Pro Choice

The U.S. Presidential elections are coming up. You might hear the phrase ¨pro-choice¨ when a presidential candidate is speaking about their stand on abortion. Basicly it means this: They don´t necessarily agree with abortion, but they trust mothers and families to make the right decisions. They don´t think it is necessary for the government to get involved. They think that the ¨liberty¨ to have an abortion needs to be protected.
Pro-choice does have a nice ring to it, but I have some statistics to show you.

Statistics just for the United States:
Why women have abortions: 1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).

Likelihood of abortion:An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion.

One baby is aborted every 26 seconds
137 babies are aborted every hour
3,304 babies are aborted every day
23,196 babies are aborted every week
100,516 babies are aborted every month
Almost 50,000,000 babies have been aborted between 1973 and 2007.

64% of women who experienced one or more abortions “felt pressured by others” to have the abortion.
Statistics from http://www.mccl.org/abortion_statistics.htm and http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html

So a presidential candidate that has a ¨pro-choice¨ stand on abortion thinks the mothers will do the right thing, and the government does not need to get involved. Babies are not being aborted because the mothers life is in serious danger, or also because of rape/incest. The vast majority of babies are being aborted for the simple fact that they are not wanted. The mother, parents, or family do not want their lives to significally change because of a baby. They are selfish. If someone is not able to take care of a baby, then why can´t they put the baby up for adoption?
My wife is pregnant, and I will soon be a father. I have felt the fears that most people feel. When the baby comes, Elianas and my life will significantly change. But never would we have someone kill our baby so that our ¨plans¨ are not interrupted.
Really it is not my opinion that is important, but it is Gods opinion. What does God think when a baby is killed? Does He only care about the babies that have been born, and not about those that haven´t been born yet? I will tell you that God does care. God cares about the babies that are in a mothers womb. The approximately 50,000,000 babies that have been aborted in the United States between 1973 - 2007; God cares about them. The parents may not have cared about the baby, but I know that baby is loved by God. And because God cares, will He not deliver justice for the murder of those babies?
God does not just judge people individually, but He will punish an entire nation. How many times did Israel turn away from God, and God punished that nation? God would allow other nations to invade Israel. Terrible things would happen because Israel decided to turn against God, and do all these evil things. And do we think that God will not do the same to the United States? Has God forgotten about these babies? Of course not! I believe that Gods judgement to our country is just around the corner. I don´t know how He plans to do it, but I know that God will not forever allow the United States to do the things that they are doing without being severely punished. Can Gods judgement be avoided? I know that in the Bible a nation would find out about Gods coming judgement, and they would stop the evil they were doing, and so God would not judge the nation at that time. But when the nation again turned to its evil ways, Gods judgement came. I think that only if our nation turns from its sin, will that deter God from punishing our nation.
Many people think that nothing can bring the United States down. People think ¨we are the strongest country in the world, who can hurt us?¨ But God is who first blessed this nation, and He has the power to take away everything from us. Why has there never been an enemy nation invade the United States? Because God has not allowed it. But if God allows a nation (or group) to cause damage to the United States, it will happen. And the United States will not be able to stop them, because God is using that nation (or group) to punish our nation.
But God does not forget about the people that have turned away from sin, unlike the others in the country. So those people should not be afraid.
It is so important to have a good leader in our country. A president that wishes to please God, and make the right decisions. The United States has certainly been a country that has stood for many good things. When Hitler and the Natzi´s were trying to exterminate all the Jews, millions of young American men were headed overseas to fight, and they did fight, many losing their own lives. But God was with them, and they won the war. God hated what the Natzi´s were doing, and God punished them because of the bad things they were doing. One of the nations that God used was the United States. But now we must turn from our sin, or our nation will also be judged.