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TechnoratiWe had a similar issue earlier in our nation’s history when we regarded the color of a person’s skin as a determinant of their value as a human being. African-Americans had been regarded “as beings of an inferior order” by U.S. Supreme Court justices writing in the Dred Scott decision.
We should be motivated by this decision (as well as many other similar decisions before it) to assist our citizenry in understanding when life begins and that, especially at two months of pregnancy, this baby is not simply a cluster of random cells. The baby not only had a heartbeat when the doctor performed the “incomplete abortion”—the baby had measurable brain waves, the legal definition of human life in most states.
We should also encourage Christian young people to pray about whether God might call them to ministries in medicine and the life sciences, so as to “season” the medical community with Truth.
We should ensure there is an amply funded pregnancy care center in every city and town across our nation and that every center has ultrasound equipment that allows women in crisis pregnancies to marvel at the life that God is growing within them. Women who see a sonogram of their unborn babies are five times less likely to snuff out their babies’ lives.
Finally we should, with all the earnestness and seriousness the Spirit will provide us, be “salt” and “light” in our families, churches, communities, and nation. It is not an option; the Gospel demands it, lives depend on it, and the survival of our civilization hangs in the balance.
The death cults abroad and at home must be confronted.
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Dr. Richard Land is president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the Southern Baptist Convention's official entity assigned to address social, moral, and ethical concerns, with particular attention to their impact on American families and their faith.
