Abortion: Die On That Hill Or Babies Will

Goodness gracious, I don’t even know where to start right now. I literally don’t know where to begin. If rant-blogging is a thing, this might be it. But I’m going to try to keep it short and sweet (well, the sweet part might be debatable).

Let me be clear here. My main aim in writing this is not to convince pro-choicers who don’t claim Christ that they ought to be pro-lifers. I would approach this much differently if that were the case.

No, my main aim is to speak to the “woke” or liberal leaning part of the church who seem to have it in their minds that abortion (the brutel, painful, murder of small babies), is simply a “one issue” political view. I’m speaking to those who say that some us have become way too obsessed with ending abortion and need to realize that it shouldn’t be a deciding factor for how people act or vote politically. Because it’s never actually going to be outlawed anyway and because women will still get abortions even if it is. (Although that argument basically says we ought to throw every law out altogether since people will break them anyway.) I’m speaking to those who believe that abortion is like, super sad and all, but their are simply larger fish to fry.

The group Pro-Life Evangelicals For Biden says: “As pro-life evangelicals, we disagree with vice-president Biden and the Democratic platform on the issue of abortion. But we believe a Biblically shaped commitment to the sanctity of human life compels us to a consistent ethic of life that affirms the sanctity of human life from beginning to end.”

I’m speaking to those who see abortion as simply an “issue” rather than a tragedy. If there were an army of serial killers on the loose, killing and mutilating thousands of people a day from coast to coast… would we refer to this as simply an “issue”? (That’s not a stretch, it’s actually a fair comparison.) How can someone cry out for the immigrant, the poor, the marginalized, and the oppressed, (as we should: Leviticus 19:34, Proverbs 31:20, Psalm 82:3-4), yet somehow feel as though it’s acceptable to ignore the slaughter of the weakest, the most vulnerable among us in the process. As if God is truly pleased as the cries against racism, sexism, and oppression are drowning out the silent cries of innocent children who are being torn limb from limb, burned alive, and ripped from the place they should have been the safest: Their mother’s womb.

An article from The Christian Post states: “not just abortion but poverty, lack of health coverage, racism and climate change are also pro-life issues.”

But you see, my sister-in-law brought up a very valid answer to this statment: if you miss the first one on this list, you won’t have the chance to get the rest right.

I’m speaking to those who believe this liberal agenda. The agenda that says they are the ones that truly care for people. After all… they despise racism to the point of supporting business burning “peaceful protests” as the route to fix the issue (forget those who are left bankrupt and impoverished as a result). They support holding no immigrant accountable to our laws (because that is oppression of the deepest degree), they run on giving the poor everything for free (because that will certainly motivate them to work harder and move up in the world when making over a certain amount will take away your free stuff), and they run on empowering women (except those who don’t fit into their agenda… or the ones still in the wombs of their mothers…). I can see why one might lean in their direction as the liberals have SUCH a focus on those who are weak, vulnerable, or oppressed. Well, most of them anyway.

Let’s just entirely skip over all the babies of every color and culture who are being murdered in their mother’s womb while we want to sit back and stand for everyone but them. Millions of babies die in our country every year. Millions. While we sit and try to convince ourselves that it isn’t as horrible as it really is. While we argue that it’s only one of many problems in our country, so pushing it to the back burner for a bit really isn’t that big of a deal. While we remind ourselves of those couple of heart wrenching stories we heard where both mom and baby were in danger as if that should somehow squelch the burning in our hearts over the thousands of healthy women aborting thousands of healthy babies every. single. day.

Mark Dever said: “I think white christians think [one-issue voting] is the only moral way to approach voting…”

But shouldn’t these facts above cause us to question the legitimacy of the other peoples that the liberal agenda claims to speak for? Seriously, why would they care about people at all if they don’t care about them from the start? Black lives matter, except in the womb. Immigrant lives matter, except in the womb. Women matter, except in the womb.

This is wrong. How loudly can I say: This. Is. Wrong.

What believer doesn’t know:

“For you formed my inward parts;
    you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.” (Psalm 139:13-14)

And now we sit and have the audacity to say: “God, what you formed, what you knit together so wonderfully… we will see torn to pieces and we will turn a blind eye, we will ignore it, we will refuse to think about it, we will make it out to be less than what it is because there are matters that need our attention more.”

Can I mention as a side note that even convicted criminals tend to take more issue with a convict who’s crime is against children? How hardened do our hearts have to be if we have less compassion than this.

God help us. How dare anyone think of themselves as a champion for the oppressed while hardening their hearts to one of the greatest examples of oppression ever known to mankind? We ought to repent. We ought to see this holocaust, this tragedy, for what it is. A dear friend said recently:

“I think this is where it’s clear that Americans do have so much to repent for. Whether we like it or not, we have as a majority accepted that abortion is not quiiiiiiite straight up murder.”

We have elections coming quickly, and maybe you’ve already voted. But my heart aches as I see Christians willing to vote for a man (well woman, because, let’s be honest, the vote goes to Harris), who is willing to see a baby murdered right up to the moment they are more than halfway out of their mother’s body.

[I’m speaking of Partial-Birth Abortion, defined by the National Right to Life as “a procedure in which the abortionist pulls a living baby feet-first out of the womb and into the birth canal (vagina), except for the head, which the abortionist purposely keeps lodged just inside the cervix (the opening to the womb). The abortionist punctures the base of the baby’s skull with a surgical instrument, such as a long surgical scissors or a pointed hollow metal tube called a trochar. He then inserts a catheter (tube) into the wound, and removes the baby’s brain with a powerful suction machine. This causes the skull to collapse, after which the abortionist completes the delivery of the now-dead baby.” I won’t go into all the other types of abortion but a little research would turn your stomach and hopefully your heart just as much.]

I know of professed followers of Christ who are willing to vote for someone who may very well strive to make this horrendous act legal across the nation…and voting for said person is supposed to be somehow vindicated because Donald Trump is rude (and he certainly has his moments, I won’t argue that). But if I have to choose between a man who has taken an unusually strong stand for the unborn but has no filter on his mouth or twitter account, or someone who may wax eloquent but is totally fine with killing babies… I’ll go with the former. Now, am I saying you have to vote for Trump? No. But I am begging you to check your heart if you are in Christ and are willing to vote for someone who will legalize to the fullest the most heinous and heart wrenching act of the excruciating murder of the tiniest, weakest, and neediest among us. Don’t want to vote for Trump? Fine. The only thing I can ask is this… please don’t vote in support of the murder of our children.

How can we trust someone to overcome oppression of other natures if they, so easily and without conviction or shame, oppress the weakest among us?

The topic of Abortion (which is more gentle of a term than ought to be allowed) has so long been debated that perhaps we’ve become numb. I know I have. Honestly, writing and researching for this has rekindled a hatred in my heart for the taking of a life that God has given.

See it as a “one issue” political stance all you like. See and address the many other issues that deserve our attention. But never, ever ask another to set this one aside and please don’t set it aside yourself.

Stop asking if we must always die on this hill, because the answer will always be a resounding yes.

Yes, we must die on this hill in the battle to save the most defenseless among us… because if we don’t die on this hill, they will.