By Judie Brown
Saint Leo the Great once wrote, “Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.”
We considered this quote when we read about the man who “surreptitiously” slipped his girlfriend the abortion pill, thereby killing their preborn child. Let’s just be frank about this: Having sex with his mate was not supposed to result in the life procreated through his act. His solution was to sneak a killer drug into her system, thus absolving him from taking responsibility for his own actions.
Fortunately, he was arrested, but that isn’t always the case, as we continue to witness the debate within the pro-life movement over whether or not the expectant mother who seeks death for her preborn baby via abortion should be found guilty of a crime, if it should ever come to pass that abortion is deemed illegal. To my mind, such questions pose a distraction for obvious reasons.
According to the law of the land, most abortion is not considered a crime, and it likely never will be. This alone reminds us that, in the United States, the question of whether or not it is a crime to kill people is all about where the potential victim lives and how old she is. In the US, we do not even consistently pursue the folks who orchestrate the killing of elderly and vulnerable outside the womb, so why would the citizenry seek punishment for the involvement of family and medical professionals in murder before birth?
It is an oxymoron of the deadliest kind.
This kind of murder for hire reminds me of a book of the same title—Murder for Hire, the best-selling autobiography of years ago. And it prompts me to ask an obvious question: What is the actual difference between that Ballentine thriller about conspiracies to commit murder and our present-day reality about conspiracies to murder the preborn? Oh, you might say, that book was about criminals and their fate at the hands of authorities, whereas today’s imposed killings are protected by law.
This is correct, and both are absolutely immoral and unthinkable. In a civilized society, which ours is not, people do not hide behind civil or cultural norms as ways of excusing the crimes they have committed against the innocent preborn or the aging.
Consider the argument that abortion—a literal war on babies—is a choice. Should murdering an innocent human being ever be a choice unpunishable by law? Or have we grown so callous toward truth, let alone acts that literally snuff the life out of our own loved ones, that anything goes?
Apparently even lawmakers concur, having adopted this attitude themselves. Are we reminding them of their duty to defend every human being against such crimes?
These are questions worth pondering as some quibble about whether or not expectant mothers should be prosecuted for offering their babies up on the altars of Baal! It may be true that today it is not politically correct to define abortion as child sacrifice, but by the same token we know that it is perfectly acceptable to slice and dice those babies under cover of law. That is, as long as they are not fully born.
Unimaginable warfare waged against our progeny is not a sign of social progress. It is a reality that brings our fellow citizens a few steps closer to Hades, where the evil one will deal with them as well.
Now that is a topic worthy of discussion.