This is not "Mission Accomplished"

    

   In the days that followed the Supreme Court decision to strike down the Roe v. Wade ruling from 1973, I have followed the reporting by the mass media, and it seemed to be filled with reports of anger about the new court's handling of the whole affair. 

   To those who are so angry about losing their "rights", I have but two questions: 

      "What about the baby?"

      "What about his/her Rights?"

   And I seem to remember a quote from somewhere:

      "A nation that kills its children will not long endure"

   But there is another reaction that I see when I look at my Facebook page. There are no postings about the new decision at all. Since my friends on Facebook are almost entirely Christian people, I want to say:

      Let Christians not be afraid to be happy about the SCOTUS decision, but may we thank God and rejoice, not to gloat in our righteous cause, but to be truly grateful and to celebrate the fact that those individuals who were the most vulnerable in our society may now have life.

      This decision seems to be a little like the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 in which President Lincoln freed the slaves who were in any state or part of a state that was under Confederate control. Slaves in border states were not included in this, nor any slaves still in the Union.

      Now we seem to have a situation that a child's chance at life may depend on the address of the mother. Some will have protection, but not all.

      Winston Churchill gave a speech to the British people at a time when the Battle of Britain, the air war in which the English held off the German invasion of their island nation, saying:

         "Now this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

   So it is with The Right to Life, the work is not over. Some of the unborn will have the protection of state laws, but not all. 

   There is still much work to be done, and this may be the hardest part.