Overturning Roe v. Wade Will Not Stop Abortion. But It Could Destroy The Nation.

 

I was in high school in 1973 when the Supreme Court legalized abortion for the entire country.  Almost 50 years later, I still remembering looking at the headline in the newspaper in disbelief.  How could we legalize the murder of babies? I sat down and cried. 

I have gone through many political identities in the ensuing half century, from very liberal to ultra conservative to rejection of both. But one constant belief through it all has always been that abortion is evil. 

Now that it is almost certain that Roe v. Wade is about to be overturned, I should be thrilled. It is something I have wanted since 1973. 

But being a lot older and a little wiser, I now realize that the pro life movement has always been wrong.  No, it has not been wrong that abortion is evil.  The pro life movement was wrong in their approach to abortion. They have not just labeled abortion as evil. They have  vilified the people who support abortion, calling them evil and even satanic.   As a movement, they have never shown compassion or understanding for those who support abortion. 

The pro life movement's main strategy has always been political.  Every candidate in almost every office was judged by their stand on abortion.  The pro life movement worked to change both state and federal laws. They held an annual March on Washington, which was done each year on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  The pro life movement put all their hopes in a conservative Supreme Court, and they would vote for any presidential candidate who promised to pack the Court with conservatives.

The one thing the pro life movement has never done is to try to change the hearts and minds of people. They have never reached out to the other side other than to vilify them.  

My "good friend" Mary Ann Kreitzer, is a prime example of this.  She just did a post in which she talks about the "riots" in Los Angeles over the leaked Supreme Court decision.  From Kreitzer's post:

Watch this video from the L.A. riot and ask yourself who are the thugs? Then read the decision, an intelligent decision righting an "egregious wrong." The leftist thugs want chaos because ultimately it will enable more power and control over the population. Will any of these real insurrectionists face repercussions? Of course not! They burned our cities and murdered people with impunity and prospered like the BLM commies who spent donor funds buying themselves a $6 million dollar mansion.

Take note that all of the rioting and thug action is taking place in liberal states. The states that actually have the most protective legislation for babies in the womb are seeing very little if any protest activity. So the L.A. rioters, in a state where abortion is unrestricted up to and even after birth, want to make sure that residents of other states that defend life, states like Florida, Texas, Alabama, etc., will be forced to accept and facilitate child killing. No rights for those tiny Americans even when they are old enough to live outside the womb. The babies are the modern slaves owned by their mothers (dads have no rights) and can be killed for any reason or no reason. And they are! Take a look at these photos of late term babies murdered in D.C. recently by hired killer Cesare Santangelo at Washington Surgi-Center.

If you want to see the photos and videos referred to by Mary Ann, go to her post. I will not print them here.

Mary Ann seems to not know the difference between "riots" and "protests".  Here is what actually happened in Los Angeles. This is from the Los Angeles Times:

Around 7:30 p.m., officers escorted a group of about 250 demonstrators marching from the courthouse at Broadway and 1st Street to Pershing Square, said Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore. At some point, a group started to take over an intersection.

“We attempted to communicate, clear and provide dispersal order to the group,” Moore said in a tweet shortly after 9 p.m. “Crowd began to throw rocks and bottles” at police, Moore tweeted, adding that one officer was injured to an unknown extent.

Around 8:30 p.m., as the gathering started to disperse, some protesters blocked the intersection of 5th and Hill streets, just outside Pershing Square.

Police slowly drove a pair of vehicles into the intersection, moving about 40 protesters out of the way. Some were seen pounding on the hoods of the vehicles; most left the intersection.

Police declared an unlawful assembly at 9:20 p.m. and lifted it about 20 minutes later.

Officers hit some of the protesters with batons. A glass door at a Planet Fitness was smashed.

A sizable police presence remained in downtown past 9 p.m. as a few dozen protesters roamed around the streets near City Hall.

One person smashed the window of a law enforcement vehicle near Grand Park, and others tagged a bus stop with the words “Google LASD gangs.”

Some stayed as 10 p.m. approached, knocking over fences at City Hall and spray-painting slogans on the pavement. The groups had largely dispersed by 10:30 p.m., and officers put fences back up.

Yes, there were some physical confrontations, some property damage and one police officer was injured.  But that alone does not a riot make.  

Also, contrary to Mary Ann's assertions about "all of the rioting and thug action taking place in liberal states", Yahoo News reported:

Thousands of abortion rights protesters gathered in cities across the country on Tuesday. And most were peaceful.

Mary Ann needs to look at the footage from January 6, 2021 at the US Capital to see an actual riot.  Five people killed, immense amounts of property damage, and death threats to politicians with a gallows constructed at the Capital.  THAT is a riot.  This is what we saw from the "pro life" Right on January 6, 2021:

Our Lord's message to us is very clear and specific when it comes to our role in this world.  Matthew 16:15-16:

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Nowhere in Scriptures does it say we should get involved in the politics of this world.  No where does it say we should protest and disobey just because we disagree with our government. In fact, St. Paul told us just the opposite:

Romans 13:1-5:

Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.

Certainly we are not to submit to any secular laws that break God's laws. And certainly we have the right to speak up against laws which we consider immoral. We should not stay silent in the face of evil. But there is a way to do it, and a way not to do it. 

Using St. Teresa of Calcutta as an example, she never condemned those who supported abortion.  She just told them the results of abortion and that it could never be good.  

Here is an excerpt from op ed this great saint wrote for the Wall Street Journal:

"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign." (Mother Teresa -- "Notable and Quotable," Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94, p. A14)

Another quote:

"What is taking place in America," she said, "is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another." February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. 

There is no name calling from St. Teresa, no condemnation of those who support abortion, no vilifying anyone. This great saint talked about the evils of abortion, not the evils of people. She is trying to reach the people, not the politicians. She never once advocated marching and protesting.  Quite to the contrary, St. Teresa of Calcutta said the answer to abortion was in prayer:

“If people spend one hour per week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended”

The politics of this world is not the Christian way. Politics does not unite people. Politics does not change their minds and hearts. Politics divides people and turns them against one another.  That is the fruit of politics, and that is not from God.

When Pilate asked Jesus why the Jews handed Him over to be killed, Our Lord answered as follows:

“My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”

 St. Paul tells us Philippians 3:20:

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ

As Christians, we are to separate from this world. That does not mean to physically separate from those around us. That means we are not to think or act as the world does. Everything a Christian does should be done out of love and for the good of the other.  It is not our job to stand in judgment of others.  It is our job as Christians to bring people to Christ, and we cannot do this by condemning and vilifying.  

Our Lord said, "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." (John 3:16-17).  He repeated in John 12:47, "I came not to judge the world, but to save the world."

In contrast, Mary Ann Kreitzer ended her above-referenced post with these words: 

God help the bloodthirsty worshipers of Satan with their satanic sacrament of abortion!

That exemplifies everything that is wrong with the pro life movement.  That is why repealing Roe v Wade will not end abortion but only intensify the fight.  

The pro life movement may believe they have won the war with the repeal of Roe v. Wade. But it is only being escalated to a whole new level.  As long as the pro lifers judge and condemn as they have always done, they will lose.  

As we have seen in the polls, the majority of people do not want to see the repeal of Roe v. Wade. Most people still see a need to keep abortion legal.  That alone shows the pro life movement has failed.

Abortion will only end when the people see the evil in it.   Right now all they see are self righteous and judgmental people trying to control their lives.  And people like Mary Ann Kreitzer just dump more fuel on that fire.