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Kennedy, Kavanaugh, and Kids

New York Times reporter Mark Landler wrote that, with the selection of Judge Kavanaugh to fill retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat, the Court “may be closer than ever to overturning Roe v. Wade.” You may also be interested to know that Justice Kennedy, while considered conservative or right-leaning, upheld Roe v. Wade on more than one occasion. While he was often the dissenting opinion, he joined the plurality that established Roe v. Wade under the Fourteenth Amendment in 1992, giving abortion constitutional protection. Further, Justice Kennedy penned the majority ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which basically destroyed sanctity of marriage laws.

In other news, the Duchess of Sussex is said to have been “pleased” at the result of Irish referendum to legalize abortion. While politics in London may be interesting and tend to find their way into liberal arguments, these are the United States of America and we chose to limit London’s influence a few years ago. Perhaps you have heard of the War of Independence. We commemorate it on July 4th.

If you cannot tell from my chosen language, I expressly reject abortion. I hold the conservative opinion that abortion is murder. Now, that doesn’t give me the right to act against someone who supports or practices abortion, but it does mean I pray for enlightenment and for God’s will to become apparent to those who do. Of course, the next question I must answer is, “What is God’s will” when it comes to abortion.

Contrary to Huffington Post or Hollywood deceptions, the Bible does give clear guidance on abortion. (I mention HuffPo and Hollywood because they usually point to Old Testament passages as evidence God supports abortion. Now that is mixed context if I ever heard it.)

Let us start with the simplest of all guidance. Exodus 20:13 says, “You shall not murder.” (NIV) Some will argue the removal of a fetus is not murder since the child has not been born. God disagrees. In Jeremiah 1:5 God himself said to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (NIV)

Now assume Jeremiah’s mother chose abortion on the argument Jeremiah wasn’t actually a person until birth. She would have murdered the “prophet to the nations” which sounds like God attributes life to the unborn child. To the passage in Jeremiah I will add Isaiah 44:24 and 49:15, Psalm 71:6, and Galatians 1:15. All of these passages point to God’s own personal knowledge of each unborn child. So, to abort an unborn fetus is to violate Exodus 20:13, which is one of the Ten Commandments.

But Jesus came so that we may live, and to bring salvation to all of us who find the law binding and condemning, rather than liberating. So if Jesus came to free us from sin, how then do we reconcile His grace against the sin of abortion? I mean, if stealing, murder, and idolatry are equal sins in God’s eyes, can’t a simple “forgive me for I have sinned” fix it?

Not for the child.

So if (potential) Justice Kavanaugh ends up casting the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, I won’t celebrate in the streets nor will I shout it from the mountain tops. Generations of children are still dead. Generations of sinners must find true repentance for murdering their unborn children. I do not know if Kavanaugh will get a chance to rule on Roe v. Wade nor do I know how he will rule. What I do know is that whatever God holds for our future I will trust Him. His love extends beyond the womb.

And I will pray – for you, for me, and for Kennedy, Kavanaugh, and the kids they impact.

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