How Confusion About Rule of Law Kills Babies

(Christian Gallery News Service, October 26, 2007) An organization called the Concerned Women of America (CWA) issued a press release yesterday headlined, "Congress May Be Funding Illegal Abortions." CWA is concerned that abortion clinics around the country might be violating the law while they are being paid by taxpayers' dollars to kill unborn babies. The CWA spokesperson stated, "One third of Planned Parenthood's income comes from the government...Our tax dollars should not go to organizations involved in illegal activities. This goes beyond being pro-life or pro-abortion. The rule of law applies to everyone, including abortionists," CWA concluded.

If you parse this situation, this is what you will see: Christians (the Concerned Women of America), who ostensibly believe unborn babies are being killed by people in abortion clinics, are arguing that the people in abortion clinics are not being killed according to law, and therefore the government should intervene and make the abortionists kill the babies CORRECTLY.

Perhaps you see nothing, shall we say, strange in this situation. But hopefully you will see that the situation above is a case book study in what confusion looks like up close and very personal.

In legalized abortion, the law, which we would normally think is designed to protect people, has been turned into an instrument that guides people in how to kill other people CORRECTLY.

Now it is true that the law is rarely used to define how to kill some people correctly. The law that governs the procedures and conditions for implementing capital punishment of criminals is one example. The law that defines the rules of war is another example of how the law can be properly used to define how to kill people.

But of course the Concerned Women of America were not talking about laws directed to the execution of criminals but, instead, were talking about the laws that govern the "proper" way to kill babies, albeit admittedly unborn babies.

And of course that is exactly what the leaders of the pro-life movement have been doing for 34 years and counting. From the day Roe v. Wade made killing babies legal, the leaders of the pro-life movement in word and deed said as loud and clear as words and deeds can say it, AMEN, to the idea that it was legal to kill unborn babies. According to the leaders of the pro-life movement--as this present example proves--if the federal government said it, then it was law, and that settles it for Christians in the United States of America.

Such behavior needs to brought under the bright light of the Holy Spirit.

If you will think about the secular historical record, not to mention the record of events in the Holy Bible, you will see that a time when it becomes legal to kill babies has throughout recorded history been the most portentous time known to our species. It was no coincidence that Herod ordered the death of babies--they were legally killed--as a portent to the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is only one example of the fact that when babies are legally killed a portent is being announced, a portent of world changing events. When a people were given over to have their babies killed, the time of the end was near. Whether the ancient people of Edom, or Egypt under the Pharaoh, or Israel prior to the Diaspora, or the more recent people of Nazi Germany are in view, the portent was always the same: the end of something BIG was at hand.

When we all stop and think about the fact that the leaders of the Christian pro-life movement are having a discussion in public in the United States of America about the proper way to legally kill babies, whether the babies are being killed using our tax dollars or not becomes a moot point. By simply allowing themselves to be brought to the place where they talk about the proper way to kill babies, the leaders of the pro-life movement provide a tacit imprimatur to the act of killing babies, a tacit imprimatur that is even more essential to ongoing legalized abortion than any amount of money. In other words, by admitting that it is "legal" to kill babies, the leaders of the pro-life movement grant moral, even godly, standing to the people who kill babies. After all, if something is legal, and we are obligated to obey it, then for those whose obligations begin with their obligation to God, there is a tacit admission that their God wants them to obey whatever we concede we have an obligation to obey.

Does God really want His people to act like abortion is legal? Or for those who don't believe in God, is that really what anyone should want to do?

We the people in the USA inherited an amazing form of government. We the people in this generation in the USA were given an opportunity by God to define the meaning of law in this nation. We were given that opportunity in exactly the way King Herod was given that opportunity.

I did this because I was confused about the difference between a law and a lie. The confusion is easy to explain. Law and lie look a lot alike. They both have three little squiggle signs all clumped together and that means we have to look hard at them to see that the squiggle signs--the letters--are different.

But that difference in law and lie is enormously significant: it means the words signify different things.

If you look closely you will see that deciding to make a law that talks about how to kill babies CORRECTLY means you have agreed to become like King Herod, have agreed that a government has the right to make it legal to start killing babies.

There was a time, and it was not so long ago as recorded history is measured, that people in western civilization made it a law that women and children were not to be killed when men found themselves in those situations where the only way to settle things was to organize a fight to the death. Now we live in a time where women and children are legally killed as the inevitable collateral damage of the time in which we live.

We still have a chance to make things like that illegal. But unless we are willing to start by protecting the legal rights of the least among us--our unborn cousins--this will all end with everyone of us realizing that law--that government itself--has become the destroyer of us all. We still have a window of opportunity to turn our course in history in a direction other than the imminent destruction of this nation. Won't you please help me turn the ship of State around?

Neal Horsley
Founder
The Creator's Rights Party