“If you take away the biblical teaching of the sanctity
of human life and of man created in the image of God, there is no final basis
for placing value on human life. And
this applies to whether we are talking about the unborn or those who are already
born. If human life can be taken before
birth, there is no logical reason why it cannot be taken after birth…..Yet much
of the evangelical world carries on business as usual….But if we are not willing to take a stand even for human life, is there
anything for which we will stand?”
Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The great Evangelical Disaster,
pp. 108-109
This was written nearly THIRTY years ago. The evangelical church has not progressed
much since then. We have been fortunate
that medical technology has increased and been able to show that the lives of children
born before the normal gestational period can be kept alive and eventually
develop normally. Through this fact,
more people are willing to accept that life can begin before birth. But what have we done in the marketplace of
ideas?
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