By Ron F. Hale
If the Obama administration flexed its legal muscle toward the Little Sisters of the Poor, it is not far-fetched to believe a Hillary Clinton administration would launch angrier attacks on America’s first freedom of religious liberty!
With a history of serving the poor since 1839, one must ask: What kind of mind considers forcing a group of nuns to provide abortifacient drugs against their will, conscience, and religion? Seriously?
The late 60s and early 70s in America saw the convergence of several cultural realities creating a tidal wave of social angst. The sexual revolution was happening just as America’s largest population group, the Baby Boomers, was coming of age. Coupled with that, a nightmarish vision of a worldwide “population bomb” setting off food shortages and global famine fed the idea of population control. As the women’s rights movement demanded abortion rights, some thought it was an idea come of age.
During this social upheaval, even many Christians lost the biblical perspective that human life is sacred because we are His special creation.
In dealing with America’s moral conundrum concerning abortion many continue to believe our Supreme Court committed judicial activism.
The late Chief Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote:
I continue to believe …that the Constitution contains no right to abortion. It is not to be found in the longstanding traditions of our society, nor can it be logically deduced from the text of the Constitution—not, that is, without volunteering a judicial answer to the nonjusticiable question of when human life begins. (497 U.S. 502; Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health).
Scalia brings up an unsettling question for the American conscience: When does human life begin?
Careful exegesis of the text of the Constitution provides no answers. However, a text considered more sacred than our Constitution provides the moral framework for a Judeo-Christian worldview; the kind of worldview that guided the victors of WWII to help rebuild war-torn Europe and Japan instead of remorseless revenge.
The Psalmist wrote:
13 For it was You who created my inward parts;
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You
because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful,
and I know this very well.
15 My bones were not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in Your book and planned
before a single one of them began. (139: 13-16, HCSB)
We see our antenatal development in verses 15-16 with the formation of bone and the fabric of flesh being weaved together in the womb of woman.
God could even see the pre-embryonic matter that would mesh and mold into the corporeal presence of His Little Ones. Today science teaches that the baby’s major organs form by 6 weeks and no new anatomical development occurs after 12 weeks. In the secrecy and sacredness of the womb each Little One is recorded in the Lord’s book signifying their individual importance and eternalness.
Look at these disquieting spiritual realities concerning God’s Little Ones and abortion:
First, their flesh may be discarded without any religious ceremony but their spirit lives on with God. They are not forgotten. They are in His book!
Secondly, every aborted baby, every innocent holocaust child, every unwanted infant dumped onto pagan garbage heaps, every baby sacrificed to a heathen god, every newborn ripped from the arms of slave mothers because their baby’s skin-color cast aspersions on the slave master or his overseer … all of them … will greet the redeemed in heaven! They will be there as sure as angels. In my mind’s eye, I see them dancing around the throne of God, part of the throng from every tongue and tribe – worshipping the Lamb!
Thirdly, if we will know our family members in heaven then aborted babies (now with heavenly bodies) will search for their parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, cousins, and even crazy uncles. It will be an unexpected family reunion for many.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Hillary Clinton declared, “The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.” Her choice of the word “person” sent fur flying through liberal-land.
Hillary’s stance on later term abortions is more extreme than what her husband’s was as president. Plus, her call for taxpayer-funded abortions by repealing the Hyde Amendment is a thumb in the eye to all pro-life Americans. If liberals want the government out of their bedroom then that includes federal dollars too!
Ultimately, abortion is the height of systemic racism since it views the weakest and most vulnerable as “less than human” and disposable.
If preborns could vote in presidential elections – things would be different wouldn’t they?
