I continue this series on abortion coming to a personal
conclusion that deep down many, if not most, people in America – if they would
examine themselves, truly believe that abortion is wrong – that many women
really do struggle with deciding to have an abortion and many regret it later
and that many men who say they are in favor of “women’s rights” would actually
never want their own wife or girlfriend, sister or mother to actually have an
abortion. So if deep down most people (I believe) truly know that a baby is
what is growing and developing inside a woman’s body, then why do so many
people – even women – support abortion? Why do so many people cheer when Wendy
Davis filibuster’s her way to a “victory” for abortion? I believe it is called
the “dumbing down” of individuals as a nation. I think it can mean dumbing in
the intelligence sense, but also in the sense of silencing people. And at the core, I believe it is all about women
being in charge and not wanting to be told what to do – ever.
Abortion isn’t new. Women have been aborting babies for
centuries and centuries. What is new is that not only is abortion not frowned
upon in our day – it is lauded. How can men – who are supposed to be protectors
–push for abortion rights? How can women – who are supposed to be nurturers
–push for abortion rights? Because of the slippery slope of sin. We have already touched on this last post,
but I believe much of our push for abortion stems from this hideous thing
called “feminism”. The roles of women and the roles of men have become so
twisted because of it. If our nation would simply have helped women to stop being abused, to stop being
second class citizens, to stop being degraded - because these are women’s rights - that would
have been noble, but instead women formed this monster that is a selfish,
man-hating, ego-centric, twisted thing known as feminism . We said, “I am not
only just as important as a man, I am better. I don’t need man, I don’t need
protection and I don’t need to be told what I can and can’t do.” So women have
risen to this place where we think is where we belong - at the top, looking
down. And now men are the abused, the
degraded, and the second class citizen. And we think this is how it should
be.
I know some who point to the Bible and say that because it
says that women are to be submissive to their husbands, it means God thinks
women are second class. This is just not true. God does command women to be
submissive, but God also gave the woman a place of honor. He commanded the
husband to LOVE his wife and to “dwell with her in understanding”. That doesn’t
sound abusive, manipulative, or degrading to me. In fact, it sounds pretty
wonderful. I used the illustration of
the printer last post – that the ink and the paper are equally important but
have different roles. So let’s suppose the ink was sick and tired of being used
up on the paper and the paper was sick and tired of always being copied onto
and so they switch roles. It doesn’t work. The paper cannot, no matter how hard
it tries, copy anything onto the ink and the ink cannot be copied onto. They
weren’t designed for those purposes. God designed men and women with specific
functions – abilities, gifts. When you mess with God’s design you are going to
have chaos every time and that is exactly what we have – a chaotic society.
Now when I say that women and men have specific roles I am
pointing to the essence of God’s design for them. This doesn’t mean that men
should never stay home with the kids while the wife goes to work. This is
sometimes necessary. Or maybe both parents need to work. But women must be
women and men must be men whatever their situation might be. We complement each
other no matter how much that grates on some people. This applies to married people as well as
single people – how we relate to one another either way. Abortion isn’t just a “way out” of an
unwanted pregnancy anymore. It has become one of the most exclusively feminine
rights of our day. A man cannot get pregnant and carry a baby and give birth,
this is completely a female thing. So it makes sense to me that women, even
women who would never have an abortion themselves, are fighting for this right
and rejoicing when it is upheld. To them, this is the one thing that men cannot
control and so they bask in this freedom.
And apparently forget that there are lives at stake. Even in the case of
Wendy Davis – she doesn’t want ANY infringements on HER rights as a WOMAN and
so she will fight against ALL laws, even when a law includes making abortion
clinics safer for women – something you would think she would be all for.
The result of all this selfishness and bitterness is the
breakdown of the family. With the switching of roles, families don’t know how
to function correctly. Everything is upside down. Men and women no longer know
what their roles are; what is a real woman and what is a real man? Divorce is
everywhere and families are being torn apart all the time. Sin prevails because
we have turned our noses up at God’s design. There was a time when there was
talk, even in the media, about how detrimental divorce is to children. This
isn’t quite what is being talked about anymore. Now we skip over encouraging
couples to stick it out and weather the storms and instead go directly to counseling
and therapy because it isn’t “If” divorce happens anymore, but rather “when” it
happens. Read Romans chapter 1 to see how the Bible describes life when it is
twisted around from the way God intended.
Pride is at the root – obvious in this power-hungry striving
of women to be in charge. Pride caused our society to bristle at the woman of
the 1950’s – the homemaker, mother, queen of her home. This bristling led to the “sexual freedom”–
just do whatever feels good, regardless of morals. This so-called sexual freedom caused obvious
problems for those sexually active –one of the major “problems” being
pregnancy. Unwanted pregnancies paved the
way for abortions to abound. This is that slippery slope of sin. It doesn’t
end. And other things have followed and will follow. Will murder one day no
longer be a crime? We would all shake our heads no, of course not, but really
this isn’t such a far-fetched idea. We are legally murdering our own children
every day and before long it won’t be only after 20 weeks gestation or 24 weeks
or 38 weeks, but 3 months after birth or 3 years or 10. If we can’t have
absolutes in our nation, then who is to say what is and isn’t wrong? Who are
you to tell someone that they can’t kill their teenager?
And other than society as a whole and the family, there is
the individual who is suffering from abortion, too. Women who haven’t had abortions, but who
support “choice” must live with their decision and women who have abortions
must live with that decision for the rest of their lives. Men must live with it
also – directly for pushing a woman to get an abortion or indirectly by not
standing up for what is right. Planned Parenthood will tell you that emotional
problems arise more often from having a baby than from aborting one. Anyone in
their right mind knows this is a lie. Of course, some women don’t have any
feelings of shame or guilt post-abortion, because all their lives they have
been taught the lie – that they didn’t kill a baby – they just got rid of
tissue. And it is easier on everyone to just believe that lie – otherwise we
have to be held responsible and accountable for some 50 million murders.
Why am I bothering to write this whole series on my blog? I
know not very many people will read what I have written and those who do may
already agree with me. But perhaps that one person who might read it might
start to re-think what they have been taught and bought into. Maybe they won’t
change their views – but maybe they’ll start thinking. Maybe a small seed will
be planted and that makes it all worth it. We must use the God-given ability of
thinking – just because the world, the culture, the society, our peers will
tell us that a beating heart means nothing – we must seek truth.
Next post will be the final in this abortion series and will
focus on the beauty of life.
