I just listened to a report by Kate Wells from Michigan Radio on NPR: Inside a Michigan clinic, patients talk about abortion — and a looming statewide vote : NPR
One young lady spent three months in her home state of Ohio trying and failing to get an abortion, which are currently banned in that state after 6 weeks, but she finally found opportunity to cross state lines to obtain an abortion in Michigan. She was going through a divorce and had gotten pregnant with her boyfriend. She said she feels so much better now. She has a 10-year-old and a 2-year-old. She mourned that, “[Getting an abortion] shouldn’t be this hard.”
If abortion is to remain legal in Michigan, Kate Wells says it could come down to this election, suggesting that if Republicans gain control in the state, they could pass laws which prohibit or put stricter controls on abortions.
Another girl said she couldn’t physically, financially, or emotionally handle another kid. She said she literally had to stop having sex in order not to get pregnant.
Another admitted her reason for aborting her baby: “I just feel that that phase of my life is over.”
Another lady allowed the recording of her abortion of the 11-week-old child inside her. It was hard for me to listen to. “Just keep breathing,” they kept telling her, with the sound of a vacuum in the background suctioning the baby parts out of her womb. As soon as it was over one said, “You did it!” and they kept reassuring her as to how great she had done.
Wells said she often heard from women, “I’m doing this because I have a picture for my life and the things that I want.”
One of the last ladies interviewed admitted her reason was she didn’t want to be trapped with the guy who got her pregnant. She bemoaned the fact that it’s always the woman who has to take care of things.
Several things can be true at once. (1) Women find themselves in difficult situation when they get pregnant. (2) Men are just as complicit as the women (sometimes more so) in getting these women into difficult situations. (3) It’s never okay to kill a child, inside or outside the womb.
We have been conditioned to think that we should not legislate morality. The tagline now is “the woman should decide what happens to her own body.” “Hands off our wombs,” say the signs of many pro-choice (or “pro-death”) advocates. They say we should not legislate this; it should be up to a doctor and the pregnant woman. It’s interesting that the father of the child is not considered material in the decision, even as the women complain that the duties of managing the pregnancy always fall to them.
Here’s an idea: what if we legislated that the father has to financially take care of the children he produces? I totally agree the men involved should absolutely be involved.
But back to the main point. We have bought the lie that we shouldn’t legislate morality. However, legislation is always about morality!
When we make a law, we are codifying what should or should not happen, and that is the language of morality.
Pro-abortion advocates say they should be able to kill babies when they want to. Pro-life advocates say the baby is a human life in the womb, and human life has inherent worth and dignity—we should never kill that baby on purpose. We are arguing morality in either case.
The current administration is hell-bent on passing legislation which hurts the people of this country. They are not doing their God-given job. They actively campaign against God’s laws.
From the Wall Street Journal: “With three weeks before Election Day, Mr. Biden told the Democratic National Committee that if Democrats keep control of Congress, ‘the first bill that I will send to the Congress’ will codify a nationwide right to abortion.”
Our government has been engaging in immoral activity, abusing and misusing the law, and actively campaigning against the laws of our great God in heaven who gave them their authority in the first place.
Legislation is always about doing what someone thinks is right, and our target should always be to pass legislation on the side of what is right and good and against that which is wrong and evil.
We need to vote for what is right and encourage our local, state, and federal lawmakers to pass moral laws. We should also hold our executives—mayors, governors, President—accountable to God for the decisions they make, to the extent we can.
God is always in control, Praise God! He has given us certain roles and powers on this earth to use for good and the advancement of His Kingdom. Let’s get to work!
Hey…there’s an election coming up.
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 139.13-16