This attitude is so wrong on so many different levels, the most obvious of which is this view that a child should ever be viewed as a "punishment." Children are always to be viewed as a blessing from God. Psalm 127:3-4: "Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!" And if they aren't a blessing to the biological parents, they are most certainly a blessing to the adoptive ones.
And I can't help but sneer at this idea that Obama plans on teaching his daughters about "values and morals" when those values and morals say that women can kill their preborn children for any reason whatsoever. Those aren't values and morals. Obama is actually teaching them how to rationalize any behavior. If they tell themselves that babies don't have any rights unless and until their umbilical cords are cut, or that they aren't ready to be parents, or that having children would just be a major inconvenience, then they can justify murdering them by abortion. If a store charges prices that are too high, then I should be able to just take a few things extra without paying for them. Certain people will think less of me and maybe even shun me if I tell the truth about it, so it'll be OK if I lie to them. This is not moral; it is moral relativism. Real values and morals teach us that it is always wrong to kill innocent life, it is always wrong to steal, it is always wrong to lie.
One of the first rules of life is that actions have consequences. Obama seems to have missed that lesson, and his daughters are apparently going to miss it as well. How does Obama plan to teach his daughters about sexual morality while telling them that they can circumvent the known consequences of their sexual behavior? The primary purpose of sexual intercourse has always been reproduction. God also made it a sacred union between a man and wife. The world tells us that sex is merely a recreational activity, and to reinforce that, the world has given us birth control, abortion, and fast cures to most venereal diseases. One can't help but notice the massive and continual push to find a cure for HIV/AIDS. Modern society has no respect for the act that creates life; therefore, it has no respect for life.
The consequences of sexual intercourse have always included the possibility of conceiving a child. Abortion is the attempt to escape these consequences. Of course, neither Obama nor this society will tell these girls the consequences of abortion itself. A Planned Parenthood ad from 1964 gives a fairly accurate definition of abortion: "An abortion kills the life of the baby after it has begun." Of course, now that Planned Parenthood is in the business of selling abortion, they steer far from words like "baby," "kills," and "life." They also listed on that 1964 ad one of the possible consequences of abortion, sterility.
Today, the Planned Parenthood website minimizes or just neglects to mention many of the risks. Their current website says: "In-clinic abortion procedures are very safe. But there are risks with any medical procedure." (I'm assuming that they mean that abortions are safe for the women since it has been proven that they aren't at all safe for the babies.) The site then lists a few minor complications that might occur and then makes this statement: "Most often, these complications are simple to treat with medicine or other treatments." Planned Parenthood makes some mention of "extremely rare" more serious complications and then uses distortions to compare those risks with the risks involved in childbirth. Planned Parenthood's entire method for promoting and selling abortions involves lies and deception designed to hide and/or downplay the possible physical consequences of abortion. And they don't even mention the emotional or spiritual consequences.
Scandals, investigations, cover-ups, and perjuries in the news today all demonstrate that escaping and hiding the consequences of one's actions are simply the way of the world. What is most heinous is when those actions include the killing of innocent human beings. We must demand that our government protect ALL innocent human beings. I was reading the 94th Psalm yesterday, and I couldn't help but think of the United States Supreme Court and its Roe v. Wade ruling as I went through verses 20-23:
"Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
those who frame injustice by statute?
They band together against the life of the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.
But the LORD has become my stronghold,
and my God the rock of my refuge.
He will bring back on them their iniquity
and wipe them out for their wickedness;
the LORD our God will wipe them out." (ESV)
On a lighter note, I will be attending the Midwest Personhood Prolife Conference in Wichita, Kansas on September 11th of this year. I would encourage everyone reading this to come and network with fellow advocates of personhood laws and amendments and to get updated on the efforts in the various states.
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