This is an abolitionist answer to what many see as a difficult question. Many pro-life leaders or individuals would not agree with this answer. Many would say that abortion really isn’t the equivalent of murder. Many would say that a young mother purely is a victim and carries no complicity or guilt.
But to say that abortion is not murder and that a mother who willingly aborts her child is not guilty of murder, is only to hide the very truth they need to hear on the path to forgiveness and healing. To call abortion something other than murder is to hide the very truth that needs to be understood for it to be abolished.
Instead of the dismemberment of children by abortion being seen as extreme, the culture instead sees the idea of criminalizing abortion as extreme. This is, in part, because the pro-life movement has refused to speak and show the truth that abortion is nothing short of a violent act against an innocent human being. Many in the pro-life movement believe and behave in a way that puts the message of repentance and forgiveness in Christ as a secondary or optional message.
This is why I draw a distinction between labeling myself as a pro-life person versus labeling myself as an abolitionist. I am an abolitionist not pro-life. Abolitionism declares the heinous and unfathomably awful news of what abortion is along with the miraculous and infinitely powerful truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. – Don Cooper
“Question: So an almost 14 year old is responsible for the actions of adults who wanted her to have an abortion? What was I supposed to do? Run?
Answer: You were old enough to decide to have sex with a boy, and yet you want to escape the responsibility of the consequences of the sex act. That’s the bottom line. I’m pretty sure if you knew how to have sexual intercourse, you knew that babies sometimes result from sexual intercourse. I urge you not to claim ignorance or victimhood. You sinned against God by polluting your body and that of your partner when the two of you engaged in sexual intercourse.
So… you became pregnant. You seem to be saying that you were forced to commit this murderous act of abortion. Were you walked into the abortuary at the point of a weapon? Were you sedated against your will at some other location and then carried into the death mill, laid on the chair against your will, and when you woke up, it was done?
If not, you had a choice.
So, you ask whether you should have run away or something. Let’s think about this consistently. If you were the mother of a three year old and someone in your household wanted to murder your three year old and made significant moves toward accomplishing that murder, what do you think would be the proper response from you, the mother? Whatever your answer, that is what would have been proper to preserve the precious life of your preborn child, who was just as much a human being and your flesh and blood as a child who was born three years ago and who was loved and wanted. Neither age nor whether the child is loved by anyone in his family has any relevance to the fact that the child is human just like his mother is.
So yes, you should have done whatever it took to preserve your baby’s life. You should have loved your child as yourself. You are guilty.
That doesn’t mean that the others in your family are innocent. It sounds like they pressured you. Thus it sounds to me like they are even more guilty. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t guilty. You are guilty, and so are they. And you will all stand before God and give an account for the bloodguilt on your hands. You will be found guilty. You will be cast into Hell. You have no hope.
No hope except for the undeserved favor of God through Jesus Christ. Jesus died on the cross in the place of sinners to absorb the wrath of God that we all deserve, and then He rose from the dead to give the gift of forgiveness of sin (even of bloodguilt for murderers) and eternal life to sinners. Repent. Place all your faith in Jesus to give you forgiveness and eternal life, and be washed clean from your sin. Then follow Jesus, throw away your sin, no longer engage in sexual immorality (for one thing), and do what the Bible says.
Then once you have been washed clean you can warn those who pressured you to murder your baby and call them to repent and to be forgiven and washed clean. But until you are reconciled to God yourself, you can’t offer any hope to anyone else.
What sin do you love so much that you would prefer to be a slave to it rather than to follow Jesus and be reconciled to Him?
A//∀” – Post from the Abolish Human Abortion Facebook Page, October 5, 2016
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