Yesterday I was able to visit the newest member of our ‘church family.’ Westin James Floyd was born on Thursday evening to Michael & Lindsay Floyd. Because I know some of you will want to know, he weighed 7 lbs, 12 oz, and was 21½ inches long. It is always a blessing to welcome a new child into the family, but I mention this birth because of the irony. As I drove to Evansville last night I was reminded it was 37 years ago Friday that the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade released Americans from any legal obligation to protect or preserve the life of a fetus. The debate has raged on since and continues today, and while I do not have sufficient space to begin to address the issue here, I found these statistics startling. This comes from the website of The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html), and these are statistics for abortions in the United States, not worldwide. “Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as "Born-again/Evangelical".” As my heart ached from these statistics and the future grief inflicted on these women, I realized just how significant Westin’s birth is...praise God, I'd call it a victory!
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