No. The pro-life movement is not pro-life. It is pro-choice, with exceptions. In the first years after Roe v. Wade made abortion legal up to birth in all fifty states those who stood opposed took the position, recognizing that human life begins at conception, that all the unborn deserve full protection under the law. Recognizing that a. abortions performed in the aftermath of rape or incest were exceedingly rare and b. the majority of Americans supported the legal murder of such babies, the pro-life movement adopted a strategy of laboring to stop the least popular forms of baby murder first, with the hope of stopping the more popular forms later.
The law of unintended consequence came in like a hurricane. Soon, candidates for political office, vowing the protect the exceptions, were called “pro-life.” Bills and laws that protected the exceptions were deemed “pro-life.” Eventually “pro-life” politicians, organizations and supporters fought against legislation that did not allow for exceptions.
The pro-choice position argues that some unborn babies should enjoy the full protection of the law, and other unborn babies should not. The distinction is rooted in the desire of the mother. Wanted unborn babies should be protected, while the mothers who hire “doctors” to murder their unwanted unborn babies should be protected.
The pro-life position argues that some unborn babies should enjoy the full protection of the law, and other unborn babies should not. The distinction is rooted in the circumstances of the baby’s conception. Babies conceived by consenting adults should be protected. Babies born who were conceived in the process of a crime by the father should have no protection.
The pro-life movement likewise focused its efforts on what the public has considered the most egregious forms of abortion. Late term abortions and partial birth abortions came under fire by the pro-life movement, and various laws were passed. And now we have “pro-life” politicians talking about a “15 week” compromise. None of those nasty, dirty abortions will be allowed, except for those nasty rape/incest babies. The rest will be the polite, clean abortions of babies under 15 weeks old.
To be a part of the “Pro-Life Movement” one must abandon reason, moral sanity and the blessing of God. What one gains is, purportedly, electability. Which is of no use, because it cannot be used to protect all unborn babies.
My counsel is that we all disavow this fatally compromised movement. Many in it do not even know where they stand. That may include you. It is a heartbreaking thing to discover that those whom you thought to be allies are allied with the enemy. But courage, wisdom, honor require that we refuse to identify with those lacking in courage, wisdom and honor.
If you are unfamiliar with it let me encourage you to check out the abolitionist movement. We are those seeking, in reliance on the grace and power of God, to abolish all human abortion. We are those calling the government, God’s ministers of justice, to protect all babies and punish all those complicit in their murder.
One question I must ask about those complicit in abortions. When it comes to the government ministering justices, where do we put the statute of limitations? Or is that not at all just. I don’t believe there is any such statute on the murder of an adult. Wouldn’t that be odd? Are you looking to tie the courts up with millions of unlawful death cases? Murderous doctors who have preformed this procedure numerous times ought to be held to a higher conviction of the law wouldn’t you think? I guess I’m just one of those naive pro-lifers but when it comes to dishing out justice for the unborn, maybe we should leave that to God.
No. Not even abolitionists seek to punish people who did what was legal while legal. Instead we seek to submit to God’s will that governments outlaw murder and punish those who commit it. See Genesis 9 and Romans 13. Murder is not, according to God, merely moral law that He judges after death, but is something that carries with it His will that it be punished by human government with death.
I have seen first hand what you have written. Years ago, I was helping a political candidate run for president. He was a real pro-life candidate, and someone who was well-qualified, and was a Godly man. And someone who, I believe had a chance at winning. But the pro-life organizations refused to get behind him, and supported a candidate who made exceptions.
Multiply that across many political races over decades of time.