By Judie Brown
In the throes of struggling against the forces of godlessness in our daily efforts, we often forget to be grateful for blessings. It is challenging to feel compassion for women poisoning themselves by the ingestion of abortion pills when we realize that these very women are literally rejecting the children growing within their bodies. Yet, as pro-life advocates, we are called to pray for these women and do all we can to help them hear and hopefully understand the truth that every preborn baby has value. It is never too late to affirm life, even after a mother has aborted her baby.
On another front, we know that President Trump has recently focused on the promotion of in vitro fertilization, an ethically immoral practice fraught with danger. Despite this, there is a ray of hope in his reference to human embryos as children, a statement of fact that is driving the anti-life mob crazy.
One writer opined, “This isn’t the first time that the White House has moved to codify fetal personhood: one of Trump’s first moves after inauguration was issuing an anti-trans executive order that defined human life as beginning ‘at conception.’”
We are grateful for the Trump administration’s use of the word children but appalled at the duplicity emerging from these people. This is the same administration that approved a generic form of the abortion pill. So, we ask, how can this be? In the political arena there are no moral absolutes, which means that we must press on with our efforts to tell the truth, document the facts about human persons, and be grateful for the opportunity to right the wrongs of those who have yet to admit their errors.
This brings us to the burning issue of our writing today: Why are Americans at large fundamentally unchanged in their views about abortion, given the scientific advances that underscore the humanity of the preborn child?
Two provable points come to mind. The first is that in the early days of our pro-life work, many national media outlets, including Oprah, invited us to tell the truth about why we are pro-life. And while we were usually present with a member of the abortion “rights” movement, we had moments to tell the scientific truth about pregnancy, fetal development, and the error of abortion. Those opportunities disappeared with the growing media agenda in support of abortion on demand.
The second is the most concerning. That is, the education of the public has fallen into the incapable hands of abortion zealots in far too many cases. Politico gives us one example: “Among the thousands of articles Florida newspapers published, politics came up roughly four times as often as health care in stories where abortion is mentioned, the most of any state. . . . As both parties refine how they talk about abortion in 2024, the data so far suggests those decisions will be covered far more than Dobbs’ effects on patients, families and doctors.”
Websites like this offer a glimpse into the world of the abortion-minded opinion creators, most of whom know the answer to their question before the story is written. Clearly, access to abortion and its legal protection far outweigh any thought that a baby dies when a mother chooses abortion.
This is where gratitude is perhaps most important. We are people who, as Christ told His disciples, are more than aware that “sufficient for a day is its own evil.”
Seeing the evil in our day, our challenge is to celebrate life, using images of babies, words of truth, and our God-given intellect to correct the mistakes, planned or unplanned, that have led people to accept abortion without a second thought.
We are grateful for God’s truth! We are awed by His love! We are committed to the babies who, like the injured man on the side of the road, have nobody to help them, if not for us. So let us fearlessly heed Christ’s call to “go and do likewise” today and every day.
With gratitude, we say “Thank you Lord!”