A video circulated online earlier this week of a young woman speaking at a “Pick Up the Mic” event at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She approaches the man and instead of asking a question, she reads a poem gloating over the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
As disturbing as that was, there was another snippet in there that was equally disturbing, as she shamelessly tells the person at the booth that she took a Plan B pill that morning.
This wasn’t the stereotype of the blue-haired, left-wing lunatic going on an incoherent rant. This looked to be a normal, rather educated, and even attractive college student pridefully proclaiming that she ended the life of the child she had potentially just created.
It was a message: that this spiritual darkness has permeated deep into our culture, and it should be a five-alarm warning to those of us with ears to hear and eyes to see.
I can’t think of anything that has been more deceptive as the issue of abortion. There were even times in my life that although I claimed to be “pro-life,” I gave into the deception to an extent, either to keep the peace between those I was debating or for my own selfish reasons. Much of that changed, however, when I became a father. It wasn’t just the joy I received, but the love my children express in their everyday life. And when it comes down to it, they’re simply happy waking up every day and having the chance to live that life.
Now, Idaho, a state I hold near and dear to my heart having essentially grown up right next to it, and my home state of Virginia have ballots initiatives to legalize the practice. Just the language itself in the initiatives are purposefully ambiguous, meant to cause confusion to voters looking at it.
Here is how Virigina’s Proposition 1 is written on the ballot:
“Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to (i) protect the freedom to make personal decisions about prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion, miscarriage management, and fertility care; (ii) protect doctors, nurses, and patients from being punished for these decisions; and (iii) allow for restrictions on access to abortion during the third trimester of pregnancy except when the patient’s health is at risk or the pregnancy cannot survive?”
While they at least throw in the “restriction on access to abortion during the third trimester” language, it gives a perception that this was drafted in moderation. But I find no moderation in ending the life at up to six months in the womb. And on purpose, it uses language such as “freedom” and “protection” as if these are virtuous things to mask the actual act of terminating a life.
As is the language of the first deceiver when he approaches Eve in the garden and says, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” (Gen 3:1). “My body, my choice,” doesn’t take into account the body inside the womb. Abortion clinics are called “Planned Parenthood,” though there seems to be nothing planned about terminating the life of an unborn child. “Restricting abortion access will put women at health risk,” completely ignores the fact that each abortion puts each child at nearly a 100% risk of losing their life. “Fetal Viability” is thrown around as if there is a day, hour, or minute that the baby suddenly has enough “value” or is deemed that it can survive outside of the womb, when it reality, it would take a child several years to be able to survive outside the womb without the nurturing care of an adult.
And maybe the most deceptive of all, “Safe, legal, and rare,” has turned into the young woman above who brags about the potential murder of her unborn child, for whenever the argument of “exceptions for rape and incest” come up (which many on the conservative side are willing to concede), rarely does it stop there, as the propositions demonstrate.
In the end, there’s no comfortable way of saying it, but abortion is murder. It is the intentional killing of an innocent life, and we should not lie to ourselves that it is anything other than that. For if we continue to allow this practice on a large scale, I fear that God will not spare us from His judgement, as he didn’t spare the Israelites—His “chosen” people—of judgement when they indulged in their own forms of spiritual darkness. Thus, if we don’t hold the line and reject this evil, I fear it will be our children and grandchildren who will be the ones who will likely suffer behalf than us who are responsible for it. And sadly, many unborn children already have suffered.
There is one last deception the devil will try to pull on us when it comes to abortion, one that Satan will use with any type of sin. He will make us feel irredeemable, that we are too far gone, and that there is no possible way we can make our way back into grace. In this, we easily harden our hearts, give into despair, and end up rejecting God and His order. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
For those who have ever had an abortion procedure, been involved in the industry, or convinced a significant other to get one, there is always a chance of repentance and redemption. I am a testament of this. Being a sinner that is unworthy of His love, I have received His forgiveness, and there is no sin so great that He can’t redeem. And while we must fight to hold the line against this evil, we can also show love by praying for those riddled with this guilt to seek forgiveness, accept the free gift of salvation, and turn their life over to Jesus.
Thus, I again urge those living in States where these propositions are on the ballot to reject them, and to take a stand for life. The soul of our nation, as well as our very own souls, may be on the line.
