Update: Below is the link to our Roe V. Wade broadcast which was January 21, 2017.
http://www.kslr.com/believingthebible
Sunday, January 22, marks the 44th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Something that really pulls my chain is when pro-choice people say that my opinion on abortion does not count – or I do not even deserve to have an opinion – because I am a man. The implication is that I am out running around getting women pregnant and leaving women to deal with the pregnancy and the baby. But it is actually so called pro-choice men who are doing this. When they get a woman pregnant, they see abortion as a way of relieving themselves of their responsibility as the father.
The “Lie #5 A Fetus isn’t human” segment of the documentary The 12 Biggest Lies shows a sign stating: “A MESSAGE TO OUR LEADERS: ROE vs. WADE OR YOU WON’T GET LAID.” 1 Without realizing it, the bearer of this sign was actually validating my point. The premise is that men just want to have sex with women and do not care about being husbands and fathers. And men are appealed to accordingly. But these are men of the pro-choice side. The 1992 documentary – When Abortion was Illegal: Untold Stories – features Russ, who when he was younger had arranged for an abortion for his girlfriend.2 The abortion was paid for by his assistant track coach. Russ described how years later, when approached by a senior professor, he told the professor where a freshman student could get an abortion. At a point later in life, he was thanked by that student. Fighting back tears, Russ stated “It felt a little bit like saving a life.” Remember, Russ was a man who by his own words “was terrified at the prospect of being a father.” So he helped his girlfriend, then another woman, get an abortion. Russ is the face of pro-choice men.
The pro-choice side is right about one thing. They say for women to be equal with men, abortion needs to be legal. That is true. But it does not elevate women to the level of men. It lowers women to the level of men – allowing them a way to escape responsibility for their actions.
The Believing the Bible broadcast on Saturday, January 21, will be a Roe v. Wade anniversary broadcast. It airs at 1:45 PM on KSLR AM 630; and will be available on podcast the following Tuesday, January 24.3 In it, we will discuss the connections between Darwinism, eugenics and abortion – from Francis Galton, Darwin’s cousin who coined the term eugenics; to Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and writer of The Pivot of Civilization – a book on eugenics; to Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood who is also the founder of the Texas Freedom Network, which wants the General Theory of Evolution taught as fact, without question, in our public schools.
We talk about how Darwinism is used to justify abortion, saying that the baby is in the “fish stage” or the “reptilian stage.”4 So abortion not only lowers women to the level of men, abortion lowers people to the level of animals.
At work, I have up a sonogram picture of my son Joshua. I can verify what “Grandpa” reads to his “Grandson” that will be on our special airing:
“You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.”
This is of course Psalm 139 and was written close to 3,000 years before we had sonograms.5 So it took that long for science to finally start catching up with the Bible – at least on this issue.
Earlier this week, there was a story of a bald eagle being shot here in Texas.6 Wildlife Center of Texas stated: “We would like to remind everyone how vital it is to teach compassion for all life from a young age. Compassion for animals teaches compassion for our own kind.” I actually agree with this statement. We have always made a point to teach our son to be gentle with our animals and to love them. But it is tragic that we live in a society where people do not always make the connections. They see the value in protecting animals. But they not see the value in protecting unborn children. Matthew 18:10 states: “Beware that you don’t look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels are always in the presence of my heavenly Father.”7
Terry Read
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26WPgiW6HiI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKd9zWjxr6k
- http://www.kslr.com/believingthebible
- Carl Sagan (“The Question of Abortion: A Search for the Answers,” Parade, April 22, 1990).
- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+139&version=NLT
- http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bald-eagle-suffers-fatal-injuries-from-gunshot-wound-in-texas/ar-BBy84UQ?OCID=ansmsnnews11
- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2018
