"For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you,when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them." (Pslam 139:13-16)
God has created every man, woman, and child in a unique and marvelous way. He has knit us together in our mother's wombs. He has formed our eyes and our mouths and our ears with much more complexity than the computer upon which I am writing. He has done it, and to kill such a life is an infringement on his creation of man made in his image. Clearly from Psalm 139, the identity of the life inside of a woman is clear: human, and worthy of protection. And yet today, such life is not protected by the federal government's judicial system, nor encouraged to be protected by the executive branch.
It was proven on Friday that we once again have a president who desires to make abortion more accessible and more encouraged in a nation (and a world, for that matter) which has killed millions of babies since the practice became legal in 1973. As the Washington Times reports, the action known as the Mexico City policy "that blocks funding to foreign aid groups that perform or promote abortions," was once again rescinded by President Obama. The Times quoted Mr. Obama's defense of the action:
Mr. Obama said the policy had "undermined efforts to promote safe and effective voluntary family planning in developing countries," and vowed to find common ground with his pro-life adversaries. "For too long, international family planning assistance has been used as a political wedge issue, the subject of a back-and-forth debate that has served only to divide us. I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate," Mr. Obama said. (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/24/obama-change-policy-abortions/)
That is true, the policy that Reagan originally set up does not promote "effective voluntary family planning in developing countries," but that is the type of language that masks what these groups who perform or promote abortions actually do in a grotesque manner. These groups in a very casual, but yet gruesome way, kill innocent human life. Now if I used that language, the action that Obama reversed would not sound quite as pleasant to the ear. But to use the word "family planning" is like saying firing a gun at someone is simply "a means to release an unpleasant feeling of anger or unwantedness." Or like calling slavery, "the safe and effective means to expand the GDP of the South." In each case the language is deceptive. It is deceptive in Obama's case, for the policy which was reversed by Obama sets up efforts to call abortion what it is. Now he desires to make, through an executive order, the practice more readily available to countries who at the get-go cannot afford the procedure fully without aid from the U.S. federal government.
Obama argued during the campaign for president that abortions in America did not decrease by a substantial margian during Bush's term in office in answer to almost every question on his stance on abortion. That may be true, but that is probably due to the moral decline of our nation and not the policies that he inacted. But does he honestly believe that abortions will decrease under his presidency when he is for the Freedom of Choice Act, and against the Mexico City policy? Does he believe that when abortions become more easily available and encouraged by the Fed, Americans who are on a mental and emotional rollercoaster will be more reluctant to go to the abortion clinic? One would think Obama would have better philosophy professors at Harvard. We do know that he has great English professors, though.
We can pray for Obama that the education he received, and the background that he came from would not get in the way of plain, simple truths that are deciphered if he would see the inconsistencies in our judicial system regarding abortion and see the moral implications of his actions. May God grant him and our nation to see that every life of man is fearfully and wonderfully made.
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