In addition to this article, I include several other links in this article. I would love to encourage you to check them out, either as proof of my claims or in an effort to support a short article like this one.
I have heard some people say that abortion, since Roe V Wade being overturned by Dobbs, is no longer a national issue. This is completely inaccurate.
This is a moral issue that has existed for hundreds of years before the United States was a gleam in Jefferson’s eye. In recent decades, it has also become a political one. Though I have as many political opinions as the next person, I typically feel like I do not have time or energy to focus attention on topics that are primarily political. Abortion is not primarily political.
As my article above shows, there has been a clear Christian stance on abortion since the very earliest times. Now, it is once again taking the spotlight on the national stage… truly, it never left the stage.
VP Harris and, by vote, the majority of Democrats at the national level, are in favor of National Legislation to not only enshrine abortion protection via Roe V Wade, but to expand abortion protection far beyond the trimester-based ideation of Roe V. Wade. And just recently, Harris also said that she would support no exemptions for religious reasons when it comes to abortion (which could mean health care professionals could be required to be involved in abortions that they religiously disagreed with).
This is still a topic that Christians need to understand as a moral motivation for how we do politics.
The claim that unborn children, whether wanted by their mother or not, have no God-given value* is an evil claim.
*this link above is to a sermon I gave in 2022. I urge you to watch it.
The claim that unborn Americans are not people, and therefore invisible to all legal protection, whether they are wanted by the mother or not, is immoral – and yet, is already the law in some places.
Even the thought that Americans, who merely through the coincidence of being not yet born, have no right to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness… no protection of their rights under the Bill of Rights – is radically hypocritical.
This is not meant to be a political article. It is a moral and biblical one and a human one. God loves and honors every human life.
There are more babies aborted around the world than all other forms of death combined. Any nation that condones, much less protects, the right of any human to take the life of another legally innocent human, has lost its soul. I pray for my nation and my race (humans) to turn away from this madness.
I will have no part of it. I won’t sit silently while this human holocaust continues – so, though I am known as a pastor who teaches only what the Bible gives me to teach, this
Psalm 139:13-16
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.
Isaiah 49:1
49 …
The Lord called me from the womb,
from the body of my mother he named my name.
Isaiah 44:1-2
44 “But now hear, O Jacob my servant,
Israel whom I have chosen!
2 Thus says the Lord who made you,
who formed you from the womb and will help you:
Jeremiah 1:4-5
4 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 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.”
Finally, for those who would say that Christians are often concerned only with babies until they are born, I am happy to compare resume’s, like Apostle Paul did in 2 Cor 6 and 11… giving all of the glory to God. Christians are more likely to adopt. We are twice as likely to foster as the general population. And we are almost exclusive in offering counseling and support for those facing trauma from abortions. Personally, I have also done all of these.
I have walked the trenches with people facing these as well, and still do. If you are interested in healing from abortion trauma, fostering or adopting, I will prioritize time for you.
So, I urge all of Christ’s followers to give, speak out, write, volunteer, and all of the rest… including vote, to protect and preserve the life of our children and the soul of our nation.