This week we have seen two
examples in which the compromised, mushy, politically correct, hamstrung,
“loving,” pro-life movement is exposed for the ineffective, wasteful,
counterproductive money pit that it is.
No sooner was it revealed that
Focus on the Family has published a virtual how-to brochure for the
abortion pill than we are now treated to a Christianity Today authoress telling us that calling
abortion “murder” is “unchristlike.”
With pro-life activism like
this, who needs Planned Parenthood?
Earlier this week the link to
the abortion pill brochure made its rounds on social media. The pamphlet is
entitled “The Abortion Pill” and gives information on what happens during an
abortion and steps to take to avoid making it “less safe.” Wouldn’t want “less
safe” abortions now, would we? It is endorsed by Focus on the Family and hosted
on its website.
Buried near the end of the brochure, the author does suggest the reader
should “think about the life within you” and states that the abortion pill will
result in the “death of the baby.” Good. But why bury this truth beneath pages
of guidelines for abortion to be as safe as possible?
It’s an evangelical technique: let’s pretend to speak the language of the
lost, pretend to be one of them, and then bashfully squeeze in a tiny bit of
our own worldview at the end hoping they just might, please, please, consider
the Gospel if we’re nice enough, compassionate enough, not confrontational, and
do not appear too confident about our convictions. (This last part will kill
any deal among this crowd: if you wield your convictions confidently, you
automatically fail the first tip-toe-steps of the psychobabble-ballet. You will
be deemed a flathead and Neanderthal, and if you speak intellectually, a
patriarchalistic meanie.)
Ironically, the second example before us also took the step which is
normally edited out of such literature. On the second page, it acknowledges
that abortion “ends a precious human life.” One has to wonder, then, why she
demands we not call it what it is: murder. She writes:
[R]eferring to abortion providers as “abortion ghouls,” clinic
volunteers and workers as “deathscorts” or “bloodworkers,” and women who obtain
abortions as “murderers” is worse than inflammatory: it is unchristlike. Calling
legal abortion “murder” when it isn’t (it is, to our shame, lawful) is to say
what isn’t true, at least in a civil (not church) context.
Why the disconnect? Because she’s following the same method as the
brochure above: smothering truth beneath clouds and pillows of emotional
softness and niceness.
For this reason, she brings forth the proverb: “The words of the reckless
pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing” (Prov. 12:18).
Would that she had read the verses before and after that one:
He who speaks truth tells what is right,
But a false witness, deceit. . . .
Truthful lips will be established forever,
But a lying tongue is only for a moment.
Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,
But counselors of peace have joy. . . .
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
But those who deal faithfully are His delight (Prov. 12:17–22).
But a false witness, deceit. . . .
Truthful lips will be established forever,
But a lying tongue is only for a moment.
Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,
But counselors of peace have joy. . . .
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
But those who deal faithfully are His delight (Prov. 12:17–22).
Those who speak the truth must tell what is right . . . not engage
in watered-down deceits to make the truth more palatable to sin or those who
love sin. Those who lie in such a way are involved in an abomination to the
Lord.
It is just such a deceit to engage in the subterfuge that because
abortion is technically legal according to American civil law, to call it
“murder” is “to say what isn’t true.”
Well, technically it was “legal” to round up and kill Jews in
Nazi Germany, too, eh? Guess Christians should have sat by and not called it
“murder,” eh?
Oops. My bad. That’s exactly what mushy evangelical-types did do. Some things
never change.
One wonders exactly what that which “ends a precious human life” should
be called, after all.
I call it murder, because by God’s definition and God’s law, it is
murder. To have recourse to the laws of men to the contrary in order to remove
the stigma of the label is to obey men rather than God, and to refuse to
confess His name before men. To call the clear declaration of God’s standards
“unchristlike” is quite frankly to call evil good and good evil.
The insistence that we must
suppress the clear dictates of God’s Word under some feministic emotional
standard of “love” is subversion of the divinely-revealed objective with the
fallen-human subjective. This satanic exchange is being made in the name of
“the temperance of love.” Behold, the angel of light so comes.
Those who look upon these
instances as some sort of departure from once solid organizations need not be
so surprised. Some, for example, have noted that the move by Focus on the
Family occurred only after Dobson left. This has sure gone downhill!
But actually, the seeds of such
sell-out rebellion were sowed by Dobson himself. I confirmed my suspicions
speaking with some veterans of the hard-core pro-life movement. My source
assured me they spotted Dobson’s compromises with the cult of self-esteem and
humanistic Behaviorism from very early on. His focus on emotional neediness and
self-esteem have ruined more culture and feminized more Christians than the
ministry has helped. (Read a good critique here.)
Since the general evangelical world long since abandoned God’s Law as a
standard for all of life, they have filled the void with various types of
humanism. Christian colleges—even purportedly conservative Reformed ones—churn
out feminists faster than anything. They flood families, schools, churches,
missions, parachurch ministries, publishing houses, and the general
public—where they fit in.
What we see in these examples today is the fruit of a couple of generations
of sell-outs to humanism. What once started as allegiance to Sola Scriptura and
biblical worldview in the days of Carl F. Henry was quickly exposed as
lip-service, and is now in full subversion mode. God’s Law is now declared
unchristlike. God’s law is now cherry-picked to decree the declaration of God’s
Law in its fullness off-limits. For these, Autonomy has trumped Theonomy.
In doing so, these gelatinous
half-truthers are doing nothing—as their forefatheresses have done nothing for
over 40 years—to stop abortion. They have instead all but sanctioned it by
holding the hard-core at bay with their insistence on being so nice and
“loving.” They aid and abet the abortion-industrial complex with their
mushiness. Yet they want your donations because they’re so nice, “loving,” they
love “life,” and they have made such great progress.
In doing so, they have no idea what
love is. Love is defined by the dictates of God’s law. Any time we suppress or
avoid that truth out of alleged love, we do not love, we lie. It is time that
Christians today valued true Bible-based love over the lies institutionalized
by the previous generation.
I can’t think of anything the
pro-life movement needs to do more than openly declare that abortion is murder.
It needs to be a loud, unified declaration. Christians need to acknowledge what
the stakes really are. We should establish that point, and move forward from it
only.
