Roe v Wade What Now

 

Pro-Life: A Victory and a Challenge

Scripture: Matthew 19:13-15 (ESV)

¹³ Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, ¹⁴ but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” ¹⁵ And he laid his hands on them and went away.

Meditation:

            Today the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a ruling overturning nearly 50 years of legalized abortion in the United States. Tens of millions of unborn children lost their lives to this abhorrent practice. It has been a long hard struggle to get to this place. Yet I am afraid we have more work to do. Arguably harder more demanding work must begin in earnest. We cannot lay down our weapons and relax. God has called us to be the church in a way we have not been used to.

            You see while abortion was legal, we could celebrate when some blessed soul saved a baby through sidewalk counseling or a crises pregnancy center ultrasound. We celebrated the wins, but we could do nothing for those who were determined to terminate their pregnancies. The losses were mourned but nothing could be done.

            Now, however, with this change in law those moms in crises pregnancies will need to be cared for. Someone is going to have to help tens if not hundreds of thousands of babies that will be born each year into crises situations.

Jesus loved children; Jesus would not have loved abortion. This is simply an undeniable fact based on scripture. No where did Jesus ever reject a child that was brought to him. He healed their illnesses and even raised them from the dead. Jesus put a remarkably high value on children as we see in this scene from Matthew 18:” At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” ² He called a child, whom he put among them, ³ and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. ⁵ Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.”

            When Jesus walked this earth, it was tough to be a child. Children were routinely left to die if their parents were not able to take care of them or if they had some birth defect. But that started to change after Christian people started picking up and caring for and raising these kids. Just as our forbearers in the faith did for these poor children in the ancient Roman empire so we must do for those children who will be born into poverty and deprivation today. The church must publicly and loudly announce that we are willing to take care of these thousands of children who will be born because Roe v, Wade is no longer the law of the land.

            The demise of Roe v Wade and its evil twin Planned Parenthood v. Casey were almost certain from the moment they were written. Legal scholars on the left and the right pointed out obvious flaws in the legal reasoning behind these cases. Kudos to those who fought the good fight and got rid of these unjust and immoral laws. I must be emphatic about this the battle has been won but we are no where near the end of the war. What we do for the thousands of babies that will be born as a result of this decision will be our legacy. I pray it will be one we can be proud of as a pro-life community.