The Midterms are Nearly Here

Abortion has become sanitized.

Throughout the many years of national debate, many have become numb to the realities of abortion. If we are honest, this can even include us in the pro-life movement.

Abortion is often discussed in a manner more fitting for a debate on tax policy than a fight against the most horrific mass murder in history.

This is, of course, done intentionally by pro-abortionists who must obfuscate and blur the lines of the moral reality at all costs. Sanitizing the barbarity of abortion in the court of public opinion is their most important objective. The longer this debate rages on, the more numb society naturally becomes.

Consider the language they force on this debate. No abortion advocate ever says, “killing a child.” They say “reproductive healthcare.” They never say, “tearing a baby limb from limb.” They say, “terminating a pregnancy.” The baby becomes “tissue,” or “products of conception,” or a “clump of cells” anything to avoid saying the word “baby.”

If we are going to end this atrocity, we can never lose sight of the reality of abortion. We can never let it become sanitized.

Abortion is the intentional and premeditated murder of innocent children. Last year, more than 1,100,000 children were slaughtered. To put a visual to that, imagine the Cowboys football stadium filled to maximum capacity. Now imagine that someone brutally killed all 100,000 people inside. Think of the national outrage. There would be vigils at every church, and flags would fly half-mast. The nation would stop and mourn over the loss of 100,000 innocent people.

Now imagine that death and destruction happening eleven times in just one year. That is more than 3,000 children killed every single day.

Since 1973, our nation has seen nearly 66 million innocent babies killed. That number is more than ink on paper, or pixels on a screen. That number represents innocent little babies who were brutally torn limb from limb as their little arms and legs were twisted off or their skulls crushed. Their bodies were reassembled on a table like a horrific jigsaw puzzle. Many were cut off from progesterone and starved to death. Others were horrifically poisoned with hypertonic saline injections. All suffered the same tragic fate.

This is a deeply unsettling and uncomfortable reality to think about, so it is not unreasonable that many people are eager to sanitize the topic in their minds. Something akin to closing your eyes to not see the monster in front of you. But the monster does not vanish because we refuse to look at it. It just eats you.

If we close our eyes, we lose. The babies lose.

On occasion, it is important that we splash cold water on our faces and fix our eyes on the truth. Do not allow abortion to become sanitized in your mind. Do not allow this national debate to become benign in your mind.

Abortion is not like a tax policy. It is not like a debate surrounding an infrastructure project.

The midterms are nearly here, and voters have a choice. Will we sit idly by and allow pro-abortion politicians and policies to win at the ballot box, or will we show up and defend those who cannot defend themselves? The babies cannot vote. But we can vote for them.

We cannot just be nominally pro-life. If we say that we believe the unborn are innocent humans and abortion is murder, but we do not act like it, then we do not truly believe it. The least we can do for the unborn is to research who and what is on the ballot. Become an educated voter and defend the unborn. Encourage your friends, family, and church community to use their vote to love their neighbor in the womb.

Showing up and voting to defend life is the least we can do for the babies in the womb.

Christians are the largest voting bloc in America. Roughly two-thirds of American adults identify as Christian, and self-identified Christians made up 72 percent of everyone who voted in the 2024 election.

If Christians showed up, we could fundamentally change the landscape of this nation almost overnight. Not in a generation. Not after some decades-long cultural project. In a single election. The votes are already there, sitting in the pews every Sunday. They just need to be cast.