Turning Down the Abolitionist Noise

These last few days have been very irritating for me. I took drastic action; I dumped a Facebook “friend” because his focus on Abolitionism has made my blood boil too many times.

I think Abolitionism is a cult or something approaching it. Logic, dialogue, reason, evidence, and other forms of information exchange have no effect on people that have swallowed that particular red pill.

They disassociate themselves from everyone that has a different opinion than themselves. They claim that only they are right and look for ways to divide others from themselves. They utilize scorched earth tactics on those with whom they disagree and vilify them as morally evil, traitorous to Jesus Christ, and tools of the devil.

Abolitionists claim to oppose “abortion child sacrifice”. Please note that these three words always appear together and in that order in their literature. For many years, prolife people have compared abortion on demand with accounts of the Old Testament which speak of apostate citizens of Israel sacrificing their children to the pagan god Moloch. (Yes, I know that “Moloch” has about five different spelling variations, but it’s all the same dude or demon, as the case may be.) Abolitionists have flipped this analogy into a real thing; they really believe that every woman seeking an abortion is killing her baby to give her unborn child to Moloch as an offering.

On the basis of the Ten Commandments; namely, “Thou shalt not kill,”; they want to criminally prosecute every woman that seeks an abortion for the crime of murder. They want this to be the law of the land in the United States, one state at a time.

Traditionally, prolife groups want to have laws to restrict surgical abortion, medications that can cause abortion, and in some cases, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Prolife groups typically offer counseling and try persuading young women to seek salvation and comfort in Christ. Several groups offer Bible studies geared to healing and offer prenatal care and material support to encourage women not to abort. Stopping abortion or an abortion decision is based on reason and material aid to the expectant mothers. Most prolife people are into real world intervention and as  they are able push for legislative reforms to protect the unborn.

Abolitionists view such prolife legislative ideas as traitorous and call supporters of such proposals, “traitors” or worse. Abolitionists will oppose any politician sponsoring such a bill unless it also criminalizes the woman seeking the abortion. Utilizing a tactic employed by Aaron Park, in several smaller states they have purchased URLs in the candidate’s name and billboards proclaiming that Senator Jones (or whoever) supports abortion because his prolife legislation does not penalize mothers.

Below is one example, Oklahoma State Senator Todd Gollihare. Gollihare is up for re-election on June 16, 2026. Abolitionists have targeted this guy for not criminally penalizing women that seek abortion. Please note the URL at the bottom of the billboard ToddForAbortion.com Note the Senator Gollihare says he is 100% prolife.

They have defeated some state legislative candidates by using these tactics and thus will be employing them even more. (I think this was the basis of their election day attack a few weeks ago on Scott Herndon; my new State Senator.) Please note, as I hope to demonstrate shortly, that they only attack Republican prolife candidates.

Abolitionists have effectively declared war on the entire prolife movement and castigate them as traitors to life and sell-outs. In a previous blog post, I included a partial hit list of prolife groups that they have called out for apostacy.

I have attempted to dialogue with these folks and been shot-down every time. They are condescending and dismissive.

Ronald Reagan, who in my opinion was the greatest President of the 20th Century, used to get legislation passed by the Democrats in the House of Representatives by building coalitions with other people that agreed on the wisdom of a particular piece of legislation. When he could find agreement, Reagan would work with someone and when he couldn’t, he would find someone else. Reagan never burned bridges with anyone, he just learned when and how to work with folks when he could. Much of his legislative success was accomplished by his personality and charm.

Abolitionists are “all or nothing” single issue people. It’s them versus the world because everyone not with them, is identified as “of their father, the devil”. Hence, my previous comparisons to Barbara Alby and CRA.

This week, I ran across a few threads or possibly reposts of the same one with different graphics with the old and tired mantra that they would never vote for the lesser of two evils. This is the usual crap that surfaces every so often that not voting or skipping that race is more virtuous than actually picking a side. They will only participate in the political process when somebody they agree with gets on the ballot under their own steam. They reserve the right not to vote at all but are totally willing to bump-off a prolife candidate, even in favor of a proabortion one; if said prolife person manages to piss them off. Purity or punishment seem kind of Marxist to me.

I went into the bowels of my Facebook account and located the gem.

“Trump’s legacy will be that he presided over the largest holocaust of human history while trying to shift attention away at every turn.

I regret my vote for him. I repent. Never again.

I thought that he would move the needle in the right direction.

I thought that his appointments to the court would make all the difference.

I wanted my vote to “count.” I wanted to be a part of the process. I didn’t want to be left out.

I wanted to believe that I had a champion fighting for what I believed in. “My guy” in the ring, who, although we had serious disagreements, at least I could feel like my side was winning the tug-of-war when he was out in office.

I thought that if I didn’t vote, I couldn’t complain. That’s what I was told.

I thought that voting for a pro-legal-abortion pagan and fake Christian would somehow cause things to be better for the preborn.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

The Biblical answer is to refuse to do evil that good may come.

The Biblical answer is to appoint only “men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain.” (Exodus 18)

Turning in a blank ballot is saying “no” and “woe” to:

  • Compromise
  • Partiality
  • Injustice
  • Delay
  • Unequal weights and measures

And ultimately it’s saying “no” and “woe” to a Conservative Party bent on regulating instead of abolishing legal child sacrifice.“

But the liberals will destroy the nation!”

Not any more than God will destroy the nation that tolerates child sacrifice.

May the Republicans lose every election until they repent and fight to establish real justice and protection for those being murdered.

If you have a true abolitionist to vote for, support them regardless of their estimated chances of winning.

If you don’t, don’t be tempted to support the people who, through cowardice or compromise or corruption, will work to maintain the legal status of human sacrifice.”

~ Abolitionist Peter Daniel Webb

This was added by a person reposting the thread above:

The Biblical answer is to vote only for people who will judge without partiality. Meaning those who will never draw lines and say, “these people can be murdered, and these can’t” and “these people can murder, and these can’t.” Re-drawing the lines in a different place is still partiality.

The Biblical answer is to say, “Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice… and make the fatherless their prey!” (Isaiah 10) You can’t vote for someone and be a prophetic voice of “woe” at the same time.

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One Abolitionists supporter wrote:

William who said don’t vote? It’s not that we don’t vote, but choose not to vote for a man who is evil and promotes child sacrifice. The same way we should not vote for someone who promotes and put for bills for the murder of a one year-old child in order to save the two-year-old child. It’s wicked and evil. We should not vote for that individual that promotes evil who oppresses a human being.

I vote, but I did not vote for evil in order that some good may come out of it.

My response was:

… by not voting, you are abdicating a right and tool that God has given you to peaceful transform society; something we are commanded by Scripture to do.

If you don’t like a candidate, then put forth another and persuade folks to support that person. You can’t change the system if you don’t participate in it.

Christ is ruling now. If Obama or Biden or Bush or Trump is President, then He has willed it for His purposes. Our ballot choices are given to us by God, and it is our duty to pick the best person, not throw a tantrum because everyone on the ballot is a flawed image bearer of God.

Lastly, I find the unwillingness of Abolitionist folks to work with other prolife groups very disturbing.

Translation, we want only to be ruled by the most oppressive tyrants that the Democrat Party can give us until such time as Republicans, who we refuse to help in any way, field a holy enough candidate that we might be inclined to vote for him.

Ok, so anyone that agrees with Abolitionists less than 100 percent is the enemy, all women who have had abortions are to be tried for murder and executed (this is the Biblical punishment for murder), prolife people are the problem because they are compromising traitors to the cause, and anyone claiming to be a Christian that has a different opinion on life is to be vilified. Sounds like a winning formula for transforming society.

Oh, can anyone cite for me any Christian society in the last 2,000 years that executed women that aborted their children? Just one.

Why do they claim only one verse, Exodus 20:13, covers abortion. This is untrue. It is lazy exegesis and sloppy theology.

So, what will this utopian society look like once the Abolitionists have executed 30 or so million women in our country? Isn’t this just the rightwing version of the Muslims or Taliban?

Look, biblically speaking, we all deserve death for the sins that we have committed. Jesus died in our place and by faith in Him, we can be saved This is the Gospel. Letting the Abolitionists act as God’s agents to avenge one particular sin which they claim to never have committed seems rather narrow to me. If you want to really punish sin, let’s execute all the adulterers, homosexuals, liars, witches, disobedient children, those that don’t keep the Sabbath, and all the rest in the Bible that are worthy of death. Sooner or later, we all will be on one of those lists deserving of execution. Oh, and just for fun, let’s start this purge with the churches supporting Abolitionists.

Statistically, abortion rates and rates of divorce are the same within the Christian community as in the general population. Wouldn’t you reasonably expect that if the Church was doing its job that divorce, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, and a litany of other sins would be demonstrably less in Churches that are following God? Verses like “Let him who is perfect cast the first stone” and “Let your light shine” set a high standard that we are clearly not achieving now.

Can you see now why I previously accused the SPLC of funding these guys? They make the rest of us look really bad. But wait, doesn’t making the rest of us look bad make them virtuous? Nope.

How does responding to mass killing by advocating more mass killing solve anything and further the Gospel?

So yeah, I got this guy off of my Facebook feed but one of the Abolitionists websites has almost 500,000 followers so you better be worried. These wolves in sheep’s clothing may be in your congregation recruiting for vengeance on God’s behalf.

Eating Your Own Young

Folks, I keep thinking that I’m done posting about Abolitionists, but they won’t leave me alone. When it suits them, they pull the “we are more righteous than thou” card. As Clint Eastwood once said in one of his many Dirty Harry films, ‘You are a legend… in our own mind.”

Twice recently, they have run hit pieces on people that are on their side—i.e. prolife.

On election day in Idaho, May 19th, local Abolitionists posted a hit piece on Scott Herndon; my local candidate for State Senate. Scott Herndon is a proven conservative leader and prolife. He was running against sitting Senator Jim Woodward. Woodward is vocal in his support of dismantling Idaho’s profile laws. (Woodward was prolife when his votes were pyrrhic but once Roe v Wade was tossed, he changed his tune and started advocating that Idaho undo its prolife stance.)

Scott Herndon

Woodward and Hendon have been swapping the seat in Senate District 1 since 2020. Oh, note to our California readers, the term for a State Senator in Idaho is two years, not four as in California.

Despite the Abolitionists best efforts, Herndon won decisively in the rematch with Woodward. Recently Herndon has won on “off years” while Woodward has won during Presidential election years. Presidential elections bring out low information voters that frequently screw it up for the rest of us. Having Herndon as the local Senator was a key factor in my wife and I deciding to move to north Idaho several years ago.

FYI: An Abolitionist candidate with zero political experience ran for Senate District 3 and scored 28 percent of the vote.

If you don’t recall, Abolitionists want the death penalty for every woman that seeks an abortion, as well as any “physicians” involved to helping her procure said abortion. Herndon is not willing to go that far and in their minds is thus a traitor to the cause of life.

Next, candidate 28 percent posted a piece about Donald Trump being the most bloodthirsty president in the history of the nation. Under the new statistics on abortion making their rounds on social media, they show an upward trend since the Covid lockdowns. I question these numbers since historically the numbers have been in terms of surgical abortions while the proliferation of abortion pills and IVF have not—to my knowledge—been part of the numbers until Roe was tossed by the Supreme Court. Also, the most reliable numbers on abortion in the United States have always been generated by Planned Parenthood. PP has financial and political reasons to monkey with the numbers, so I don’t fully trust them. Decades ago, prolife groups decided to go with the numbers from PP anyway.

Sign “Donald Trump supports baby Murder! Repent”

Joe Biden opened the floodgates on mail order abortion pills and Trump has been slow to restrict them. This is partially due to government bureaucrats pushing back on Trump’s stated agenda. While wanting to restrict mail order abortions, Trump has pushed for wider availability of IVF which is a reason that prolife groups have been attacking him; however, none come close to the vitriol of the Abolitionists.

This brings me to the core of the problem with Abolitionists; namely, they have nothing to offer but complaints.

After I saw the attack on Trump that they posted of Facebook, I stated that Trump was a far superior choice to the Democrat offering for President in 2024. I point blank asked who was their candidate for 2028? Can their guy win a majority of primaries in the 50 states? Do they have 2 billion dollars in cash to help their guy campaign for the White House? (By my math, that’s 500 million for the primary and 1.5 billion for the general election. FYI my numbers are likely too low for the next campaign cycle.) Do they have a majority of people in the House of Representatives and the Senate ready to pass their idea into Law? Do they have enough judges to successfully litigate their Abolitionists Law?  

As expected, they had no response. Sorry, but “Orange Man bad” is not an informed response.

Abolitionists summarily reject any incremental implementation of their ideas. They are scorched earth all the way. They want 100 percent of everything; they want all at one time or nothing at all. Anyone that succeeds in reducing abortion is a traitor because in one fell swoop, they can’t stop all abortions. Abolitionists reject any type of incremental reduction of abortion.

Folks, when you begin with the notion that only thermonuclear weapons can be used to subdue your enemies then you have nowhere to go. This makes Abolitionists a suicide cult not a political movement. What’s worse is that they are doing this in the name of God.

In the 2,000-year history of the Christian Church, I don’t know of a single woman executed by a Christian society for getting an abortion. The Bible has lots more to say about the subject and Exodus 20:13 “Thou shalt not kill (or commit murder)” is not the right passage on the subject. Abortion is mentioned in both the Old and New Testament, but most Christians are too lazy or ill-informed to know where to see it in black and white. (I’ve mentioned it elsewhere on the blog, so I won’t go over it here.)

Abolitionists are not about stopping abortion. They are all about unchurching everyone else and taking pride in the fact that they are not like those other sinners. They are smug hypocrites using pride to put everyone else down. There is no salvation via politics or cramming their values upon the unwashed masses by passing a law and then wrapping it around our necks until we agree.

I have asked them repeatedly about starting with educating and persuading the average church member about things like IVF and abortion pills but that takes work which they are unwilling to do. I think they want to pass a law instead of work through the church because they don’t have the numbers to move the needle within the body of Christ.

They want a quick fix. Abolitionists want a law passed and then hope it will force a change in behavior of the church. This is power religion not biblical religion. Baptizing the Messianic State does not make the State suddenly become Christian, at best the State just adopts a few new vocabulary words and consolidates even more power.

Gary North has written so much against this type of nonsense; especially in terms of Pharoah versus Moses. I know Doug Wilson has spoken against it as have many others. Candidate 28 percent has even reposted quotes from R.J. Rushdoony on his Facebook page but clearly, he has never read a single book by the man. Rushdoony’s Institutes of Biblical Law is about reforming the church and the duty of Christians to subject every area of their life to Christ. Yes, the State has biblical role to play but it is not right for the State to reform the Church. The Church is to reform the State. Biblical government is limited government.

Rushdoony quote from 28%’s Facebook page

Abolitionists are running down a rabbit trail halfcocked and wondering why the rest of the world isn’t following them over the cliff. When you zoom past the roadrunner holding a sign that says, “Gravity” then you know what happens next.

Lastly, the Abolitionists are exactly the type of group the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is accused of funding on the Right to justify painting us all as extremists, as they raise even more funds to promote leftwing causes. Ditto for the FBI under Joe Biden creating domestic terror groups on the right where none existed before. Abolitionists are broken folks tilting at windmills in their own minds.