Abortion And Slavery: Peas In A Pod
Bill Clinton’s Pro Life Statement…Sort Of
In 1998, president Clinton stated that he wanted to keep abortion “safe, legal, and rare”. Now if you’re paying attention, you’ll wonder why he said “rare”. Why would he want it to be “rare”? The inference is that there’s something wrong with it. Otherwise, he should have been encouraging women to say, “Yes please. Can I have another?”
This is also played out in this years election. The Democrats have decided to drop that whole line of verbal feces for a new line according to Kay Steiger of Pushback:
It looks like the Democratic Party dropped the “safe, legal and rare” part of its platform on choice. The new platform which was just released, puts less of an emphasis on the controversial abortion reduction framework.
Again, why reduce it if there’s nothing wrong with it to begin with? Isn’t it just like taking the pill? Most abortions are elective and have nothing to do with a life threatening situation. So why reduce it?
Yeah. They know why.
You Are Not A Person Says Me
If you asked a pro-abortionist (yeah, I said it like that on purpose) if they were pro-slavery, they’re probably going to say no (we hope). Yet pro-abortionists are guilty of using the same arguments as the pro-slavery crowd back in the 1800s.
In the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, they ruled that blacks were non-persons under the Constitution and therefore had no rights as citizens. In 1973 in Roe v. Wade, Sarah Weddington, attorney for Norma McCorvey (Roe), said this:
Life is an ongoing process. It is almost impossible to define a point at which life begins or perhaps at which life ends.
In one fell swoop, she argued for both abortion and euthanasia. In addition, just like Dred Scott v. Sanford, unborn babies have no rights. They’re nothing but property.
A Mirror Reflection
There are some rather stunning similarities both of these cases:
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | Roe v. Wade |
| Slavery is legal | Abortion is legal |
| 7 to 2 decision | 7 to 2 decision |
| Blacks are non-persons | Unborn are non-persons |
| Blacks are property of the owner | Unborn are property of the owner |
| Abolitionist should not impose morality on the slave owner. | Pro-lifers should not impose morality on the mother. |
From Legislating Morality, Geisler and Turek pg. 162
This just goes to show that those who don’t remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
The Bible IS Clear
Contrary to what some pandering left leaning pastors want to say, the Bible really is clear on when life begins. As a matter of fact, it says life begins BEFORE conception (Jeremiah 1:5). It’s man’s evil devices that ends life, in this case through the government (1 Samuel 22:19), then calls it a good thing (Isaiah 5:20) since it’s legal. Ask any pro-abortionist if “pro-choice” is good.
Obama says he supports a woman’s right to choose which is synonymous with saying he is pro-abortion. He’s also made it clear he’s not interested in overturning Roe v. Wade and obviously wouldn’t appoint judges to do that. In short, he will continue the ’spirit of Herod’ (Matthew 2:16). THAT, folks, we don’t need.
The spiritual ramifications of this are devastating:
Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind; (Amos 1:13-14)
Let’s not tempt the Lord anymore (Matthew 4:7) but relentlessly and tirelessly battle for the lives of those who can’t do it for themselves.
TOMORROW: Four reasons to have an abortion….or not.
