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.)
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.
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.
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.