I know but little, yet enough to recognize an evil in my land over which many grieve. Over two hundred years ago, our fathers fought a war to birth a country with freedom. More than a hundred years ago, their sons fought again, for the preservation of that same country and for “a new birth of freedom” as Abraham Lincoln called it. Both were victorious; indeed America has never waged war against oppression and lost.
Today, my heart is stirred along with many Americans that we live amongst the permission and protection of the greatest enemy freedom has ever known: the suppression of life itself.
Life predicates liberty, and today we cut off both for millions of unborn, the very same children our forefathers died for.
We wonder at the injustice of slavery in this country. We are right to wonder. But what will our children say when they understand the institution of abortion among us today? God forbid it lead them to forget that Americans give their own lives for life and liberty; they do not sacrifice another.
Ought we now to tremble at our wrong, as we did 150 years ago, and to again “let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?” (Isaiah 58:6) For indeed this is the purpose of the God who made all men equal.
Our fathers petitioned for a birth of freedom, and their children for a new birth of freedom. We, their children, also ask for a new birth of freedom, or rather a new birth for freedom. Does not every generation require this? I ask you not to deny it.
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