Everyone has those moments where they can tell you where they were when something big happened in the world. For my parents generation it was the assassination of JFK for me it was 9/11. Yesterday another moment was added to the memory bank-the overturning of Roe V Wade.
For years on January 22nd I’ve written on the creation of a law that allows children to be murdered in the name of convenience. You cannot sugarcoat abortion as anything else. I’ve heard plenty of what about cases of incest or rape or this or that. Such lines are flimsy at best and created only to make it seem more palatable to what we know is true-it’s murder at its core. The overwhelming majority of abortions are performed not for the sake of a woman’s health but so we don’t have to deal with the consequences of our actions or because the child has a prediagnosed medical conditiona like Down Syndrome. Humans have a particular knack for blaming others for our own problems,ignoring the fact we did wrong, and refusing to acknowledge that our actions do in fact have repercussions. It’s been that way since creation.
There are plenty of people who will read this and come to one of two conclusions or perhaps both at the same time. I am a man and should have no say over what a woman does or doesn’t do or my faith should not decide the “rights” of others. My rebuttal to those are fairly simple. Men are required for the creation of children that are killed. This makes it harder for them to run away from their responsibilities. So believe or it not this actually has bearing on the men of the world. Secondly, I would say I’m tired of hearing don’t shove your faith down my throat but it would fall on deaf ears. My faith doesn’t encroach on your “rights” nearly as much as you’d believe. In fact we live in a world where my beliefs are becoming the minority and sharing them makes me a bigot or narrow minded or what have you. You need only to look at the rapid shaping of laws on gender to see that my beliefs aren’t interfering with you nearly as much as you want to think.
If you had told me that I would be alive when this day came I wouldn’t have believed you. At best I would have thought perhaps in a generation or two it would happen but not during my lifetime. When the news was leaked that this was a possibility I was cautiously optimistic that it would be so but that is where it ended. This is a day to rejoice as life was seen as valuable in the womb. This is a big deal.
When it is all boiled down it is a question of what do you believe constitutes as a human. If inches separate what it means to be alive and having the right to live we should not be able to charge people with the murder of an unborn child when a pregnant women is killed. After all if abortion isn’t murder than that wasn’t a human it was a lump of tissue. We can’t murder that, so it is hardly fair to charge someone with the murder of something that isn’t considered alive. When we can sterilize things and say a baby in the womb is tissue and not a human we can convince ourselves of things that ordinarily we would find heinous and unthinkable.
In Denmark the Danish Cytogenetic Register reports that 98% of babies diagnosed with having Down Syndrome in the womb are aborted. In Britain that number is 90% according the National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register. Now, flip that, the moment those children emerge from the birth canal if they were killed by a hapless mistake made by a doctor or nurse it would be murder and those responsible would be prosecuted. Like I said, we can convince ourselves that it isn’t heinous to kill them if they aren’t outside the womb. Did you know abortion is called the American Holocaust? It’s estimated that 60-90% of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome in America are aborted. We like to pride ourselves and say we are better than Hitler but that stat says otherwise. That might be a harsh statement but the truth hurts.
So yes, yesterday was absolutely a big deal. Yes it was absolutely a great day. Yes I’m going to celebrate and be excited at the fact that unconstitutional laws were done away with. Yesterday means a step in the direction of life.
For those whom are now saying well if Christians are going to keep people from having abortions (we aren’t, yesterday didn’t ban it) they better step up and care for the kids, we already do. We have for years. It just isn’t the kind of thing you see on the news because it doesn’t fit the bigot narrative when we create crisis pregnancy centers or foster and adoption care ministries. Now we just have the chance to do it more.
Today was a day I won’t forget. Today life won.
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