Three Weapons in Our War Against Abortion
There are many battlefronts that Christians spread throughout the earth have been commissioned to engage. There are missionaries to unreached nations and there are Pastors called to disciple converted middle-class Americans. One frontline that I am vitally passionate about is the battle war against Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. I believe there are many Christians called to step out onto the soil of abortion clinics proclaiming the gospel of Christ and pleading with parents for the lives of their children. I would like to arm anyone considering joining this kind of ministry with three weapons that aid us in this fight against abortion.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12
Weapon #1 -- The Truth
We must speak the truth about abortion. It is murder. It is not simply a mistake or an unwise decision, it is a morally wicked decision. It is just like the sacrifices to Molech the Israelites were commanded not to take part in. The Bible is very clear that the unborn are indeed alive and God places the same value on them as He does any other human. Therefore to kill an unborn child is murder.
This may seem harsh and unloving, however, I reassure you it is necessary for three reasons. The first two are admittedly pragmatic however the third one is the most essential:
Downplaying the evil of abortion belittles the victim of the abortion namely the child. We hate it when people downplay things like rape or social injustice. We want to call rape and racism wicked as we should. For these same reasons, we need to call abortion what it is, murder.
Calling abortion what it is may very well sting that moral conscious God has put in every person. If you reduce abortion to simply an unwise decision then that lets the parents feel they have the option to disagree. Call it murder and you strip them of the ability to justify this decision as simply a matter of opinion. Some people have not marred their conscious so far that they would not be fine murdering their child.
Calling abortion murder sets us up to deliver the truth that they need to hear, that is the message of the gospel.
Perhaps you are considering volunteering your medical skills to offer pregnant women free ultrasounds. Perhaps you are looking to adopt. Maybe you are considering offering to counsel to parents or offering jobs to parents whose poverty is an additional motivation to abort their pregnancy. Let me say those are all great ways to serve. Those services are a great help in this fight. However, we must remain sober that the proclamation of the gospel is the primary method we have in this fight against abortion.