A Battle Worth Fighting

 

For more than 25 years, I have been fighting for the lives of the unborn in any way that I can. It seems inconceivable to me that some people do not value the lives of the unborn. I realize this is a battle in which powerful forces are involved, including government, media, academia, corporations, and men and women who seek their convenience. On the other side are people who see abortion as simply a matter of choice. Their question is, “What right does anyone have to tell me what to  do with my life?” Our question is, “What right do we have to take an innocent life?”

Over these past 25 years, I have heard arguments such as it is not really a life but just a clump of cells, but that has been debunked since we know the little hearts start beating at one month.

Another argument is that this life would be better off ending now than facing the world that awaits it. That is debunked with the truth that there are people ready and willing to adopt babies given the chance. Language is critical to the abortion industry. In fact, the word abortion is never mentioned. Instead, women’s reproductive health care is substituted. Murder or killing of the fetus or baby is not said but rather a termination of the pregnancy.

There are many more reasons given to support abortion, but what changes everything is to consider that this is a moral issue. If there is a creator, God, who created all of us and is still creating through the process of the birth of a child, then we recognize this act of creation as sacred and not to be interfered with.

Even if we concede, and I do that when the life of the mother is at risk, then the mother’s life must be given priority. The morality of life is what answers the question of those who believe that life is sacred and no one has the right to take the life of another innocent person.

A Contradictory Christianity

Contradictions abound in life. Take, for instance, the term “friendly fire” to describe fire coming from one’s army to its own soldiers. However, to the soldiers receiving that fire, there was nothing friendly about it. What about the term “random order”? Was it random, or was there an order? Have you ever heard of a “real imitation” used to describe a quality copy? How about “intense apathy”? Well, nothing could be more confusing. There is a contradiction that is even more confusing. The Christian accepts the abortion of a baby (fetus) as appropriate.

There is something abhorrently wrong with that kind of Christianity that would condemn a human life to death for the convenience of the mother or father. We will remove the 1% aborted due to rape or incest, so we are only discussing the 99%. How could a Christian who believes God created all life, including the unborn, be willing to consent to their destruction?

Either their Christianity is so weak and uninformed that they do not know what the scriptures have to say on the issue of life, or they are so possessed by cultural mandates that they join the crowd who willingly murder babies.

Suppose you loved God and have experienced a genuine conversion to Christianity. In that case, I do not see how it is possible to support the abortion of human life. Culture tells us what to believe and how to live. We have arrived at a place in our culture where if you believe in abortion, you are more intelligent. Incidentally, it is never called abortion—that name is obsolete. It now goes by the name of reproductive rights. Nonetheless, whatever name they give it—it is still the murder of innocent babies. No faithful Christian should ever support that sin against humanity.

 

 

The Greatest Racist

 

Today in our society, the worst thing you can call anyone is “racist.” It denotes that a person is prejudiced against people of other races, shows or feels discrimination, and believes that a particular race is superior to another. To combat racism, we have seen a proliferation of diversity classes in educational curricula and job training. We are taught today about micro-aggressions or the little ways we show racism toward a different race. No doubt micro-aggressions exist; however, the most reprehensible form of racism on the planet is abortion. This is racism that murders little defenseless babies before they ever see the light of day. It is racism that says these lives don’t matter.

The US Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case of 1857 in St. Louis was dead wrong. That case stated that slaves were property without the rights of free persons. When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as our 16th president, he was determined to see the dreaded institution of slavery ended. He and many other Americans knew that the Supreme Court was wrong. It took a civil war and 600,000 soldiers, dying along with the president to free the slaves. Though in practice, they were not free until the 13th amendment abolished slavery. Even then, prejudice and hatred would endure for nearly 100 years in many places, prohibiting freedom.

Last year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade of 1973, which denied the unborn the rights of free persons. Since that day, 12 states like California, Illinois, New York have enshrined in their state constitutions the right to abortion. Despite these states’ actions, Missouri was the first of 20 states to ban abortion. Little by little, people are beginning to see that abortion is a horrible crime against humanity. Thanks to technological advances, no one dares argue that life begins at conception. Thanks to crisis pregnancy centers, young women can now see their babies before their eyes and decide to keep them. People are even starting to see abortion as the form of racism that it truly is. Let us pray that this racism against the unborn will end. Let us pray that these babies will one day be totally protected by the law in all 50 states. Let us pray that these babies will be seen as human beings worthy of the dignity of life they deserve.

 

Definition of Personhood

 

January 23 was the 48^th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Since that day in 1973, when nine men in black robes forced abortion upon the nation; a staggering 62 million preborn babies have been killed. The struggle for the unborn is worth fighting, and now that Biden is the president, that battle just got tougher.

 

On many fronts, the battle for life is advancing. Technology has vividly revealed that abortion does not remove a blob of cells but a living person. The improved ultrasound allows women to see their babies. When they look at those living images on that screen, this is what they see: At four weeks, the baby’s heart is beating. By week eight, the baby begins moving and is about the size of a thumb; every organ is now present. When the baby is three months old, he is about 3 inches long and can swallow and respond to skin stimulation. At four months, nostrils and toenails become visible. The baby may suck her thumb, turn somersaults, and has a firm grip. She is now able to experience pain. Around six months, the baby can hear. The child sleeps and wakes, sleeping in his favorite positions, and stretches upon waking up. At eight months, her skin becomes pink and smooth. The pupils of her eyes respond to light. Fingernails reach to the tip of the finger. By now, she is getting cramped.

How shocking that with all this new insight gained from technology, the pro-choice movement doubles down and still fights to end the baby’s life even up to birth. The mother’s choice is what matters, they say, but what about the choice of the child. What about the rights of the baby? Do they not matter? Almost everyone now admits this is a living creature but is it really a person, they ask? What constitutes personhood? Shouldn’t the baby be wanted? Some consider the baby to be a leech unless there is a mother who welcomes the child. What a subjective measure for life? All of us who are alive should be glad that our mothers wanted us.

The definition of personhood should not hinge on whether we offer value or not. This utilitarian view can be arbitrarily assigned to anyone at any age. A biblical description of personhood is that all life belongs to God. The Psalmist David eloquently wrote about the wonder of a baby in the womb:

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! (Psalms 139:13-18)

 

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