Abortion didn’t end when Roe v. Wade did. Reality has proved just the opposite.
According to data published by #WeCount, a project of the Society of Family Planning, there are now more abortions happening per month than in the months before Roe fell. Dobbs didn’t get rid of abortion.
As influential as the Supreme Court is, combating abortion was never going to be as easy as a single court case. If you think that Dobbs v. Jackson made America pro-life, then get your head out of the sand.
#WeCount reports that the number of U.S. abortions last year amounted to 1.14 million. That’s approaching the population of the entire country of Estonia. It’s well over the entire population of Fort Worth, Texas (the 10th largest city in the U.S. this year).
Yes, imagine every resident of a major U.S. city put to death over the course of one year—all by their parents. I wish this were only a nightmare, but sadly, it’s not far from real life in this nation at this very moment.
Let’s put this in some historical context. For just a minute, forget about all the American abortions that happened before 2024. If we keep up this year’s rate, we’ll have matched Hitler’s Jewish death toll (6 million killed) by the early months of 2029.
And that’s only counting abortions 2024 and onward. Counting all abortions since 1973, we’ve killed far more than ten times the number of Jewish Holocaust victims.
Abortion is America’s holocaust, except it’s legal, clinical, and far more bloodthirsty.
If you’re like me, at some point, you have daydreamed bold and heroic thoughts about what you would have done if you had lived in Germany during the Holocaust. Perhaps you would have been a bold, courageous soul doing what you could, standing with your Lord against all the wickedness around you and condemning the cowardice that was allowing it to happen?
If you’ve thought such things, I’m honestly very glad. That time and place needed more men with such brave aspirations.
But it needed more than just good intentions. It needed brave deeds. So how do you know what you would have done back then? Well, here’s a quick one-sentence principle that will help answer that question for you. What you are doing now is what you would have been doing then.
What you are doing about abortion now is what you would have been doing about the Holocaust then. If you are doing nothing about abortion now, I hate to break it to you, but you likely would have done nothing about the Holocaust if you were alive in 1938.
If you are donating to pro-life charities now, you probably would have been donating to support refugees or something similar back then.
And if you are sidewalk counseling outside of your local abortion clinic now, doing everything you can to rescue those being led away to death, then you are living out the kind of heroism that you daydream about.
What you are doing now is what you would have been doing then. If you’ve ever wondered what kind of person you would have been during the Holocaust, now you know.
And if you don’t like the answer, then change what you are doing now.
