From Mighty Rivers 

Some abortions happen because a baby would interfere with education or career. Other pre-born are killed because a baby would be too expensive. Some are denied the right to life because they are the wrong gender, and some because they may have defective genes. And some babies are not wanted by the pregnant woman for lack of partner support.

Given that background, would you recommend any one or all of the following preborn children be terminated by abortion?

1. A preacher and his wife are very poor. They already have 14 children, and now she finds herself pregnant with a 15^th. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, should this child be aborted?

2. The father is sick with a virus. The mother has tuberculosis. They have 4 children. The 1^st is blind, the 2^nd died, the 3^rd is deaf, and the 4^th has tuberculosis. The mother is pregnant again. Given the extreme situation, would you recommend abortion?

3. A white man raped a 13 year old black girl, and she got pregnant. Should she get an abortion?

4. A teenage girl is pregnant. She’s not married. Her fiancé is not the father of the baby, and he’s very upset. Would you consider recommending abortion?

Seems like many people today would be taking that way out. But if abortion had been recommended in these four cases, denying the right to life would have been a tragic choice.

In the first case, you have just killed John Wesley, one of the great evangelists in the 19^th century.

In the second case, you have killed Beethoven.

The third death and denial of life would have been that of Ethel Waters, the wonderful black gospel singer.

If you said abortion was the answer in the fourth case, you have just advocated the murder of Jesus Christ.

This Friday marks the 48^th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Since January 22, 1973, more than 62 million pre-born babies have been aborted. That figure is more than the combined populations of New York and California.