January 22, 1973 marked the Supreme Court decision to decriminalize abortion in the now famous, or infamous, Roe v. Wade case. For the first time in the 44 year history of this decision, Mike Pence, our standing vice-president, addressed the annual pro-life rally in Washington, DC. His most significant statement in his address, I believe, was when he said “America is choosing life again.”

Okay, if you are a Bible-believer, you get the issue about abortion. From the statement to “choose life” in Deut. 30:19 to John the Baptist leaping in the womb of Elisabeth at the sound of Mary’s voice to the definition of the word “babe” in scripture, we get it.

The secular argument is also quite clear and logical. It goes like this. No one doubts the humanity of a child immediately after their birth. So what was it the day before it was born? Just “fetal material?” And what was it the day before that? and the day before that? and the day before that? How far do we go back before it’s not a human being? The day before conception? The only reasonable answer is, it’s a human being from the point of conception and we get that!

However, the cultural totalitarians in the world just don’t get it. Two cases in point, one in France and one in Kentucky. Let’s look at France first. One of the alleged “reasons” for abortion is when it is known that the child will suffer from Down Syndrome. In 2014, in conjunction with the March 21st World Down Syndrome Day, the Global Down Syndrome Federation produced a two-minute video called “Dear Future Mom.” The gist of the video is the fears of a mother in which she says “I’m scared; what kind of life will my child have?” The video then has numerous Down syndrome kids from different nations tell the woman that her child will hug her, speak to her, go to school, tell her he loves her, and “can be happy, just like I am-and you’ll be happy, too.” This video can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju-q4OnBtNU. It’s really a great video!

So what did France think of this well done two-minute clip? The French Broadcasting Council banned it! And why did they ban it? The court said that the depiction of happy Down syndrome children is “likely to disturb the conscience of women who had lawfully made different personal life choices.” Translation - it offended those who had murdered their babies!

George Will puts it this way. “This is why the video giving facts about Down syndrome people is so subversive of the flaccid consensus among those who say aborting a baby is of no more moral significance than removing a tumor from a stomach. Pictures persuade. Today’s improved prenatal sonograms make graphic the fact that the moving fingers and beating heart are not mere “fetal material.” They are a baby.

What’s going on in Kentucky? They have a law that simply requires a woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound. The ACLU has stepped in and are attempting to block the law. They are “suing to keep politicians out of the exam room.” How noble! In reality, the murderers don’t want to face their victims. Pictures persuade. To quote Liberty Counsel attorney Mat Staver, the ACLU is trying to “keep women in the dark and hide the gruesome truth about abortion!”

Cultural totalitarians march on. They must be stood up to and opposed. Some are standing up. Utah Republican Congresswoman Mia Love, of Haitian descent, gave a powerful speech at the 44th annual March for Life in Washington D.C. on Friday. She told the story of how her parents came to America 41 years ago from Haiti. Here is a portion of her speech:

“Because both had to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Some would say it would have been easier for them to have an abortion but this couple had to make a difficult choice to protect the life of their child or always wonder what might have been…

Forty-one years ago, that couple from Haiti could have made the choice to abort, but they didn’t. They chose life. They didn’t choose what might have been, they chose what is to come. They went and followed and fostered that life and the future and the dreams that baby would bring. I’m certain that this couple would never have thought that this child would become the first black female Republican EVER elected to Congress!”