The Irrational Hypocrisy of Abortion

"The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days 

as the Klan killed in 150 years.” John Piper

  If you think about it, this counter-cultural reality that we need to even have a Sanctity of Life Sunday is very sad. It shows the irrationality of the dark world we live in that we must point out that mothers shouldn’t kill their children and that fathers shouldn’t be complicit in that decision. No human life is worthless or disposable, regardless of skin color, age, disability, economic status, etc. The very fact that these things must be proclaimed is a reminder of the moral horror of this present darkness.

  I find that the abortion argument is based on an irrational hypocrisy. It’s same tired rational that a woman has the right to choose what she does with her own body. BUT she doesn’t have that right to choose in so many other areas. Abortion only gives her the right over her reproductive organs, even that’s legally limited. While it’s legal for a woman to have a baby scraped from her uterus, it’s illegal for her to sell her uterus or most other body parts. It’s illegal for her to cut off her own finger or gouge out her own eye. She can’t legally take her own life. But somehow it’s supposed to be rational for her to take the life of another because it’s “her body.”

  Another irrational hypocrisy is that abortion needs to be legal because of all of the cases of rape, incest or where the mother’s life would be in jeopardy. If you add all of those “potential” cases together, they make up less than 5% of all abortions that take place. Politically (I didn’t say ethically or morally), if we who are pro-life compromised with a lost world on those potentialities, 95% of all abortions would become illegal.

  Abortion is an irrational hypocrisy in that the father has no rights. The father has no legal right to intervene in whether his child lives or dies. Some will suggest he doesn’t have to carry a baby for nine months. No, but if the mother chooses to have the baby, legally, he must financially carry that child for the next 18 years with 17% of his income. He has no rights so that he can protect his child before birth, but has huge responsibilities if the mother chooses to have the baby. What about his rights?

  Many rightly decry gun violence, suggesting the problem is easy access to guns in our culture. It’s irrational hypocrisy that many of these same individuals are not only pro-abortion but support the incomprehensible atrocity of partial birth abortion. With such a twisted worldview being purported and such a low value of children, is it any surprise child abuse has risen some 500% since abortion was legalized? If one does not value a child before they are born, why would they value them after they are born?

  Partial birth abortion is so irrational that a baby can be killed even in the third trimester. Yet, if the mother has a vaginal birth and abandons or kills the child after its birth, she can be charged as a criminal. With the new discoveries in medical science, premature babies born as early as 22 weeks survive. Great emergency efforts are taken to save a preemie, yet a baby can still be aborted up to nearly full term but somehow it’s still a “fetus.”

  It’s illegal for a minor to have her ears or anything else pierced without parental permission. Most schools won’t give a child even an aspirin. But in many states a pregnant teen can be taken by school personnel for an abortion without parental consent. It’s an irrational hypocrisy!

  If some of the supporters of the Affordable Care Act had had their way, personal freedom would have trumped religious freedom. The original federal rules required companies, who because of their conscience or religious beliefs were opposed to abortion, to still fund it in their company insurance plans. Until wiser minds in the courts stepped in, ObamaCare mandated insurance coverage for abortion inducing drugs even on Catholic nuns – specifically, the Little Sisters of the Poor in blatant disregard that religious freedom is a Constitutional right. It’s an irrational hypocrisy that uses the Constitution like a baseball bat when it fits one’s worldview, yet ignore the 1^st amendment protecting those with religious convictions. It becomes more inane, in that nuns take a vow of chastity yet would be forced to pay for a service their religious vows would never make tenable.

  There are nearly 700,000 abortions in the United States annually. The politically correct reasoning is abortion is needed so that there will not be all of these unwanted children. Yet, 58,000 children are adopted each year, some 6,500 of them are foreign children. Though there are no national statistics on how many people are waiting to adopt, experts estimate it’s somewhere between one and two million couples. It’s an irrational hypocrisy that refuses to add up the basic numbers. If every aborted baby was instead allowed to live and be adopted, there still would not be enough children for those desperately desiring to adopt. And currently, babies are adopted in spite of extremely high costs, onerous laws and immature mothers who change their mind at the last moment about the adoption.

  Abortion is not just evil, it’s irrational. Let’s stop pretending it’s necessary. It’s the ultimate selfishness, taking the life of another so one’s own life is not “complicated.” Christians must be the greatest advocates of life. We must advocate and teach our children biblical morality so abortion is never a temptation. We must support adoption and foster care programs. 

  In Christian love we must assist young mothers emotionally and financially who choose life and decide to have that child. We must have Jesus’ view of the wonderful value of children and teach our own children a biblical worldview of the sanctity of God’s precious gift of human life. 

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Why Christians must fight for Muslims!

“Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.”   Mike Quigley

  Summer officially ends this coming Thursday. There was an important summer story that, perhaps with all the other news stories, was overlooked. Worse, it didn’t garner the needed attention of the Christian community. Yet, it was very important and has far reaching implications for the Church in America, our 1^st Amendment rights and the future of religious freedom. Let me ask some “religious rights” questions. (Answer Yes or No.)

1. Should the Amish be allowed to drive buggies on public roads? 2. Should Muslims be allowed to have a public call for prayer? 3. Should we allow a mosque to be built in our community? 4. Should Jehovah’s Witnesses be allowed to proselyte door to door? 5. Should a teacher be allowed to have a Koran on her desk?

  How did you do? The answer to all of them are all “yes.” Please understand, and this is very important, it’s not the Bible that gives us these rights, it’s our United States Constitution. Most people, even most Christians, aren’t familiar with our 1^st Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Most are more familiar with Thomas Jefferson’s often misinterpreted statement, “a wall of separation between church and state.” Many ignorantly believe that it’s part of the Constitution. It’s not!

  Unlike the United States, which historically has protected religious freedom, France does not. This religious freedom war is being waged on French beaches. Local police officers are storming French beaches to free women of their clothes. You’ll find pictures of armed cops standing over Muslim women until they take off enough clothes to make a secular French society happy. A mother of two was informed she’d been fined because she was wearing leggings, a tunic and a headscarf on the beach. Her ticket said she was not wearing “an outfit respecting good morals and secularism.”

  So we freed the French from the Nazis so they can violate Muslim women, forcing them to take off clothes so that they feel immodest according to Islam and violate their religious convictions. Sadly, because Muslims aren’t overly popular in the West, most media and worse and much more serious, most Christians have ignored this violation of religious rights! Why?

  Very few people want to stand up for Muslims, particularly in France…or in much of the world right now. Even as we’re told we have nothing to fear, it appears fear is exactly what keeps us silent. More importantly, France has a policy of secularization. France bans outward religious symbols in public, including burkas and Muslim swimwear, burkinis. Somehow, so far, nuns wearing habits have escaped punishment.

  In a country obsessed with the liberalization of women from oppression, burkinis are, to a secular French mind, a blatant symbol of marginalization, put in place to protect men from seeing the bodies of women. A culture committed to empowering women finds itself in a dilemma. Where is the oppression? Is the religion that states they must wear it in the wrong, or is it the government that forces them to remove it in the wrong?

  But it’s not about clothes, it’s really about the right to religious liberty. I’m so glad I’m an American, not French. That right is the very first one in our Constitution — in the 1^st Amendment — for a reason. Our histories and revolutions had very different outcomes which produced very different approaches to religion in our founding documents. Religious tolerance qualified by secularism is not religious tolerance. It’s religious tolerance as long as it conforms to the ideals of the secular state.

  Do we really want to strip Muslim women of their religious rights by making them remove their clothes? The pretext that burkini bans were put in place to prevent violent reactions from those offended by the modest bathing attire is idiotic. It’s based on the ludicrous premise that if you’re living according to your faith, and ignorant people who don’t like it act inappropriately, the person of faith is to blame. That’s the idiocy of the new French “religious police.” And religious liberty hangs in the balance.

  If you and I do not speak out for religious freedom, Muslims in France will not be the only ones stripped of their religious liberty. We can’t stand idly by today because it’s not “our” religious liberty. As secularism continues marching across the West, it will soon be us.

  Tragically, our own President doesn’t get it, though he swore to uphold the Constitution. Recently, President Obama said (and rightly so) that San Francisco 49er’s quarterback Colin Kaepernick is “exercising his constitutional right” not to stand for the national anthem. While I disagree with Kaepernick, our Constitution gives him that right. Yet, unbelievably, the President opposes those who want their Constitutionally protected religious liberty like Hobby Lobby or the Little Sisters. One can’t be selective in who has religious rights and who doesn’t, as long as it fits our values and worldview. Limited religious liberty soon means religious liberty for none.

  Do we really want Muslim women forced to strip off some of their clothes under the watchful eye of the police? Or, Catholic adoption agencies stripped of their participation in Massachusetts’ adoption system because of their views of marriage? Or, a baker stripped of her business because she did not want to participate in a wedding with which she disagrees? 

  This act on the shores of France is a beachhead of the new intolerance threatening the liberty of all who don’t march to the beat of the secularist drum. As Christians, we must speak up, even for those we disagree with in their religious beliefs, whether it’s a burkini or a mosque or an addition to the local Kingom Hall. Let them know they have your support. Let your local government officials know religious individuals/groups have your support. It may mean attending a government meeting or zoning hearing on their behalf. Because first they came for the Muslims in the burkinis…

Update: I learned from a missionary friend in France that the courts there have now struck this attack on religious liberty down. 

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