A Nation That Has Lost Its Soul Will Never Find A Way To End Abortion

​For far too long too many Americans on both sides of the political divide have tried to take a nuanced position on abortion.  In the minds of many, abortion was a necessary evil, a procedure that should be “safe, legal, and rare”.  As the years following the landmark Roe v. Wade decision flowed by, the fruits of the sexual revolution ripened into a society that increasingly demanded consequence-free sex. The Democrat Party identified and then exploited a constituency of female voters who wanted the freedom to explore their sexuality without the fear that a chance encounter might result in a pregnancy that could take them off their career path.  The Republican Party found in this development an opportunity to form a loyal voter base by crafting a platform promising to appoint Supreme Court Justices who would one day overturn Roe.
 
 
While there is a core group of Americans who believe that abortion is an abomination and should be outlawed, the sad truth is, far too many Americans want abortion to be legal.  The Republicans might have finally achieved their promise of overturning Roe, but what was supposed to be the ultimate triumph in the war against abortion is turning out to be a hollow victory, perhaps what might one day be seen as the last battle won in a war that was lost.
 
 
Roe has allowed states to determine their own laws on abortion.  Democrat “Blue” states are taking the opportunity to fortify abortion rights.  And while some Republican “Red” states are passing laws of varying degrees to outlaw or restrict abortion, other Red states are codifying abortion rights in their state constitutions.  Just last year 57% of Ohio voters passed a ballot measure to change the Ohio constitution to guarantee abortion rights.  Similar ballot measures will soon find their way to other Red states.  Such is the tenacity of the pro-abortion movement and the lethargy (some might say fear or embarrassment) of the Republican Party on this issue that one by one Red states (aside from perhaps a few hold-outs) will follow a path similar to Ohio, and what was once a highly-contested decision by a court of 9 justices will become enshrined law in state constitutions with the votes of the majority of each state’s citizens.
 
 
How can it be that Republicans have managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of a seeming victory on abortion?  It is because the Republicans were never unified on the issue of abortion and the Democrats are in complete solidarity on the issue.  The Democrats purged their party of any politicians who would dare to call themselves Pro-life.  The Republicans not only have pro-abortion politicians in their ranks, but far too many of their Pro-life candidates are weak-kneed on the issue, always choosing their words carefully so as not to offend women voters and never passing up an opportunity to water-down any legislation that might advance the Pro-life cause.  The truth is, the Republican Party is Pro-life only to the extent that it is politically expedient and will seek every opportunity to run away from the issue when it is not.  Democrats view abortion as a sacrament and Republicans view it as an awkward political tool that they are willing to drop the minute that it becomes too heavy to lift.
 
 
But the greater truth is this: too many Republican politicians and their voters want the same thing that Democrat politicians and their voters want: the escape route that abortion provides for an unwanted pregnancy.  And this is where we get to the heart of the matter.  Abortion is not about women’s health decisions.  Abortion is not some difficult philosophical question about when life begins.  Abortion is all about a society that is in decay.  It is about a people that have prioritized pleasure over honor, so much so that they are willing to go to any length to drown out the voice of their consciences to justify the horrors they are willing to accept to navigate this moral wasteland they have convinced themselves is a Utopia.
 
 
Every thinking adult knows what abortion is.  They know what is living inside a woman’s womb.  Abortion is the taking of a human life.  But even that statement, bold as it is, does not frame this abomination properly.  Abortion is human sacrifice, plain and simple.  It is no different than the act of pagan societies of old throwing their children into the fires of Molech to win the blessings of a good harvest.  Abortion usually starts with a man unwilling to sacrifice his freedom to pledge himself to the woman he impregnated so he sacrifices his child instead.  Abortion is a woman unwilling to sacrifice her career path to raise an unplanned for child, so she sacrifices her child instead.  In rare cases, abortion can be a family unwilling to deal with the emotional trauma of a child created through rape or incest, so they sacrifice the child instead.  In each of these cases a human is being sacrificed for the “good” of the person doing or encouraging the act of murder. And then you have the unabashed greed and utter immorality of “health care providers” who serve as the high priests and priestesses of this barbaric ritual, leading mothers to their bloodstained altars.  No matter how many times you call it “women’s reproductive rights” or “choice” it does not change the fact that this is an act of a human child sacrifice.
 
 
This is the uncomfortable truth we must face. I have long believed that the true victory in the war against abortion would come when we changed the debate to become one centered on the premise that human life and therefore all human rights begin at conception.  But I am no longer convinced that if we could agree that human life began at conception that this would bring an end to abortion. I think there is ample evidence to suggest that we are a nation that has grown comfortable with human sacrifice on a horrific scale, and we are dangerously close to removing all pretenses and “celebrating” it like the pagans of old.  I shudder to think of the judgement that awaits such wickedness.

There is no political path to ending abortion.  Only when Americans turn back to God and away from the selfishness and sexual immorality that are the root cause of the horror of child sacrifice will this national nightmare come to an end.