<p>by <em>John Piper</em></p>
<p>One biblical principle of justice is that the more knowledge we have that our action is wrong, the more guilty we are, and the more deserving of punishment (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Luke%2012.47%E2%80%9348" target="_blank" data-reference="Luke 12.47–48" data-version="esv">Luke 12:47–48</a>). The point of this blog post is that we know what we are doing — all America knows. We are killing children. Pro-choice and Pro-life people both know this.</p>
<p>But before I show that, let’s clarify what the Supreme Court did forty years ago today. In <em>Roe v. Wade</em> the Supreme Court in effect made abortion on demand untouchable by law. The way this was done was with two steps. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2225" title="Permanent Link: We Know They Are Killing Children—All of Us Know" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(1205 words, estimated 4:49  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>We Know They Are Killing Children—All of Us Know</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2225" title="Permanent Link: We Know They Are Killing Children—All of Us Know" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (1205 words, estimated 4:49  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":2225,"date":"2013-08-08T18:52:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T22:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2013-08-15T20:32:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T00:32:21","slug":"we-know-they-are-killing-children-all-of-us-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2225","title":{"rendered":"We Know They Are Killing Children\u2014All of Us Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<em>John Piper<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One biblical principle of justice is that the more knowledge we have that our action is wrong, the more guilty we are, and the more deserving of punishment (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/esv\/Luke%2012.47%E2%80%9348\" target=\"_blank\" data-reference=\"Luke 12.47\u201348\" data-version=\"esv\">Luke 12:47\u201348<\/a>). The point of this blog post is that we know what we are doing \u2014 all America knows. We are killing children. Pro-choice and Pro-life people both know this.<\/p>\n<p>But before I show that, let\u2019s clarify what the Supreme Court did forty years ago today. In\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0the Supreme Court in effect made abortion on demand untouchable by law. The way this was done was with two steps. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2225\" title=\"Permanent Link: We Know They Are Killing Children\u2014All of Us Know\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(1205 words, estimated 4:49  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>We Know They Are Killing Children\u2014All of Us Know<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2225\" title=\"Permanent Link: We Know They Are Killing Children\u2014All of Us Know\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (1205 words, estimated 4:49  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We Know They Are Killing Children\u2014All of Us Know - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2225\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We Know They Are Killing Children\u2014All of Us Know - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by\u00a0John Piper One biblical principle of justice is that the more knowledge we have that our action is wrong, the more guilty we are, and the more deserving of punishment (Luke 12:47\u201348). 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