The Abortion Hypocrisy: When Murder Is Legal
Posted by Job on March 13, 2007
“They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters . . . and the land was polluted with blood . . . ” – (Psalms 106:38 NIV)
When murder is legal. Over the weekend, came the tragic story of a sick 4-day-old baby who was abducted from a Lubbock, Texas hospital on Saturday and found safe and alive 100 miles away in Clovis, New Mexico Sunday. The woman who stole the infant is in police custody awaiting charges and the precious baby is back with her parents. It was wonderful to see such a happy ending to this story, knowing that many prayers were answered as this baby was found alive and is now back in the care of her parents and doctors. During the ordeal on Saturday, I listened with great interest as various legal pundits talked about the fact that if this baby died after being taken from the hospital, the person who took her would be charged with murder.
It brought back to my memory the Scott Peterson case when he was charged with killing his wife Laci AND their baby who was still in the womb. Peterson is currently on California’s death row for double murder. So today, I want to deal with the reality that in the United States in the year 2007, it is illegal to kill a newly born baby and it is also illegal to cause the death of a baby who is still in the womb. Oh wait, there is one exception to the crime of intentionally killing a baby in the womb. That exception is if you are a doctor and are performing an abortion!
I am confused how Peterson, who made the choice to kill one unborn baby will spend his life all alone in a tiny cell on death row awaiting the day when the State of California will put him to death while doctors all across this nation who make the choice to kill hundreds and thousands of unborn babies, go home every night to nice comfortable homes and look forward to all of the great things life has to offer.
My question for you today is simply this. If Scott Peterson is going to be put to death for killing his unborn child, one baby, why isn’t every abortion doctor in this nation, guilty of killing hundreds, even thousands of babies, also on death row for doing the same thing??? The fact is, several dozen states now have “fetal homicide” statutes on the books. But to
get these “fetal homicide” statutes passed, state legislators had to make ONE HUGE exemption. You guessed it. In cases of abortion with the mothers consent, these statutes do not apply to the abortion doctors. Do you see what twisted logic has to be used to accommodate sin?
As I watched the Peterson case unfold, I watched the coverage on the various networks like FOX, MSNBC, CNN, and Court TV. I was particularly interested in the passion and conviction of people like Court TV anchors, Nancy Grace, Lisa Bloom, Catherine Crier, and the attorney for Amber Frey, Gloria Allred, as well as other commentators as they shared their belief not only in Peterson’s guilt but the fact he deserved to be put to death for his crimes. The key to their arguments was always the fact that he not only killed his wife but also his baby. Sadly, too many men kill their wives but at most they receive a sentence of life in prison. Many of these commentators made the point over and over that the fact he also killed his baby was justification to sentence him to death. By the way, I agreed with them.
However, the hypocrisy is that most of those same commentators also support a woman’s right to kill her baby. They are PRO CHOICE, or calling it what it really is, PRO DEATH! I have to admit that I am very confused. How can it be such a heinous crime for Scott Peterson to kill his baby, yet perfectly acceptable for a woman to make the choice to kill her baby? I am absolutely lost at how one is a crime worthy of death and the other is an acceptable choice.
For those of you who support a woman’s right to slaughter her innocent baby, please save the emails with your tortured arguments. The fact is life comes from God. At the moment of conception there is a living person with an eternal soul. To kill that life for any reason is murder. PERIOD!
IF SCOTT PETERSON CAN BE PUT TO DEATH FOR KILLING ONE BABY, IT THE WOMAN WHO KIDNAPPED THIS BABY IN TEXAS OVER THE WEEKEND WAS GOING TO BE CHARGED WITH MURDER IF THAT BABY HAD DIED, THEN EVERY DOCTOR WHO PERFORMS AN ABORTION SHOULD ALSO BE CHARGED WITH MURDER!!!
I love you and care about you so much. I want to speak directly today to anyone who may be contemplating having an abortion. Just remember this. No matter what anyone tells you, it is MURDER. There is simply no justification for it at all. You have only two options; have and raise the child or put the child up for adoption. If you are thinking about having an abortion, please, I beg you, go watch the clips below. One is a 55 second clip of an
actual abortion, the other is a powerful testimony of a woman who was at the same place as you are today. God allowed her to watch the Liveprayer TV program the night before she was going to kill her baby, she came under conviction, changed her mind, and you will see her precious 10 month old baby girl!
http://www.liveprayer.com/abortion.cfm
Also, let me say a word to those men and women who have the scar of abortion in their lives. Sadly, I deal with hundreds of women daily AND men who have made this sad choice at some point in their life. Some of them did this 40 years ago and are still dealing with the hurt, pain, and guilt. You can’t go back and change what you have done but 1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, God forgives us and cleanses us of all unrighteousness.” The Bible also tells us that God not only forgives our sins but forgets them. It is satan who reminds you of your past sins to keep you paralyzed from serving
God. HE IS A LIAR!!! Now is the time to trust God’s Word and put it behind you once and for all. God still has much for you to do with your life.
I am thankful for high-profile cases like Petersons that made the clear statement killing an innocent baby is MURDER! We need to, once and for all, take our Federal Government out of the business of legally sanctioning the daily slaughter of 4,000 of innocent lives! How can we expect God to bless our nation when we allow this to happen? How long can we mock God without feeling His wrath? How far can we push God’s grace?
I read in the Old Testament how God’s very own chosen people lived in blatant rebellion to Him. God tried to warn them. He sent messages through the events of their day. They ignored the messages. He sent His prophets to warn the people to repent and turn back to God. They wouldn’t't listen to his messengers. Eventually, God punished His people for their rebellion.
Our nation is less than 300 years old. We have been richly blessed with incredible wealth and power, but we are not immune from God’s wrath. God is speaking to us through the events of our day and through those He has called to warn the people. I pray that we will listen, repent of our sins, and turn our hearts back to Him before it is too late. Killing an unborn baby in or out of the womb IS murder whether it happens in an act of violence or by a doctor in a legal clinic!
In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller bkeller@liveprayer.com
Plato said
If you think killing life is inhumane, then God carries out more abortions in the form of miscarriages than any one in the entire world
healtheland said
Plato:
My entire point was that man should not act as God, because where God can make these decisions and still be righteous and not sin, man cannot. Do you know who God is? I encourage you to read this post and start finding out.
testigonikristo said
many sadistic child molesters and serial killers were born to mothers who did not want to carry them in their wombs or much less care for them during their critical years of development. the risk of mental, emotional, and other abuse is high when such weighty responsibility is forced on any woman. for this reason is it not better that these had not been born than to cause God’s little ones to offend?
healtheland said
testigonikristo:
Had abortion always been legal and commonly practiced throughout history, then your argument would perhaps be, well, and argument. But since abortion has only been legal for 35 years in this country, 60 – 70 years in other nations, and is still illegal in the vast majority of the nations of the world, claiming that it is a necessary or desirable way to prevent crime or any other social problem is totally absurd, because the human race was getting along just fine all these millenia without it. That is the problem: how so many people – on the right and the left – get so brainwashed by the educational system, the political system, and the media. No critical thinking is ever done. Whenever some advance or invention comes along, we get duped into thinking that it is somehow essential for survival. If this country wasn’t cranking out child molesters and serial killers by the thousands in 1950 when abortion was illegal (AND women on average were having more kids), why should we start now? If anything, we have been producing MORE lunatics since abortion became legal. Three decades ago, in everywhere but the worst areas, people didn’t have to lock their doors, it was safe to go for walks in city parks, and people would allow their preteen kids to stroll around by themselves all day long: “be back by supper!” and so forth. Now, no one would dream of doing those things. And even the “worst areas” were nowhere near as bad back then as they are now. I am not that old at all, and even I remember back when street criminals wouldn’t victimize the elderly, kids, or single mothers, and even when they had disputes among themselves they would use bottles, chains, and occasionally (but not often) knives in their “street fights”, and most crimes were committed in back alleys under the cover of darkness. But during the 1980s, criminals started victimizing anyone at any time, they started the indiscriminate spraying of bullets, and not only did they start committing bold crimes in “broad daylight”, but they started getting so brazen that they would do drug deals right out in the open, and not even run away when a police cruiser goes by.
Realize that certain interest groups and elites have made it unacceptable to show those 50s TV shows, claiming that they are sexist, racist, homophobic, etc., and now they are just deconstructed and mocked in trash like “Pleasantville.” But the real reason is that these activists do not want people to know how much society has changed since then, and they do not want people to start asking why.
I remember back when doctors actually thought that it was practically biologically impossible for for a preteen girl to get pregnant. When it started happening, at first it was extremely rare, it would even make the news (I am not kidding, they would report it in the paper and on the TV news shows, withholding the identity of the mother of course) and they would go around asking the doctors how it was possible. Then, it started happening more and more and more. I recall the atrocious Oprah Winfrey doing a show on it, and claiming that the cause was girls being molested by their fathers. Now, in many of our middle and junior high schools, a good portion of the girls are mothers. Nobody discusses why, nobody talks about how what is now commonplace was actually thought to be virtually medically impossible less than 25 years ago (yes, I myself was in junior high when this phenomenon began). To address this, they are now implementing comprehensive sex education classes in the early grades, I believe as early as 3rd grade though some want to start earlier, to prevent pregnancies in middle school. Now I recall that when sex education first came out less than 40 years ago (when it was, of course, addressed on the Archie Bunker TV show in the show’s final years), it was only taught in the latter stages of high school, because back then the problem was 17 and 18 year old girls getting pregnant. Then it was 15 and 16 year old girls getting pregnant, so they moved it back to early high school. Then it was 14 year olds, so they moved it back to junior high. Then it became 13, 12, 11, 10, now NINE years old (that’s 4th grade!) so they are talking about starting sex education classes as early as FIRST GRADE. Now, again, no one wants to talk about why this is happening: why 11 year olds are as sexually active today as 17 year olds were 30 years ago. Instead, they just tell you that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, your streets will be filled with criminals. And, of course, in the process completely fail to inform you that there are FAR more CRIMINALS on the streets NOW than there were BEFORE Roe v. Wade.
Even simple stuff like bicycle locks. They came out in the 1980s. It isn’t as if the technology for those didn’t exist before then, because it was just a lock like anything else. It is that before the 1980s there was no need for a bicycle lock, because people weren’t stealing bikes before then. So pardon me, sir, if I am someone who remembers back when I didn’t need a bike lock, when I didn’t have to lock the door to my car or house, middle school girls were carrying dolls instead of babies, and kids could go miles from home on foot with nobody messing with them instead of getting snatched from their own backyards and sometimes from their own bedrooms.
Now, I want to know what happened to our society where all of these drastic changes happened so fast (seriously, not only since I have been alive, but old enough to watch the news and read the newspaper, and once again I am not all that old, not even 35 yet) and all for not only the worse but much much worse. Don’t you? Even if you don’t, surely you must be able to acknowledge that things have regressed so far so quickly that overturning Roe v. Wade can’t POSSIBLY make it any worse. If anything, it might make things better.