The Most Outrageous Legal Decision in American History

Every week our elders send an email to the congregation letting us know how we can prepare our families for Sunday. Below is this week's email by Scott T. Brown, teaching elder.

Today, January 18, 2005 Norma McCorvey, the original "Jane Roe", of Roe v. Wade filed a legal appeal with the Supreme Court of the United States with the hope of overturning the legal decision that made her famous. Several years ago, Norma came to faith in Christ and revealed that she was used by two young feminist lawyers as a pawn in a political scam, was never raped (as she testified under oath) and never had an abortion. She has become a radical pro life activist.

January 23 is Sanctity of Life Sunday which commemorates one of the most outrageous legal decisions in American history - Roe v. Wade. The cries of the murdered millions - 45 million US babies and the nearly one billion babies worldwide - are heard before the throne of God - and they must be heard by the common church member. We cannot forget the global slaughter that continues to roll daily in nearly every culture on earth. And we cannot turn our heads in good conscience and look the other way.

On Sunday we will be focusing our attentions upon the foundations of our resistance against this global holocaust.

Following are several flagship passages that form the scriptural case for the pro life position. My counsel to all the people of Trinity Baptist Church is two fold: First, engage in this fight and resist the comforts that ignoring it affords. Second, that you and your households be able to articulate the Christian position and that you are able quote verbatim the following passages of scripture so that you will be ready to defend babies in the image of God.

These passages of scripture answer the question: "Why do we defend babies and stand against abortion?"

Genesis 1:26-27 "Let us make man in our image, according to Our likeness" ...man is made in the image of God

Exodus 20:13 "Thou shalt not kill"

Psalm 139:13-16, "You knit me together in my mothers womb; you formed my inward parts...your eyes saw my substance before I was unformed" See also: Ephesians 1:4,

Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you"

Luke 1:35,41 "and it happened when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the baby leaped in her womb"

Luke 1:15 "He will be filled with the spirit, even from his mother's womb"

Proverbs 24:11 Deliver those who are drawn toward death

Summary:
Abortion is an attack on the entire Bible. In the Law, the Prophets, the Poetic books, the Pauline Epistles and the Gospels we find evidence of the sacredness of life in the womb and the sovereignty of God at work in conception. There should be equal protection under the law for life in the womb.