CEM’s Ron Dart on Politics and Abortion
“Bas relief decorating the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, dated circa 1150, depicting a demon performing an abortion upon a woman by pounding a mallet into her belly”
CEM’s Ron Dart recently posted the following:
There was a time when the Democratic Party was called “the Catholic party” while the Republicans were called “the Protestant party.” Ted Kennedy, back before Roe v. Wade, was opposed to abortion and felt society had a responsibility to children from the moment of conception. As late as three years after Roe, Kennedy wrote that “abortion is morally wrong. It is not a legitimate or acceptable response to any problem of society. And if our country wishes to remain true to its basic moral strength, then unwanted as well as wanted children must be unfailingly protected.”
Back in pre-Roe days, many leading Republicans felt that government subsidized abortion was necessary and important…
Concern about back alley abortions still informs the pro-choice arguments to this day, and it is based on invented statistics..
Comments by COGwriter
In addition to that back alley smokescreen, the rape/incest and the woman’s health statistics are also blown way out of proportion.
Politicians now seem to chose sides on this based upon votes. It seems to me that in the USA to be part of one party the politician must be willing to supporting killing of the unborn, but to be in the other party the politician often seems willing to lie about their beliefs on the subject.
Although I do not consider that any running for president in the USA have been part of the true faith, the following scripture pretty much sums up how I view many of them on the abortion issue:
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron (1 Timothy 4:1-2, NKJV).
Lying and abortion are wrong. It is not right to murder unborn babies or to lie about one’s position on this.
Two articles of possibly related interest may include:
Abortion, the Bible, and a Woman’s Right to Choose Do you know what the Bible teaches on this?
Should a Christian Vote? This article gives some of the Biblical rationale on this subject.
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