So it happened. The now infamous leak from a likely disgruntled clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court has proven true. The Court did indeed set a new course for life in America by designating the nearly 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision unconstitutional.
You would hope that anyone with a heart for babies would celebrate such a decision. Not so. Even one of the more conservative justices couldn’t belly up to a complete sense of righteousness on this abortion issue. I feel for your soul, John Roberts.
But there were the five. Courageous voices, all of them. They have now earned the disgust and likely hatred of so-called progressives across our land. The names? Alito. Thomas. Gorsuch. Kavanaugh. Barrett.
The pre-decision threats demanded extra security for these justices. Illegal protests were held at their private homes with the federal justice department refusing to step in. Liberalism at its weakest.
The three justices who wanted the mass murder of baby humans to continue unabated in any form were Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer. At supremecourt.gov, you can find bios on each of the nine justices. They are short and, as you might expect, give you the professional type of curriculum vitae for each member. What they don’t tell you, is anything about their worldview.
And that is where the decision on this issue was determined.
Worldview. As a writer for the devotional Tabletalk explained, “A worldview is an overall view of the world. It’s not a physical view of the world, but rather a philosophical view, an all-encompassing perspective on everything that exists and matters to us.
Taking it deeper, “Worldviews also largely determine people’s opinions on matters of ethics and politics. What a person thinks about abortion, euthanasia, same-sex relationships, environmental ethics, economic policy, public education, and so on will depend on his underlying worldview more than anything else.”
As noted, the bios on each justice on our Supreme Court do not expand on their worldview or how they reached them. We see them expressed in their decisions. Like abortion. Homosexuality. Things that can get misconstrued as “freedom.”
One thing I know. All five of the courageous justices who stood firm on the issue of life—have a God-centered worldview. It is from that they derive an understanding that each human life from conception on bears the imprint of the image of God. It is almost too weighty to consider. The imprint of the Divine—in every human being. Amazing.
While it’s quite possible that justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer treat the Bible with some form of respect, they’ve missed a critical message. You don’t destroy the image of God. We learn about it in the very first chapter of the first book of the Bible—Genesis 1:27. It reads, “So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (NLT)
A wise person will also take from that simple verse the idea that our human sexuality, by God’s design, makes us male and female. There are no other variations.
Abortions are a procedure of convenience. Let’s face it. Babies don’t just happen. Decisions impact the process. A woman DOES have the right to choose. She can choose to avoid sexual activity that will produce a child. Or—she can take preventative measures toward pregnancy. That is when a choice is to be made. This does not include rape, although the baby is no less human.
The spin on the “blessings of abortion” is unreal. Wired magazine—an excellent choice for stories on emerging technologies but pathetic in terms of a moral worldview—wrote this in their story on Roe v Wade, “The national right to abortion pushed back the age of childbearing, increased college and workforce participation, and created economically stable families.” They missed one line: “while killing babies made in God’s image.”
Meanwhile their fellow liberals at the Washington Post featured an editorial with this headline, “For the fall of Roe v Wade, thank Donald Trump.” Meant cynically, but they got it right. Gorsuch. Kavanaugh. Barrett. All Trump appointees.
Sadly, our current president follows a different worldview. It’s one that breeds a culture of death. Like several others before him, he bears that legacy.
That’s Forward Thinking.
You can find a number of YouTube episodes and podcasts of Mark’s program, Moving People Forward at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosyuBzdSh1mXIas_kGY2Aw?
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