Abortion Abolitionist Movement

Doug Wilson on Christians and Politics

I don’t know if the passage which I quote below ever made it into print. I have very few books by Doug Wilson, maybe three. However, I think it has application on the Abolitionists movement so I wanted to place it on the record. As usual, I quote more than a sound bite or sentence fragment to insure that readers will understand the context; especially since verifying my transcript will prove difficult for most folks.. The source of my quotation is from a four lecture presentation on Eschatology. This is from Lecture 3 “The Power of the Cross”. I think it was recorded in the early 1990’s. This quotation is not about Abolitionists (since they didn’t exist at the time of the recording) but is applicable to them. Lastly, the transcript was made using voice recognition in Microsoft Word and then edited by me. Thus paragraph breaks and punctuation were created by me.

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Romans 4:13

“13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. “

Now, a very simple, straight forward thing, what was Abraham promised? Not just lots of descendants, he was promised descendants like the stars in the sky, he was promised descendants like the grains of sand on the seashore. But how does Paul put that promise here? What was Abraham promised? The world. All right? And who is promised the world along with Abraham? “For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed …”, OK, in other words, the promise to Abraham is fulfilled not just in what is given to Abraham, but what is given to Abraham through his seed. So, what was Abraham promised and what was Abraham’s seed promised? The world.

Let’s put another, let’s throw another verse here that you are very familiar with, but nobody believes. “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit heaven when they die.” (laughter) “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5), not heaven, the earth. Abraham and his seed were promised the world.

Now this is a very important distinction, by what instrument were they were they to be given the world? Not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith; not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Now let me, let me, throw a parenthetical comment in here, and I’m going to throw some turns out, you probably had a very similar experience with them. I don’t call myself a Reconstructionist but other people do, and when these other people say that you know Wilson’s a Reconstructionist, what do they mean?

They generally mean that I want to, and others like me, others of my ilk, want to march on Washington, institute biblical law, and impose it on everybody; wrapping it around their neck all the way down. Alright? Some sort of top-down thing. Well, that whole idea appalled me. It just, it just appalls me. There are Christians who do it and they’re called Dispensationalists. They’re the ones with Christian Coalition. They’re the ones with religious lobbying organizations. They’re the ones who are doing their big thing in Washington D.C.

The promise, and everybody thinks that because the politics is such an idol in our in our era, everybody thinks that if you if you believe that that the Christian faith is going to exercise universal dominion, everybody thinks that you’re running for Congress

It’s one of those bizarre things… I do believe that we are going to inherit the world. How? Through the righteousness of faith. Through the proclamation of the Gospel. The most important thing we can do for the recovery of godly order and civil decency is to bring about a reformation in the church. We don’t, we don’t need umm, we don’t need any more godly people going to Washington. H.L. Manchin, the erudite unbeliever said, “Trying to reform Washington by sending good people there is like trying to reform prostitution by staffing brothels with virgins.”

We just don’t fix things that way. Alright. You can send a good man to Washington, and the first thing that happens, is he grows in office. That’s the first thing that happens. He starts compromising. He starts going along to get along. We don’t, that’s not where the action is. The, Abraham, Abraham was promised the world. Abraham and his seed were promised the world; and it says not through law, but through the righteousness of faith. What does the righteousness of faith mean? It’s justification. It’s a response to the gospel. As we hear the gospel proclaimed, we believe the gospel, through that instrumentality; cultures, nations, peoples will be transformed and it will eventually be reflected in the political realm.

All right, but we don’t, we don’t go for the political realm, and try and reform the church. We reform the church, and through the Reformation of the church, will see the Reformation of families, towns, counties, entire nation, That’s, that’s what God calls us to but we don’t minimize the goal. You know, a lot of the people who are in Washington doing their thing, they want, they want our voice to be heard. They want as the saying goes, they want a place at the table. And I don’t, I don’t wanna place at the table. I wanna know who’s the cook. I just don’t want to place at the table, I want the table. I want the whole table and I want the Lord Jesus Christ seated at the head of it and I’m not gonna have anything to do with it until he’s honored and and honored at that position of headship. Now how is that gonna happen? It’s not gonna happen through me writing letter a letter to a congressman. It’s gonna happen through the work of reformation in the Church.

As the church has become sound and biblical that is, that is, what God tells us to do and there’s a promise attached to it. We know that this work of reformation that we’ve undertaken will not be unsuccessful, we know in the long haul, it will necessarily be successful because God’s promised He made a promise to Abraham. He made a promise to Abraham and to his seed. Every time someone’s converted, comes into the kingdom of God, there is God being faithful again, still to Abraham.

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My point in quoting Wilson is that he is saying the exact opposite of Abolitionists. Abolitionists want to reform the Church by passing laws in the States that will then enforce biblical law on the citizens with the hope that this will then lead to reformation of our culture. The biblical pattern is just the opposite; namely, start with the church and the revival of the church will lead to cultural and societal transformation. This was the pattern of the Reformation and it worked as long as the faithful were faithful.

The other question that begs asking is why not implement all biblical civil laws, why single out abortion as opposed to adultery, divorce, homosexuality, Sabbath breaking or disobedient children? Abortion, adultery, and divorce are just as common in the church as in world at large.

In the next few days, I plan on posting a transcript from David Chilton that answers my question about whom should we really start with if we want to reform our society and culture.

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 20^th 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 19^th, 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.

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.

Abolitionists Rebels Without a Clue

Imagine taking the CRA at the height of their membership implosion, making them a single-issue group, and then mashing-up the result with Randall Terry’s Operation Rescue. Then hire Hammer Films to be their public relations arm and you might get the Abolitionist movement as found on Facebook.

Folks, you might think I’m being harsh on these guys but hear me out.

Yes, I know picking on the CRA is old hat on this blog, but they earned it. I gave many years of my life to the CRA and watched it spiral ever further downward. You can either describe my time with them as dedication, stubbornness, or simply that I’m a slow learner.

Anyway, I picked CRA and Operation Rescue because they were both built around a core of Evangelical Christians. Evangelical Christians have an incredibly short timeframe for any activism and an equally shallow dedication to anything due to their view of theology. This statement is true of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority and other similar groups.

Barbara Alby’s CRA

The Barbara Alby led takeover of CRA was the result of Evangelicals wanting to change things politically in the wake of Pat Robertson’s failed 1988 run for United States President. Alby and company found a way to infiltrate the California Republican Party via a hostile takeover of the CRA and County Republican Committee elections. Alby never had any long-term use for CRA, it was just a means to take over the California Republican Party. Once CRA got their hooks in the CRP, they abandoned CRA.

Barbara’s recruitment tactics were effective but totally false and dishonest. Furthermore, they were very unchristian. She cast the struggle to take over CRA as a Frank Peretti style spiritual battle between God’s people and Satan’s minions. She vilified and dehumanized her opponents. As she described it, we were not battling with folks that needed Jesus but people that had chosen darkness and were beyond redemption. We were told that we cannot work to persuade those other people but must vanquish them.

I remember in particular her vilification of Carl Burton. Burton was a liberal (or moderate) Republican and a known homosexual. Alby portrayed Burton as the spawn of evil; a man needing to be defeated and exiled from the Party. Burton ended up working with CRA after Alby & company kicked CRA to the curb. Frankly, Burton was more “christian” than many that went to church each Sunday. Burton wanted to advance the Republican cause and would work with any group that felt the same. CRA, and Alby specifically, owed Burton a huge apology that I’m sure he never received.

Well, Barbara was successful. CRA went from 100,000 members to about 15,000 in a few years. It was a mix of die-hard people and true believers. But CRA was not done employing the circular firing squad. The search for even more purity in the ranks of CRA led to more purges and witch-hunts. When I finally left CRA for good, it was down to about 1,200 members.

Operation Rescue

I mention Operation Rescue because they were a militant prolife group that often made an appeal to the legal doctrine of “necessity”. Necessity is a legal doctrine derived from English Common Law. Their favorite example of necessity was based on the idea of running past a no trespassing sign in order to get people out of a burning building. Human life had more value and thus ignoring the no trespassing sign was justified because a greater good was being served.

Operation Rescue was built from people in Evangelical Churches. What many did not know, at least in the case of the Sacramento California group, the leadership changed in Operation Rescue about every six months. The last man standing in leadership was Reb Bradley.

Post Operation Rescue, Bradley and his wife went every week to an abortion clinic in the Roseville, CA area and held a sign, “We will adopt your baby.” It took about a year, but they finally adopted a newborn as a result. It was a witness that few Christians are willing to display. I have great respect for Bradley. Whenever I think about him it is with warmth and great respect.

Operation Rescue folks would occasionally go to an abortion clinic and split into two groups. One group would block the doors of an abortion clinic while the other, larger, group would peacefully picket on a public sidewalk. The Rescuers would typically be arrested for not disbursing and trespassing on private property (remember they were arguing about the necessity of trespassing to save a life). Part of their gambit was hoping to go to trial to get a judge to rule that the necessity defense was saving a life. Alternately, they were hoping that a judge would rule that abortion was the killing of a baby. In virtually every case that was litigated, the necessity defense was never allowed to be heard by a jury.

Operation Rescue found by experience that the number of folks willing to go to jail to end abortion was a rather short list.

Abolitionists—a Litmus Test No One Can Pass

The Abolitionists, as stated previously, are a mash-up of CRA and Operation Rescue. Like CRA, and many sects and cults, the other guys that claim to be on their side are not pure enough. If you don’t agree 100 percent with the Abolitionists, then they will diss you and very publicly too.

Abolitionists hate every other prolife group that you have ever heard of from National Right to Life to Life Site. Abolitionists have employed the circular firing squad to eliminate the following groups that failed the purity test:

National Right to Life
Susan B. Anthony List
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — Committee on Pro-Life Activities
Americans United for Life
March for Life Action
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission — Southern Baptist Convention
Secular Pro-Life
Democrats for Life of America
Rehumanize International
Louisiana Right to Life
Indiana Right to Life
Kentucky Right to Life
Right to Life of Michigan
Ohio Right to Life
South Dakota Right to Life
Tennessee Right to Life
Wisconsin Right to Life
And dozens more state Right to Life organizations.

Abolitionists want all abortions to be prosecuted as first degree murder, period.

Like Wow.

Oh, also they hate President Trump because he promotes In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).

Folk, this is why I call them a mash-up of CRA and Operation Rescue. Oh, and shout-out to their public relations group, Hammer Films.

Hammer Films because most of the political blood shed in their battles is that of fellow prolifers and not their actual enemies.

Abolitionists Use the Sword of the State not God’s Word

Oh, Abolitionists don’t want to persuade churches to stop abortion or help “problem pregnancies” or work with churches to educate folks, they are going for salvation via legislation. They want all 50 states to adopt a full ban on abortion and implement capital punishment for abortion. They want to execute not only abortion providers but also all women seeking abortion.

Folks, the Bible doesn’t even hold this out as a standard.

Abolitionists don’t want your local state legislature to pass a bill to ban abortion pills via mail or stop surgical abortion or regulate IVF clinics. Nope, for them these are all incremental half-measures that should be opposed. They want all or nothing legislation.

They also want all or nothing candidates. Locally, they are dissing a guy that is prolife because he doesn’t want to execute women seeking abortion. Instead, they call the prolife guy “Judas” and would rather re-elect a guy that supports Planned Parenthood.

Oh, they also want women to voluntarily be implanted with someone else’s frozen embryos so that said embryos won’t be killed. Please note that they don’t want IVF ended first, they want to create a new revenue stream for IVF clinics and then have the clinics closed at some future date. At the very least, this is economic illiteracy.

Scorched Earth Tactics

There are several problems with their scorched earth position. Let’s talk about a few.

First, justice is to be impartial and applied equally. This sounds simple enough but in such an environment who decided how to enforce this rule? The Bible requires two or three witnesses. In the case of abortion, how do you check that box?

Can you prove a woman is pregnant?

Look, I know the people in the Abolitionist movement think they are smarter than everyone else, but I ask this as a serious question.

Back in the day, Carol Everett used to run a chain of abortion clinics in Texas. I think she was based in the DFW area. She said that it was not unusual for them to do a D&C on women that were not pregnant just so they could bill the procedure—likely to the state.

I promise you that these mail order abortion pill places will sell to anyone. They don’t know and don’t care if someone is really pregnant. They are only interested in selling a product and calling it a service.

The IVF clinic doesn’t care. Oh, crap the freeze got unplugged. Or they mixed-up the samples, or whatever.

Except in cases of late-term surgical abortion, I don’t see how you can prove the pregnancy existed or the subsequent abortion action actually ended a life.

If the abortion is proved to have ended a child’s life, then you have to litigate it.

How do you accumulate enough evidence to deprive someone of their life via a court trial?

What if the judge or a jury finds the law unconstitutional? Does this then create a constitutional right to abortion? Isn’t this just a reply of Roe v Wade? Do you really want to risk a court declaration of an absolute right to abortion? Do you want a court declaration that seeking abortion cannot have consequences?

Hey Abolitionists, what does the Bible say?

Sorry but shouting Exodus 20:13 does not end debate. Yes, this passage says, “Thou shalt not kill” or in more modern English, “You shall not commit murder” but is that the end of the discussion. If you use the magic Evangelical prophecy scissors then maybe, but for the rest of us, I think there is more to discuss.

Folks, there is only one case law in the Old Testament that touches on abortion. Oh, and no, the account about Judah’s son spilling his seamen on the ground is not it.

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Exodus 21:22.

Please note in this instance that causing a pregnant woman to lose her child (or children) is not murder or manslaughter. It is a fine to be paid with said amount determined by a judge.

Killing children after they are born was common in ancient Israel. If they offered children to the god Molech, this was punishable by death.

2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. 4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: 5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

Leviticus 20:2–5.

This child sacrifice is not the same as abortion, so I think citing this passage to prove death for women seeking abortion is not applicable.

The New Testament has much more to say about abortion.

To find abortion in ancient times you must first understand that surgical abortion did not exist in biblical times. Instead, abortion was via chemical concoctions purchased from a witch or sorcerer. Think local medicine man (or woman). This language is found in the text of the Hippocratic Oath.

Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child.

The Classic Hippocratic Oath

Thus, when you see a New Testament list of people that will not inherit the Kingdom of God, a polite way of saying they are bound for Hell, it often includes sorcery, witchcraft, or similar wording.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, tfornication, tuncleanness, vlasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, avariance, aemulations, wrath, bstrife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19–21.

14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Revelation 22:14–15.

In addition, early Christians made it a practice to go outside the city walls and collect children that had been abandoned by their parents to die. The abandoned children were saved from certain death by Christians with a high view of human life.

Abolitionists argue that in a godly society, women that get abortions should be executed; however, I don’t know of any Christian society that has even practiced or enforced such a law. Ditto for Sabbath breaking.

Conclusion

Abolitionists are just another group of rebels without a clue. They presuppose an answer and then look in Scripture to find it. When they would rather elect supporters of Planned Parenthood than fellow believers that aren’t pure enough to pass their litmus test, then they are off the rails. The fact that they seek salvation via the State and not the pew, tells you that their fidelity is not really to God. The Church is created by God and the only institution that will last into eternity. If they really want to change the world, then change the Church. I think it’s too hard to persuade fellow Christians, so they want to compel them by the power of the Sword. Then if they balk at the coercion, unchurch the infidels.

Abolitionists summarily reject incremental change and want legislative revolution. Dr. Gary North is known for the saying, “You can’t change just one thing”. This single-issue group will only find a way to make real change more difficult in the future.

Barbara Alby’s real legacy is that California is now a single party state, and has been for the last two decades. She and her minions in CRA, not only destroyed the Republican Party but caused Republicans to forever lockout the grassroots people from ever having input into the Party in the future. The legacy of Abolitionists will be similar.

It looks to me that Abolitionists are just another group of Statists dressed up in Christian camouflage. Their willingness to employ the circular firing squad is a huge red flag. If they think you can just get someone to pass a law and then everybody can go back home, they are sorely mistaken.

Lastly, if you try to look up stuff by Abolitionists, please know that they have their own jargon, buzzwords, and phrases which they employ but rarely define. Like CRA of old, they are God’s people and everyone else is an enemy that must be destroyed as soon as they fall short.

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