#Winning, Like Never Before

For 41 years, abortion has been legal in America.With two grossly uninformed decisions in 1973, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court laid down some of the most liberal abortion laws in the world, putting the United States on par with North Korea and China.

Yet, the will of the American people is increasingly pro-life. And while the election and re-election of the most pro-abortion President in our nation’s history was certainly a negative for our pro-life movement, it has served as a catalyst for pro-life activists nationwide who no longer look to Washington for the justice we seek. And this is being demonstrated right now in your state or the one next to you.

Abortion arguably reached its pinnacle around 1990, when the abortion rate peaked to its highest point since Roe v. Wade. The number of abortion facilities reached an all-time high one year later, in 1991, when there were 2,176 active surgical abortion centers. But today that number has dropped by 73%, and the abortion rate has, for the most part, steadily declined since its 1990 peak.

These statistics along with the the new report from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, which show that the amount of pro-life laws passed in the states in the past three years (2011-2013) has surpassed that of the pro-life successes of the entire preceding decade that (2000-2010). That has the pro-abortion movement scrambling.

And it’s no wonder why. The New York Times recently outlined the legislative accomplishments of the pro-life movement in 2013 alone, citing 3 bans on abortions committed past 20 weeks of gestation; 4 abortion restrictions based on the reason for the abortion; 4 amendments to abortion reporting laws; 9 restrictions on abortion providers; 10 limitations on insurance coverage for abortion; 17 limitations on medication abortions; and 23 "other" laws, which include ultrasound requirements, bans on abortion earlier than 20 weeks, etc.

Further, the Huffington Post noted that the number of states with high numbers of major abortion restrictions has jumped from 13 to 27 in just 13 years. On the other hand, the number of states actively supporting abortion expansion is only 13, which is a significant drop since the year 2000.

The abortion movement appears to be breathing its dying breaths, as its sees fewer and fewer abortion facilities, less doctors willing to commit the heinous act, common sense regulating legislation, and ranks that aren’t being replenished with younger activists. While now is not quite yet the time to sit back and bask in our successes, it is time for pro-life activists in every state to commit to doing more than ever before to put the final nail in the abortion industry’s coffin.

These statistics along with the the new report from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, which show that the amount of pro-life laws passed in the states in the past three years (2011-2013) has surpassed that of the pro-life successes of the entire preceding decade that (2000-2010). That has the pro-abortion movement scrambling.
And it’s no wonder why. The New York Times recently outlined the legislative accomplishments of the pro-life movement in 2013 alone, citing 3 bans on abortions committed past 20 weeks of gestation; 4 abortion restrictions based on the reason for the abortion; 4 amendments to abortion reporting laws; 9 restrictions on abortion providers; 10 limitations on insurance coverage for abortion; 17 limitations on medication abortions; and 23 "other" laws, which include ultrasound requirements, bans on abortion earlier than 20 weeks, etc.

Further, the Huffington Post noted that the number of states with high numbers of major abortion restrictions has jumped from 13 to 27 in just 13 years. On the other hand, the number of states actively supporting abortion expansion is only 13, which is a significant drop since the year 2000.

....The intent of the passage [Deuteronomy 21:1-9] was to show God does not hold a community or a society guilty for the acts of an individual that are immoral, if the community takes appropriate actions to suppress the action. That is, if the community passes laws against the practice, and seeks to enforce these laws against the practice, and bring sanctions against those who violate the law, then that society is not brought under the judgment of God. The state is authorized to bring sanctions against those individuals who commit such acts against the law of God precisely because of the threat of God's corporate sanctions. If the State does not take action in the name of God, then God will take action in the name of God and bring the sanctions against the whole society. This is the teaching of Deuteronomy 28:15-66. This is the teaching of the whole covenant pattern of Old Testament law.
Finally, if societies do not acknowledge this by seeking to suppress illegal acts, God does bring judgment against them. This is why God sent the prophets before the people and before the kings: to warn them. By violating God's law, the people risked bringing the entire society under the direct negative sanctions of God....
-- from the thread Letter To Paul Hill [1994 Fla. shooter of abortionist Dr. Britton] [part 5 of 13]
I am not saying that abortions are right. I am saying that the practice of abortion as such is not God's primary focus of concern. It is the practice of legalized abortions that is the focus of God's concern and wrath. When abortion is legalized, this testifies to the depraved moral condition of the community. It is the moral condition of the community that concerns God, not the fact that this or that physician is practicing abortions. God can bring judgment in eternity, and will, against those who practice abortion and against the mothers who authorize it. Abortion is a crime in God's eyes. But the focus of God's concern is not with stopping the abortions by his representatives' individual actions. The focus of God's concern is to legislate against abortion and then to have the representative ordained agents, that is, the civil magistrates, take public action against the abortion. God's judicial focus, in other words, is corporate and judicial. This is the focus of God's concern in the question of abortion.
-- from the thread Letter To Paul Hill [1994 Fla. shooter of abortionist Dr. Britton] [part 7 of 13]
"The big problem is that modern technology is going to find a way to have dirt-cheap abortions and make millions of dollars doing this. We are going to get mass-produced abortions....There are tens of millions of men and women who will not vote to ban the sale of such a product. This is our problem. It is a political problem resting on a specific moral foundation: humanism. The problem is judicial. It is corporate. And finally, when the physicians are driven out of business by mass produced abortifacient, pro-lifers are going to face a new reality. They are going to realize that it is not abortion as such that is the problem. It is the problem of a society that has legalized abortion."
-- from the thread Letter To Paul Hill [1994 Fla. shooter of abortionist Dr. Britton] [part 8 of 13]

I view this quite differently. Infanticide is pretty much as legal as it was in 1973 despite 40 plus years of treasure and effort to secure it’s demise in the political realm. It’s an almost total failure of conservative lobbying and politics at the Federal level.

I agree that the strategy of the past decade, focused almost entirely at the state and local level, has borne some fruit. Yeah, it has had some impact. But I really don’t think that what is going on in politics is turning the tide.

Instead, what I think is happening is that women are simply choosing not to kill their children. Two underlying reasons that I can see that are contributing hugely to that: ultrasounds that allow women to see their unborn babies, and a sort of horrible math that has gone on. The ultrasounds need little explanation: seeing is believing.

The horrible math isn’t much more difficult to understand. Children tend to take on the politics and views of their parents. Parents who are pro-life have a tendency to have more children. And those children in turn take on the pro-life views of their parents and the virtuous cycle goes on. Those who are pro-abortion live down to their philosophy and kill off their kids. Their kids would have a similar pro-abortion philosophy...were they alive to do so! Forty years of this has multiplied the number of pro-life folks while killing off the pro-aborts.

It is the abomination that causes desolation. Legalized child (human) sacrifice is not forgivable, delayable if places of death are abolished, but justice will be served.

“However, the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. And the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple (house) of which I said, ‘My name shall be there’.”
“Surely at the command (mouth) of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; AND THE LORD WOULD NOT FORGIVE.” (All caps mine) 2 Kings 23: 26 & 27 and 24: 3 & 4

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