We got some of the sharpest female minds with us today (Katy Faust and Stacy Manning) on this special podcast episode on abortion. The world is loosing its mind and the culture's responds to the Texas heart beat law, is no exception. We couldn't help but notice the outrage against it, so we did a special podcast session, were we unpack what should be obvious to Christian's... why abortion and the killing of babies is evil and how to combat some of the common arguments and mindset that comes with those who think abortion is a good thing.
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- "Them Before Us" book address this topic of abortion, amongst many other aspects of Children's Rights
- Website: https://thembeforeus.com
- Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1642935964
- "Children's rights are being sacrificed on the alter of adult desires"
- Abortion is the literal sacrificing children on the alter of convenience.
- Our primary human right (including kids, born or unborn), is the right to life... without which, no other right matters.
- Children have a right to life and a right to their mom and dad.
- Why is abortion NOT about the woman's body?
- If it was "my body my choice"... if it was "your body", then after the abortion, you (the mother) would be the one dead at the end of the procedure.
- Children are not born for us, they are born through us and completely distinct from their mother.
- As Christian's, "our body" and our children's bodies and lives are not our own. We are stewards of the lives God gives us, the kids's God blesses us with and all that God entrusts us with in this life.
- The push for abortion is one of the many byproducts of feminism, where feminist see that a man can walk away from a pregnancy, but the woman can't. And so in their mind, women will never be equal until they are the same and so abortion is the woman's equality to be able to walk away from the pregnancy too.
- A better option for equality, where no one has to die, is insisting that the man doesn't walk away from the baby and it's mother.
- Men are co-creators and 50% responsible for creating this new life, should have a say and should be held responsible and accountable.
- Woman who have never been pregnant, given birth or been a parent, have no place to tell men (many of whom have walked with their wives through the pregnancy and birthing process) have no say on abortion because it's solely a "woman's issue".
- The manipulation of language to obscure the brutally hard truth about what abortion actually is.
- You can't counter an emotional argument (most pro-choice arguments) with a logical or moral argument (pro-life argument).
- You can't make an argument or justification for something, using the exception instead of examining the rule (defending the pro-choice position with the "what about rape or incest" - those are exceptions with only 1% of abortions being due to that and policy & law should not be made based on the outlying exceptions)
- Abortion is not about "reproductive health". The baby has already been conceived (reproduced) and if not interrupted by a deliberate attempt to end the babies life, it will grow and be born as a human baby.
- Christian's CAN NOT be both "pro life" and "pro choice" and still be faithful to Jesus. Stacy takes it one step further and says, "you can't be a Democrat or vote for Democratic policies and politicians and still call yourself a Christian".
- The "right" to abortion is not a constitutional right (The Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973, is not part of the constitution)
- What are Christian's to do when what is legal and allowed (or even applauded), is not in alignment with what God says is good or right.
- So much of the cultural conversation come down to what we consider "sacred": Either "life" is sacred or personal choice, individual will, or "woman's health" (or something else) is considered sacred.
- Either the unborn life of the baby has moral significance or it doesn't... and that will determine where someone falls on the issue of abortion.
- There have been over 41M legal abortions from 1973 to 2018 and while the numbers have been decreasing since 1997, there were still 620,000 abortions in 2018 (the last year the data is available) and society has shifted from saying they should be safe, rare and legal, to they should be allowed for any reason, at any time, with no shame/stigma and even celebrated.
- I believe that abortion is our generation's "slavery" and in 50-100 years, society will look back on the Millions of snuffed out lives due to abortion and wonder how a society could not only allow such an atrocity but actually encourage it and call it a good thing.
- Progressive ideology is guilty of "the bigotry of low-expectations" towards minorities.
- RESOURCE:
Genesis 1:27-28 - "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.""
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