50 Million Abortions

Since the 1973 Roe vrs Wade decision to legalize abortion, we have seen close to 50 million abortions.  A Mississippi organization has come up with a unique visual to help us understand this number.  

Included is a plaque that reads:

Before you is a collection of 50 million pennies! Each penny represents one child who has been aborted since the Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade in 1973. A penny like a baby seems to be so small and sometimes of very little worth, but when seen in a collection of 50 million it becomes enormous.

Each coin is a person, but in many cases it also represents the difficult process of decision-making, fear, and loneliness. While some speak of pro-choice, these babies had no choice. While some speak of a mother’s right to control her own body, 50 million babies were not given their right to live.

Fifty million missing children represented by these pennies must be cause for us to stop, pray, consider what we are doing as a nation, ask God to forgive us, seek ways to help those who are struggling with the decision, and look to the Lord to restore each of us.

 

 

 

Between Two Worlds makes the additional point that this equals the population of the following states:

• Kentucky
• Oregon
• Oklahoma
• Connecticut
• Iowa
• Mississippi
• Arkansas
• Kansas
• Utah
• Nevada
• New Mexico
• West Virginia
• Nebraska
• Idaho
• Maine
• New Hampshire
• Hawaii
• Rhode Island
• Montana
• Delaware
• South Dakota
• Alaska
• North Dakota
• Vermont
• Wyoming

Proverbs 24:10-12:

If you faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.
Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not repay man according to his work?