The Value of Life

What makes one life more valuable than another?
We hear in the media all the time about the loss of life in the war in Iraq. As of August 25, 2008, according to the Department of Defense, the total number of casualties since March 19, 2003 is 4149. There is not a person in America that those statistics do not sadden.

But why is it that we don’t hear about the staggering number of deaths of defenseless children in America? In the United States in 2005, according to the Guttmacher Institute (who the government sites as a source for it’s census records) 1,210,000 abortions were performed.

The loss of life in the entire war in Iraq is roughly the equivalent of the number of babies killed in a thirty-hour period in THIS country in 2005. That fact should stop us in our tracks. In ONLY 30 hours Americans legally killed 4143 babies.

We have all heard that the baby is not defined as a human life during the period of gestation, that abortion is currently legal, and there are those seeking to allow the killing of babies at the time of birth. The Pregnancy Resource Center reports that yes in fact studies have shown that these babies do feel pain during the abortion process. Not only do they feel it, but it is documented that they react to it. They are real people and they behave as such. No different than you or I would attempt to retreat from a source of pain, these babies try to escape the pain that is assaulting their bodies, but with nowhere to go and with no one to protect them... they suffer and die.

Why do we grieve and protest the loss of a life that was spared from abortion more than we do the life that was terminated in it’s very beginning? We, as a nation, turn a blind eye to the suffering and killing of defenseless children. We even go so far as to claim that it is the right of the mother to choose to inflict suffering and ultimately death upon that child! Yet we protest the death of those who voluntarily joined the armed forces, knowing that war and death were a possible consequence of their chosen profession. We do not protest for the safety of our police officers or fire fighters with such zeal. The majority of Americans rally, with as much passion as those wanting to end the war, to support the slaughter of millions of American children!!!!

EVERY life should have the same value, regardless of age, race, or creed!!! Over a million children die a year as the result of legalized homicide. Homicide is the killing of one human being by the act or omission of another. Homicide occurs when a person purposely, knowingly, recklessly or negligently causes the death of another.

We need to take a stand as a nation and protect the children that are unable to protect themselves. Abortion should be as important of an issue as the war, and we as Americans are capable of offering that protection to those who are defenseless. We need to make our voices heard, that this killing should be stopped..... at least as strongly as we demand the war to be stopped.

Prayers & Blessings,

Kate C 8/26/2008
ALL lives have the same value!!!!!
http://www.guttmacher.org/ , http://www.defenselink.mil/