Statement on the Third Anniversary of the Dobbs Decision
Three years ago today, members of the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court did not invoke the Fourteenth Amendment to require states to provide the equal protection of the laws to preborn persons. Instead, through the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court told "the people and their elected representatives" to decide for themselves when persons may be legally murdered, and that is exactly what they have done.
All fifty states continue to deny preborn babies the equal protection of the laws.
Though three years have passed, the act of murdering a preborn baby remains legal in all fifty states, including conservative states where Pro-Life leaders claim they have banned abortion.
While the abortion mills have closed in many of these states, the abortion pills and other self-induced methods of abortion remain legal for pregnant women. That is because the laws written by the Pro-Life establishment explicitly enable child sacrifice to continue in this manner.
As a result, instead of abortion numbers decreasing, we have seen them continue to increase over the past three years compared to the final years under Roe. But even as abortion numbers are rising, Republican attention to the issue is falling among both elected officials and much of the voting base.
Today, Pro-Life establishment leaders appear to have no real plan on how to deal with growing numbers of babies murdered amid the soaring popularity of self-induced abortion.
The abolitionist movement is growing, but many Christians are sitting out the fight.
An increasing number of Christians have proposed equal protection bills seeking to abolish abortion. But instead of assisting those efforts, the Pro-Life establishment has directly opposed these equal protection bills, even in conservative states. All of these trends indicate the worsening spiritual crisis of Christian apathy toward child sacrifice in our land.
The Pro-Life establishment is leading Christians astray, and the Republicans are shying away from the issue. Yet if Christians in this nation cared enough to inform and involve themselves on these issues, neither the Pro-Life establishment nor Republican politicians could ignore our collective call to abolish abortion.
But we have no reason to believe mass child sacrifice will end in our country until the church arises from her spiritual slumber. Far too many Christians limit their involvement with opposing abortion to writing an occasional check for a pregnancy center or voting Republican once every few years. But these actions fall far short of the urgent biblical commands to establish justice for the fatherless and to hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.
While the abolitionist movement has continued to accelerate, marking one of very few bright spots of the past three years as Christians indeed repent of their abortion apathy and partiality, the sorrowful truth is that three years after the Dobbs decision and the overturn of Roe, we are not much closer to abolishing abortion, and in some ways seem even further away from that objective.
When will the church arise?
King Jesus commands us to expose the works of darkness, to confront wickedness in His world with the light of the gospel, and to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Have you given up on what God calls us to do?
If you are apathetic toward the legalized murder of your preborn neighbors, we humbly and yet urgently call you to repent with your brothers and sisters across this nation. Join us as we labor in reliance on the strength of our God to abolish abortion for the glory of His name.