Camera phones.

Text messaging.

Oh, and you can call people, too.

And who doesn't love the personalized ring tones? With some models, you can tell by the ring tone who is on the other line. As Yakov Smirnoff would say, "What a country."

I don't know what song I would select for my ring tone if I had a cell phone, but I know that it wouldn't be Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies." (For the uninitiated, the chorus goes, "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies. Tell me, tell me lies." )

I've heard enough lies in my lifetime. Everyone has an agenda. Everyone has a plan.

And the lies run deep. They are woven into the very fabric of our lives and it's hard to tell truth from falsehood.

Another possible lie has been exposed on the face of a supposed victory -- the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding partial birth abortion, technically known as intact D&E is a case in point.

It seems it mightn't be the victory those who love God and life initially thought it was, at least according to Pastor Bob Enyart, a pastor at Denver Bible Church, writing for Colorado Right to Life.

We have been misled, he writes, "into thinking this ban would prevent at least some abortions. In reality, pro-lifers volunteered, they made phone calls, and gave money, all to promote a ban that utterly lacked the authority to save even a single baby."

True, the gruesome procedure commonly re-ferred to as partial birth abortion has been banned. And thankfully so. It was a particularly horrifying procedure described by Dr. Martin Haskell in 1992: "At this point, the right-handed surgeon slides the fingers of the left (hand) along the back of the fetus and 'hooks' the shoulders of the fetus with the index and ring fingers (palm down). While maintaining this tension, lifting the cervix and applying traction to the shoulders with the fingers of the left hand, the surgeon takes a pair of bluntcurved Metzenbaum scissors in the right hand. He carefully advances the tip, curved down, along the spine and under his middle finger until he feels it contact the base of the skull under the tip of his middle finger.

The surgeon then forces the scissors into the base of the skull or into the foramen magnum. Having safely entered the skull, he spreads the scissors to enlarge the opening. The surgeon removes the scissors and introduces a suction catheter into this hole and evacuates the skull contents. With the catheter still in place, he applies traction to the fetus, removing it completely from the patient."

This procedure is now illegal.

However, the justices admit, on page 26, Section IV, that "The question is whether the Act (meaning the intact D&E procedure described above) imposes a substantial obstacle to late-term...abortions. The Act does not on its face impose a substantial obstacle..."

Further in the document, [Page 30 IV (A)] the justices write, "The medical profession, furthermore, may find different and less shocking methods to abort the fetus in the second trimester, thereby accommodating legislative demand."

One of those "less shocking methods" can, by law, include, from page 4 I (A) "Some [doctors] may keep dilators in the cervix for two days, while others use dilators for a day or less... The doctor grips a fetal part with the forceps and pulls it back through the cervix and vagina, continuing to pull even after meeting resistance from the cervix. The friction causes the fetus to tear apart. For example, a leg might be ripped off the fetus as it is pulled through the cervix and out of the woman. The process of evacuating the fetus piece by piece continues until it has been completely removed."

Or from p. 5 I (A)"Some doctors, especially later in the second trimester, may kill the fetus a day or two before performing the surgical evacuation. They inject digoxin or potassium chloride into the fetus, the umbilical cord, or the amniotic fluid. Fetal demise may cause contractions and make greater dilation possible. Once dead, moreover, the fetus' body will soften, and its removal will be easier. Other doctors refrain from injecting chemical agents, believing it adds risk with little or no medical benefit."

As thankful as I am to have the terrible sin of the torturous murder known as intact D&E banned, I fear it is but a bone tossed to a particularly persistent dog, something to shut up the lovers of God and lovers of life, at least for awhile.

There can be no true victory apart from a complete reversal of Roe v. Wade. Until we are able to convince women that they are carrying life, created in the image of God, and that it is worth any sacrifice, be it physical, financial, emotional, or otherwise, then we, as a nation, will remain a nation of murderers. Anything less is just another lie, a (not so) sweet little lie.

"You shall not murder." Deuteronomy 5:17 (NIV)

Things you won't see in heaven: desperate hearts