Digital Stock I offer you the choice of life or death, blessing or curse. As we contemplate the 28 th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , we seem to have lost our way as a nation. There are over one million abortions each year, and have been since 1975. Oregon now allows people to ask their doctors to kill them if they are in pain. Other states are thinking about joining Oregon in allowing euthanasia.
Suicide rates are at an all-time high.
Everywhere people are choosing despair over hope, death over life. One obvious reason is that people have lost their faith in God. But our culture seems to be sickened as well. Our culture seems no longer capable of making what to earlier societies would have seemed easy the choice of life over death. Building a culture of life will require changing the hearts and minds of many Americans numbed by the decades-long erosion of the respect for life.