Franklin D. Roosevelt declared December 7, 1941 a day which will live in infamy. The Empire of Japan “simultaneously and deliberately” extinguished 2,403 American lives. And with that attack the United States was plunged into a war that would cost us 405,399 American soldiers. Nearly half a million casualties. A day of infamy, indeed!

So what should we call January 22, 1973, the day abortion was legalized? An estimated 62 million helpless lives have been destroyed since then. That’s one out of every 5 Americans living today. If we are aghast at Pearl Harbor and World War 2, what is our reaction to 153 times as many lives being snuffed out by abortion?

King Herod, in an effort to destroy the child born King of the Jews, had his soldiers kill all the baby boys under age two in and around Bethlehem. Historians call it the slaughter of the innocents.

So what should we call it when womb dwellers are butchered? The massacre of the most helpless?

Friends, I urge you to stop and pray against this evil. Heaven will not excuse this scourge on our land. God said the land itself would vomit out its inhabitants for the detestable sin of sacrificing children (Lev 18:21, 28). Is what we are doing any less abhorrent?

May God have mercy by granting us repentance.