Over five decades after its legalization, abortion continues to be the most contentious issue in America. It pits two very legitimate human rights against one another: the right of a woman to control health decisions related to her own body and the right of a baby dwelling within that woman to continue living.
One of these rights has to yield to the other. Isn’t it obvious that theright to live without being killed trumps the right to control your healthcare decisions? Consequently, the agents of abortion must lie and deceive in order to confuse and ultimately persuade people to support the woman’s right to kill her very own baby.
Their method is one of the oldest forms of propaganda: simply change the language to distort the truth:
It’s no longer a baby being aborted; now, we call it a fetus. Some even refer to the baby as “a clump of cells.”
The baby doesn’t have a heartbeat; it has “fetal cardiac activity.”
Abortion itself is now called by a plethora of names: healthcare, women’s healthcare, termination of pregnancy, reproductive healthcare, maternal-fetal separation, abortion care, abortion healthcare, and who knows what else.
Politically, abortion is framed as “choice” and “reproductive freedom.”
Abortion was legalized in 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled the baby wasn’t a “person.”
Planned Parenthood, which does more abortions than any other organization in America, is not about parenthood; it’s about eliminating a parent’s child.
And the very word “abortion” sounds much more palatable than kill, but it doesn’t change the fact that a baby is being killed.
The world may be OK with this; no Christian ever should be. We are called to defend the weak, helpless, and afflicted. No one is more defenseless than an unborn child who relies on his mother’s protection. No right is more basic than the right to life. This is far more than a political issue; it is a moral issue and is, I believe, the most fundamental human rights violation in the world today.
Let’s hope the day will come when we look back on this period in history with the same shame and horror as we do slavery. If and when that day comes, I pray you will be able to say you stood for what is good, right, and true.
