Tell me again how pro-aborts don’t actually understand that the life in the womb is human. Maybe the problem isn’t merely a lack of knowledge. Perhaps the heart of this question is a lack of love and faith.
An anti-abortion billboard was taken down in NE Portland this morning after it was vandalized with the message: “Kill them kids.”
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I think many pro-aborts understand that they’re killing a small human being. They just don’t care. I know that is a terrible thought but it’s likely true.
What we’re faced with is a spiritual problem. A faith problem.
When slavery was rampant in England, people found scriptures in the Bible to convince themselves that what they were doing was permitted. But William Wilberforce and the abolitionists were clearly fighting a Christian cause in abolishing slavery. That is how they convinced people. In the end, enough were convinced precisely because of the explicit appeal to their shared faith. It was through their faith that they became convinced that slavery was evil.
We don’t have that luxury. We can not point to Scripture because our society has largely rejected Scripture and Church teaching. We are no longer reading from the same book as a culture. Our fundamentals, our givens and precepts are all different. We don’t speak the same language.
How do you appeal to someone who very well knows that abortion is killing a child but doesn’t care because of women’s rights or bodily autonomy?
We can not convince them across this breach. Words like “life,” “Human,” “woman,” and “marriage” mean different things to us. How can we debate or communicate when our language is confused?
Conversion is the answer. The problem to all of these is conversion. Abortion in this country is certainly a political problem but at its base it is a faith problem. I am appreciative of the work of atheist pro-lifers but they are largely an anomaly.
Unless you believe that all life is sacred, it all becomes subjective. But from where does that certainty arrive, other than Church teaching and Scripture?
Psalm 139:13,15: For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb. . . . [M]y frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.
Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
We are living in a post-Christian era. That is the heart of so many of our country’s issues. Pray for our country. Live our faith loudly. Do not be afraid to share it.
