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And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. (Genesis 4:10)America has recently passed a gruesome milestone, we have had the fifty millionth abortion. It is staggering isn’t it? Fifty million boys and girls since 1973. They would range in age from 1 to 38 years old, had they been allowed to live. Fifty million people! By now they would have been husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, skilled and unskilled laborers , professionals, scientists, ministers, leaders, who knows what we have forfeited ? Fifty million human lives snuffed out,...

WASHINGTON - For Tom Coburn, it was an intersection of his faith and his science and his desire to apply both to public policy. In 1999, Coburn, a physician and then an Oklahoma U.S. representative, authored a resolution in Congress stating that brain wave activity is present in a fetus 41 days after conception and a heartbeat is detectable after 24 days. "The Supreme Court ruled they didn't know where life begins," Coburn said in an interview recently, referring to the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade case about abortion. "We can show that scientifically. And as science improves, we're going...