Is The Overturning of Abortion the Answer?
Questions regarding the Abortion Debate and Unwanted Pregnancy!
Richard Hollerman
We have probably all heard about the overthrow of the Pro-Abortion view called Roe! Or we may think of the proverbial “Roe versus Wade.” We just saw, on the Internet, an anti-abortion website replete with many colored photos of people who had bicycled into some of the larger cities in Illinois and other states in that area. However, we found a great promotional picture of not only the anti-abortion promotion but prominently displayed was a statue of the Virgin Mary. This traditional Catholic organization was rejoicing in the overthrow of this evil pro-abortion (pro-death) stance that was the law of the land in America for too many years! Alas, here was an anti-abortion group and organization that was spearheaded by a radically evil and heretical group that thought it was right. This makes one think of John 16:1-2!
The same would be true of other countries as well—besides America. Alas, we must say that in many of these nations the killing of babies is still legal and even promoted! In America (which formerly was called the “the land of the free”) we know that people (generally mothers) who want to kill their infants need only drive to another state or fly to another state where this murder is legal. There they may carry out their nefarious ways, often carried out under the auspices of Planned Parenthood or other killing organizations. And, of course, the husband (or boyfriend) may be guilty himself!
But we have asked the question above, “Is the Overturning of Abortion the Answer?” We know that for many “right wing” people, both religious and secular, but often of a conservative religious perspective (such as traditional Catholics, the cults, conservative Protestants of various kinds, conservative or Fundamentalist Baptists, and others), these people seem to be rejoicing in this decision. But what do we see in this?
It may be true that a million babies are saved from the slaughter, but those same infants will grow up. They will become 5-year-olds, then eventually 10-year-olds, and then 15-year-olds. But do you see what I see? How do we view this? Do we only delight that certain babies have been saved—or do we look beyond this? Do we see the devastating results of these living persons who were saved from the dreaded murderous doctors, nurses, mothers and dads—and then what?
Many of these babies who have been rescued by well-meaning political laws will be found in the same families. But (let us be honest) many of these families will not want them. In other words, although the children have been saved from death, they have ended up in abusive families, where all kinds of sexual abuse, physical abuse, poverty, and so forth is rampant. Although death was wrong and sinful, we must acknowledge that these children will probably end up in very negative relationships and tragic conditions. Was this better? In some cases, they would become “sex slaves” and be subject to the evil of an adult pedophile! Is this what we want?
Probably most (shall we say 90 to 95% or more) of these children will be sent to the utterly-wicked public schools! In these secular institutions they will probably be taught evolution (where this evil dogma is required subject matter by law). They will be exposed to all sorts of humanistic, relativistic, immoral, compromising, entertainment-oriented, and immodesty in all of their evil ways! They will learn the wicked design of the enemy that is intent on destroying their little soul! They will be taught pluralism and the idea that it is fine for children to either be nothing or a devotee of various false religions! Not only will the rescued child of 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 be taught these evil ways but so will these children as they grow in age—to year 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18. In other words, to use the words of Jesus, they will become “two-fold the children of hell” in the process of such “rescue”!
We think of the fact that Jesus Himself was born under questionable and hard circumstances. He must have suffered ridicule and abuse because of his “questionable” birth (which we know as a “virginal conception” and “virgin birth”) (See John 8:41.). Yet his father and mother didn’t “abort” him or his siblings. We also think of the adverse circumstances of the birth and childhood of Moses and the fact that he wasn’t killed either (cf. Exodus 2ff). Of course, the other “worthies” in the Old Testament and New Testament were not put to death before they were born. No, they fit into God’s purpose for their lives and their futures and thus they were not put to death!
When people were born, instead of looking on this with dread and wishing that somehow they could have been killed or that the parents could have prevented such a birth [e.g., of John], the neighbors and relatives said that “the Lord had displayed His great mercy toward her [the mother] and “they were rejoicing with her” (Luke 1:58). When it came to the birth of Christ, the angel said, “do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people” (Luke 2:10). Is this the attitude that we see today? Do we say that God has had “great mercy” on the father and mother? Do we have “good news of great joy” today? Or before the birth, do millions scramble to find ways to kill the baby so they can go on with their life?
During the lifetime of Jesus our Savior, the text says that he called a “child” and placed him before others. He then said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3-4). The Greek word of “children” here is paidia, a diminutive of pais, meaning “a little or young child” and used of a “male child recently born” (W. E. Vine). The same is found at Mark 9:36-37 and Luke 8:47-48). In Matthew 19:13, “children” were brought to Jesus, “that He might lay His hands on them and pray.” We then read of Christ’s rebuke of His disciples: “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” (v. 14).
In the next chapter, we read Matthew 19:13-15, where “little children” were brought to Jesus, and the Lord said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Here again we have the Greek, paidia, meaning “a little or young child” (Vine). In Mark 10:13-16, the Lord uses paidia to refer to these “little ones.” He says, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” With a winsome gesture, the Lord then “took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them” (vv. 14-16). Then, in Luke 18:15-17, we have the term that comes from brephos (v. 13) meaning “a new-born child, or an infant still older” (Vine). We also see brephos meaning a “baby” or “infant” (Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament). Later, in verse 14, we again see paidia which we have already noticed.
What this means is that children were mentioned in the Bible. Jesus Himself was a child at one time since He was fully God and fully human. Who could ever imagine that Mary would kill her child, Jesus, with the justification that this was “merely abortion”! If we would not dare to kill the Lord Jesus (in His infancy) who would dare to kill their own child?
Thus, we can see that killing a baby is a heinous sin, even worthy of death (Romans 1:28-32). But we have also seen that there are massive problems attached to this. Notice again a few of them:
First, if the government or anyone else were to forbid this murder, we assume that the child will be born and be forced to live under difficult circumstances. This is a difficult choice and the Christian would hate to have a part in this.
Second, we know that many of these children will be born and live under difficult circumstances. Some will be subject to rape; others will be involved in pederasty; others will be physically and emotionally scarred by their experience.
Third, we realize (since we must face the matter realistically) that many or even most of these dear children will grow up to be 12-year-olds and 20-year-olds. They will probably be lost and spend an eternity away from God in hell. Is this what we want?
Fourth, we realize that even before such alienation, most of these children will be subject to numerous negative influences. We refer to public school education, worldly entertainment, family abuses, and worldly influences of all kinds. We assume that much of this will influence the dear child adversely.
Fifth, we know that most of these non-aborted children will be influenced by a wide variety of false teachings and false religions. In short, most of them will go to false religions that will take them away from God and not to God. Sadly, most of them will go to hell.
These are some of the serious effects of doing away with abortion. We know that abortion is murder. We also know that the fathers, mothers, doctors, and nurses who participated in this slaughter deserve to be cast off from God forever. But hopefully you can see some of the results of this policy of allowing the children to live! There is no easy answer to this. The Christian will surely want to avoid this killing and will seek to prevent others from the killing. Yet we would warn ourselves and others that there are serious and eternal consequences to this choice.
We are aware that unwanted children are not the result of innocent problems. If a boy and girl remained pure and wanted children when they married, this would be good and ideal. But only the extreme minority fit this description. When a couple experiment sexually, when they compromise their convictions and commit immorality, when an unworthy boyfriend or husband doesn’t want a child, when a selfish girl doesn’t want the child, when they are not even married, when fornication or adultery is involved, when the couple refuses to use birth control—and then the girl becomes pregnant, then what? That is the question. Does she abort the unwanted child? Does the couple marry and have the child? What should they do?