We Will Be Judged for Our Approval or Our Silence

This is a subject that is heavy on the hearts of many Christians. I pray that this devotion will inspire you to speak up at this important time in history (See Proverbs 31:8 and Proverbs 24:11-12). Please read all of the notes. Thank you.

➤ First, I want you to imagine how evil human thinking became to justify slavery: 

1. Believing a slave owner’s well-being was more important than a slave’s well-being. 

2. Believing a slave owner could play God with a slave’s life. 

3. Believing a slave owner's income, convenience, stability, wants, needs, and desires were more important than a slave’s income, convenience, stability, wants, needs, and desires. 

4. Believing it was a good government that allowed slave owners to own human beings.

How did Americans ever fall for these lies? 

➤ Now compare this evil thinking with the thinking that justifies abortion: 

1. Believing the mother’s well-being is more important than the baby’s. 

2. Believing the mother can play God with the baby’s life. 

3. Believing abortion is justified if it enhances the mother’s convenience, stability, income, wants, needs, and desires. 

4. Believing it's a good government that allows a mother to kill her baby.  

If we support abortion, we would have supported slavery. If we vote for proabortion candidates, we would have voted for proslavery candidates. God will judge us as he judged slave owners and proslavery advocates. Choose this day whom you will follow, dear Christians (Joshua 24:14-15).  

➤ Please make yourself aware of these popular proabortion arguments based on half-truths and outright lies:

Rape and incest

1% of abortions are due to rape and .05% are due to incest. Many authorities believe that adding abortion to these other abuses makes the healing process harder for the victims. I have great sympathy for women in these situations, but I don’t believe they should abort their babies. However, if you support abortion because of rape and incest, you should be strongly advocating against current abortion laws which allow women to kill their babies for any and every reason. 

 

Life of the mother

If you claim to support abortion because of actual threats to the health of the mother, you are simply repeating a proabortion lie. Proabortion advocates aren't stupid. They know that abortion to save the life of the mother has always been a part of abortion legislation in the U.S. And most of them know that modern medicine makes that choice virtually unnecessary. But the proabortion movement is highly skilled at propaganda. Please notice that they never focus on selfish reasons for abortion even though they comprise 98% of all abortions. Would it have been okay to own a slave so a person could get a better education, a better job, or have more leisure time? We'd all answer no to those questions, but what about these: Is it okay for a person to kill a baby so she can get a better education, a better job, or have more leisure time? Proabortion propaganda uses fake descriptions like "reproductive health" to disguise the selfish truth of abortion.

 

According to the Guttmacher Institute: "The reasons most frequently cited were that having a child would interfere with a woman's education, work or ability to care for dependents (74%); that she could not afford a baby now (73%); and that she did not want to be a single mother or was having relationship problems (48%). Nearly four in ten women said they had completed their childbearing, and almost one-third were not ready to have a child. Fewer than 1% said their parents' or partners' desire for them to have an abortion was the most important reason. Younger women often reported that they were unprepared for the transition to motherhood, while older women regularly cited their responsibility to dependents."

Now please put this in proper perspective. Please look at all of those reasons and tell me which of those reasons is so serious that it should make slavery legal again? Which is so serious that a baby should give his or her life to alleviate it? None of these reasons are life-threatening, and many of them could be alleviated by adoption or by seeking help available from pro-life groups, churches, family members, or government programs.

⮚ And please never say, "I'm personally opposed to abortion, but..."

If you claim to be opposed to abortion, but you vote for proabortion candidates for other reasons, you are saying that babies should give their lives so you can benefit from social programs, taxes, welfare programs, etc. You are basically accepting a bribe to let babies die (Deuteronomy 16:19; Exodus 23:8; Proverbs 15:27). I find this argument the most disturbing one used by Christians. I addressed a "Christian" group that promoted this bribery during the last election: See From VeggieTales to Situational Ethics.

⮚ "It won't change things..."

If you claim that you don't vote pro-life because it won't actually change the laws, explain where in Scripture God tells us that we only need to do the right thing when it brings the desired results. You won't find it. 

 

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