Christy Freeman is charged with murder after the remains of four pre-mature babies were found in her house in Ocean City, Maryland.

Two years ago, Christy Freeman could not have been charged with a crime. Like many other states, Maryland recently passed a viable fetus law that makes it a crime to kill a child that could live outside the womb. This law, and others like it around the country, have only come in recent years as states have reasserted their rights to legislate abortion issues.

Grisly events like this highlight the hypocrisy of those who want to kill babies with impunity. Planned Parenthood, The National Abortion Rights Action League, The National Organization for Women, and those they represent continue to maintain that “unwanted” children should not be allowed to be born. Their convoluted reasoning boasts that the right of a woman to live as she pleases completely trumps the right of a baby to live at all.
When some disturbed person like Christy Freeman carries this philosophy to its logical conclusion, we as a society then wonder what could have motivated her to kill her own children.

Millions of mothers do it every year and our society accepts it. The only difference is that Christy Freeman did not go to an abortion clinic and contribute to the extremely lucrative abortion industry.

The bottom line of this philosophical and legal disconnect is personhood. Is an unborn child a person or simply unwanted tissue? It’s the same debate our country struggled with over slavery. As long as Negroes were considered chattel (or property), as the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision decreed in 1858, it was legitimate to keep them in bondage.
But Abraham Lincoln was elected President by campaigning that the Dred Scott decision was wrong, and if elected President, he would do everything in his power to recognize the personhood of the Negro race. It took the bloodiest war in our history to finally settle the issue. But today, no one disputes anyone else’s personhood based upon their race.

However, we continue to do it to those whom we cannot see; the unborn.

The Bible clearly teaches that life begins at conception. The Psalmist David wrote of God’s view of the unborn. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be (Psalms 139:13-16).”

We are now only one conservative Supreme Court Justice away from overturning Roe vs. Wade. (By the way, if you’ve never read the Roe decision you should. You will find its logic incomprehensible and its conclusions irrational.) When the next court opening appears, the pro-abortion forces will unleash a virulent battle the likes of which we have not seen.