Abortion: We Must Stand

                                                                                                                                                                    Vol. III, No. 7, November 1990

Richard Land, executive director of the SBC Christian Life Commission, speaking to a Concerned Women for America convention on 30 Sep. said, "We need to understand that what we are in the process of fighting is a cultural war over the definition of the nature and value of human life and whether human life is indeed distinct from other life. We are in a war, literally, to the death .... What it boils down to is, if we do not put this evil genie back in the bottle we are going to end up not only with the wholesale slaughter of unborn children, we are going to deal with the termination of children who don't have a high predictability of productivity and success after birth, and for those in the nursing home and those in the intensive care unit to have the quality of life ethic applied to them, which means, 'Are you healthy enough, are you normal enough to justify your continued existence? If not, we're going to pull the plug.'... And if we won't stand in the gap, who will? If we won't stand in the gap on this issue, on what will we? And if we won't stand in the gap now, when will we?" (from BP release)