On Abortion

There's a pro-choice bumper sticker one sees now and again that says "Keep your laws off my body." No good comes of dismissing your opponent's argument, and it's not hard to imagine the repugnance of a woman crushed by poverty and commodified by men at the thought of some well-fed stranger in a $5,000 suit placing ordinances on her womb. The thing is, though—every law is on our bodies. That's what a law is: something to restrict where we can physically go or what we can physically touch. They can't govern our minds, and it would be a nightmare if they could. We have laws, ultimately, to keep us from killing each other; and they're enforced by those who, in the last resort, will physically restrain us from breaking them. Keeping my laws off your body would mean blood and rape and anarchy in the streets.

At the 2015 Women in the World Summit, Hillary Clinton stated that "deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed." Crudely shrewd, sandwiching "religious beliefs" between a neutral phrase and a negative phrase, lest we should discern any distinction. The "structural bias" of men being larger and stronger than women has always been basis enough for a culture of oppression without the need of any religious justification; and if religions have often ratified that oppression to varying degrees, at least some of them have urged the view of women as fellow children of God, thereby opposing and offsetting the structural bias of nature. But without deep-seated religious beliefs to offset that natural bias, there's nothing much to staunch the oppression of the unborn, who after all are smaller and weaker than any of us. Mrs. Clinton has always impressed me as a person who is not so much pro-choice as pro-abortion. I try to love her in the sense of willing her good, but I fear and hate what I think she half-knowingly serves.

In 2013, pro-lifers singing "Amazing Grace" outside an abortion facility in Texas were drowned out by a crowd of pro-choicers who broke into a spontaneous chant of "Hail Satan." In 2015, former "high wizard" Zachary King confessed to performing over 150 Satanist rituals during abortions. In 2017, the Satanic Temple in Missouri worked with Planned Parenthood to oppose anti-abortion legislation of the grounds of religious liberty.

Religious liberty.

We need to remember that, despite various anti-woman positions held by feminist leaders (Margaret Sanger's hair-raising malice towards black women, for example), the feminist movement has fundamental truths behind it. Women are and have been stomped on by the patriarchy, particularly under the Islamic religion that American feminists so confusingly adore. The sins of those who were entrusted with power in order to uphold virtue have brought about the profoundest possible crack between truth and love. Far too many men down the centuries have read as far as "Wives, obey your husbands" (Ephesians 5:22) and stopped before "Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the Church and laid down His life for her" (Eph. 5:25).

But none of this, none of this, justifies the murder of the innocent. The failures of the Church, so numerous and awful, are reasons to fight harder for the Church—not to turn away and serve the Enemy. No one really believes anymore that unborn children can't feel pain, can't move and dream and start to know the voices of their parents: there's just too much science in the world now. More and more, this issue becomes a naked struggle between muddy Earth and howling Damnation. We all know the solace of John 3:16, but we mustn't forget the admonition of Revelation 3:16—"Because you are neither hot nor cold but lukewarm, I shall spew you out of my mouth." There's no room for neutrality here. We have to stop this thing.