With ease I could recount many of the good works I’ve done aiding the pro-life cause or demonstrating a respect for God’s gift of life. I’m sure you can recount your own good works. But in the last several years I’ve felt a malaise when it comes to my own support for the pro-life cause. Abortions, however, have continued apace.

The biggest reason for losing my personal momentum in fighting against abortion is a sense that, having tried nearly all the avenues and failed to make a noticeable difference, I have developed a “been there, done that” attitude. If some new way of supporting unborn babies or speaking against abortion arose, I’d be right there in line to help.

Then there is the David-versus-Goliath factor. The government is against us, public opinion is against us, and even the scientific community is against us. Now RU-486 is a stealth weapon keeping abortion casualties a secret. Who can fight an unseen enemy?

Thus, my inertia. And I must say, impending judgment has not been high on my list of reasons for helping in the fight to uphold God-given life. Yes, many people in the U.S. might be ripe for judgment, but I’m on the side of justice and right

Alan Keyes helped me to put things in proper perspective—to see things a little more as God sees them. We can see things more as God see them by, of course, reading His Word. Isaiah chapter 1, then, becomes a knot-in-the-throat kind of passage.

When the bombs pelted Afghanistan’s dust day and night, leveling buildings, deforesting swaths of mountainsides, and vaporizing humanity, I took comfort in the fact that this was a deserved judgment. Yes, there were some people killed who hadn’t participated in any terrorist plot. Yes, there were some people killed who didn’t even like the Taliban government, but they were, after all, citizens of that country. If they had all banded together, ready to do what is right at any cost, surely they could have turned the nation around before the planes dove into the World Trade Center.

As my logic goes, what hope do I have to evade God’s judgment on my country? How will I justify my anger over the loss of 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11 as God visits us for the loss of 40 million babies since 1973? My lukewarm actions won’t save anyone’s skin in the day of wrath. While this issue focuses most on the United States and the daily bloodbath in each of her states, the same story could be told in all too many countries. What about yours? Canada has killed over 2 million babies in the last 20 years, and much of that time abortion was technically not legal. Japan has killed nearly 10 million. And South Africa, which the world has patted on the back for its human rights triumph over apartheid, has quietly killed over 200,000 babies in five years. Is that not a human rights abuse worth protesting?