By Judie Brown
Recent headlines inform the electorate that wholesale killing is so deeply ingrained in our cultural psyche that on any particular day the most horrific of crimes against human dignity go unacknowledged.
In New Mexico, preborn children are being slaughtered up to 34 weeks gestational age. The state has one of the most liberal abortion laws in the nation, and an undercover investigation revealed that “New Mexico has increasingly become a regional hub for abortion providers expanding services to out-of-state patients.”
So, when we hear our elected officials tell us that they are pro-life, we best look beneath the words and examine the crimes being committed under cover of law.
Pew Research recently surveyed Americans about aborting babies, and we found the numbers stunning in their bloodthirstiness, as “about seven-in-ten Asian (73%) and Black (71%) adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, as do 58% of White adults and 56% of Hispanic adults.” These numbers reveal a great deal about attitudes toward abortion. When the baby is never mentioned and an expectant mother is viewed as someone hosting a parasite, it only makes sense that the killing would be acceptable to the majority of people.
Though we hasten to add that not everyone has driven off the pro-abortion cliff. Some do pay for their anti-life crimes.
University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling was charged with the killing of her newborn baby last year, and her case is finally going to court. Yes, her baby was born, but nonetheless, it is another example of the mentality of those who suggest that killing a baby is a legally protected choice.
In America, we choose butter for toast and killing for the inconvenient person—born or preborn. When the facts of fetal development and the truth about sexual relations outside of marriage are buried in the pseudo-modern rhetoric of our age, deadly results are surely going to occur, and they do every day of the week and every week of the year. No baby is safe from this scourge.
Note that the only thing that makes Snelling’s case different is that her baby survived the womb and then she killed him!
One of the most telling reports of late, though, deals with the mother named Samantha Miller who sent her son to college with emergency contraception in his suitcase. She said, “If there’s ever a question about whether the sex was safe—like not being able to find the condom after intercourse—I wanted him to have the pill available.”
Yes, this mother, who is also the CEO of a company that wants to improve access to contraception, writes, “I’m more comfortable talking about sex than most people—including my kids and husband.”
But why was this a story picked up and carried by major news outlets, when articles by parents who strive to teach their children to save sex until marriage never get an ounce of ink in the mainstream media?
While few political leaders act in defense of the truth about abortion, abortion pills, and so forth, the majority of us are bombarded with stories like that of Miller and her push for sex outside of marriage with enjoyment as the goal.
This American obsession with sex without consequences took me back to the telling words of former abortionist Dr. Haywood Robinson, who went from bullying a former girlfriend into having an abortion to becoming a devoted advocate for the babies. He now tells audiences, “We never shout at these people; we don’t block driveways. We love them because we know that love covers a multitude of sins. . . . You disarm the enemy when you love and respect them. It must be the Holy Spirit that takes those scales away—there is no amount of eloquence in speech.”
Robinson’s words carry the silver bullet that can turn America from its obsession with killing preborn children into a land that welcomes every one of those babies with love. The Holy Spirit will indeed take the scales away.