What is evil? It is turning our back on God, the fountain of living waters, and turning towards broken wells that can’t hold any water. It is like a thirsty man who forsakes a pure mountain spring so he can suck on the putrid runoff of a broken spigot. Why would anyone do this? Because the spigot is much easier to get to, and it’s runoff still provides a measure of relief (despite the fact that it carries a lethal disease).
C.S. Lewis says that people don’t reject God because their desire for pleasure is too strong. They reject God because their desire is too weak. They settle for cheap, easily accessible pleasures because they don’t have the resolve to pursue the pleasures which are infinitely better. It is no wonder, then, that eighty-two percent of all abortions in the United States are performed on single women. These are pregnancies conceived to couples who reject God’s explicit command that sex be reserved for marriage. The only reason people reject this command is because they erroneously believe their happiness will be better served by making their own rules (rather than by following the prescription of the One who made them). The result? More than one million innocent human beings are violently killed every year in America because men and women sell out for the lesser pleasure of fornication rather than waiting for the greater joys of sexual intimacy in marriage. Why do they do this? Here are some culprits to consider:
It’s too hard to have a good marriage... I can’t wait that long... I’m too undisciplined to curb my appetite for immediate gratification... I’m Incapable of thinking beyond my own self-absorbed desires, and I have no capacity to actually love another person as much as I love myself... My boyfriend will dump me if I don’t.
Consequences be damned, people want to be satisfied right now, on their own terms, or not at all. But here’s the question. Are any of them really satisfied? Are you satisfied? Does a long string of shallow sexual encounters, bitter break-ups, emotional scarring, aborted children and sexually transmitted diseases really place someone on the pathway of happiness? Returning to C.S. Lewis we read, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”1 Look around you, look at yourself. Does a godless existence of worldly pleasure-seeking honestly yield genuine happiness, or does it merely yield frustration and cynicism?
If people waited until they got married to have sex, more than one million abortions would just go away, even if the law never changed. That’s the good news. Abortion could all but be eliminated if people simply obeyed God and preserved sex for marriage. Here’s the bad news. Even if we do wait for marriage to have sex, even if we never have an abortion, and even if we spend our whole life actively opposing abortion, the deeper problem of the heart may still be unresolved. There is a way to fix the heart, but it is not through “doing” right things. The solution is much deeper, much simpler and much more staggering.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. -- 1 Corinthians 15:3-5
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -- Romans 10:9
Yes, there is an educational component to the problem of abortion, yes, there is a legislative component to the problem of abortion, but most fundamentally, there is a spiritual component to the problem of abortion. If we only address the first two, without addressing the third, the results for ourselves, and for the people all around us, will be eternally tragic.
to challenge you to go there and look around. It is Abort73.com and it is a website devoted to the truth about abortion... I cannot duplicate the impact of the website in my own words. So swallow hard, prepare yourself, pray for grace, visit the site and don’t leave it without a plan to do something about abortion.” Finally, pastor and author, John Piper (desiringgod.org) who’s writing and preaching has been a major influence on the development of Abort73 recently encouraged his entire congregation that if they only had time to visit one pro-life website, to visit Abort73.com. The willingness of these men to lend their support to Abort73 has already led to an increase in donors who had no prior involvement or knowledge of Abort73. Without question, we’re in a better state financially than we were in the fall. At the same time, we still don’t have the funds in place for even one full-time employee, let alone the five or six we’re praying for. This correspondence, then, is very much a plea to consider giving Abort73 your financial support. We believe that our strategy for ending abortion is as practical and as economically efficient as anything else out there, and we’d be honored if you’d help us expand our work by making a tax-free contribution today. You can use the envelop provided or donate online @ 
