A graveyard that would stretch around the world

On Aug. 9, 2005 Caylee Marie Anthony was born to Casey Anthony of Orlando, Fla. Caylee’s birth certificate never listed a father. A paternity test showed that it wasn’t Jesse, Casey’s boyfriend, but Jesse didn’t seem to mind that the beautiful little girl was not his biological child. Jesse was as smitten with the baby girl as he had been with her mother. Jesse proposed and Casey said, “Yes.”

However, five months later, Casey, who was still living with her parents, broke off the engagement. She told Jesse she was happier on her own. And she did, indeed, seem happy. She took to motherhood with apparent joy.

All seemed to go well with mother and daughter until June 16 last year. George Anthony, Casey’s father, saw his daughter and granddaughter on that Monday morning before he left for work. That was the last time George saw his granddaughter. The Anthony family claimed that Caylee had been kidnapped.

Caylee’s disappearance was reported and the two-year-old was listed as a “missing person.” Her mysterious disappearance became the leading topic on both local and national news programs for months. Nancy Grace of CNN, Greta Van Susteren of FOX News, and many other newscasters frequently asked, “Could the missing toddler be alive?” The nation waited with bated breath for some encouraging word, some uplifting report, some positive statement to bolster their hopes that Caylee was still alive.

Churches prayed for Caylee’s safe return home. For example, Eastside Baptist Church in Conway, Fla., held a special prayer service on Oct. 6. The 35-minute service ended with singing and lighting of candles, which supporters waved in the air.

Then much to the dismay of the nation on Dec. 11 of last year an Orange County utility worker found what appeared to be what dozens of investigators and search crews had been looking for during the preceding five months – the bones of the missing toddler.

Then on Dec. 19 Dr. Jan?Garavaglia announced “with regret” that the skeletal remains found near the Anthony home were those of the missing child who had become the object of the nation’s affection.

The nation mourned and it was altogether right to do so.

Unfortunately, you will not see major news media outlets give the same attention to the millions of babies that disappear, but are never reported missing – the aborted babies of America.

Bill Harrell, pastor of Abilene Baptist Church in Augusta, has done some interesting calculating concerning the estimated 45 million babies that have been aborted since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision of 1973.

Harrell asks, “What is the magnitude of the burials of the babies aborted since Roe v. Wade? How large a cemetery would it take to bury all these babies?”

The Abilene pastor concludes that the standard grave is three feet wide. He has determined that 45,000,000 graves multiplied by 3 feet equals 135,000,000 feet of graves if they were placed side by side.

Harrell then divided 135,000,000 feet by 5,280 feet (one mile) and got 25,568 miles of graves. The circumference of the earth is 24,901 miles. Therefore, the graves of all the aborted babies in America since 1973 would extend all the way around the world at the equator plus an additional 667 miles.

To look at it another way consider that a standard grave is 3 feet times 8 feet or 24 square feet. If you multiply 24 square feet and 45,000,000 (number of graves of aborted babies) you get 1,080,000,000 square feet. If you divide 1,080,000,000 square feet by 27,878,400 (the number of square feet in a mile) you get 38.74 square miles of cemetery – the amount of land needed to bury all the babies aborted since 1973. Interestingly, Arlington National Cemetery is only 627 acres or .94 of one square mile.

Ann Coulter says, “Pro-choicers treat abortion the way Muslims treat Mohammed: It’s so sacred, it must not be mentioned. Instead, we get a slew of liberal euphemisms for baby-killing: ‘reproductive freedom,’ ‘a woman’s right to control her own body,’ ‘terminating a pregnancy,’ ‘freedom of choice,’ ‘a woman’s own private medical decision,’ ‘a procedure,’ ‘access to health care,’ ‘family planning.’”

Call abortion “freedom of choice” if you wish, but it is still the slaughter of innocents. You can put an “Essence of Peppermint” label on a bottle of arsenic, but it doesn’t alter the fact that the bottle contains poison.

The Bible never tones down the fact of sin. Sin is never softened with explanations of extenuating circumstances. The Word of God does not call sin a mistake in judgment, the absence of light, nor a blunder. It simply calls it sin.

In fact, Proverbs 6:16-19 lists seven things God hates, one of which is “hands that?shed innocent blood.” There are those who contend that these words refer to those who abort babies. All I know is that if it’s all the same to you, I am seeking God’s mercy, not his wrath.

However, if you have had an abortion or encouraged an abortion or know someone who is struggling with the guilt of having had an abortion you may want to check out the following website: http://www.carm.org/abortion/abortion_christian.htm.