Fearing the conservative leaning Supreme Court will overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade decree legalizing abortion nationwide, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed to bring a massive abortion expansion bill to the floor for a vote. She did. That bill is called the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA). The bill goes far beyond Roe, nullifying all state restrictions on abortion including parental consent requirements. On September 24, the House narrowly passed the abortion bill along party lines. The bill now goes to the Senate. But pro-abortion Senator Susan Collins said she opposes the bill as she finds the language “extreme” and would “severely weaken” medical professionals rights of conscience to opt out of participating in abortion without sacrificing their careers. President Biden signaled he will sign the bill if it gets to his desk.

The wisdom of man equals abortion. When a woman faces an unplanned pregnancy, worldly wisdom says abort. Our first response to an overwhelming crisis should not be to thrash and grasp anxiously, seeking salvation from the world, as if the sea could save us from drowning. In God alone we find provision of life and every good thing. Trusting in man’s judgment contrary to God’s assessment is the beginning of sin, a folly as old as Adam. Trusting in manmade solutions to save us from the poor choices that result from misplaced trust only deepens the problem. The door of salvation from all crisis hinges on confession and repentance before God.

The following explores how the story of the fall of man through Adam and Eve is both a warning against replacing God’s judgement with our own as well as a revelation for how to enjoy God’s good provision after the fall.

Real Abortion News #193

Recently, the Supreme Court decided to hear a Mississippi case limiting abortion to the first trimester. Twelve U.S. Governors together filed a “Friend of the Court” brief asking the Court to take this opportunity to overturn the sweeping 1973 case Roe v Wade, making all state abortion laws unconstitutional. The Governors essentially encouraged the court to give the abortion issue back to the states. Even abortion champion, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, believed the court’s 1973 decision was not only unusual in its scope but also lacked the wisdom of proceeding in degrees, giving abortion foes a clear “target to collectively aim at.”

Given 50 years of irreconcilable controversy caused by a small group of Federal judges foisting their abortion opinion upon all, perhaps the governors are right to let the states decide for themselves.

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Real Abortion News #192

The Gallup Poll reveals that the people who make the least amount of money are most opposed to abortion. So why does a recent CNN piece use the plight of Mississippi’s poor to support an abortion agenda they don’t want? The fear conveyed in the CNN article is that the Supreme Court agreed to hear a Mississippi abortion case in order to overturn Roe v Wade, the ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. So if the poor don’t want abortion, why do those in power want it for them? Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, in an interview with the New York Times Magazine chillingly described her understanding of the court’s edict saying, “…at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations we don’t want to have too many of.”

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Real Abortion News #191

A former Arizona Planned Parenthood Executive blew the whistle on the company for their manipulation and deception of undocumented immigrant women telling them if they don’t have an abortion they may get deported. After working at the largest Planned Parenthood in Arizona for 16 years Myra Rodriguez said, “I noticed all the atrocities. I noticed the irregularities. I noticed the malpractice. I noticed all the stuff abortionists at Planned Parenthood hide from people. And I complained about it.” Instead of addressing the concerns, the abortion giant retaliated against Rodriguez by firing her. She later won her court battled against the abortion giant for wrongful termination under the Whistleblower Protection Act. Rodriguez says, “We need to stop the business of abortionists attacking our women and going after our immigrant and minority communities.”

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Real Abortion News #190

Religious employers should not be forced to hire people who disagree with their beliefs. But since 2011 states like California and Michigan banned religious institutions from hiring and managing staff according to the organization’s views. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that Christian organizations should be free to hire people who uphold their beliefs. Despite the high court rulings, states like Massachusetts continue piercing the integrity of the first amendment rights of Christian organizations, making it illegal for them to hire and manage staff consistent with the organization’s core beliefs. New York, too has made it illegal for churches, schools, and Christian non-profits, like pro-life pregnancy centers, to require their staff to hold the same beliefs. CompassCare sued the state to protect the first amendment freedom of all religious employers. The case is ongoing.

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How long has abortion been wrong? Right and wrong are derived from one’s purpose. A right action is that which leads to accomplishing one’s purpose. A wrong action leads away from that purpose. A clue to man’s purpose can be found when God created man. 

The following explores how the creation story as revealed in Scripture provides a foundation for why humanity exists, as well as a framework for moral decision-making, a framework that shows us why abortion has always been wrong and why it will continue to be wrong for all people everywhere. 

Real Abortion News #189

Who is to say abortion is right or wrong? But if as a society we have no higher reference point for knowing right or wrong than man’s reason or experience, which man’s version of morality has the authority to prevail over others?

Scripture teaches that God alone transcends all personal experience, all philosophy, and all government saying all humans are equally valuable without qualification or favoritism precisely because we bear His image. Pro-life belief submits to the moral authority of God’s revelation. A sinful world is one that replaces God’s authority with their own, leading to moral darkness and oppression of the weak and vulnerable like the abortion of preborn boys and girls. Belief that abortion is right is rooted in the shallow authority of man arbitrarily insisting that some people do not qualify as persons under the law.

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Real Abortion News #188

The U.S. abortion industry is restructuring ahead of a shift in the abortion battleground from the Federal level to the state. NARAL is the nation’s oldest, and at twenty-five million in annual revenue, the largest abortion lobby. Fearing the Supreme Court will allow states to restrict abortion as early as next year, the abortion juggernaut is regrouping. The conservative leaning court has the potential to dramatically change the U.S. abortion landscape by allowing states to severely restrict the practice. It is estimated that at least half the states would outlaw the practice if given the opportunity. Planned Parenthood is anticipating the shift too, buttressing resources in abortion hub states. According to their website, expanding abortion facilities in Western New York is part of a larger strategy to compensate for the abortion tourism dynamic a federal policy shift would cause.

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Real Abortion News #187 

In July Centerville, Texas became the 30th city in the state to pass an ordinance banning abortion, including chemical abortion, making it a crime for anyone to possess or distribute drugs intended for pregnancy termination. This chemical distinction is important for a small politically conservative town where such an ordinance arguable makes no material impact being that there is not a significant market for abortion. However, the impact of such an ordinance becomes much more tangible as mail order, tele-med, in-home, chemical abortion fast becomes the norm. A month earlier on June 1, the larger city of Lubbock instituted a similar ordinance with more immediate ramifications to the abortion industry as abortion giant Planned Parenthood was forced to stop, saying they will resume when “legally permissible.”

Is Texas reminding Americans that national politics don’t have to dictate local policies.

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