Become an Abolitionist and Let the Republican Pro-Life Movement Die
It’s time to stop regulating child sacrifice and abolish it for good.
The abortion abolitionists have been right all along. The moment that the Supreme Court, in an act of judicial activism, invented a Constitutional right to kill unborn humans, states should have followed the example of the Northern states after the Dred Scott decision and declared the immoral ruling as non-binding and enacted legislation that protected the right to life for all human beings as guaranteed under the 14th Amendment. This should have been done long before the culture descended into such moral depravity that not only do we now have a billion dollar industry that proudly profits off the genocide of millions of lives as well as the body parts that remain, we have a desensitized population that is largely fine with it. Choosing to obey a wicked ruling instead of God’s Word, the pro-life movement tried to do what was right in their own eyes by attempting to minimize and regulate abortion instead of abolishing it by establishing equal justice under the law. Donald Trump’s recent statement on abortion reveals the inconsistency and compromise that have characterized the pro-life movement within the Republican Party and their national organizations since its inception. Trump’s election year stance on abortion can be boiled down to three points:
Follow your heart and do what you think is right regarding the killing of innocent life - unless that will get in the way of Republicans winning elections. Correction: The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Follow God in all things, not your heart.
Let the states decide whether they want to allow the legalized murder of a vulnerable and innocent class of humans. Correction: Following the will of the people is a great campaign slogan, but it’s a dangerous game when solely relied upon to enact laws because sometimes the will of the people is murderous and evil. For a long time, the majority of the population supported slavery and viewed the abolitionists as extreme and misguided. We now find ourselves in a similar situation: the abolitionist viewpoint is politically radioactive because the majority of people - after decades of unjust laws infecting the cultural mindset - are clinging to a contrived right to oppress and kill a specific class of humans. The United States government was crafted as a constitutional republic, not a democracy, in order to carefully safeguard against this tyranny of the majority. If abortion is murder, and if we hold to the self evident truths affirmed in the Declaration of Independence, we cannot allow the intentional and unjustified killing of innocent lives to be decided by popular vote.
We must allow exceptions in the cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother. Correction: While this reflects a widespread pro-life stance, it is indefensible and ideologically inconsistent if one believes in the sanctity of every innocent life. First, lives conceived in rape and incest are no less human and no less deserving of equal protection under the law. Let’s become a country that gives the death penalty to rapists instead of the innocent life created. Secondly, abortion is never necessary to save the life of the mother. In the extremely rare circumstance that a choice must be made to end a pregnancy in order to save the mother’s life, the unborn baby can be treated with dignity and delivered whole. All efforts should extend to saving the life of the baby as much as it is medically possible. The treatment for an ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage is in a category of its own and is not an abortion.
Donald Trump is not the only high-profile Republican softening his stance on abortion. Inspired by Trump’s statement and equally eager to win an election, Senate Republican candidate Kari Lake publicly urged Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs and the Arizona legislature to revoke a recently implemented law that prohibits abortion providers from practicing their diabolical trade in nearly all cases of pregnancy. Even though the Arizona law is comparatively restrictive, women are still free to kill their unborn child through self-administered medication abortion, which now accounts for the vast majority of abortions in this country. However, widespread access to abortion pills is apparently not enough. Both Trump and Lake want Arizona to revert to a ‘more commonsense’ law that allows providers to kill babies up to 15 weeks. This is the kind of pro-life political compromise that has contributed to widespread moral confusion within our country and has led to more death, not less. The reason abortion remains legal in all 50 states is due primarily to pro-life Republican policy that is guided and supported by pro-life establishment organizations.
Pro-choice talk show host, Bill Mahr, recently made an apt observation regarding the incoherency within pro-life establishment rhetoric.
“People believe it’s murder. You know, that’s why I don’t understand the 15 week thing or the Trump plan is ‘let’s leave it to the states’. You mean so killing babies is okay in some states? I can respect the absolutist’s position. I really can. I scold the Left when they say ‘oh you know what they just hate women’. They don’t hate women. They just made that up. They think it’s murder, and it kind of is. I’m just OK with that. 8 billion people in the world….I’m sorry, we won’t miss you. That’s my position.”
Bill Maher’s commentary reflects the same godless worldview held by apathetic citizens, oppressors, and mass murderers alike throughout all of human history. All generations hold the same capacity for evil as those who went before them. So how do we combat a culture filled with unapologetic supporters of genocide? The same way that abolitionists, who were reviled and hated by the general population in their day, ended slavery: through the uncompromising obedience to the Word of God and adhering to the Constitution that it inspired.
Throughout the last 50 years, pro-lifers have demonstrated a sacrificial love for God and their neighbors by establishing free pregnancy resource centers, making up the majority of those who foster and adopt, creating ministries to help pregnant and post-abortive mothers, and educating the public on the sanctity of life. Where we have fallen short is establishing justice. While we must persist in our efforts to care for women and save babies, we cannot continue to pick up the fallen leaves of abortion while ignoring its rotten root. The foundation of our fight for life must be establishing God’s justice for the innocent so that the fruit of our efforts reflects the majority of the population being spared the devastating effects of abortion.
It’s common within modern culture for people to believe they would have been abolitionists had they lived during slavery. Little do most realize that they have an opportunity to prove it in this current generation. Consider Princeton professor, Robert P. George’s, challenge to his students each year.
“I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the south before abolition. Guess what? They all would have been abolitionists! They all would have bravely spoken out against slavery, and worked tirelessly against it. Of course, this is nonsense. Only the tiniest fraction of them, or any of us, would have spoken up against slavery or a lifted a finger to free the slaves. Most of them - and us – would have gone along. Many would have supported the slave system and happily benefited from it. So I respond by saying that I will credit their claims IF they can show evidence of the following: that in leading their lives today they have stood up for the rights of unpopular victims of injustice whose very humanity is denied, and where they have done so knowing: (1) that it would make them unpopular with their peers, (2) that they would be loathed and ridiculed by powerful, influential individuals and institutions in our society, (3) that they would be abandoned by many of their friends, (4) that they would be called nasty names, and (5) that they would risk being denied valuable professional opportunities as a result of their moral witness. In short, my challenge is to show where they have at risk to themselves and their futures stood up for a cause that is unpopular in elite sectors of our culture today.”
There may quite possibly be no stance that is less popular in our country today than that of abortion abolitionists. Many Republicans believe that fighting on behalf of the unborn has turned into a losing issue. However, the right to life is the fundamental right from which all other rights follow. How can we compromise on that? We will never recover the greatness of our country by prioritizing pragmatism over principle regarding the unalienable rights given to us by our Creator and guaranteed by our Constitution. If we refuse to extend equal justice under the law to the innocent unborn, then we are not a country worth saving. God is right to judge our nation for the bloodshed of millions of innocent lives and for our refusal to abolish child sacrifice. The only hope we have is to repent, pray, and submit our own ideas of mercy and justice to God’s authoritative Word.
Abolishing abortion may seem like a losing fight, and it’s tempting to give up and not even try. Democrats are confidently pushing for ballot initiatives to enshrine a legal right to an abortion within state constitutions. Pro-abortion networks are flooding all 50 states with abortion pill access. Popular opinion on abortion continues to drift leftward at an ever-increasing pace. Over 2500 babies die by abortion every day in this country with no end in sight. It doesn’t look good, and the prevailing wisdom from the pro-life establishment is to not push our luck. Compromise and prevaricate as usual, but even more so now because Republicans cannot afford to lose elections when our country is imploding. However, this is just the kind of seemingly impossible battle that God uses to reveal His glory when His children simply obey Him and trust Him with the results. Let Republican pro-life policies and rhetoric move to the ash heap of history, and may a whole new generation of abolitionists rise in its place.
Amber Vibeto, Executive Director
Excerpt from an 1831 essay written by abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison
“Assenting to the “self-evident truth” maintained in the American Declaration of Independence, “that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population. In Park-Street Church, on the Fourth of July, 1829, in an address on slavery, I unreflectingly assented to the popular but pernicious doctrine of gradual abolition. I seize this opportunity to make a full and unequivocal recantation, and thus publicly to ask pardon of my God, of my country, and of my brethren the poor slaves, for having uttered a sentiment so full of timidity, injustice, and absurdity.
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On the subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; Tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present! I am in earnest– I will not equivocate. I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.”
