NO - Mr President...

They say that all that is needed for evil to suceed is for good [people], to do nothing...
I have stood on the sidelines and prayed...
I have looked at those who protest both radically and silently at the issue of abortion...
I have studied and asked God what is the proper thing to do in this incredible issue that takes the lives of almost 1,000,000 babies still in the womb, every year...
I have talked to men and women of faith...
I have asked my older children, two who have given birth to their own children...
Yesterday my nine year old son asked me, "Dad, what is abortion?"...
When I gave him the answer I wept because having to define it for a child was all I needed to help me in a 30 year quest for an answer, my answer as a Christian, as a minister, as a father...
Pray, advocate for life, and when placed in front of you intervene....
Pray for those who either in a self centered way, through bad counsel, or who just in plain fear of an unwanted pregnancy, numb themselves to the impact of what seems to be a simple surgical procedure but in reality is a devastating life altering decision...
And never forget...never, ever, never, never, never, forget...
Abortion kills the only thing made in the image of God...
John Piper says it passionately this way in an excerpt from a sermon entitled: "The Baby in My Womb Leaped for Joy.":
"It's a magnificent thing: The only newly-originating life in the universe that comes in the image of God is Man. The only newly-originating life in the universe that lasts forever is Man.
This is an awesome thing.
And, as everyone knows, that reverence is not shared by our new President, over whom we have rejoiced.
He is trapped and blind in a culture of deceit. On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, he released this statement,
We are reminded that this decision not only protects women’s health and reproductive freedom, but stands for a broader principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters.
To which I say:
No, Mr. President, you are not protecting women; you are authorizing the destruction of 500,000 little women every year.
No, Mr. President, you are not protecting reproductive freedom; you are authorizing the destruction of freedom for one million little human beings every year.
No, Mr. President, killing our children is killing our children no matter how many times you call it a private family matter. You may say it is a private family matter over and over and over, and still they are dead. And we killed them. And you, would have it remain legal.
Mr. President, some of us wept for joy at your inauguration. And we pledge that we will pray for you.
We have hope in our sovereign God."
We are told we must dial down the rhetoric...
When the children of Israel got tired of the rhetoric they told Isaiah the prophet: "Shut up! We don't want any more of your reports." They say, "Don't tell us the truth. Tell us nice things. Tell us lies." (Isaiah 30:10 New Living Translation 2006)
What can we do? What will we do? How will you make your faith productive as you conform more and more in the image of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?

Piper, John. From the sermon, "The Baby in My Womb Leaped for Joy". Accessed May 18, 2009. http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1794_no_mr_president_killing_is_killing_no_matter_what_we_call_it/