A seemingly impossible, yet historic event has finally come to fruition. The moment came on a Friday morning as protesters gathered outside 1 First St. NE, Washington, D.C. Eruptions of cheers and wailings of sorrow filled the air as the long-awaited decision was released… Roe v. Wade has been overturned by the Supreme Court, and the entire country has been affected in ways that no one on either side of the debate thought was ever possible again. To some, this is an unspeakable and terrible horror that has seemingly made their worst nightmares become reality as questions of women’s rights and choice of healthcare are either a giant unknown variable or are threatened to be wiped from existence entirely. Others, meanwhile, are praising the decision (some even breaking out in tears) and thanking God that finally there is more than just hope of being able to protect unborn lives. Maybe, just maybe, this is a glimpse of a future country that can return to a sense of morality.
While both of these mindsets are extremely polarized, there lies some truth in the middle; but not in the way most may think. To some, the threat of their bodily autonomy and personal right to choose their healthcare are very real. They cannot possibly understand why the right wing mindset can be so hypocritical as to dare take away their personal rights after preaching so hard about the constitution being against governmental overreach. To them, this was a basic precedent that was already set, and their constitutional right to have an abortion was already decided. Why did this have to change? Why did the right wing patriarchy have to get involved in a woman’s decision on what to do with her own body? If you are a rational thinking human being, on the surface, this question is a good one; however, if you actually are a rational thinking human being, then you probably also believe that something, anything, that has a heartbeat represents the presence of life.
What is life? Not so long ago this was a question that would have been laughed at if you dared to ask your peers. It was a very simple answer. There are many forms of life in our universe, and everyone up till now, seemed to understand what that was. Assuming if you are reading this, you went to school and learned the written English language; you probably also learned about basic biology. Plants, animals, and micro organisms all represent life. It's also fair to point out the backwards thinking of modern secular science that considers bacteria on other planets to be life, but a natural human heartbeat of an unborn child is not. Instead what modern feminism has convinced its supporters of is that a baby is only precious and sentient when you plan to give birth and raise it. When you don’t want to give birth to or raise the child it is a parasite that is literally sucking the life out of you and has a monstrous conspiracy to destroy your hopes, dreams, career, love life, and at the very worst, could possibly kill you if it wishes to do so.
There are many reasons pro-choicers give when they talk about the right to an abortion. Among these are rape and incest, the fetus has medical conditions, they are too poor to have a child, or the mother’s life could possibly be threatened by a complicated birth. All of these are extremely low in the percentile of real situations and do not represent the majority of conditions under which abortions take place. There is something else that pro-choicers do not wish to admit; these are all excuses for committing murder.
But what is murder? The legal definition of murder is “the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another”. But now we have a problem; we have to define a human being. Our country and our constitution was built for a God-fearing people. God created human beings in the image of Himself and gave us dominion over the earth. God gave man a special place in creation. In Psalms 139:13-16 The Bible tells us God himself forms each human in the womb and touches every soul He creates. He ordains us with purpose. The one thing someone of a rational mind should not do is let the decision of defining a human being be decided by people who don't even know what a woman is. As an unavoidable consequence of tearing God out of the schools and replacing Him with the religion of atheism, our society at large has devolved into a chaotic obsession over self identity and denial.
So really, can you blame these people for wanting to escape the consequences of their own decisions when our public school system has taught them there is no God and therefore no repercussions to their actions? No, you can’t. When secular society has taught you to be skeptical of The Almighty, it is no surprise that down the line you have at best a civilization that adopted the philosophy of moral relativity and at worst complete anarchy. Under these devolved societies human beings get redefined and murder becomes justified. This is a typical tactic by progressives to redefine anything they don't agree with as a means to justify their own actions.
Skepticism, to a degree, is healthy in a society. It allows for growth in both moral philosophy and in industry. Asking the question “Why?” is the exact first step in learning any new idea. Rules are there to be defined. The usual way of doing things is meant to be challenged in order to find BETTER ways of doing things. However, when you don’t answer to a higher power or higher enlightenment than your basic knowledge of reality, it causes your skepticism to be answered in only one way, “Man is the measure of all things”. The birth of chaos and anarchy is the belief that man makes the rules, and none can challenge man’s experience.
At the end of that philosophy you have to ask why we have rules, laws, and ordinances. These, in essence, were put together to keep civilization intact and also to be productive. The things that aren't productive to a society soon get laws passed to regulate or even do away with them. Productivity though is not the “end all” to a civilization. More than being productive we have an obligation to protect the citizens that live within our civilization, including the unborn. Not only is this a moral argument against murdering children, but it also begs the question that if this continues, then where does it stop? One of the main arguments is that a baby isn't a productive member of society therefore it has no constitutional rights. Following this logic out to its inevitable end, society will start to deem euthanasia to be morally acceptable. It won't end there. History has already proven with the Holocaust and many other examples, that anyone at anytime who lives under a society that challenges the objective standard of morality can deem anyone to be less than human. Not to mention slavery which painted black Americans in the same way.
These are reasons why moral objective truth is so important. Moral standards won a huge victory in the Supreme Court’s decision but let us keep praying and hoping that not only the unborn can be protected but that they are seen as human again. After all, the unborn child has its own body, mind, will, and emotions completely separate from that of its mother. If modern feminists want to insist on bodily autonomy, the baby has to have that right as well.
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