The Church and Abortion

I’ve recently had many heated discussion on abortion and adoption in the church.

Through those debates people have said that the church is doing its part by voting on abortion, etc.

That is not the case. Let me gives some numbers to back that up.

In the 2008 election season, According to InfoPlease, there were 231,229,580 registered voters in the US. Only 132,618,580 actually voted.

This means only 57% of registered voters voted. That is pathetic.

If we use the number that 76% of people in the US call themselves Christian, then, after crunching the numbers, of the 98,611,000 people who did not vote in the last election, 74,944,360 would identify themselves as Christian.

Let’s be super conservative and say that only 15% of those people were actually born again believers. That leaves us with 11,241,654 Christians that did not vote.

Why is this number a big deal? Good question.

According to this page, the difference in votes between Obama and McCain was 9,522,083.

Do the math. Christians could have prevented the election of Barack Obama, and they did not.

Why is this a big deal? I could get into a whole list of reasons, but check this information out.

To quote:

But Obama’s record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion — a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called “too close to infanticide.” Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion. And now Obama has oddly claimed that he would not want his daughters to be “punished with a baby” because of a crisis pregnancy — hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life.

Obama’s actions speak for themselves. He does not value the life of the unborn.

People tell me, “if we do our part for the orphans, then God will help us with abortion.”

I respectfully disagree with them.

Perhaps if we do our part, educate ourselves, and don’t pick a man to lead our country who has no care for the unborn, God would honor that decision, make it easier for people to adopt, and we would solve two problems at once.

Leave a Reply