GUEST COLUMN

(10/18/2006)

The Abortion Question: Do We Have the Right to Harm the Innocent?

Even if it's legal?

By Chris Stewart

November 7, 2006 will mark a very significant day in our history as a state, and as a nation. Incredibly, we have an opportunity to actually vote on whether or not to obey God’s Sixth Commandment – “Thou Shalt Not Kill”. Who among our forefathers would have ever foreseen this day!? But here we are.

In 1973, our nation turned schizophrenic. In the same year that we were accusing our returning Viet Nam veterans of being “baby killers”, our own Supreme Court passed a law making it legal to kill babies through state-sanctioned abortions.

The 1973 Supreme Court decisions on companion cases of Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton not only legalized baby killing, but removed restrictions so that abortion could be performed up to the day of birth, opening the way for the possibly even more heinous act called partial birth abortion. The Supreme Court made its decision back then citing “that no one can determine when life begins.” But after three decades of scientific and medical data, there is much new DNA evidence that shows what we all know in our hearts and what is borne out in God’s Word: HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION.

Therefore, abortion is murder, plain and simple. The “pro-choice” voices have done an incredible job of planting doubt in the minds of even the most level-headed people. They have turned the crime of murder into a political issue of individual rights. Many folks are now afraid of infringing on someone’s “right to choose”. My friends, listen. We have not the true right to choose to harm or kill the innocent. Period. Even if our misguided United States Supreme Court makes it legal to do so. Murder, by any other name, is still murder.

I urge you, fellow citizens of South Dakota, to give this matter serious thought and prayer. We have an opportunity to reverse this curse on our land. Let’s start here, in South Dakota, by saying “no more” to the killing of innocent life. We can start a trend toward righteousness in this nation. The power is in our hands, to choose life or to choose death. As we exercise our right to vote on November 7, let us fulfill the South Dakota state motto: “Under God the People Rule”. Let’s do it right this time. It may be our last chance.

Save the children, South Dakota. Our children are sacred, Lakota Oyate. Vote YES for Life on November 7. Vote YES on Referred Law 6.

Chris Stewart is a homemaker and the joyful mother of three homeschooled children. She lives in Mission, South Dakota with her husband Ray and daughters Holly, Evangeline and Joy. Thrust suddenly into the public as Todd County Coordinator for VoteYesForLife.com, Chris revels in His strength made perfect in her weakness.