This morning, on the 42nd Anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that made, according to those that put their faith in the men in black, abortion on demand legal nationwide, I attended a pro-life prayer breakfast. We prayed for the lives lost, for the women who have bought into the pro-abortion mentality, and for organizations like Birth Choice Temecula who are fighting the good fight to save the lives of innocent children.
A video was shown, from Pro-Ject Life, and though I have seen it before, and its story was influential to a chapter in my latest book, "Silenced Screams: Abortion in a Virtuous Society," I still found myself dropping tears.
The message by the pastor at the event was about how we have this thing about avoiding "bummers" in life. He told the story of Christ, and how even the disciples were trying to clear the path of bummers, but Christ embraced them, welcoming the leper and the Centurian, because Christ came to heal the sick, to save the lost. It is for us to not avoid the bummers in life, but to, as Christians, confront them, embrace them, and embrace those that we can influence with the message of God's Love.
The problem, when it comes to abortion, is somehow we have members of our society who believe the killing our own children is not only not evil, but that abortion is a right.
As I explained in my book:
The claim that abortion is a “woman’s right
to choose” seems to forget that there are two other people in the
equation. What about the rights of the
father as a parent? What about the
rights of the child whose death is being inflicted without he or she having any
choice in the matter?
Those that advocate legalized abortion
have used the Constitution to support their agenda, misconstruing the original
intent of the document, and the definitions of the language used by the
Founding Fathers.
In the Declaration of
Independence the founders explained that our rights are “self-evident,” and
that they are “endowed” by our “Creator.”
When listing a few examples of our rights, the document proclaims that
“among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The inspiration for the
definition of what is considered a right, and what is not considered a
right, comes from the concept of Natural Rights. In the first paragraph of the Declaration of
Independence, our rights are described as being “entitled” by the “Laws of
Nature and of Nature’s God.”
In the final sentence of the
Declaration of Independence, the signers again refer to the importance of God
in the establishment of the American experiment. The final sentence reads, “And for the
support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge
to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
Divine Providence is defined as,
“The care and superintendence which God exercises over His creatures.”
The Constitution does not grant
us our rights. Our rights are not
guaranteed by the Constitution, nor protected by the Bill of Rights. The task of standing against oppression, and
restraining government from compromising our God-given rights, belongs to us.
Understanding that our rights are
important to us in American society, largely due to the fact that a number of
those rights are enumerated in the Bill of Rights of the United States
Constitution, those that support issues like elective abortion have connived
that to ensure their agenda is achieved by mis-defining their goals as human
rights.
The right to abortion is considered
to be a part of the much larger umbrella of women’s rights. In recent arguments, the supporters of
legalized abortion call terminating the life of an unborn child a “reproductive
right.” Women who advocate legal
abortion proclaim, “I have a right to do with my own body what I
choose.” Everything associated with the
murderous practices of abortion mills has been labeled a right.
As explained in the Declaration
of Independence, and John Locke’s writings regarding Natural Law, our rights
are God-given. We have been endowed with
our rights by the Creator, and those rights are “self-evident.”
In a virtuous society, set moral
standards are an important part of the proper functioning of the culture. Right and wrong are “self-evident,” because
the citizens understand that their individual rights were established by
God. Therefore, not only is it tyrannical
for government to try to regulate, compromise, or take away those rights, but
that government has no part in defining what those rights are.
Since our rights are God-given,
that means that the definition of a right includes God. A right, then, is unalienable, possessed by
the individual by virtue of birth, and therefore, to be defined as a right, it must
be sanctioned by God. If God, in other
words, would not approve of the alleged right, then it is not a right.
Abortion is the termination of
the life of an unborn child while developing in the womb. Abortion is the taking of human life, for Scripture
recognizes that life begins at conception.
According to Psalms 139:13, God fashions us while we are in our mother’s
womb. Jeremiah was called to be a
prophet before he was born according to Jeremiah 1:5. The Apostle Paul was similarly called by God
while he was still an unborn child (Galatians 1:15). John The Baptist leaped in his mother’s womb
when the voice of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was heard (Luke 1:44). The equality of all babies in the womb is
explained in Job 31:15 where it is written, “Did not He Who made me in the womb
make them? Did not the same One fashion
us in the womb?”
Our time in the womb is nothing
more than a stage of our development as a person that continues through
adulthood. The personhood of babies is
not only established in biblical text, but so is the blessed opportunity to be
with child. The practice of abortion
must be unthinkable to people of God.
The idea of a mother killing her own child is an abomination, a
disgrace, and an evil. The Old Testament
is filled with passages of women yearning for children. Babies were considered a gift from God. Women prayed to not be barren.
God condemned Israelites that
offered their children as sacrifices to the heathen god Molech. In Leviticus 20:2, God condemned those that
offered their children to the fires of sacrifice to a god of sensuality and
convenience. When Israel was in
Egypt, the Pharaoh forced the Israelites to kill their newborn babies, a
mandate that was looked upon as the height of cruel oppression (Exodus
1:15-22).
Abortion is a terrible blot on
our society. The advocates of killing
babies while they remain in the womb do so for the purpose of sensuality and
convenience, as did the worshipers of Molech. The value of life has been cheapened. The life of a baby, once considered a
blessing and a precious gift from God, is now called a mistake, an
inconvenience that can be terminated at will by an industry driven by an
ungodly political agenda. Abortion is
driven by ill-gotten wealth, power, sexual perversion and sexual
predators. Abortions are carried out by
doctors willing to kill in a barbaric manner when the very definition of their
profession is about saving lives.
How can a righteous woman turn
against her own children to destroy them?
When a woman enters an abortion
clinic, two hearts are beating. After
the procedure, only her heart is beating, and the blood of the baby has been
spilled. God does not sanction the
practice of abortion, but instead views it as the height of pagan barbarity.
If God does not sanction an
activity, the proponents of that activity can call it a right all they want,
but that does not make it so. Natural
rights are God-given, therefore, abortion is not a right. Abortion is simply a selfish act of murder
against innocent lives that are guilty of nothing more than existing.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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