My administrative assistant said it when she learned of the recent ruling of the Arizona Supreme Court: “It’s about time they started enforcing the good laws that are on the books!”
As we know, the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobb’s said that the states were free to do whatever they wanted on the question of the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child, and to read the Dobb’s decision, what the states decide would be essentially undisturbed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
We are back to the division of the nation prior to the Civil War: Was the black man person or property? Today, the great moral question facing the nation is whether or not the preborn child is a person with her own rights, or property to be disposed of at the whim of the mother; or even as a human embryo, to be vivisected in human embryo stem cell experimentation.
In his speech as a presidential candidate at the Cooper Institute in New York City, on February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln said it:
“Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
These words speak to the prolife community today 164 years later.
How is it possible that an Arizona law going back to the Civil War was understanding the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child a century before the advent of modern fetology and ultrasound that put ‘windows on the womb’?
Arizona had it right from the beginning! They were right in the eyes of God, and they were right in the hearts of the people. Other states need to follow the lead of Arizona. What laws do other states have on the books that could be enforced now that Dobb’s allows just that?
The pro-abort forces in Arizona have already gathered the signatures to put the killing of preborn children on the ballot. They use as a euphemism ‘to allow “reproductive” rights’ – and that is probably exactly the way it will be phrased on the ballot. People in Arizona will be required to vote, one at a time as they go in the voting booth, for or against the God-given equal humanity and personhood of preborn children.
God knows and counts the hairs on the heads of each of us. Those who waver and don’t want to take a position on this question will be forced to vote one way or the other.
In Psalm 33:13-14 we find the following: “The LORD looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.”
God must weep after putting the truth in men’s hearts (the Arizona law from the Civil War era). The devilish mischief has been to rip the truth from the human heart and put in its place the lie of “reproductive rights”.
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer
P.S. Politics is compromise. You will hear this a lot this coming election season about allowing abortion for the first 6 to 16 weeks. Are we to require preborn children to run the gauntlet of the Valley of the Shadow of Death for 6 weeks or 16 weeks, before those whom God has created are respected and protected by state law?
If we fail to protect the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, we pull the golden thread of the sacredness of life that permeates the entire continuum of life itself.
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