Legal Abortion and God's Curses

 

Continuing from the point that the previous blog ended with, abortion is an issue that should be debated and resolved (as much as it can ever be resolved) at the state level, and not at the federal level.  At the state level we can contrast and learn from the various approaches the different states will use and thereby approach unto resolution.  If we continue to try and deal with this issue at the federal level we will move away from resolution and the innately divisive nature of abortion will continue to divide us as a nation. Not to mention that a federal approach is unconstitutional.

There are, however, a number of dire cultural and spiritual problems that still attach to the issue of abortion, even if we limit the debate to state houses of government.  The most prominent of these sticking points is epitomized by feminists who insist that abortion is strictly a women's issue, to be decided by a woman in consultation with her doctor, and that males should have no say because a man does not have a uterus.  This is first of all disingenuous rhetoric, because while a man does not have a uterus, he does have children, and therefore a natural stake in the abortion debate. More importantly, this radical feminist logic has extremely detrimental effects on society, and will lead the nation, and possibly the entire planet, toward triggering an ancient curse from God.

 

I was always what you could call a “sensitive” male, empathetic to the feelings and pain of others.  Some today would call that a beta male, but they would be wrong to do so.  A sensitive man does not mean a weak or cowardly man.

At around the age of twelve I read a single sentence which changed my life.  It was referring to parenting and said, “They give the most important job in the world to the people with the least experience.”  I have been considering how best to nurture and help children develop into adulthood ever since.

During the process of my own childhood development I was always mystified by the actions and attitudes of a lot of the males around me.  Why, I wondered, are so many guys so violent and brutal?  Why do they have to be so mean?  What made them that way?

A lot of my questions about male brutality were answered one day while I was studying at University.  I had gotten into a discussion with a woman studying to be a mid-wife, and since I had long been friends with an accomplished mid-wife (a mutual friend of us both) I shared my long held opinion.  That opinion, which I still hold, is that since the woman usually needs some assistance in birthing a child, I think it is obvious that the father/ husband should be trained and ready to perform that office.  He was there when the child was conceived so it is only right that he be there when the child is delivered.

I was surprised that she adamantly disagreed, asserting that men are not really equipped for that role because they, once again, don't have a uterus.  I responded that it is the man's child and wife, both of whom he probably loves and feels more empathy towards than any other person is capable of.  So, I reasoned, who better to catch the baby?  We two never came to an agreement on the issue..

In the course of my normal three mile walk home from campus that early spring day, contemplating the unresolved argument, I was suddenly astounded to realize what she had denied me.  On the walk, I saw birds, male and female, building nests.  I saw trees putting out new buds and growing new limbs.  I saw them all participating in and connected with the flow of life. I realized that she was denying that connection with life to me.  She was saying that since I did not have a uterus I did not have any real and meaningful place in the flow of life.

Then, during that walk to my home, for the first time I understood and empathized with the brutal hard heartedness that so many men live with.  Happily, while I felt that attitude for the time of the walk, I did not hold on to it after that time.

I realized that the hard hearted, emotionally alienated men had come to see themselves relegated to being merely penises, useful only for impregnation, and not welcomed or needed after that for human life to sustain.  They come to regard themselves as not connected to the flow of life. The alienation that mind set engenders in the hearts of men, I realized that afternoon, is what equips men to rape, murder, steal, bully and otherwise do any damn thing they feel like.  Their natural selves, and their essential nature as a nurturing spiritual being has been denied them.  Consequently, many men internalize and embrace that alienated role they have been relegated to.  “Damn it all to hell,” becomes their silent battle cry, and it erupts from a deeply wounded heart.

Now let's consider legal abortion along with its cultural and spiritual effects on the human race.

The legal basis for abortion is the assertion that life, at least human life, does not begin at conception.  But if life doesn't begin at conception, then fatherhood doesn't begin at conception.  Going further with this line of reasoning, if fatherhood doesn't begin at conception, then fatherhood never really begins.  How can a man be held responsible for something (the start of a new human life) that happens when he is thousands of miles away, or eight months deceased, or not in any other way connected to the new human being? Men can be expected to feel a deep connection to the child only if it is considered that life begins at conception.

If it is life only when the mother says it is, then the male of the species is going to be pushed to one of two positions. Either he will begin to deal with the woman as though she is in some sense divine, and unlike himself, entitled to determine whether or not a child is alive.  On the other hand, he can withdraw his heart from the whole process, and become just a baby daddy, taking little or no interest or care in his children's lives.  In that environment, a social environment created by legalized and unlimited abortion, we can expect a decrease in the consciousness of fatherhood, an increase in single motherhood, and probably a huge increase in violent crime.

Feminists will scoff and say, “So what?  Those men, and their fragile male egos just need to buck up.”  Buck up huh?  As in harden your hearts so as to not get hurt?  Okay, sure, we can do that.  In fact, some of us are very good at it.  Do you want to meet a bunch of men that have “bucked up” to the point they are almost impossible to emotionally wound?  Go to any prison yard, especially the ones with death row hardened criminals.  Plenty of “bucked up” men there.  Do you want a world filled with such men?

That then is the point of this blog.  Consider what has happened to the culture, especially in the inner cities, since the advent of unlimited legal abortion.  There has been an astounding increase in single motherhood, going up to seventy percent or more (in some communities) of all children being raised without the biological father present in the life of the child.

At the same time, in the same neighborhoods, we see an appalling increase in all kinds of crime, such as rape, murder and theft, along with a disheartening increase in drug use, with despair and degradation on all fronts.  This seems to be the direct and inevitable result of society legalizing abortion and relegating males to a peripheral role in life. Fatherlessness and all the problems that stem from that social pathology abound.

There are a number of curses from God set down in the Bible.  The most famous are the ones we were hit with right after we ate of the forbidden fruit and were banished from the Garden of Eden.  The first said that women from then on would travail at childbirth.  That seems to be true.  Another said that from then on man would have to make his living by the sweat of his brow.  That also seems to have come true.

The fact is most people don't understand what these “curses” amount to .  They seem to think that God was sitting there concocting some kind of  punishment because we had disobeyed Him.  The truth is, to the contrary, that He was merely telling us what was going to happen to us now that we had decided to not listen to His voice and follow His guidance.  He wasn't concocting or predicting, He was predicating, telling us that since we did X, Y was going to follow.

That set of curses was pronounced very close to the beginning of the Bible.  There is another much less well known curse, at least a curse that might be released on the earth, pronounced at the end of the Old Testament.  (the Protestant Old Testament)

Those last two verses of the Old Testament, Malachi 4:5,6 reads, “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

As we enter into an era of properly struggling over the issue of abortion in our respective states, we should all, even non-believers, allow this warning from our Creator to sink into our hearts.  Let us consider the crime, hatred, mayhem and chaos that grows in places where the consciousness of fatherhood has been diminished, and how they are probably the early symptoms of that curse from God descending on our world.  Then let us all, with empathy, compassion and understanding, deeply consider and prayerfully come together to settle this most unsettling of issues: whether or not to legalize, limit, and or prohibit abortion.

 

Sluts Against America

 

Before I get started on this blog, I should make two points.

First of all, I recognize that abortion is a complex issue, and even though I am strongly pro-life, I can see some logic in some of the arguments on the other side.  Since this issue seems to bring into conflict the two most basic American values, which are life and liberty, it is not easy for Americans to come to agreement on it.

Secondly, while this blog will focus on the political and constitutional aspects of abortion, the even more profound moral and spiritual aspects of legal abortion will be addressed in the next blog.

Sluts against America sounds harsh, but, as will be shown, it is accurate.  It is way past time we quit pussy footing around on this and all the other issues currently roiling our nation.  Let's revive an old American tradition of calling a spade a spade; of speaking in a clear and forthright manner even if it is less than delicate.

According to the latest polling data (this is being written in early September, 2022), there is a big uptick in voter registration, driven mostly by an uptick in women registering to vote. The supposition is that most of these women will vote for Democrat candidates in hopes of having large majorities in both houses of congress in 2023.  Then the expectation is that a Democrat majority will vote to codify the right to perform abortions in federal law.

There is a major constitutional problem with this.  Even though we, as a nation, are woefully uneducated about our system of government, it is still clear to any thinking person that the Tenth Amendment forbids federal action in any areas where the Constitution, or its amendments, have not properly delegated that power to the federal government.

That is why Roe was always bad law, and why Dobbs, in returning the power to legislate about abortion to the states, is good law.  Dobbs complies with the Constitution, Roe did not.

The issue will not be so easily resolved by codifying Roe, to use the popular shorthand, because any such law will still violate the Constitution and should therefore be struck down. Similarly, if the Republicans were to gain majorities in both houses, any attempt on their part to codify a right to life as it relates to abortion would also be unconstitutional, for the same reason.  The Constitution does not address abortion, and so it should remain an issue to be worked out in the states.

The way to change that, the only proper way to involve the federal government in the abortion issue, would be by constitutional amendment.  Since that would require a two thirds majority in both houses of congress, and approval of three fourths of the state legislatures, that is not likely to happen, either for or against legal abortion, for decades if ever.  Abortion should remain an issue to be decided by the states through their respective political processes.

            Nonetheless, those on the left will likely refuse to recognize constitutional process and stubbornly forge on to enshrine what they call  “pro choice” policy into law.  It must be noted here that the real choice being insisted on is the ability to choose light hearted, casual, irresponsible and unaccountable fornication over the life of any child that might be conceived.  Sure, the progressives can always trot out a sad case of child rape or some similar tragedy to push our emotional buttons, and some of those cases probably do merit compassionate and possibly exempting consideration.  The fact remains, however, that the real motivation for the vast majority supporting abortion rights is that they, individually and as a group, male and female, want to ensure themselves consistent access to easy and irresponsible sexual activity.  After all, there are only two truly reliable forms of birth control, abstinence and abortion, and abstinence never even got on these folks' short list.  That's why it is accurate to refer to them collectively as “sluts.”  What follows explores how their lust has set them against America itself.

The heavy handed albeit best case scenario as the sluts see it (and why their agenda goes against America), is to win the midterms in a blue wave.  By the end of January, they expect a new law requiring unrestricted abortion to be legalized in all the states. No doubt our good, Catholic, President Biden will sign that unconstitutional abomination.

Then it will come down to the Supreme Court, which will probably agree to hear such an important case on an expedited basis.  Given the propensity of this court, the first in decades, to actually consult the Constitution for guidance about how to rule on the constitutionality of laws, it is likely they will courageously take a stand and strike the new law down.

Then the Democrat leadership, with its slut and whore monger base firmly behind it, will probably vote to first end the senate filibuster, and then to pack the court.  They have already threatened to do so, and unlike any law about abortion, the Constitution does give congress the power to change the makeup of the court.

But what kind of justices will they rush to appoint?  It will undoubtedly be people who don't accept the Constitution as written, because that is the only way to get unrestricted universal abortion approved.  So, the new court, with thirteen, or fifteen or whatever number of justices will no longer use the Constitution as a guide, or even as a ludicrous “living” fig leaf (as they have done for decades).  Rather, they will see and use the Constitution as an obsolete dead letter, and get the people to go along with that stance.  They will then consider themselves authorized to rule in any way they can get away with.  In other words, they will become, more than ever, the willing tools of an increasingly totalitarian fascist oligarchy. 

Then the phony green agenda, or at least the way it is being implemented, will continue to impoverish us and enrich China.  The sexualization and perversion of small children will continue at a breakneck pace.  Our national non-inflation and non-recession will get ever worse.  Criminals and drug gangs will gain even more control in our cities as life there becomes unlivable.  The Biden regime, which was elected on the promise to unite us, will continue treating half the population as domestic terrorists and will be able to harass any and all political opponents using weaponized federal law enforcement agencies.  The invasive influx of illegals will grow worse, as will the ruined lives of the drug addicted and the size of the homeless encampments.  All this and more will follow if the left gets clean away with all the outrages of the last two years.  They can be stopped only by voting them out

But you sluts will have gotten what you want; a social environment that promises never ending easy-to-hook-up fornication.  To get that wonderful goal, all you had to do was give away your birthright to free self government, which will afflict you, and the few progeny you allow to live, for centuries to come.  When that same overbearing government that so delighted you by giving its permission to your lust filled behavior decides to pass some law you hate, what recourse will you have?  If you are forced into work camps you will find yourselves defenseless.  If you are suddenly restricted in your sexual activities after it is discovered (I am shocked, shocked I say) that some forms of sexual expression cause and transmit disease, and are therefore to be made illegal; what will you do?

Will you look around and finally realize that the court which so happily abandoned the
Constitution to give you your lust's desire has now left you bereft of any constitutional rights with which to oppose their repressions?  You will probably also find that the federal government, with the imprimatur of a now supine court, has seized the power to monitor and control the most intimate details of your private lives. That is exactly what you, or the next generation, will find and then you will realize how foolish it was to trade your birthright for a romp in the sack.

That's why you female sluts and your stud muffin “boyfriends” ought to pause and give long thought about uniting to force your perversions and murders on the rest of the nation.  This is especially true since you can legitimately and constitutionally fight for the same goals at the state level, and probably win some of those battles.  That state by state approach, while slower, would prevent your taking part in delivering another serious, possibly fatal, body blow to the fragile remains of our cherished American republic.  Even more importantly, going about this abortion debate in a state by state manner will allow the dire cultural, moral and spiritual effects of legalized abortion in some states to be contrasted with the beneficial cultural effects in other states that seek to revere, and hold as precious, all human life.           

That kind of object lesson, using the fifty states as fifty social laboratories, would be of great benefit to us all, and would be scuttled by your scheme to force the issue at the federal level.  What those moral and spiritual ramifications of legal abortion might be will be held up for scrutiny in the next blog.