"How long, O Lord?"

I received the following memo from a source within the pro-life movement in South Carolina:

"Last Wednesday I forwarded an e-mail that urgently sought your prayers for the life of an unborn child who was scheduled to be aborted at 23 weeks gestation at Spartanburg Regional Hospital because the child had been diagnosed with disabilities.

"Loving, caring responses and prayers poured in. The response from the Body of Christ was overwhelming. Three families in three states offered to adopt the baby, and a nurse in Virginia offered to foster parent the baby.

"The mother, however, rejected all offers of help. Labor was induced with drugs on Wednesday, and the baby, a little boy, was stillborn on Friday. His heart was still beating an hour before delivery, but he was not strong enough to survive birth..."

"His heart was still beating..." Anyone would conclude that the unborn child was human. And yet...

How long, O Lord?