A must read

Posted by Gary on June 7, 2008

My brother in the ministry Tim Bayly (BaylyBlog) has a post that I would highly recommend you make time for on the issue of abortion. The post which excerpts an essay by Joe Sobran demonstrates how abortion touches every realm, consideration and issue of our existence.

Often Christians are labeled “one issue” voters. This label is one that I am not ashamed of. It is simply an argument of the greater to the lesser, if a candidate cannot see the most important issue (life) correctly how can I trust him to see lesser issues as he should?

Here is an excerpt from Sobran’s essay:

…I have found that the abortion issue has so many ramifications that it can’t possibly remain isolated. Time and again when I thought everything there was to say had been said, new and vital considerations came to the fore, The Court’s disruption of life rippled outward to disrupt the family: it ruled that women were entitled to get abortions without informing their husbands, and teenage girls without informing their parents. The Court’s very willingness to assert these things implied something deeply ominous: that the state could redefine family relations, as well as life itself, at its whim.

All these issues converge in the abortion issue. Just what is being killed when the tiniest human embryo is destroyed? Do we dare to say it is nothing? Do we dare to risk assuming the role of enemies of creation? The very act of abortion implies something grave about the whole universe. If it is not wrong, then what can be right? Do we exist in a void in which nothing matters? Is the whole sense of piety–the motive of so much important human action, in history and in our daily lives–deluded?

You can read Tim’s post (which includes a link to Sobran’s entire essay) here.