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In late Summer, 1999, a rare medical event took place; a medical milestone. In a surgical suite in Nashville, Samuel Alexander Armas received spinal surgery for his spina bifida. When a stool fell over with a loud bang, Joseph Bruner, the surgeon leading the operation, said, "Shh, you’ll wake the baby." Waking up would have been fatal for Samuel. This miraculous procedure should have made the headlines nationwide and been all over the television news. We should have seen the Armas family and Dr. Bruner on every talk show from New York to LA. Instead, they received almost total media blackout. Why? Because the "progress" made in dehumanizing the "fetus" would have been set back 30 years with one picture; a child, who could still have been legally aborted, reaching out from the womb to grasp the hand of his healer.

In a world that is waging war against Almighty God, if one of the primary fronts is to dehumanize the weak, then the next battle field is language. If those who want to eliminate God from a culture can change the meaning of the words in a society, they can change that society.

"Abortionist" is one word that has been sapped of its original impact. In the years prior to Roe v. Wade, no woman would have considered going to an abortionist for prenatal care, or general health care, even if he were the only doctor in town. The word abortionist conjured up images of dark alleys and blunt instruments, terrible things done behind a black shroud of secrecy. Now an abortionist is just another doctor. But remember the Hippocratic Oath originally stated, "I will neither give a deadly drug to anyone if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly, I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy."

In ancient Phoenicia and Chaldea child sacrifice was regularly practiced by the worshipers of Baal, the ancient fertility god. Jezebel took part in this horrific form of idol worship. When she married King Ahab, she brought Baal worship and child sacrifice to Israel, and a nation was corrupted. The very chosen of God partook of this detestable practice of which God said in Jeremiah 32:35, "And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin."

Things have not changed. We have not become so civilized as we like to think. At the dawning of the new millennium, world wide, the life of a pre-born child is snuffed out with every tick of the clock. And the world’s leaders seek to spread this abhorrent practice to the 97 countries who still dare to stand up and say that abortion is wrong.

The UN cares much more about reducing population than about caring for the needs of the existing masses. Clinics in the third world which receive supplies from organizations within the UN report that storage closets runneth over with donated condoms, while medicine, syringes, and other medical supplies needed to protect life are nearly impossible to come by.

There is another agenda behind depopulation. It was conceived by our enemy, a ravenous beast unable to be satisfied. I have felt his hot, sticky breath, the stinging of his claws and the prick of his fangs before. Although Christ defeated him with every drop of blood that fell from his ripped and beaten body, and although the final outcome is certain, the battle rages on and the casualties pile up. Our enemy’s hatred is a tangible thing, as real as the trees, the grass, this page. We can see it all around us. Every raped woman, every sodomized little boy, every aborted child cries out, "We are hated." It’s up to us to show them that they are loved.