Hope of Israel Ministries (Ecclesia of YEHOVAH):

Our Post Roe v. Wade World

by Barbara Buzzard

While we are very grateful for the lives that will be saved as a result of overturning Roe v. Wade, we see how desperate the battle will be. It is imperative that we know how our national stance on abortion compares to other countries. We can (wrongly) imagine ourselves to be on the right side, moderate, and even humanitarian -- but that would be a delusion. The facts are that our position on abortion for 50 years has been so radical that the United States is one of only seven countries that allowed elective abortions after 20 weeks. About 75% of all nations do not permit abortions after 12 weeks.

The fact is that we are quite unlike any other country in the world (the most similar being North Korea!) in allowing abortion up to the moment of birth, without counsel and for any reason whatsoever. [1] The fact is that we are behind 75% of other countries in our "humanitarian" practice!

This contrast is even starker: when King Solomon delivered his brilliant decision on which of two contending mothers was the real mother, the genuine mother gave up her "rights" to her child in order to save that child's life. Today, you will hear quite the opposite frame of mind from the pro-abortionist side. Today, you will hear such sentiments as: If I am not having this child, then no one can. Today, even from the highest leadership in the land there is a celebration of abortion, i.e., a celebration of death. The fact is that we have lost the ability to discern good from evil. The fact is that the days are evil and that evil is displayed by our willingness to take life rather that reward it as sacred.

The fact is that the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade was egregiously flawed from the very beginning, a legal sham. Justices invented a right to abortion which is not in the Constitution. It is a fact that the whole edifice of abortion was built on lies. Roe v. Wade did not empower women; it lied to them. Children are not the enemy! Although the ruling has been overturned, the scourge remains.

This is Happening on Our Watch

The irony is that we have thought of ourselves as a "Christian nation" and yet many non-Christian countries have behaved much more humanely on this matter than we have.

We often speak about loving our neighbor. Why would that not include our soon-to-be-born neighbors, our smallest neighbors?

The fact is that there is really no such thing as pro-choice. The only options are pro-death or pro-life. We have nearly been drowned in so-called pro-choice rhetoric and we have been on a collision course with the Constitution -- and much more importantly, the Bible -- for years.

The fact is that abortion always ends a human life. And as Christians, the taking of another life is a right we don't have.

The vast majority of Bible translations use the word "murder" instead of "kill" in the Ten Commandments. The unborn are not only referred to in Scripture as children, as babies, but as infants. [2] (This, of course, makes abortion infant killing).

We all have our ways of ignoring information we choose not to act upon. But it is to our detriment that we ignore what God says. In Scripture the word for an unborn child, brephos (Luke 1:41) is the same word as for a born child, brephos (Luke 2:12).

The fact is that ultrasounds actually "complicated" the abortion agenda because all but the most radically blind can see the "aliveness" of the unborn child. (That is why the abortion industry does all they can to prevent the mother from seeing her unborn child on an ultrasound). And that is why crisis pregnancy clinics find such an extraordinary high rate of choosing to continue the life of the child after viewing an ultrasound.

It has been astutely said that a person's right to swing his arm ends just where the other's nose begins. We don't have the right to injure another person in the exercise of our freedoms. This is why murder is a crime in every state.

What Would Happen If...

What would happen if the morning news announced the total of the previous day's deaths from abortion? What if we were to awaken to the truth that abortion killed 2,300 unborn babies yesterday?

What would happen if this fact were taken in and acted upon: Abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide in 2021, killing 42.6 million people.

Dr. Martin Luther King's advice has fallen for the most part on deaf ears: "Don't sacrifice children for personal comfort." He stridently denounced abortion as genocide. He believed in the human rights of all people, including the unborn.

As his niece Alveda King sums it up: "If MLK's dream is to live -- our babies must live."

We all have ways of ignoring information we choose not to act upon. But it is to our detriment that we ignore what God says.

The 890,000 babies killed last year in our country are a scourge upon our nation. Because every life matters. Because all life is sacred to God. We have failed to live up to another of MLK's pronouncements:

"A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true."

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist, said, "The abortion holocaust is beyond the ordinary discourse of morality and rational condemnation. It is not enough to pronounce it absolutely evil...The abortion industry is a new event, severed from connections with traditional presuppositions of history, psychology, politics, and morality...This is an unimaginable and limitless extremity."

May we all seek to view this as God sees it.

I came across another most challenging quotation: "Everyone, on some scale of life, is compelled to be an intellectual force. They must think. They must act. They must value. Avoidance of such is the very nature of depravity and the root of society's ills." [3]

What if this is right?!

Footnotes:

[1] "The U.S. finds itself in the company of China and North Korea as some of the only countries that permit elective abortions after 20 weeks' gestation." Supreme Court brief No. 19-1392.

[2] Job 3:16 (NASV); unborn babes (Jerusalem Bible)

[3] Patrick Gentempo, health writer.