Society faces many weighty issues, especially
in the moral realm. They are looking for leadership and the church is uniquely
placed to offer it - on the natural and spiritual levels. One of those
contentions issues is abortion: should we have a blanket ‘pro-life’ stance or
does a woman have a ‘right to choose’ whether to continue her pregnancy or not?
Even if they have such a right, should there be limitations on timing and
reasons (e.g. sex selection abortion, late term abortions)?
In Part 01, this author spoke about
how his progressivist, millennial niece in the United States asked for his
opinion on abortion. He could say anything he wanted for as long as he wanted. Parts
01, 02, and 03, are his answers.
For a long time, abortion was illegal because
it was considered murder. It was occurring anyway illegally and dangerously. In
the United States, like in Australia, abortion is a state issue, not federal.
On 22 January 1973, the US Supreme Court give its ‘Roe versus Wade’ decision,
giving women in America the right to an abortion. It overturned the laws of 31
states immediately. Though considered a ‘compromise’ versus a ‘blank cheque’ for
‘abortion on demand,’ around 60 million abortions have been performed in the
United States since the passage of Roe.
Roe Explained
Roe vs. Wade cited the Fourteenth Amendment
to the US Constitution (ratified in 1865, just after the Civil War), which
guarantees Americans the right to ‘life, liberty, and property.’ Then the court
applied ‘substantive due process’ (SDP) to the 14th Amendment, and somehow
created a ‘woman’s right to privacy,’ though this is not explicitly
mentioned in the Constitution. SDP can mean that, according to the 5th and 14th
amendments of the US Constitution, a law can be struck down simply because the
court doesn’t like it - a ridiculous notion.
What it really means is that neither state
nor federal governments can deny life, liberty, or freedom to US citizens
without substantive or significant due process by the courts.Thus, the 14th
amendment, which was meant to protect life was now used as justification to
terminate the life of a future American citizen. As one person put it, the US
Supreme Court created a constitutional right to privacy ‘out of thin air.’
Ben Shapiro in his article No, Abortion
Isn't a Constitutional Right,[1] counters the
progressivist argument that abortion is a constitutional right.
This, of course, is a lie. There is no ‘right to abortion’ in
the Constitution. The founders would have been appalled by such a statement.
The Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade (1973) is a legal monstrosity by
every available metric: As legal scholar John Hart Ely wrote, Roe ‘is not constitutional
law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.’
Shapiro also highlights how the left-wing,
pro-choice elites, speak about the ‘constitutional right’ to an abortion - of
which the Constitution says nothing - yet deny the clearly written, truly
constitutional rights of ‘free speech,’ ‘freedom of religion,’ and freedom to ‘bear
arms.’
Abortion Justified: If you can successfully deny that the foetus is a ‘person’ and
worthy of legal protection, or at least, be ambiguous about its personhood,
then abortion goes from being ‘murder’ to merely a ‘reproductive right,’ ‘women’s
health issue,’ and/or ‘medical
procedure.’
One high-profile retired US politician, with
universal name recognition, says he is an evangelical Christian, claimed to
search the Scriptures on this issue. His conclusion: The Bible does not say
when the human spirit enters the body. Once the spirit enters the foetus, it is
a person, he reasons. Needless to say, this politician is ‘pro-choice.’ Perhaps
this politician could look at:
Jeremiah 1:5: Before I formed thee in
the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I
sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations or
Psalm
139:14-16:I
will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
marvellous
are Your works, and that my soul knows
very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, when
I was made in secret, and skillfully
wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being
yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when
as yet there were none of them.
TO BE CONTINUED
[1]
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2019/05/22/no-abortion-isnt-a-constitutional-right-n2546661/print
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