How often have you heard someone say, “This is the most important election America has ever faced.” This time I believe it’s true and in the days ahead we can alter history by being good stewards of our vote. Life Issues Institute isn’t able to endorse any candidate or party but we can encourage you and others to vote.
Allow me to make a personal observation. It has taken the pro-life movement, with the blessing of the Creator of Life, five decades to achieve the reversal of Roe v Wade and give states the power to protect their most vulnerable citizens. It’s been an honor being a witness to and participating throughout this colossal half-century undertaking. The collective pro-life movement has done an amazing job of getting us to where we are.
But we are on the cusp of losing everything that has taken generations of hard work and prayer to achieve.
Over the years, pro-life pregnancy centers have grown to be a crucial component of the movement. They have evolved into a professional, highly effective powerhouse saving lives and ministering to women and their families long after their pregnancies end. We stand in awe of them.
Abortion extremists have been watching their progress too. Political attacks are growing against pregnancy centers because they increasingly impact the financial bottom line of the abortion industry.
If our votes, or lack of them, empower extremists in Washington, DC to increase their assaults against pregnancy centers, women and their families will greatly suffer.
If abortion extremists gain a larger foothold, state pro-life groups that have worked tirelessly to elect life-affirming legislators and governors will be powerless to protect their most precious natural resource – preborn children – from extreme federal legislation designed to negate all that has been accomplished to protect life.
When an extreme pro-abortion candidate is asked if there’s any point during pregnancy that he or she supports protecting the unborn baby, their fallback position is that they only want to re-establish Roe v Wade.
Don’t be fooled.
The Women’s Health Protection Act has been introduced in the US Senate multiple times. It goes beyond Roe by preventing states from enacting protections like mandatory waiting periods, ultrasounds, and bans on brutal partial-birth abortions. In the past, it failed to pass by one vote. The next time it will pass if good people do nothing.
There have been other extreme pro-abortion measures voted upon in Congress. Thankfully, they’ve also failed to pass, but for how long?
The Access to Birth Control Act would have forced pharmacists to fill chemical abortion pill prescriptions in opposition to their religious beliefs.
The so-called Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act would direct the government to regulate pro-life pregnancy centers to prevent them from “false advertising,” in other words promoting abortion pill reversal and disseminating the truth about abortion.
The Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act, the Reproductive Health Travel Fund Act, and the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act would all have forced taxpayers to fund abortions.
These measures will become grim realities for America’s unborn children if you and I don’t educate ourselves on where candidates stand on crucial issues and vote. Otherwise, we are in danger of handing abortion extremists a devastating victory.
A recent Cultural Research Center survey paints a picture of what I mean. Nearly 80 percent of today’s Evangelical Christians are passionately pro-life. Slightly more believe it is not morally acceptable to “have an abortion for any reason other than to protect the life of the mother.”
But then the survey takes an unsettling twist. One third of Evangelicals do not vote. Further, only about 40 percent pay “a lot” or “quite a bit” of attention to politics. Millions of Evangelicals are not engaging in the political realm. If Christians don’t fill the void and put their beliefs into action those promoting a godless world vision will and all of us will suffer as a result, most regrettably mothers and their unborn children.
Tragically, some pro-life leaders have actually encouraged Christians not to vote or to write in another candidate. With all due respect that is utter foolishness and an invitation for evil to triumph over good.
The political proponents of unlimited abortion believe that every unexpected pregnancy should result in a dead baby.
God has established our government that gives us the right to elect who leads it. Furthermore, He expects us to be good stewards of what He has established and vote for people who will do His will – especially when it comes to protecting His precious unborn children.
Of course, every candidate is sinful and imperfect. So, we must vote for the person closest to advancing the cause for life.
The Bible is laden with examples where God used flawed people to advance His kingdom. King David committed adultery with his neighbor’s wife and killed her husband to cover his sin. To protect his own skin, Abraham passed his wife off as his sister. Moses murdered an Egyptian. Peter denied knowing Jesus out of fear for his own life. It’s a long list.
Yet God used these flawed individuals in mighty ways. And He does the same today with the flawed people we vote to elect.
A candidate wedded to unrestrained abortion will pack the US Supreme Court and Appellate and District courts with people who worship at the altar of abortion on demand. A pro-abortion candidate will fill the United Nations Population Fund with taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions around the world. This is also a long list.
You and I can change the course of America’s history. It starts by learning where all the candidates stand on abortion. And then every one of us – everyone – must vote pro-life. If all God’s people engaged as purposeful voters, we could save millions of babies and spare their mothers and fathers the often emotional baggage that accompanies abortion.
So, it is illegal to commit suicide when no one knows, but it is okay if it is sanctioned by a doctor or person of authority? That is very, very sad!