Dr. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King has crisscrossed the land for years now, sharing her own experience of abortion and the painful confession that in this, she had blindly committed the same sin as slavery. She devalued human life and turned it into property to be dealt with according to her own whim. Her honest testimony is crucial. Shedding innocent blood rightly makes God angry and makes all our prayers short of lamentation and confession a vain waste of breath. “Though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood!” (Isaiah 1:15). Our own unconfessed blood-guilt over abortion produces silent pulpits and a church so weak that it can only dream and endlessly talk about the church achieving a muscular faith that produces personal holiness and social impact. But when the secret is outed, the gospel finally makes sense—joyful, conscience-cleansing, doctrine-loving good sense. There can be no forgiveness for the shedding of innocent blood…except by the shedding of innocent blood. But the blood of Christ satisfies the just demands of a God rightly offended by the sin of child-sacrifice. And the blood of Christ can satisfy the stained and stricken conscience; “how much more will the blood of Christ…purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God,” (Hebrews 9:14). By 2033, I expect that King’s honest testimony will prove liberating to thousands, and that tears will yield to resolve; that the natural extension of the civil rights movement is the prolife movement.
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