great scandal of organ harvesting revealed last year is an alarming sign of the darkening of America’s soul.  Of course it is ghoulish to imagine Planned Parenthood chopping babies in the back room in exchange for Lamborghinis.  Yet we must ask: Where is all the money coming from?

Behind the curtain of Planned Parenthood scandal is the mountains of money being spent to procure organs and tissue from tiny human beings who could not defend themselves. Presumably “respectable” companies and institutions are using these babies as organ farms to pursue research that once would have been widely denounced as clearly unethical.  Does not the silence point to a coarsening of the American conscience?

Yet there are signs of awakening, as well: The U.S. Congress has finally had its fill of financing America’s largest abortion provider.  The number of abortion clinics is at an historic low.  Planned Parenthood is having serious trouble recruiting new abortionists.  And the number of pro-Lifers continues to grow.

That strength will be on display today as the national March for Life takes place in the midst of a big winter storm. Snowflakes or not – tens of thousands of Americans will stand up for those who cannot defend themselves. That march offers the nation an invitation to repentance, to healing, to real freedom.  May the Lord amplify those voices raised today and awake a people in need of healing.