Atrocities

Last evening the President of the United States of America addressed the nation concerning the atrocities in Syria, specifically the use of chemical weapons. Here are a few of the President’s remarks:

Over the past two years, what began as a series of peaceful protests against the repressive regime of Bashar al-Assad has turned into a brutal civil war. Over a hundred thousand people have been killed. ...

The situation profoundly changed, though, on Aug. 21st, when Assad’s government gassed to death over a thousand people, including hundreds of children. The images from this massacre are sickening, men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison gas, others foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath, a father clutching his dead children, imploring them to get up and walk. On that terrible night, the world saw in gruesome detail the terrible nature of chemical weapons. ...

When dictators commit atrocities, they depend upon the world to look the other way until those horrifying pictures fade from memory. But these things happened. The facts cannot be denied.

Were these atrocities? Yes! Should they be condemned? Yes!

But for the next few minutes, replace the word “gassed” with the word “aborted,” and the phrases “this massacre,” “chemical weapons,” and “atrocities” with the word “abortion.” While the names, locations, and victims are different, the end result of abortion is really no different than the end result of chemical weapons.

While children in utero are not gassed to death, they are murdered in a whole host of other grotesque ways. Pharmaceuticals cause an unborn baby to starve and suffocate (for example, RU-486 blocks progesterone—a crucial hormone during pregnancy—and therein cuts off food, fluid, and oxygen to the tiny developing baby). Sharpened tools cut an unborn baby into tiny little pieces so that he can be expelled. Vacuum aspiration sucks an unborn baby out of his mother’s womb.

In Syria, children are dying at the hands of those who do not see them as valuable, useful, worthy of life. In the womb, unborn children are dying for the same reasons.

Our President is on to something very important when he states that dictators depend on the world to look the other way when they commit their atrocities. I would argue the same is true of abortion. When mothers and fathers consent to an abortion and a medical staff performs an abortion, they depend on the world looking the other way. They do not want you to picture the horrifying reality of abortion. But as the president stated so pointedly, these things happened. The facts cannot be denied.

I’m glad the President is upset that children are being put to death. I simply wish he was consistent when it came to the 1,000,000+ children who are aborted each year here in our own country.

Lord, have mercy!