Thursday, January 22, 2015

Roe v. Wade Anniversary Reflections

By Douglas V. Gibbs

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.


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