This is not a political statement on the legitimacy of
either of the candidates for the 2016 US presidential election. It is simply an
observation that has left me grieving what people think and feel about the
killing of unborn babies.
Both before and after the election, when I heard people list
the character flaws and misbehaviors of Donald Trump, and why Hillary Clinton’s
character flaws and misbehaviors were preferable to his, I never once heard any
of these people talk about Hillary’s beliefs about the killing of children.[1] To
have an opinion on a leader is one thing. However, to form an opinion without
considering the care and protection of unborn babies is to leave us guilty of a
serious devaluing of human life.
So, let’s take this one issue and set it before us, not to pick
sides between two people, but to consider how much our beliefs about the condition
of a society, or its potential leaders, factors in our beliefs about protecting
the most vulnerable of our citizens.
Yes, unborn babies are citizens of the country in which the
parents are citizens. If they don’t have the right to life, no one is safe.
No, unborn babies are not their mother’s bodies; they are
their own bodies, which is why they are the ones that die during an abortion,
not the mother.
All I want us to think about is this: when you hear anyone
declare their acceptance, even their celebration, of mothers being able to
order the killing of their babies all the way up to the time when eighty
percent of their baby’s body is held in a doctor’s hand outside the mother’s
body, where do you put this in any order of priority regarding character flaws
and misbehaviors?
To help with this, what would we call it if a mother of
already-born children found someone who was willing to kill them for her? For a
moment, don’t put this alongside anyone else’s flaws or misbehaviors; just
think about what we are doing in our society when so many would gladly support
the killing of our youngest citizens.
If you have not yet seen videos or pictures showing what it
looks like to kill a baby while it’s living body is still in its mother’s womb,
or what a doctor is willing to do to a baby’s head while holding most of the
baby’s body in his or her hands, you haven’t allowed yourself to truly judge
how this compares or contrasts to the millions of videos showing other kinds of
character flaws and misbehaviors. If we truly care about every citizen of our
countries as people to protect, we should have watched just as many videos, and
read just as many posts, about the killing of unborn children, as we did with
regard to other character flaws and misbehaviors.
Please don’t put words in my mouth and say I am a Trump
supporter, or that I’m okay with the character flaws and misbehaviors of men
who mistreat and malign women. I’m only addressing whether we have all
considered what many people believe is a woman’s right to do to her children.
Please don’t turn this into a statement of what men think
they can tell women to do with their bodies, since this is only about what
people think they can do to baby’s bodies, not the mothers. The inherently
protective character of true manhood has every right to seek the protection of
unborn children as much as every mother in the world should affirm.
However, do let me put before you in my own words the
reminder of what women are willing to do to their unborn babies, and doctors who
are willing to carry out criminal acts against fellow human beings, and
politicians who have publicly declared their belief that certain citizens of a
country can be killed just because their mother wants it that way. Something is
wrong if we haven’t even factored into our worldview what it means that human
beings are so willing to kill human beings, especially the most vulnerable and
defenseless of them all.
In a baby’s world, their Mother ought to be the most
protective and nurturing person they ever know. A Mother’s body is designed for
nurturing; her heart is designed for nurturing; her mind is capable of thinking
a magnificent array of nurturing thoughts for her child. When a Mother says she
has a right to kill her baby, we should truly be horrified at what horrible
things human beings are able to perpetrate against one another, even those who
are more “their own” than anyone else in the world.
When God created human beings, he set them apart as the only
creature he made in his own image and likeness.[2] He
gave us the capacity to think, and to love, and to create, in ways totally like
his own thoughts, his own love, his own creativity. He gave humanity the
ability to sing and make music in our hearts even as he sings and makes music
over his beloved children. The reason that we have some sense of what is good,
is because God is good, and he made us to be like him.
However, the reason we have such a strong inclination
towards evil is because we rejected God’s goodness and preferred the ways of
sin and death. People argue over what is good because we are now sinners who
want our own ways. However, we also think in terms of good, even as bad as some
of our good might be, because we still have the remnant of the image of God
imprinted upon our souls.
I’ve shared God’s view of our sin and his solution to our
sinful condition in many of my posts, so I will keep the focus of this post on
the main question. Have we factored into our worldview, and our understanding
of what is wrong with our world, and why people vote as they do, what we
believe about the care and protection of our most vulnerable people?
If we haven’t understood what a human being is, and how even
our flawed condition still knows the sanctity of human life, we will likely
think that other character flaws and misbehaviors are of greater importance.
However, once we understand both the value of a human being, and the dignity of
our unborn children, the recognition of mothers, voters, and leaders, both
tolerating and promoting the killing of those in most need of protection, should
leave us horrified at how far humanity has fallen from our design in the image
and likeness of God.
So, yes, all evil is evil, including every degree, and
nuance, and expression anyone has ever imagined. However, if we have not
factored into our worldview what mothers and their doctors are willing to do to
their unborn babies, we are missing something hugely significant to
understanding what it means to be human. It may not make it a lot easier to
decide on which political leader is less evil than another, but it should turn
our hearts to the one person who would rather we brought the little children to
him instead of to those who wish them harm.
© 2016 Monte Vigh ~ Box 517,
Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com
Unless otherwise noted,
Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English
Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good
News Publishers.)
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