Fifty-six million lives were snuffed out before they had a chance to begin, all because prideful people ‘rewrote’ the Word of God. So how many is that? After researching the populations of individual countries, here is a glimpse:

What if everyone in Canada, Israel, and Switzerland–or Spain and Switzerland–were suddenly killed? Would that be more of a tragedy than the 56 million Americans who met an equally, if not more horrendous fate in the U.S. since Roe vs Wade?

What if the lives of every man, woman and child in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Israel, Ireland, New Zealand and Greece were snuffed out? Would those 55 million lives be mourned simply because they have names?

I am sad for the children, sad for the parents, sad for our country–that we are prejudiced against babies that God did not have time to ‘fashion in their mother’s womb’ before He had to take them home.

What might our country have accomplished with those 56 million lives? Would one of those children perhaps have grown up to discover a cure for cancer? Would one of them have been inspired by great men of God to take up the mantle and lead hundreds of thousands more into a living relationship with Jesus Christ? Would one of them have been a great politician with the kind of values that would have united this country rather than divide it?

No one knows but God, but someday I think we will know just what our self-centered society has robbed our country of. We should all be ashamed and on our face before a Holy God, asking Him to forgive our wayward nation that for a time was accurately portrayed as a Shining City on a Hill.

In his farewell address to the nation on January 11, 1989, President Ronald Reagan said, “I’ve spoken of the shining hill all my political life…. And how stands the city on this winter night? … After 200 years, two centuries she still stands strong and true to the granite ridge, and her glow has held, no matter what storm. And she’s still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places, who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.”

Oh, to believe it once more.