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As I sit in my comfortable delegate's seat (perhaps becoming a little less so after a week of sitting), millions in London and-as the news updates bounce around the world-countless more are reeling with the shock of another deadly terrorist attack. The story will continue to unfold over the next few hours and days, so any details I might give here would likely be out of date by the time this appears in print. But that these bombings are tragic was quickly realized as beyond question. And so it was appropriate that, as the morning's business session was called to order, a statement responding to the London bombings was read, and Pastor Cecil Perry, president of the British Union Conference, prayed for the injured, the families of the victims, his homeland, and our world ... Yet the pause at the beginning of yesterday's business highlighted the real unity among this diverse group: It's about people. Our unity of purpose is found in reaching out to hurting people, seeking to connect them with the love of God in practical and spiritual ways. As the statement read to delegates put it, "Seventh-day Adventists are people of peace and compassion."

Yes, we are a people of peace and compassion, but this compassion seems to be limited to those who were lucky to be allowed to be born. The lives of almost fifty innocent individuals were slaughtered in London, and we took time out of a busy General Conference Session to express our compassion for the families of those who died. The same week, three thousand innocent babies were slaughtered inside the abortion clinics in the U.S. alone, but we did not even notice this tragedy. Forty-five million of innocent lives were sacrificed in the U.S. since 1973. Did we ever as a church express our compassion for this ongoing genocide?

Does heaven show compassion for the unborn? Do these little ones deserve a show of compassion as well? Jesus stated the following: Inasmuch as you have done it to these little ones, you have done it unto me. If Jesus expressed compassion for the little ones, shoudn't we do likewise? I have raised this issue on several occasions in the past with our leaders, but I hear no positive response from them. I have sent Pro-Life donations to my local church and to the General Conference on several occasions, but my checks were returned with the following message: The church does not have such Pro-life programs.

Isn't time for us to join forces with those who are tiressly working to outlaw the merciless slaughter of the unborn? When tragedy strikes any place on planet earth, we respond as a church through our ADRA agency out of compassion for those who suffer. Nevertheless, the plight of the unborn gets no response from us who claim to have the last message of mercy to a perishing world.

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