By Judie Brown
There was a time when everyone tried to be honest, even when it hurt. Integrity beckoned us to be witnesses to reality. But those days are gone! In our age, we are besotted with false rhetoric designed to make us feel good about the horrific acts that have crept into and define our national identity.
One glaring example is the decision of US District Court judge Beryl Howell. She granted a summary judgment in a Planned Parenthood lawsuit against the government, saying that the Department of Health and Human Services was using ideology instead of research facts in its decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Howell opined, “Just because a pronouncement comes from the president does not make it true, even if expressed in the form of an executive order, and even then, does not supersede the law—particularly in the context of a statutory scheme for evidence-based grant funding.”
Judge Howell is an Obama appointee who claims to fear that the Trump administration is working to undermine the judiciary. That might be so if the judiciary were the province of God, but it is simply a branch of the government composed of frail human beings capable of error.
We see this frailty in Missouri as well, where the state’s reproductive rights amendment was cited as one of the reasons why pro-abortion forces are attempting to negate the state’s parental consent laws. The organization Right by You is one of the amendment’s challengers. It claims to provide “free, confidential, and judgment-free support . . . for anyone in Missouri who needs help with abortion care and reproductive health choices.”
This sentence is loaded with deception, yet to the blasé citizen it sounds perfectly acceptable. The problem is that abortion is a judgment that one person’s life is to be protected at all costs even if it means another person must die. Abortion care is an oxymoron, but the people snooze.
Reproductive health choice is a semantic code term for death and even injury, and for many women it leads to a life filled with regret. In a society where such choices devastate and destroy others, there can be only one remedy, and that, my friend, is honesty.
So when writers defend the indefensible, arguing that abortion advocacy in educational curricula is “medically accurate and age-appropriate,” we have slid beyond the perimeters of moral sanity and genuine truth. We have entered the danger zone where, as we have often said, Truth is a foe, and Beelzebub is a hero.
Hence, we applaud the zealous defense of life by pro-life organizations like Belles for Life and so many others, but we realize that at this juncture much more needs to be done. Honestly, pro-life activity, no matter how it occurs, must commence from a sincere commitment to these words of Christ: “Anyone who is not with me is against me; and anyone who does not gather in with me throws away.”
In our age, we are more than activists, we are more than lobbyists, and we are more than casual acquaintances and friends. We are warriors for Christ, members of His holy army who are willing to sacrifice everything for Him. We see souls being harmed and broken by the lies of the enemy, and we know that only Christ can heal them. We are His messengers to the world.
Scoffing and unkind words will not harm us, but acts based on lies like reproductive choice are designed to mask the bloody battle that occurs not only in clinics and hospitals but in the homes of women ingesting deadly abortion drugs.
Thus we trust in the words Saint Paul wrote to Timothy: “Here is a saying that you can rely on: If we have died with him, then we shall live with him,” and we soldier on.
The great liar is killing, weakening, and disabling the souls of countless numbers in our midst. So we must stand firmly on the truth that will ultimately dethrone him once and for all.