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By Judie Brown
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matter the party in charge in a given state, be they Republican or
Democrat, the babies are always at risk. After all, since when should an
entire class of people be subjected to a choice between life or death
depending on election results? This is madness!
In recent elections we learned that
babies will once again be at risk due to feckless voting patterns. This
brings me to the point of this commentary: A baby is always a baby no
matter where he lives, and yet it seems that politics dictate where a
baby is safe and where he is at risk of brutal death. As one report states,
“Republicans in North Carolina and Wisconsin failed to secure
supermajorities in both legislative chambers, which they would have
needed to do in order to override vetoes from their Democratic
governors.”
This spells death for babies and thus the fundamental question for this new year: Why do politics dictate whether or not innocent people will be murdered? The answer is quite simply that the pro-life movement is in large part fundamentally focused on elections and party.
This
has to change! So perhaps this is the year when most pro-life Americans
will finally realize that the act of aborting a child is wrong no
matter which state one lives in and no matter which political party is
in charge. The sad truth is that after one half a century, that deadly
act has become nothing more than a political issue. This is a travesty
that has left millions of dead bodies in its wake.
How
we change that is up to us as pro-life Americans who realize that every
one of these babies is a gift from God, not a political agenda item.
This requires us to refocus our language so that we are talking about
persons who exist from the beginning regardless of what sort of
political party is calling the shots.
But
after all these years, redirecting the attention of the public—even
those within the pro-life movement—is not going to be easy. This is so
because politics has become ground zero for not only pro-life people but
for their fundraising apparatus. In the process we have lost the truth,
and it is my solemn hope that in 2023 we find it and begin to talk
about it.
Below we read inspiration from Scripture—the truth outlined by God Himself in His word:
Jeremiah 1:5:
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you came to birth I
consecrated you; I appointed you as prophet to the nations.”
Genesis 2:7: “Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being.”
No
matter where we turn, if we rely on the Lord and His words, we find a
truth that is fundamental to all we do in defense of the innocent. Not
only that but because we know that the world waxes cold to
the idea of sin, we are the ones who have to insist on telling the
truth about the sinful nature of killing another person. We are not
striving, after all, to be popular, but rather to be faithful to God and
His babies.
Let us resolve to defend the truth, the innocents, and the gift of life for everyone.
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