A Battle for the Heart

While many conservative Christians have celebrated the overturning of Roe v. Wade, we must understand that the battle to preserve the lives of unborn children still rages on in our society. In essence, we are in a battle for the hearts of those who have been calloused by the god of this world. It is sad to reason that we must persuade parents to love and desire their unborn children. Every person is responsible for the potential reproductive activities they engage in willfully - men and women. This means that one must be willing to accept the consequences of their decisions to engage in sexual activities. From potentially contracting a sexually transmitted disease, to becoming pregnant each person assumes the “risks” for engaging in sex with their partners.

Some time back, pop star Stevie Knicks, was advocating for prochoice groups by revealing her decision to abort her unborn child when her group, Fleetwood Mac, was at its zenith. She said in an interview, “Fleetwood Mac is three years in, and it’s big, and we’re going into our third album,” Nicks recounted. “It would have destroyed Fleetwood Mac,” she said of her baby. “I would have, like, tried my best to get through, you know, being in the studio every single day expecting a child,” Nicks continued. “It would have been a nightmare scenario for me to live through.” One wonders about the “nightmare scenario” that Nicks’ unborn child endured at the hands of an abortionist.

While the focus was on Nicks’ career, questions abound regarding the potential life that she ended in the name of profession and success. Would this unborn child have become as powerful an artist as her talented mother or even greater? This child might have had an extremely high IQ that provided the cure for various diseases. While this is all speculative, the world will never know the kinds of talent and love that this and countless other unborn children could have brought into the world.

An article that discussed Nicks’ decision said, that “Nicks admitted to murdering her baby in exchange for career success: She took the life of her own child for the specific reason of pursuing stardom in the music world. In other words, she committed child sacrifice. In the same way that past civilizations sacrificed their children to enable abundant harvests, victory over their enemies, or improved rainfalls, Americans sacrifice our children to enable success in our careers, more financial freedom, or fewer inconvenient responsibilities. But unlike other civilizations, we do not murder our children in the name of any specific false god or demonic entity. Instead, we serve ourselves as our own gods — murdering our babies as an act of devotion in the cult of our own autonomy.”

As intimated at the beginning of this treatise, changing and making laws will not stop women from aborting their unborn children. There needs to be a real internal change that orients one toward God and His view of human life—in utero and otherwise. It is very clear that God’s word recognizes the pre-birth nature of life before a baby is ever born.

Jeremiah was very plain about the nature of his calling to serve as a prophet of God. Jeremiah 1:4-5 says, “Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations." There was a sense in which Jeremiah was called to be a prophet of God before he was ever born!

Scripture makes it clear that God knew us as human beings with souls before were ever took our first breath as children. The psalmist underscores this in particularly beautiful language. Psalm 139:13-17 says, “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!” Why would any person even consider destroying a beautiful child created in the image of God? It is sad and tragic to consider.

When Mary and Elizabeth encountered one another, they both had a child that was conceived through miraculous measures. Elizabeth conceived a child past her child bearing days (Luke 1:36), and Mary was carrying the Messiah who was conceived without an earthly father. Notice how scripture describes the child that Elizabeth was carrying within her womb. Luke 1:41-44 says, “And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.’”

John the Baptist, the child of Elizabeth, was not described as a “fetus” or a “mass of tissue” or “not alive until the time of his birth.” John was described as a “babe.” Until society reaches the same conclusion about every unborn child, human life will continue to be viewed as expendable and burdensome in some considerations.

We must understand that this is a battle for the hearts and minds of those in our society. No amount of laws will stop a person who is determined to abort an unborn child as evidenced by a recent political campaign in our area. The only true answer for the problems that plague our world is true conversion to Jesus Christ (Acts 3:19).