by Emmett Smith

If today was an average day, more that 3,000 unborn children were aborted in the United States. Such entities as Planned Parenthood and their powerful lobby insist that this so-called constitutional right of infanticide must continue. There is much consternation as we approach a new congressional cycle that the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade could be overturned. In California, a legislator has introduced a bill (SB 1301) whose intent is to protect Californians from these anticipated "anti-choice" victories. Have you ever wondered why these folks are so insistent about what they call "choice"?

Of course it's not possible to fully develop such a complex issue in a brief article, but certainly one major component is population control. Thomas Malthus is generally regarded as the originator of the idea that population growth (exponential) would outstrip food production (linear). He predicted (in 1798) that the result of unchecked population growth would be catastrophic. Of course he was wrong. Food production more than kept up with population growth, and still does. Famine and starvation have lessened in magnitude even as population has skyrocketed. But these facts didn't deter Paul Erlich, who published his scholarly work titled "The Population Bomb" in 1968.

He predicted mass famine unprecedented in human history by the latter part of the last millennium. He insisted that at least 10 million people would starve to death during each year of the 1970s. When these predictions proved wrong, he simply extended the timetable into the future. Unfortunately, many accept these dire predictions, and consequently embrace the "necessary" solutions of population control. But what (or who) is missing from these calculations? God is.

I'm reminded of Paul's statement in Romans 1:22, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools". Paul contended that these people were "without excuse" because the evidence of God's existence was all around them. And Peter warned of the scoffers who would be willfully ignorant of God's existence and thus deny the Second Coming of Christ. Ironically, Malthus was supposedly a man of God. And unfortunately, many today who profess Christianity still accept the so-called "wisdom of the world".

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, Drops his blue-fring’d lids, and holds them close, And hooting at the glorious sun in heaven Cries out, “Where is it?”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.