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The Sticky Wicket That Abortion Has Become for the 2024 Election

The aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections has had Republican politicians scrambling to rebrand themselves and the definition of what it means to be Pro-Life. When the "red tsunami" the GOP predicted, turned out to be a red ripple that barely rocked the boat, Republicans found themselves, reeling back on their heels and staggering from the election results. They won the majority in the House by the slimmest of margins and lost the majority in the Senate. What happened? Dobbs is what happened. The Supreme Court overturned Roe and along with it with the erroneous "woman's constitutional right" to have an abortion, and returned the abortion issue back to individual states. The Democrats, however, turned a legal victory for the pro-life cause into a defeat by winning the narrative. It all began with the leak from the Supreme Court and then the left's spin machine went to work branding the right as the ones who are extreme and adroitly incited and stoked fears amongst women voters. Once again Republicans found themselves flat footed and unprepared to meet the challenge. Make no mistake about it Democrats will make this their biggest campaign issue because it's the only winning issue they have and here's why they have the edge.

Public opinion has swung to pro-choice, according to Pew, 61% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Interestingly 60% of Republicans say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. By contrast 80% of Democrats say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Views on abortion by age among adults under 30 (74%) say abortion should be legal. This is perhaps the most distressing statistic of all because we are losing the future. What is being done to turn the hearts and minds of our young to value life? If you break down by religious affiliation, 74% of white evangelicals do not support abortion but that still leaves 26% who do. Surprisingly, only 56% of Catholics are pro-life. Clearly the Church is not doing its job very well. Once our children enter the public school system from K through 12 and beyond, we are churning out uneducated, indoctrinated, secular progressives. This is what we are up against and it won't be turned around over night. We need to take a long term approach to turning this around, after all, it took 50 years to overturn Roe. Our main focus should not be winning over the hearts and minds of the 61% who are entrenched in their beliefs, but to focus on winning over future generations. (a topic for another time)

So what about the here and now? I am extremely disappointed in the capitulation of our so called pro-life candidates. A non-profit research group aligned with Mitch McConnell, One Nation, found that 71% of suburban women disagree with the Dobbs decision. Translate that to: Republicans collective geese are being roasted in the burbs, and they are reacting to it, too little, too late. Stick a fork in it, it's done and it will be served up in the 2024 election for lunch. The Republican Primary debate was very revealing on the capitulation by candidates. "Stalwart" pro-lifers, Mike Pence and Tim Scott support a 15 week ban on abortion. Did you know that 93% of all abortions occur on or before 13 weeks? This is a not a pro-life stance at all! It is a compromise with death and the left. Here's a statistic for you, Republicans, almost 100% of all abortions lead to the death of an innocent life. Trump, Mikki Haley, and DeSantis are no better. Haley is for compromise, both Trump and DeSantis are evasive, however, DeSantis has signed a six week abortion ban in Florida. Nikki Haley says we must find a consensus. Here's the kicker, 24% of Republican women now consider themselves to be pro-choice! We are playing to consolidate our own base and by capitulating on this issue we have lost the moral high ground. A sticky wicket indeed, for Republicans.

Good and Truth Allows for the Beautiful

Good is, that God made us male and female. Truth is that, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall become one flesh." Beauty only can come about when there is good and truth.

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A Look Back On A Half Century of Roe

This past Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Roe v. Wade case which unleashed a holocaust slaughter of the unborn across our country. When Cain killed his brother Abel, Abel's spilt blood cried out to the Lord in heaven and he heard him. What would the blood of 70 million innocent aborted children sound like? This is the 50 year legacy of the Roe v. Wade decision.

A  Harvard Law Professor, Laurence Tribe, wrote that the abortion debate was a clash of absolutes, liberty on one side and life on the other. Although he correctly framed the argument he came down on the side of absolute liberty. By claiming absolute liberty you have the right to destroy another humans right to live. This is moral insanity for any society to believe this, yet we have lived under Roe which has done exactly that.

 Roe was passed overwhelmingly by a 7-2 decision. Justice Byron White wrote the dissenting opinion which turned out to be the very reasoning that overturned the decision 50 years later. The decision was a legal and a moral disaster for our country resulting in over 64 million souls lost to abortions. Can you imagine what it would be like if you went to the states of California, Florida and Idaho and  found them empty of people?  Those three states populations add up to approximately 64 million people, the same number murdered by abortions.

What mind set justifies this perdition? The worldview that sees life as a cosmic accident, random chaos plus billion of years of time and somehow life crawls out of a primordial soup. We are no more than a perambulating sack of chemical reactions. There is no soul or belief in the metaphysical. Everything can or will be explained by science. We live in a mechanistic world where life has no meaning or purpose. Science is our savior and is the god we turn to with all our problems for answers. This is Enlightenment thinking that has slowly poisoned the Christian worldview that once was predominant in the west. This is why in a philosophical sense abortion is practiced today. The Bible calls it "whoring after Molech." Molech was a god worshipped by the Canaanites that required child sacrifices to it. In Leviticus, God expected anyone guilty of this practice to be put to death and anyone who refused to stop this practice was guilty as well. 

Now we are back to square one, as if Roe never happened. Each state must decide for itself the abortion issue. Some will outlaw it all together and some will embrace it and remove any regulation or impediment from obtaining one. Before Roe became law New York State had already legalized it. They went so far as placing billboard ads in surrounding states to drum up business. Come to New York and for $250.00 we take care of things for you. Two years after legalizing abortion in the state over 400,000 abortions were performed, 2/3 of this total came from out of state "customers." Do the math 400,000 abortions at $250.00 each, they grossed 100 million dollars, the abortion industry had begun and it was lucrative. Today it is even more so, abortion factories like Planned Parenthood not only perform abortions but sell body parts for scientific research. It is big business.

Everything in our power must be done  to stand against this evil. We have a chance for a redo in every state, the stakes are high and  it is life or death, there is no middle ground to be found, you must choose a side. Which side are you on?