Liberty Minute September 16 2013

 Among the euphemisms employed to describe the hideous crime of abortion is the expression ?termination of pregnancy.? What abortion advocates defend is the violent and premature termination of a baby?s life, not the natural end of a pregnancy.

Defenders of the abortion industry recently lamented that facilities used to commit that crime have been closing down at an unprecedented rate. One major factor in this development has been a quiet but significant shift in public opinion as a growing portion of the population comes to recognize abortion for what it truly is ? a crime of lethal violence against the most helpless of all human beings. Ultimately, the only way to protect the unborn is for hearts to be changed.

Troubled and unmarried mothers have always faced challenges. Babies were slaughtered on the altar of convenience long before the Supreme Court conferred its approval on child-killing in 1973. As a child conceived out of wedlock to a frightened teenager, I could easily have been among the victims, but my mother, Vonda Bentley, chose to have me ? and then to entrust me to loving adoptive parents when she couldn?t care for me. On September 14 I was blessed to meet my birth mother and thank her for choosing life.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.