It's All About Abortion!

"I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly" [Jn 10:10]

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For years, really for decades, I've believed that for the Left, the key issue, the issue that overrides all others is abortion. 

For them abortion is more important than pushing their Marxist economic plans through legislative and executive action.

Abortion is more important than destroying free markets through the fascist control of large corporations and the resulting destruction of small business.

Abortion is more important than infecting our educational system with their hatred of our nation and our Judeo-Christian religious and moral values.

Abortion is more important than exerting authoritative dominance over the lives of the people through a centralized, controlling healthcare system that delegates life and death decisions to faceless bureaucrats.

Abortion is more important than dismantling our military and our nation's ability to defend itself against hostile powers that are seen as allies in ensuring the Left's dominance of the people.

Abortion is more important than disarming our nation's citizenry so the people will be forced to submit to the Left's all-encompassing internal control.

Abortion is more important than their desire to suppress the basic, God-given rights of the people: freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom to defend oneself and one's family...

Indeed, to the Left, abortion overrides all other issues because it's central to their primary goal: to replace God with themselves.

As faithful Christians we believe God created each of us in an individual act of love. We take the prayer of the Psalmist seriously:

You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works! [Ps 139:13-14]

Life, then, is a gift from God, a gift of creation. To destroy that life is not only to deny the gift, it is also to deny the Giver. Abortion, because it destroys the most innocent of all human life, is the most horrendous of sins. The Church, in the Nicene Creed, praises the Holy Spirit by extending to Him the title, "the Lord and giver of life." Can there be greater evil than the attempt to usurp His power by destroying life as soon as His gives it? 

One "power" is, of course, ultimately behind this abomination, this vain attempt to take unto himself the power of God, and that is Satan. Interestingly, over 50 years ago (1968), Pope Paul VI, in his encyclical, Humanae Vitae, warned that the contraception mentality would lead to many other evils. He predicted artificial contraception could lead to other, often more serious sins, that:

• Would "open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards" [HV, 17];
• Lead "a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods to forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection [HV,17];
• "...when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife [HV, 17];
• "...unless we are willing that the responsibility of procreating life should be left to the arbitrary decision of men, we must accept that there are certain limits, beyond which it is wrong to go" [HV, 17].

The Holy Father continued by reminding us that the family, the Church, and the civil community must remember that liberty has its limits. In his words:

"Everything therefore in the modern means of social communication which arouses men's baser passions and encourages low moral standards, as well as every obscenity in the written word and every form of indecency on the stage and screen, should be condemned publicly and unanimously by all those who have at heart the advance of civilization and the safeguarding of the outstanding values of the human spirit. It is quite absurd to defend this kind of depravity in the name of art or culture or by pleading the liberty which may be allowed in this field by the public authorities" [HV, 22]

Far too many today, Christians and others, seem to believe that freedom of speech should have no limitations. As a nation we long understood that the founding fathers believed the people have the power to limit even speech when it obviously fosters or actively encourages that which is intrinsically evil, especially those evils that strive to undermine the well-being of the people and destroy the very Constitution that enumerates their God-given rights. Today, because we openly deny the strong religious element in the foundation of our nation, we also publicly deny that good should be supported and encouraged and evil should be recognized for what it is and condemned.

Because real evil is allowed to flourish, we can expect to encounter more of the same. This is why, if the Supreme Court accepts the opinion of the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade, we will surely encounter much violence in our streets this summer. Keep in mind, as I have said before, the most violent people in our nation are those who support abortion, those who support the violent, painful, dismembering slaughter of the most innocent among us. Pray for them, and love them as God loves them, because only He can change hearts so filled with hatred. 

Satan, by the way, has made a crucial error. By leading so many to abort these unborn infants, he has created a powerful, heavenly army of grace-filled warriors who stand in God's Presence. They are no doubt devoted to praying for the end of abortion in our nation and throughout the world. And how good is that!