HEAVEN MUST WEEP OVER EVERY BABY KILLED

“There is no other way to describe it, but that they are rejoicing over killing babies,” I remarked sadly to my wife. It was the morning after a substantial majority of Ohioans had passed Issue 1, an amendment to our state constitution that allows for abortion. Our newspaper’s special election issue led with a large photo of Issue 1’s proponents’ watch party. It featured a crowd on their feet, hands raised high in the air in victory, gleeful smiles on every face, the flush of exhilaration in their countenance, celebrating. Celebrating, ostensibly, over a victory for “women’s health.” Since the commencement of their campaign, “women’s health” was a disingenuous disguise, part of the scheming and strategy, to deceive people about what the amendment is really about. Whatever their protestations, the reality is, they were not rejoicing over women’s health. They were rejoicing over the worst thing for babies' health--being killed. How can I possibly accuse them of that? Because that is the inevitable outcome of the passage of this amendment. Babies are going to be killed. Murdered. The amendment was designingly crafted so ambiguously that eventually it can be used to allow for the abortion of anyone, for any reason, under any circumstance. The net result of the chicanery is that more babies, many more babies, exponentially more babies, will be killed than if the amendment had failed. And they were rejoicing over its passage. They were rejoicing over babies being killed. Babies will die because of this amendment. Not just the babies aborted in a true pregnancy crisis; not just the babies conceived by violent and or tragic circumstances. But babies for which there is no possibly justifiable reason their lives should be terminated. Babies that do not have to die. The revelers in the photo were rejoicing over killing babies. Plain and simple. The tragic cases that were cited by its advocates to justify the abortion amendment comprise only a minuscule fraction of the babies that will die. No! It is not just babies in those exceptional, anomalous cases that will die. Again, many, many, many, exponentially more babies will die than would have had the amendment failed. It is those babies they were rejoicing over. I tried to be kind and suppose that for many, their rejoicing was the glee of ignorance. But, really, the wrongness of killing babies is too innate to be ignorance. Although proponents have gone to great lengths to say that what is in a mother’s womb is not a baby, but just a clump of cells, people instinctually know that is not true. What’s in the womb is a baby. A clump of cells is a tumor. A tumor is removed from the body by excision. A baby is removed from the body by an abortion. Tumors are not aborted and babies are not excised. Babies, not tumors, are killed. No, there is no other way to cast it. They in the photo were rejoicing over babies being killed. Although most would have never voiced it, their jubilee, was, “We get to kill babies. We have finagled a way so any can kill their baby." It is evil to take a life. And, as Scripture would describe it, they “rejoiced to do evil.” Ours is a culture of death, and it celebrates death rather than life. Killing a life rather than giving a life. The rejoicing over the amendment said it all. In contrast, heaven rejoices over life. When one comes to and puts his faith in Christ, he is born again. He is given life. Spirit life. Abundant life. Eternal life. And, Jesus says, all of heaven rejoices over the new “baby.” Though this is a spiritual reality, it is also analogous to the physical reality. Heaven must rejoice over the birth of every baby as it did over the birth of The Baby. And, unlike those in the photo celebrating the amendment, Heaven must weep over every baby killed. --Pastor Clifford Hurst

HEAVEN MUST WEEP OVER EVERY BABY KILLED

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