Many Christians say that we shouldn’t work to change the laws but, rather, we should work to change the hearts of people and good laws will be a natural consequence. The problem with this statement is that the law acts as a schoolmaster to teach people what is right and wrong. This is why we must work to change people’s hearts (evangelism, discipleship, etc.) and we must also work to change the laws (public policy). Laws enacted by men guide the overall feelings and convictions of the general population, for better or worse. After the Roe v. Wade decision, many people who were opposed to abortion began to support it. The law was their schoolmaster; it influenced their decisions on the appropriateness of abortion.
Since it’s legal for women to kill their children minutes before they’re due to be born (in many states), why should women value the life of their child minutes after they’re born? The AP today reported about a woman who threw her child out of her car, abandoning him to a possible death, shortly after his birth. Stories like this one really horrify me, but unfortunately they don’t surprise me. Trends in the law have “taught” this woman a few things about how little society values human life.
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Update on "Baby throwing mom":
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050211/D886HU480.html
"The woman who claimed to have witnessed a newborn being thrown from a moving car was the baby's mother and concocted the story as a way to abandon the child and conceal her pregnancy from her family"
Oh my gosh! Thanks for the update; that's incredible!! Truth is often so much more bizarre than fiction!
Wow.
-Amy
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