I hadn’t realized until late yesterday afternoon while reading Cindy’s blog at Notes In the Key of Life that yesterday was the 34th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision that led to legal abortions.

I think this is one of our greatest national tragedies. It makes me unfathomably sad.

Every year at the Wed. night prayer meeting before or after this date, the man who leads our prayer time asks everyone who has been born since that date to come and sit on the first few rows. Those were the ones who were spared, who were allowed to live (I can hardly fathom that phrase, allowed to live. If it were in any other context there would be national outrage). Then to think of how much greater that number would be, to think of all the missing faces of our population due to abortion — 47,282,923, according to Carmon — it is just mind-boggling.

LaShawn Barber has an excellent blog post for that day as does Crystal at Bibilcal Womanhood.