The 2024 elections will mark a major fork in the road on this issue.

TO Richard D. LandChristian Post executive editor Friday, November 1, 2024

Next Tuesday, Americans will make a life-altering decision about the future direction of our country when we vote on a president, 435 members of Congress and roughly a third of the U.S. Senate. All indications are that this will be a close election, reflecting an even split of the electorate at the national level.

At this point in our history, we as a country are deeply divided on many issues. However, I want to focus on one issue that I believe is of utmost importance in this election—the sanctity of human life. Few issues divide our society so deeply. Next Tuesday will be an important fork in this matter.

If Vice President Harris wins, she is committed to what she and her supporters call “reproductive freedom,” which is a euphemism for unlimited abortions in all 50 states for all nine months of pregnancy “without restrictions based on gestational age” for the future child. Baby. In other words, abortion up to full-term birth. Currently, such laws are already in effect in nine US states and the District of Columbia (Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont).

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The Harris administration will pursue such radical policies nationally, and Vice President Harris has said that she will even oppose religious exemptions for doctors and nurses who have religious beliefs that prevent them from performing abortions.

The Trump administration has signaled that it will leave the issue of abortion largely up to voters and legislators in each state. It’s not enough, but it’s better than the alternative. At the very least, Trump will generally appoint judges and justices who are more pro-life, not to mention more pro-life officials in Justice, Health, Education and Welfare.

As has often been observed, politics is a consequence of culture, and culture is a consequence of religion. The cause of protecting life should not be weary of good deeds. The abortion movement has been a major threat to our culture since slavery. Just as the pro-slavery movement denied the humanity of slaves, the pro-abortion movement denies the humanity of our unborn citizens.

In addition to the deaths of tens of millions of our unborn children, the pro-abortion movement has created a culture or cult of death that spreads like a deadly virus from the delivery room to the NICU to nursing facilities.

Just as the anti-slavery movement wages a titanic battle for the hearts and minds of its fellow Americans, we must do everything we can to highlight the humanity of our unborn fellow Americans.

Before the Civil War, Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote a novel. Uncle Tom’s Cabinbecame a bestseller dramatizing the plight of slaves. Later, when President Lincoln met with Mrs. Stowe, he reportedly said, “So this little lady started the great war.”

We in the pro-life movement are in a life-and-death fight to save unborn babies and save our nation from becoming a child-sacrificing nation. Make no mistake: America will not stay where it is on the issue of abortion. We will either be much worse off or much better off, depending on who wins the battle for hearts and souls.

We are currently one of the most pro-abortion states in the world, with some of our states (as previously noted) being as pro-life as any other country on earth.

As a Christian, I know that God prohibited child sacrifice in the Old Testament (Lev. 13:21; 20:2-5; Deut. 12:31; 18:10; 2 Kings 16:3, 17:17, 31 ). 21:6; Jer. 7:31; 19:5) and severely judged and punished His chosen people when they followed their pagan, idolatrous neighbors engaging in this abominable practice.

Don’t think that God won’t punish us as a nation even more severely if we allow this abomination of abortion on demand to continue and expand.

Don’t we realize how far we’ve already fallen? In the providence of God, I was given the great blessing of growing up in a devout Christian family. Both of my parents were Sunday school teachers. Every Sunday after church we went home for Sunday meal. While we were eating dinner, my parents asked me and my little brother about our Sunday school lesson that day. Whether we got our portion of dessert depended on whether we answered their questions correctly.

I will never forget one particular Sunday (it must have been around 1958, judging by the age my younger brother, born in 1950, appears in this memory). I would have been twelve. I didn’t even wait to be asked on this particular Sunday. I said, “Dad, today we learned about how God’s chosen people, the Israelites, led their babies into the Valley of Gehenna and sacrificed them as burnt offerings to the pagan God Molech!”

“How could they do this?” I asked.

My father replied, “I don’t know, son. It’s terrible, isn’t it?

When we sat around the dinner table in Houston, Texas, in 1958, neither of us could have imagined that my brother and I would live to see some 70 million American babies sacrificed to the pagan gods of social convention, economic cost or just inconvenience since then. 1973. Can’t we see where we’ve fallen from?

Elections next Tuesday will not resolve this issue. But let’s not fool ourselves. The president we elect will either make the fight harder or harder. And God will hold each of us individually accountable and our nation collectively accountable for how we respond.