Reversing the National Abortion Trend

Alexander Hamilton said in Federalist Paper No. 1 that, “a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people . . .” If it’s not about a woman’s right to choose then what is abortion about? If it’s not about a homosexual’s right to marry then what is redefining marriage about? What exactly is that ‘dangerous ambition’ that Hamilton noted? It is the opposite of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; death, despotism and tyranny over mind and body.

Legislators as Moral Authorities?

My good friend, having a conversation with his 30 year old lesbian niece, asked this question during a conversation about New York State’s redefinition of marriage that occurred at the end of the last legislative session: “Where do rights come from?” My friend’s niece believes rights come from, “the government.” Does it bring you comfort to think that a State government provides your rights? If that is the case then that same government can take those rights away – at any time. The U.S. Declaration of Independence states that men are, “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”

A moral humanist (or rationalist) believes humanity does not need an external set of moral standards to keep people from trampling each other’s rights. They argue it behooves us to act fairly toward one another because of our obvious mutual need for peace and commercial prosperity. The notion that a godless utopia is an attainable goal has not only failed throughout history but has been the cause of the bloodiest of modern turmoil (i.e. Stalin’s Russia, Mao Tse Tung’s China, Hitler’s Germany, etc). In every case it is the belief that legislators, or in the cases mentioned above, a supreme Legislator knows best and sets the standard for what is right and wrong. To force upon a population legislation that declassifies as human a child in the womb, as did the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973, presumes that people who hold public office believe that rights are given by a State government and that the State is the highest moral authority and not God. And children die. Pitirim Sorokin noted that when categorical moral imperatives are eliminated it takes from man his “invisible armor that unconditionally protected him, his dignity, his sanctity, and his inviolability.” So if man is truly not made “a little lower than God” (Ps 8:5) and is simply a collection of biochemical reactions then why not abortion? Why not euthanasia? Why not human stem cell research? Why not physician assisted suicide? Why not homosexual marriage? Why not reduce medical ethics to mean “whatever the patient wants” or better yet “whatever the State deems suitable?” And people die.

Jeremiah 5:31 says, “. . . the priests rule on their own authority; And my people love it so! But what will you do at the end of it?” The logical end to this humanism, this godless rationalism is either chaos or tyranny. Chaos because right and wrong is in the eye of the beholder and tyranny because the government must enact tighter control on the population in order to maintain order in the face of increasing lawlessness. Only belief in Jesus Christ as Lord and an intentional life disciplined to live according to the Christian core values of devotion to God and sacrifice for others can give a person the ability to govern himself within first a family, second a community and finally a nation. These principles can only be taught to children in families with a female mother and a male father who also believes in the God whose character reflects those principles and Who will one day hold them accountable to them.

Women facing an unplanned pregnancy are a symptom of the moral aimlessness of our society. They are made to seriously consider abortion primarily because they are being coerced and pressured by self-interested others like friends, family, the father of the baby, and the consumerist expectations of an inhumane culture. The network of CompassCare’ centers serve thousands of women in this circumstance each year and we have found that women have abortions out of the fear of the unknown future. In medicine this reality reveals a coercive situation. To allow a patient to be coerced into any medical procedure, say nothing of ending the life of her child through abortion, is unconscionable.

CompassCare supports a woman’s true autonomy by ensuring complete information and support enough to give her a sense of empowerment to make the most difficult choice and have the baby.

Were it not for the passionate dedication of people like you who stand and Walk for Life CompassCare could not have accomplished all it has helping women at risk for abortion to have their babies. Thank you. Now is the time to walk on, to go further than we have ever gone in reversing the Rochester abortion trend. Without the courage of believers like you willing to risk the discomfort and potentially unpopular public support of this ministry, many more lives would have been forfeit on the altar of compromise, consumerism, or financial conflicts of interest from abortionists. It is my sincere hope that you feel a sense of pride not just in the services CompassCare provides to women at risk for abortion but also the manner in which those services are provided. According to patient exit surveys rating CompassCare’s service on a scale of 1-10 CompassCare’s average is 9.8 as we attempt to give ‘no cause for offense’ (2 Cor. 6:3a).

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The Vision Walk will take place on Saturday May 19th at 9:00 A.M. at Monroe Community College’s Brighton Campus.

What is man? How we answer that question determines how doctors treat patients, how teachers educate children, how pastors preach, how professors theorize, the stories writers craft, how politicians legislate, how a society treats children and the less fortunate, and how much we value marriage and family. For CompassCare each human being from conception to natural death is made in the image of God and is therefore deserving of the highest protection and respect.

It is to that end CompassCare is working. Call volumes and women scheduling has increased dramatically and if these trends continue CompassCare will have seen two times more babies born to women considering abortion this year than in 2011.

But a threat is looming on the horizon. This is being written just days after the United States Senate defeated, by a vote of 51-48, a valiant effort spearheaded bySenator Roy Blunt of Missouri to pass the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act. The bill would have repealed the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that all organizations, including those that are faith-based like CompassCare, provide abortion-causing drugs, cancer and abortion-causing contraception, and sterilization to their employees through their health plans, at no cost to the employee. This mandate violates the protection of religious freedom of conscience for faith-based organizations who believe that providing such things is flat out wrong. But Barak Obama says that it is okay, saying ‘free’ contraception will reduce the long-term cost of insurance because fewer babies will be born. Is economic cost reduction really what this is all about? And now the Supreme Court deliberates as to the constitutionality of the Health Care Law in total.

Is it still government by the consent of the governed?

Question: What is the basic unit of any economy? It’s a human being. The very word ‘economy’ means nothing without people. Furthermore, there is no sustainable economic model for a flat or declining population. Without people thinking, creating, fixing, buying, and selling there is no upward economic progress.  Progress depends on a growing population that is free to pursue their ideas, their work, their rewards, and their family without restrictive government intrusion. And there is nothing as personally intrusive as the regulation of reproductive health. We don’t have to look very far to find examples of national economic collapse due to increased government control, aging population and it’s associated lack of production-see Russia, Greece, Italy, and Spain to name a few. What causes a population to ‘age?’ Low birth rates. Low birth rates are caused by abortion and contraception which become culturally acceptable due to shallow family values. A dearth in family values is caused by a reduction in Church influence. The only solution to the moral spiral is a restoration of a Biblical view of the family, a return to Judeo-Christian values.

A shallow view of the family causes people to begin to believe that government is the giver of rights, that government should determine what is morally acceptable for individuals rather than the unchanging Biblical standard for family members. Abortion is a perfect illustration of a society taking its moral queues from government regarding the most basic of all moral questions; “What is man?” Trampling religious liberty Obamacare and the HHS forced contraception mandate reveal that those in government believe they should and do have the moral authority over family and the Church. This mandate represents the humanistic view that people are evolutionary by-products to be managed by a more enlightened class of people who represent a new morality. If we do not educate, vote, and sacrifice for this most fundamental of moral questions a not too distant future will reveal it illegal for CompassCare to perform its life-saving services. And if these radical secular beliefs remain unchecked in our households, schools, medical community, and public policy, abortion will become only the first of many mandated horrors.

Human dignity lies in the balance. No government is equipped to keep people both stable and free at the same time. Only families committed to the Judeo-Christian ethic can do that. It is the Church alone that can foster family health. Of all social institutions only the family unit can 1) not be controlled by government regulation and 2) deliver to the next generation the Christian core values necessary to propagate family; keeping society both free and stable. The traditional family unit stands alone before the State both in the history of mankind and in the resistance of tyrannical regulation. This is why a ship of State desirous of a sea of power must weigh the anchor of traditional family. Unable to bring the anchor on board, government attempts to sever the cord with tools like contraception, abortion, and the usurpation of moral authority from the bible believing church.  The logical end to healthcare reform, as illustrated by the recent contraception and religious liberty debates, is that the individual becomes the property of the State much like abortion makes a child in the womb property of the mother, to be disposed of at her discretion.

Proverbs 23:10 says, “Do not move the ancient boundary or go into the fields of the fatherless.” Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen Foundation, Obama Administration, Healthcare Reform, Forced Contraception, Religious Liberty: What do all these words have in common? The inevitable social cost of abortion. So what exactly does abortion cost? The obvious answer is that it costs a woman on average $600. But what lies beneath the popular debate is much more insidious.

 We know abortion also costs a woman her health. Breast cancer incidences have increased 40% since 1973, the year preborn children were deemed nonhuman and abortion became acceptable. 52 of 68 epidemiological studies show abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer.¹ Planned Parenthood’s marketing ploy of sex without consequence creates an expectation for the use of contraceptive devices and steroidal ‘hormone therapies.’ Women using oral contraceptives have been found to have a 2.5X increased risk of triple negative breast cancer (the worst kind).² In fact the World Health Organization lists the estrogen/progesterone ‘hormonal’ contraception as a Group 1 carcinogen in the same category as plutonium.³ Not to mention the fact that oral contraceptives can and do cause abortion, often without a woman ever knowing it. It is clear that abortion and oral contraceptives are major predictors if not direct contributors to the breast cancer epidemic. And then there is the well known and longstanding knowledge that abortion increases the risk of future pre-term deliveries and complications of ‘wanted’ pregnancies by 300-500%.⁴ Abortion causes a condition called ‘incompetent cervix’ whereby damage is done by forcing the cervix open weakening the ability of the cervix to retain future pregnancies to full term. Thank you March of Dimes for all your help in raising awareness around and prevention of pre-term deliveries but why haven’t you said anything about abortion?

Barak Obama through what I am sure is a well meaning albeit misguided utopian ideology is enacting healthcare reform demanding that religious institutions violate their beliefs and provide all employees with access to these cancer and abortion causing contraceptives or else incur steep penalties they cannot afford. But lest we fail to think the Obama administration is interested in protecting constitutional religious liberty he gave ‘religious institutions’ (by his definition not theirs) an additional year to change their beliefs.⁵

Let us be clear: Healthcare reform has never been about healthcare. The issue over mandated abortifacient contraception illustrates this. It is about something deeper. It is about creating a State where all men are not just ‘created’ equal rather they are ‘evolved’ to be the same. It is about legislators and political representatives believing that they know better how a man ought to believe and behave. When a government mandates morality, when it usurps control over medicine it becomes the dictator of the masses and the owner of the individual. Mass ‘equality’ results only in mass dehumanization (see the People’s Republic of China). The sweeping enactment of healthcare embodies a fundamental yet unstated presupposition; that individual human beings are evolutionary by-products to be managed. America’s constitution, our medical community, our universities, our seminaries were all based on the premise that humanity is made in the image of God. Therefore all individuals from conception to natural death are inviolable, deserving of the highest respect, afforded the most comprehensive protection, an end in and of themselves and able to attain to the noblest of virtues, needing no external system of government to control belief or behavior. G.K. Chesterton once said, “God forbid the day ever come when people don’t commit murder because it is against the law.” Why? Because it signals a culture embracing relativism and the insanity of political correctness.

We are losing our nation because certain educators and legislators, theologians and medical providers attained the pinnacle of arrogance deciding to sacrifice what made America unique, our shared beliefs in God and its impact on our behavior toward each other, in favor of an evolutionary ‘equality’ a.k.a. godless utopia. This makes every man his own god and thereby all things permissible. A general lethargy of compassion begins to seep into culture as a generation of predators is raised to pursue their own pleasure. It is at this point when government is compelled to step in to control the inevitable social chaos enacting more legislation, ‘regulating’ entire sectors of society. The primary relationship all individuals now have is not with their God or with their spouse and children but rather with one’s government. So of course the government can impose its transient morality on you and me because there can be no one higher or stronger of any real consequence to a man’s thoughts and actions for we are ‘enlightened.’

So what does abortion cost? It costs us our God, our family, our country, our conscience, our future. And whose fault is it? Not really the abortionists. Not even the venal cowards who call themselves ‘public servants.’ It’s us. As the journalist Edward Murrow once said, “We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this.” Like ashes from the furnaces of Auschwitz the ramifications of abortion are landing on the rooftops of our moral house of cards. Years from now, preserved as keystrokes on a smart phone or digital pictures on SD cards, we will see escapist chatter, cute pictures of America’s 1.9 children born to consumers married only to personal pleasure, irresponsible wards of the state mistaking meaningless political clichés for substance; hope and change, hope and change. What will be the legacy of a culture complicit in this dehumanization of the preborn child? We must sacrifice now like never before lest what we do today be too little too late and we all are treated like babies before the abortionist’s knife.

¹http://www.lifesitenews.com

²http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/18/4/1157.abstract

³http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/ClassificationsGroupOrder.pdf

⁴www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/after_effects_of_abortion.asp

⁵http://www.cathnewsusa.com