New addition: Pro-Abortionist Joanne Tosti-Vasey, President of N.O.W. (National Organization of Women) regarding why she disapproves of the actions of the Center for Bioethical Reform in their displaying of images that show the graphic reality of abortion:

"I think that they need to realize that they are hurting kids, and adults, and that you need to tailor your message so that people can hear your message without being traumatized [emphasis added]. "

Christian Leaders Speak Out Against Abortion
Psalm 106:37-38
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.

Proverbs 24:10-12
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
If you say, "But we knew nothing about this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?

Psalm 139:13
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

Matthew 22:36-39
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "`Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

R.C Sproul, Abortion: a Rational Look at an Emotional Issue, 1990, Colorado Springs, Colo.: Navpress.
   The Roe v. Wade decision has provoked the most serious ethical crisis in the history of the United States. This is the nadir in American jurisprudence, the moment of the state's greatest failure to be a state. (pp. 91-2)
   Resistance to unjust laws and dehumanizing practices may be costly. Those who resisted Hitler's policy of genocide in Germany often paid with their lives. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the pastor who wrote The Cost of Discipleship, was one who paid such a price. The world still recoils in horror at the reality of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. Yet I believe we are in the midst of a new and more evil holocaust, which sees the destruction of 1.5 million unborn babies every year in the United States alone. (pg 150)

John Piper, Sermon at Bethlehem Baptist Church of Minneapolis, MN, "Abortion: You desire and you do not have so you kill", http://www.desiringgod.org/library/sermons/87/011887.html
   Use your imagination to see what abortion really is! Fight against the kind of social stupor that gripped Nazi Germany -- the feeling that the problem is so huge and so horrendous and so out of our control that I just can't be wrong to let it be. Use your imagination to see and feel what is really happening behind those sterile clinic doors.
   If you could see each little handiwork of God and what it looks like when it is being crushed or poisoned or starved, you would say, this can't be happening. Civilized people do not do this! The children will not be saved and God's work will not be reverenced without an act of sustained sympathetic imagination. Otherwise it is out of sight out of mind -- just like Dachau, Buchenwald, Belsen, and Auschwitz. It just couldn't be happening. And so we act as if it isn't. "If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, `Behold, we did not know this,' does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your souls know it, and will he not requite man according to his work?" (Proverbs 24:10-12)

John Piper, Sermon at Bethlehem Baptist Church of Minneapolis, MN, "Exposing the Dark Work of Abortion", http://www.desiringgod.org/library/sermons/92/012692.html
   Ephesians 5:11 "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them." ...
   In John 3:20 we see the word again. Jesus says, "Every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." So the point behind this word is that Christians are called to shine the light of truth and justice and love into the darkness and bring evil to light for what it really is.
   Another way to say this is that God calls his people to be the conscience of the culture. Our individual conscience probes into our behavior and either approves or disapproves what we do. So the children of light are to probe into the life of their culture and approve or disapprove what it does.
   I hope you hear the force of this. It is radically different from the passivity and moral withdrawal of many Christians. Many believers have a passive avoidance ethic and that is all. In other words they think: if I avoid the works of darkness, and don't do them myself, then I am doing my Christian duty. I'm clean. I'm in the light. But that is not what verse 11 says. It says you are only doing half your duty. "Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness"--that's an avoidance ethic. That's half your duty. But it goes on, and in fact puts stress on the next phrase because it is easily overlooked and because it can be very costly: "Rather even expose them!" Don't just avoid the works of darkness, EXPOSE them. This is not avoidance. This is action.
   Do you hear a call to action in this verse? Do you hear a call to do something in 1992 to expose the darkness and the fruitlessness (the barrenness!) of abortion? God is call us in this verse-- he is calling all Christians--to expose the dark and fruitless work of abortion...
1 -- to expose the fact that there are 1.5 million abortions a year in America every year--27 million since the Supreme Court overturned the public conscience of 48 states 19 years ago.
2 -- to expose the fact that 30% of all babies conceived in America are killed by abortion.
3 -- to expose the fact that medically women are told not to have abortions before the 7th week of pregnancy (see the Yes/Neon booklet), and yet by the 8th week the heart of the baby has been beating for a month, there are measurable brain waves, there is response to touch, there's thumb-sucking, grasping with the hands, swimming with the arms in the amniotic fluid, distinct arms and legs and sexual organs. This much must--not may, must--be present before most abortion centers will cut the baby to pieces with a suction machine 4,000 times a day.
4 -- to expose the fact that 9,000 babies were killed after the 21st week of pregnancy in 1987, fully formed and on the brink of being able to breathe for themselves--killed, legally!
5 -- to expose the fact that in Minnesota we have a fetal homicide law that makes it "murder to kill an embryo or fetus intentionally, except in cases of abortion"--in other words, it's unlawful to kill the unborn child unless the mother chooses to have it killed. And that is a strange and dark criterion for lawful killing.
6 -- to expose the fact that "There is inescapable schizophrenia in aborting a perfectly normal 22 week fetus while at the same hospital, performing intra-uterine surgery on its cousin" (Steve Calvin).
7 -- to expose the fact that viability outside the womb is not a criterion of personhood and right to life, because we ourselves don't want to give up our personhood and our right to life if we must be sustained on a respirator dialysis machine the way a baby has to be sustained by a placenta.
8 -- to expose the fact that the size and reasoning power of a tiny person is irrelevant to human personhood because if it were we might allow tiny and unthinking newborns to be killed.
9 -- to expose the fact that genetically human embryos and fetuses are utterly different from all other animal life; if they are just left alone, with nothing added but nourishment they will grow up.
10 -- to expose the fact that if it is unlawful to crush the egg of a bald eagle, it is not excessively restrictive to make it unlawful to crush the egg of a human.
11 -- to expose the fact that when to legitimate rights conflict--the right not to be pregnant and the right not to be killed--justice demands that we give place to the greater right, the right that does the least harm--the on that does not willfully kill.
12 -- to expose the fact that there are thousands of crisis pregnancy centers in this country ready to help, and almost all of them are free--unlike the abortion mills that charge plenty of money--and the older the baby, the more they charge.
13 -- to expose the fact there there are no unwanted babies in Minnesota. Mary Ann Kuharsky (President of ProLife Minnesota) said in the Tribune she would take any baby whose life depended on it, and there are hundreds like her.
14 -- to expose the fact that it is hypocritical to speak as though choice were the untouchable absolute in this matter and then turn around and oppose choice in matter of gun-control and welfare support and affirmative action and minimum wage and dozens of other issues were so-called pro-choice people join the demand that people's choices be limited to protect others. It's a sham argument. All choices are limited by life.
15 -- to expose the fact that trespassing to save life is not a crime and that it does not undermine our legal system but on the contrary endorses the one foundation stone without which that legal system in this land will fall, namely the inalienable right to life. There will be no law but the law of individual choice (=anarchy) if the foundation stone of life's value is destroyed. And abortion is destroying it.
   God is calling passive, inactive Christians today to engage our minds and hearts and hands in exposing the barren works of darkness. To be the conscience of our culture. To be the light of the world. To live in the great reality of being loved by God and adopted by God and forgiven by Christ (yes--for all the abortions that dozens of you have had), and to be made children of the light. I call you this morning to walk as children of light.

John Piper, http://www.desiringgod.org/library/sermons/05/012305.html
   [Talking about the practice in many cultures of aborting baby girls because boys are favored.] My point here is not that these motives for aborting baby girls are worse than the motives for abortion in Western countries. My point is simply to say that in the practice of abortion different kinds of evil mount up and multiply. And as they do, the position of the pro-choice person becomes less and less defensible. Pro-choice feminists, for example, who oppose sex-selection abortion (since it almost always goes against the girls) find themselves struggling not to call this mass of tissue a little girl. When the evil of sexism unites with the evil of abortion they tend to expose more clearly the evil of both.

John Piper, Love Your Unborn Neighbor, Sermon on January 22, 2006
   The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases or any other way is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.

John MacArthur, The Biblical View on Abortion, http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/ABORT.HTM
   To sum up what we are experiencing with regard to abortion in America, we could simply say, "America, as a nation, is highly committed by law and practice to a form of mass murder." And that really is the bottom line.
   This nation, which certainly prides itself on its humanitarianism, is in a murderous cycle of violence that makes the Nazi Holocaust look mild by comparison. Nearly 2,000,000 babies are aborted a year in America. Every third baby conceived now is being murdered. Among teenage women there are 736 abortions for every 1,000 births. Among married women abortions now exceed births! More babies are killed than are born. Some would tell us that there is an abortion about every 15 seconds in America.
   In some metropolitan hospitals, in the major cities of our nation, abortions far outnumber live births. Planned Parenthood has gone so far as to say, "This is noting more than a means of preventing disease; pregnancy being noted as a disease." If you think that sounds farfetched, I will remind you of a paper by Dr. Willard Kates, from the Planned Parenthood Physicians Association. The title of the paper is, "Abortion as treatment for unwanted pregnancy: The second sexually transmitted disease." ...
   Abortion was also a form of contraception. In times of ancient cultures, even around the New Testament era, the methods used varied from substances introduced into the womb through the birth canal; sometimes oral drugs or "poisons" as they used to be called; sometimes mixtures that were mixed for the purpose of proving fatal to the unborn infant; sometimes they would bind the body in these very, very, tight ropes or cloths to literally squeeze the womb and crush the life of the child; sometimes they would locate the baby in the womb and take a hard object and smash against that infant in the womb and kill it that way; sometimes using blades and sometimes hooks going up through the birth canal.
   Pagans would do this; the Jews always rejected it because life was created by God, and anyone created by God became your neighbor, and to take a life was to violate the second commandment. The early church then took a strong stand against it. In the Didache, which is a codification of early church teaching, it says, "Thou shalt not murder a child by abortion." Abortion was rejected in another early document, called the Epistle of Barnabus, as contrary to "neighbor centered love;" so you can see that early church picked up on some of the Jewish ideas. The Didache, again that same codification of teaching, saw the way of death is full of cursing, murders, adulteries, and murders of children. They saw the way of death as belonging to those who killed children. They called them "Corrupters of God's creatures," and in the third century a Latin word even emerged, "abortwantes" (sp.) --abortionists. "Abortion," they said, "brought the judgment of God."
   The Reformation didn't change this; the church has always seen abortion as murder, an act of violence, and a lack of love towards one God has created. So it isn't new: the people of God; Israel, stood against it; the church has stood against it; and we must stand against it. ...
   I believe abortion is the last official stand of the defiant apostate against God. It says, "God, you will not determine who lives or dies -- I will!" The ultimate apostasy. ...
   As far as I can tell, and my research may not be exhaustive, but as far as I can tell, there is no nation on the face of the earth with a more permissive abortion policy than the United States, with the single exception of China. It is reflective of our prurient, lascivious, immoral, perverted Sexual Revolution; of the deviation from God ordained role for men and women. It is reflective of our selfish, materialistic value system. It is reflective, most of all, of our atheistic ethic hostile to God, and we now have a holocaust; and we have a holocaust which God will judge, and I will talk about that tonight, and I will talk about what it means that the blood of the murdered victim cries out from the ground against the one who did the murder. ...
   I want to take it a step further; God forbids any taking of innocent life--that we understand. But I want to take it a step further and say this: that where you have blood shed, you have a very interesting result take place. Look at Psalm 106. Psalm 106, and I am going to show you several passages as we wrap this up. Psalm 106, verse 38; here is an indictment against sinful people who, verse 37, "sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons, and shed innocent blood." They actually killed their own children to make them sacrifices to false gods. They "shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan." Now notice this line, you might want to underline it, "and the land was polluted with the blood." The land was polluted with the blood--it left itself, as it were, in the soil. It stained the land.
   Now go back to Genesis, chapter 4, and verse 10, God had said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" And he said, "I don't know." He did know--he killed him. Verse 10, "And God said to him, 'What have you done?'" Now listen to this, "The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand." Now follow the thought: God says you shed innocent blood, and that blood pollutes the land. It is as if that blood is everywhere staining the land. The blood of 2,000,000 aborted babies in our land, and somewhere between 60 and 75 million across the earth every year stains the soil.
   Then in Genesis 4, God says that blood cries out. He personifies that blood as if it's alive. And what is it crying for. It is unrequited! It is crying for retaliation. It is crying for justice. It is crying for the execution of its murderer. Genesis 42:22, "And Reuben answered them, saying, 'Did I not tell you, 'Do not sin against the boy'; and you would not listen? Now comes the reckoning for his blood.'" And he was talking about how they had treated Joseph. There will be a reckoning for the blood that cries out to God because it has been shed innocently.
   Several times Scripture says, "And the blood of a (certain person) shall be on your head"---remember that? In other words, you are responsible. And so God requires the death penalty when blood shed from innocent life cries out to Him. And I believe that's the plight of America. I believe that the land is stained and soiled with the blood of the innocents who have been, and are continuing to be, even now as I speak, massacred. Nothing shows more clearly the total moral and spiritual decadence of our society--its disregard for God; its disregard for His creative work, for that which is made in His image; its disregard for His compassion and the compassion of Christ--nothing shows this more than the mass murder of millions of babies. This disdain for the sanctity of human life and the substitution of what we call the "quality of life," which causes us to be murderers of children, causes the very soil of our land to cry out to God for retribution. And I believe we are now under the judgment of God, a nation of murderers: the ground is crying out. God has His ways. God has His ways. ...
   God is gracious. As horrible, as horrendous, as unthinkable as this whole thing is, God in His mercy is willing to forgive the penitent sinner: both the one who is the mother and the one who is the medical practitioner.
   There is so much more to say, and I have just raced through and left much out, but I think that you understand, don't you what the Scripture has to say about this? This is a time in our country to take a stand on this issue. This is a time to share individually with people who are confused, because the issue is very clear cut. ...
   Father, we do pray for our nation. We know we stand on the brink of divine judgment because of this horror that exists. We ask that You would cause this nation to be drawn to Christ. Lord, we can't even imagine how such a movement of God could happen, but we would boldly and we would hopefully even ask that somehow, something might happen to stop this slaughter, and to cause people to turn to you for forgiveness. To this end we pray in Christ's Name. Amen

John Stott, Authentic Christianity, pg. 367-8
   Since the life of the human fetus is a human life, with the potential of becoming a mature human being, we have to learn to think of mother and unborn child as two human beings at different states of development. Doctors and nurses have to consider that they have two patients, not one, and must seek the well-being of both. Lawyers and politicians need to think similarly. As the United Nations' 'Declaration of the Rights of the Child' (1959) put it, the child 'needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth'. Christians would wish to add 'extra care before birth'. For the Bible has much to say about God's concern for the defenceless, and the most defenceless of all people are unborn children. They are speechless to plead their own cause and helpless to protect their own life. So it is our responsibility to do for them what they cannot do for themselves...
   The popular euphemisms make it easier for us to conceal the truth from ourselves. The occupant of the mother's womb is not a 'product of conception' or 'gametic material', but an unborn child. Even 'pregnancy' tells us not more than that a woman has been 'impregnated', whereas the truth in old-fashioned language is that she is 'with child'. How can we speak of the 'termination of a pregnancy' when what is terminated is not just the mother's pregnancy but the child's life? And how can we describe the average abortion today as 'therapeutic' (a word originally used only when the mother's life was at stake), when pregnancy is not a disease needing therapy, wand what abortion effects nowadays is not a cure but a killing? And how can people think of abortion as no more than a kind of contraceptive, when what it does is not prevent conception but destroy the conceptus? We need to have the courage to use accurate language. Induced abortion is feticide, the deliberate destruction of an unborn child, the shedding of innocent blood.

John Stott, Issues Facing Christians Today
   I agree with Raymond Johnston, the director of CARE Trust, when he wrote in a newspaper article: `I personally am convinced that the destruction of the unborn on this massive, deliberate scale is the greatest single offence regularly perpetrated in Britain today, and would be the first thing an Old Testament prophet redivivus would reproach us for.'" [Redivivus = Revived; back to life]

Elizabeth Elliot, Gateway to Joy, January 16, 1998, http://www.backtothebible.org/gateway/today.htm/20793
   There are times, however, when it is required of a true Christian to be angry. Remember Jesus tearing into the merchants in the temple? He calmly set about preparing their punishment. He made a whip and He used it. The Old Testament is full of God's anger with human beings. Our God is righteous. He is just He is reasonable. But He doesn't necessarily give you and me His reasons.
   But don't forget His love. Even as He hung on the cross, He prayed for His captors. Merciful High Priest He was, touched with the feeling of our infirmities, able to sympathize with our weakness. But there's also a time for anger.
   I have here a column by George Will, which really grabbed me and I thought, "We need to think about this." It's entitled: "It's a Choice: A Wicked One." George Will is a member of the WASHINGTON POST writers' group. This is what he said.
   "'The Unforgiven' by Metallica was the son 18-year-old Melissa Drexler asked the disc jockey at her New Jersey prom to play when she returned to the dance floor. She had just tossed her six-pound, six-ounce baby boy into a trash bin next to the blood-stained stall in the restroom where she had given birth.
   Metallica's song begins, 'New blood joins the earth and quickly he is subdued.' It's just another song of adolescent self-pity, the not altogether intelligible gist of which is the usual of that genre. Society, the unforgiven, is oppressive, subduing the new blood of youth. But the society that helped shaped Miss Drexler, the 18-year-old girl who dumped her baby into the trash bin, that society seems not to have inhibited her noticeably. She seemed to be enjoying herself, said a friend about Drexler's post-partum dancing.
   Medical examiners have determined that the baby was alive during the birthing process, which occurred early in the prom. He was soon discovered by a maintenance worker, who thought the trash bag was unusually heavy. Unsuccessful attempts were made to resuscitate him. Miss Drexler will be charged with something. Maybe murder. Maybe endangering a child. Maybe conducting a partial-birth abortion at a prom without a license.
   Who taught Melissa Drexler to think or not think in a way that caused her to regard her newborn baby as disposable trash? Many people and things, no doubt. She has grown up in a society that does not stress deferral of gratification. It's not her fault that the baby arrived during the school prom, for Pete's sake. She has come of age in a society where condom-dispensing schools teach sex education in the modern manner, which has been well described as plumbing for hedonists. If she is like millions of other young adults, she has spent thousands of hours watching movies and television programs not designed to encourage delicacy of feelings or to suggest that sexuality has morally complex dimensions and serious consequences. If she is like millions of other young adults, she has pumped into her ears thousands of hours of the coarsening lyrics of popular music.
   She certainly has grown up in a social atmosphere saturated with journalistic approbation of, and collaboration with, the political program of reducing abortion, which is the killing of something, to a mere choice, like choosing to smoke a cigarette, only not nearly as serious.
   However, foremost among the moral tutors who prepared Melissa to act as she did is the Supreme Court. By pretending in Roe versus Wade not to know when life begins, the court encouraged looking away from the stark fact that abortion kills something. Ignoring elementary science, the court said preposterously that a fetus is 'potential life.'
   But as Walker Percy, an M.D. as well as novelist wrote, 'It is commonplace of modern biology that a life begins when the chromosomes of the sperm fuse with the chromosomes of the ovum to form a new DNA complex that thenceforth directs the ontogenesis of the organism.'" In other words, when the man comes together with the woman and the egg and is fertilized, this forms a new program into that human being that is being created in the womb.
   Percy continues, 'The onset of individual life is not a dogma of the church, but a fact of science. How much more convenient if we lived in the 13th century, when no one knew anything about microbiology and arguments about the onset of life were legitimate? Biology does not allow one to be agnostic about when life begins.'
   Conscientious people can disagree about the appropriate moral and legal status to be accorded the life that abortion ends, but science complicates, to say no more, the pro-choice movement's project of making the world safe for the likes of Melissa Drexler--the project of presenting the ending of an inconvenient young life as akin to a bowel movement. Pregnancy is a continuum. What beings at conception will, if there is no natural misfortune or deliberate attack, become a child. It is becomes a child at prom, it must be attacked quickly, lest the whole night be a bummer.
   The barbarism at the prom is being termed a tragedy, calling for compassion all around." [Now Elizabeth Elliot speaking.] Here I think George Will has very clear insight for us. I'll read that sentence again. "The barbarism at the prom is being termed a tragedy calling for compassion all around. No. An earthquake is a tragedy. This was an act of wickedness, a wicked choice. A society incapable of anger about it is simply decadent." A society incapable of anger about it is simply decadent.
   "Perhaps the brevity and brutality of the life of Melissa's son will accelerate the transformation of the nation's vague unrest into a vivid consciousness that today's abortion culture, with its casual creation and destruction of life, is evil."...
   "The language deteriorates continually, called wickedness 'tragedy' and failing to recognize the vast difference."...
   [Elizabeth Elliot speaking.] Open our eyes, Lord, to the wickedness. Give us that divine anger and help us to do whatever You show us that we can do to stem this tide. We pray in Jesus' name.

Charles Swindoll, Sanctity of Life: The Inescapable Issue, 1990, Page 2-3
   Perhaps the statement most commonly expressed in the heat of the debate comes from those who declare, "I may not choose to have an abortion, but I'd never force my opinion on another," as they back away from the issue altogether, refusing any involvement in the debate. All the while, babies continue to be aborted by the thousands every day.
   If the issue of slavery had been handled in that manner, to this day there would be shacks out back, the mistreatment of blacks, and a majority of Americans still looking the other way. It may be more comfortable to adopt a passive stance with regard to the abortion issue. It certainly would be the least offensive response. But who, with a clear conscience, can sit back, say little, and do nothing while babies continue to be killed? If the mistreated blacks needed strong-minded advocates in the mid-nineteenth century, how much more do unborn children need strong-minded advocates today. It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not in the inner city where gangs threaten innocent lives or in angry prisons where only the fit survive... but in the womb of a mother who is being told if she doesn't really want the baby, an abortion is the solution. May I ask? How would you life to be that baby inside the womb of a woman who isn't sure she wants you to live any longer?

James Dobson, Foreword to Swindoll's Book
   I was working in my office at Focus on the Family recently when the telephone rang. A minute or two later, my secretary came in to inform me the Dr. Chuck Swindoll was on the line. He had called to tell me about this book on abortion, and to describe his great burden to speak out boldly against the killing of unborn babies. He said the Lord had been speaking to him, and he intended to respond with intensity in his church, in the print media, and on the radio.
   As my good friend described his intensified sense of mission, I was fighting back the tears. I knew, of course, that Chuck is highly respected and loved in the Christian community. Because he has now addressed the issues head-on, there will be precious babies brought into the world who would otherwise have been killed. Many little boys and girls, each worth more than the possessions of the entire world, will someday owe their very lives to the influence Dr. Swindoll will have on their mothers and their families.
   Though it may be difficult for some pro-life veterans to comprehend, making a strong public statement against abortion was an evolving decision in Chuck's mind. It is not a position at which he arrived at with ease. There are great dangers in linking the cause of Christ to legislative issues, political parties or social movements of the day. Thus, many pastors have held back in the abortion issue. Their obligation, they felt, was to preach the Word, and from that Truth will come the moral application in society.
   But on this issue of abortion, we are confronted with one of the most terrible evils of all times. The Nazis killed six million Jews and "undesirables" during World War II, but we in the United States -- this great bastion of liberty and protection for the weak -- have now slaughtered more than twenty million innocent babies [as of 1990]! We have mercilessly torn them to pieces without anesthetic and poisoned them within their mothers' wombs. God forgive us for this wickedness! We know from Scripture that the Lord is infinitely tender and compassionate toward the little children with whom He has blessed us. What must He be feeling now, as we spill their blood for our own convenience and economy? How can we as Christians continue to sit in our services and ignore this unprecedented crime against humanity? As Dr. Swindoll writes in this book, "Remaining silent.... is no longer an option."
   To pastors and laymen alike who have not yet joined the pro-life crusade, I urge you to read carefully the words the follow. Let the Lord speak to you as you ask, with Chuck, "What would He have me do to protect the unborn child?" If you save only one little boy or girl in a lifetime, your effort will not have been in vain.
   Thank you, my friend Chuck, for listening to the Holy Spirit and for responding to His urging. We are glad you are numbered among the rag-tag, wounded, outmanned and outgunned little army of pro-life warriors. We've lost about 80 consecutive battles now, be we fully intend to win the last one!

James Dobson, http://www.family.org/docstudy/solid/a0015094.html
Question:
   Tell me why you support the "rescue movement" and groups that violate trespassing laws in order to block the entrance to abortion clinics. Isn't this a contradiction of scriptural precepts?
Dr. Dobson Responds:
   I don't think so. It is true that we Christians are instructed in Scripture to obey civil laws and those in authority over us. But we are also commanded to "rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter" (Proverbs 24:11). Remember, too, that the apostle Paul and other early Christian leaders disobeyed laws and orders requiring them to remain silent about the teachings of Jesus. There are other biblical examples of godly men and women, including Daniel in ancient Babylon, who refused to obey unjust laws that contradicted their beliefs. Obviously, there are times when we are expected to resist civil authority.
   Applying that understanding of Scripture to the abortion movement, we must ask, "Is this such an occasion?" A better question is, Do we believe our own rhetoric about the unborn child? Are the abortionists killing babies or aren't they? If 1.5 million infants are being murdered in the United States every year, how can we stand around debating whether or not it is appropriate to oppose the laws that permit their slaughter?
   To illustrate the point, suppose the euthanasia movement catches on in days ahead, making it legal for parents to decide whether or not they wish to continue raising their children. Suppose they could take any child under five years of age to a "Life Clinic," where the boy or girl could be put to sleep. Suppose children were walking in the front door of clinics and going out the back in coffins.
   If such a horrible day ever dawned, what do you think the response of Christians would be? Would they thumb carefully through the pages of Scripture to find justification for their civil disobedience? Of course not! The moral issue would be so clear that trespassing to prevent the killing would be of no relevance. The murdering of innocent children would be so abhorrent to what we know of God's nature that many of us would give our lives to rescue the little ones. In a very real sense, we are confronted by that same issue today. We are killing babies, although we can't see them or wrap our arms around them.
   I simply do not understand why some Christian leaders, whom I respect, continue to split hairs over subtle scriptural understandings, wondering whether there is a real difference between Daniel's civil disobedience and the insignificant act of trespassing by today's rescuers.
   To those Christians who feel prohibited from stepping across a property line to save a baby, I would ask, How would you have responded to the slavery issue in the mid-1800s? Would you have harbored a runaway slave who sought sanctuary from his or her "master"? What would you have done as a citizen of Germany in World War II? The Nazi extermination camps were legal. Would you have broken your country's unjust laws in order to protect millions of people marked for death? Was Corrie ten Boom's father in violation of Scripture for protecting Jews from the murderers in the SS?
   Certainly not! Nor are "rescue" participants in violation of any moral law, in my opinion. They seek to prevent violence against a powerless minority, and that is a principle supported throughout Scripture.

James Dobson, http://www.family.org/topics/a0018135.cfm
   Murder is not the answer for the so-called unwanted child. I must agree with Mother Teresa, who has said, "The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love but to use any violence to get what they want."

Dr. D. James Kennedy [Author of Evangelism Explosion]
Politics or Morality?, Monday, January 14, 2002
http://www.crministries.org/KennComm/011402.htm
   Politics has more and more left its own proper realm and obtruded itself into every realm of culture imaginable, such as, for example, abortion. By the way, politics always obtrudes itself in the same way. The pick out a particular sin, and they give it the imprimatur and declare it to be legal.
   For almost 2,000 years abortion has been a moral and spiritual issue within the Church. Then the government comes along and says it is legal. So, now it is all right! It is all right to pull a baby three-fourths of the way out of its mother's womb, stick a pair of scissors in the back of its neck and kill it. [This was an accurate reference to "partial birth abortion" which was legal in America at the time of this quote in 2002.]

Dr. D. James Kennedy, Murder Is Now Acceptable?, Tuesday, January 15, 2002
http://www.crministries.org/KennComm/011502.htm
   Has murder become an acceptable practice?
   One telling sign of how far America has slipped morally the last few decades is the fact that abortion has become a commonplace procedure. While mere decades ago the issue raised tremendous controversy, it seems to be accepted by many people as just another minor operation as inconvenient as removing a wart.
   According to a recent study, 43 percent of women will have had an abortion by the time they reach the age of 45. This means death not only to the unborn, but untold trauma to almost half of the young women in our ountry.

John Calvin, Commentary on Exodus 21:22
   For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

Matthew Henry, Commentary on Leviticus 20
I. Three sins are in these verses threatened with death:--
1. Parents abusing their children, by sacrificing them to Moloch, v. 2, 3. There is the grossest absurdity that can be in all the rites of idolatry, and they are all a great reproach to men's reason; but none trampled upon all the honours of human nature as this did, the burning of children in the fire to the honour of a dunghill-god. ... When the Gentiles sacrificed their children they were guilty of murder and idolatry; but, if the Israelites did it, they incurred the additional guilt of defiling the sanctuary (which they attended upon even when they lay under this guilt, as if there might be an agreement between the temple of God and idols), and of profaning the holy name of God, by which they were called, as if he allowed his worshippers to do such things, Rom. 2:23, 24.

WORLDWIDE:
Number of abortions per year: Approximately 46 Million
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 126,000
[Number of abortions per hour: Approximately 5,000]
[Number of abortions per minute: Approximately 87]
[Number of abortions per second: Approximately 1.4]

Abortion averages:
Worldwide, the lifetime average is about 1 abortion per woman.

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UNITED STATES:
Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700
[Number of abortions per hour: Approximately 150]
[Number of abortions per minute: Approximately 2.5]
[One abortion in America every 23 seconds]

Why women have abortions
1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).

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