Survivor '73

A shirt that I own has the above slogan on the front. The back carries this quote:

“Since 1973, over 1/3 of my generation has been murdered by abortion at the rate of 4,000 babies per day. My friends…my classmates…my generation…compromised by the selfishness of others. As a survivor, I will NOT let future generations be slaughtered in the name of convenience. I will NOT be silent. I will NOT forget. I will NOT compromise.”

4,000 babies is a very large number. But just how large is it, really? I didn’t really understand the magnitude of this number until I put it into perspective. My hometown has approximately 1,500 people in it. If 4,000 people a day were to die in my town, we would be wiped out before noon. Yes, folks…4,000 babies a day means 167 babies die every hour, 3 every minute. A baby dies every twenty seconds. If we were to kill one person every twenty seconds, Springfield – the capital of Illinois – would be gone in four weeks. Chicago, one of the largest cities in the entire country – gone. Adios.

On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked by terrorists from Afghanistan. Two of those planes were flown into the Twin Towers; one was flown into the Pentagon; and one was re-hijacked by the passengers and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Approximately 3,000 people died in this tragic day. The country was in an uproar. Citizens begged George W. Bush to go to war against Afghanistan, and later against Iraq. They were furious that so many American citizens had died in an attack by a foreign country. Yet they stand complacently by while citizens of their own country kill unborn children by the thousands every day.

We reached the 4,000 dead mark in Iraq and Afghanistan over the summer, and the country was furious with Bush. Why aren’t we outraged about the 4,000 children WE kill every day?

Every week, 28,000 babies are killed. Monthly, it's 120,000 dead. (That's about a fifth of the dead from the Civil War.) In a year, that number is ghastly - 14,400,000. Yes - that is 14.4 million dead. That's more than has ever died in a war. Since January 22, 1973, when the Supreme Court legalized abortion, more than 50,000,000 children have been killed. Yes, I did just say MORE THAN 50 million children have died at the hands of their own mothers.

We all say we want peace and harmony among the peoples of the world. In that half a billion dead, one of those children could have been the one who would have stopped Saddam Hussein before he ever caused as much damage as he did. One of those children could have found Bin Laden by now and brought him to justice. One of those children could have brought world peace. One of those children could have reformed the government in Cuba. One of those children could have been my best friend, or yours. One of those children could have changed history. We honor so many of our soldiers - it's a good idea, I won't deny that - but one of those children could have saved lives in Afghanistan or Iraq. The number dead in Iraq could be much smaller. One of those children might have prevented 9/11 from ever happening.

Is it logical for us to care so much about those who have left the womb, but throw away young children as if they were garbage? Say a person caused a car crash, and the second car carried a pregnant woman. If that woman was killed, the other party would not be charged with one murder, but two – the woman and her unborn child. Yet she can kill her own child and she won’t be charged with anything. Something is not right in our justice system – either the child is alive or the child is just a mass of cells.

And there is NO scientific evidence proving that the child is just a mass of cells! Scientists are in complete agreement; there is life from the moment of conception, a life completely separate from that of the mother. Granted, the child is dependant on the mother for nine months for life, but the child is still ALIVE as a separate entity. The DNA of the child in the womb is never the same. The blood type isn’t the same. The ONLY connection the child has with its mother is through the umbilical cord. Even at the first division of the cells, the child has a completely different DNA than its mother or its father – it is already an individual. THIS IS SCIENTIFIC FACT! THE SCIENTISTS SAY THAT LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION! EVEN IF YOU SAY YOU HAVE NO GOD, THAT YOU THINK SCIENCE RULES ALL, YOU CANNOT SAY THAT LIFE DOES NOT BEGIN AT CONCEPTION! IF YOU DO, YOU ARE GOING AGAINST THE VERY SCIENTISTS YOU CLAIM TO FOLLOW! I’m not trying to make atheists into Christians (although I would love for them to be so); I’m merely trying to show that it isn’t only religious people who know when life starts - at conception!!

If this has touched you today, DON’T just sit around. With Obama being inaugurated on Tuesday, we, pro-lifers, need to take a stand! Write your representatives and senators, Obama himself, ANY person with the power to change this law, both at the state and national level. Tell them that you will no longer back those who support the wanton slaughter of unborn life. You can get the contact information for these people at your public library.

I will NOT be silent. I hope that you won’t be, either.

I will NOT forget. I don’t know that you will be able to.

I will NOT compromise.

-enna