{"id":233509,"date":"2020-10-29T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=233509"},"modified":"2020-10-30T14:41:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:41:34","slug":"abortion-issue-debate-kills-human-beings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-issue-debate-kills-human-beings\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Abortion is not just another social issue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Perspective is an amazing thing. At times, it can jolt us into action and instantly wipe away the fog of a multitude of voices to clear our paths and focus our vision. Yet perspective is what seems to be lacking as various religious leaders, pastors, and politicians discuss the various important topics surrounding abortion. Some insist the “pro-life” label must embrace a litany of social issues beyond abortion.<\/p>\n

Tragically, while these discussions take place, many have lost sight of what is really at stake: millions of human beings, hanging in the balance between life and death in their mothers’ wombs.<\/p>\n

WARNING: Graphic image below.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

What is at stake<\/strong><\/p>\n

There comes a time when we must face what abortion actually does and who is targeted. It is a moment when perspective on the stark reality of death via abortion is gained.<\/p>\n

That moment came for me when I saw abortion first hand. I later described<\/a> the tears I cried as I buried aborted babies found in a trash dumpster. The very act of a human child’s body being disposed of in such a manner jolted my mind. On that day, forever seared into my consciousness, words like “choice” and “Roe” faded away and were replaced by words like “human,” “person,” “pain,” and “horror” as I witnessed the bloodied remains of tiny baby boys and girls dismembered by the violent force of abortion.<\/p>\n

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The hand and foot of an abortion victim.<\/p><\/div>\n

No longer abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

As most of America debates abortion in the abstract, the reality of abortion is \u2014 for me, for others who have seen its horror, and for the more than 60 million slaughtered preborn children and the lives left shattered by their deaths \u2014 it is no longer abstract. That day catapulted me into a frame of mind I had not previously grasped and brought into full perspective what is at stake \u2014 and what the term “abortion” really means. Without words, messages, blogs, videos, or speeches, I learned the truth of what abortion was as I looked at and held the broken limbs of a beautifully created child who had been literally torn apart. The impact of that day has affected every moment of my life.<\/p>\n

When the noise around the abortion debate grows louder, I center my thoughts on that day, and I am instantly reminded that every single abortion represents the life of what was once a growing, living baby. Tragically, in 2017 alone, abortion violently snuffed out the lives of over 862,000 babies. As we near the end of 2020, we solemnly mourn the past decade<\/a> of abortion, which ended the lives of nearly 7.7 million preborn children.<\/p>\n