Who Decides the Value of Life?
Over the past couple years with the controversial Covid culture, we have heard so many statements about how valuable life is and how careful we must be about preserving life. We were given new protocols regarding health. We were reminded to show compassion to everyone who might be at risk, and we were told to recognize and thank the healthcare heroes that were saving lives while risking theirs. We were told to lockdown and isolate to save lives. Life, Risk, Care, Health, Compassion, Shutdowns, Heroism, Safety, and Saving lives all became the buzz words of the day. This all took place while encouraging abortions that made several groups extremely wealthy. Planned Parenthood, a multi-billion dollar corporation, was open for business as usual during the Covid shutdown. The dichotomy was that in one building medical staff was trying to preserve life, and in the next building medical staff was profiting from ending life. How did we manage these opposing “values” in the same place, same brain, same conversation, and same society?
I also don’t understand the supposed “empowering” messages women hear so often from abortion advocates: you CAN’T AFFORD a baby, you AREN’T CAPABLE of having a baby, you AREN’T SMART enough or STRONG enough or PREPARED enough to bring a human life into the world. If the abortionists are always trying to “empower” women, then why don’t they use words of possibility, capability, hope, and ‘can-do’ themes? This hypocrisy is extremely disturbing.
Pro-abortionist group “Jane’s Revenge” has called for great violence against pregnancy centers across the nation, in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of the 1973 abortion decision. In contrast, pregnancy centers are working hard to save moms and babies, with love, nurture, generosity, and kindness. Common sense would suggest that this prolife decision by the highest court in our land should be celebrated with great joy and thankfulness, not violence and hatred. When this Supreme Court decision becomes official, Michigan will regain its own voice – to preserve and defend life in the womb. We will be able to continue assisting moms (and dads) to do all they CAN to be the life-givers they CAN BE. They will be ABLE to support life’s greatest resource: HUMAN LIFE. Michigan also needs to stand against the violent threat of “Jane’s Revenge”, and celebrate women’s abilities to have LIFE – for themselves and their babies.
Thirty years ago, I was trained to be a lay counselor for a crisis pregnancy center. My goal was to help save babies, and try to make a small dent in the multi-billion dollar, life-ending abortion industry. Today, I am the volunteer Executive Director of a Crisis Pregnancy Center, and I am elated that we are finally at the point where we can preserve and defend life as a state. Michigan will now have the opportunity and responsibility to stand up for LIFE again, instead of funding an industry that only provides plans toward death, deception, and theft of our future generation.
So, if we are honest as individuals and as a culture, would we say that every life HAS VALUE, and that EVERY LIFE is worth saving? Is it appropriate for us to say that as a government, as a society, as individuals we have made a big mistake by allowing the abortion industry to make billions of dollars from lying to women, placing their lives at great risk (cancer, infertility, mental and emotional health, and death), and killing over 60 million babies? Isn’t it time to admit we were wrong, forgive ourselves and each other, and receive forgiveness from God Himself? Isn’t it time to reject the business of abortion and accept our opportunities and responsibilities to raise the next generation toward its fullest potential?
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Every time I speak or share on the topic of abortion, I have to give credence to the great guilt many women (and men) feel after having abortions. Everyone has sinned, and we all have regrets – some really big and some small – but we ALL wish we could do some things over again. No sin or regret is unforgivable. The saving forgiveness offered by Jesus Christ is truly enough to cover all our regret and shame. It is enough to make up for every abortion and every horrible decision we’ve made. When we receive and accept that forgiveness, we can truly be healthy and reach our potential.