Biden’s Proposal
According to an article in the Epoch Times (Ozimek, June 1, 2021), President Biden’s budget proposal for 2022 excludes the Hyde Amendment, which blocked using federal Medicaid funds to directly finance abortions. According to Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List, the Hyde Amendment saved nearly 2.5 million lives over the four decades since its adoption.
In an era of unprecedented irony and hypocrisy, scientists look to mere evidence (rather than presence) of bacteria as evidence of life. Yet, many dismiss the “fetal pole,” where a fetal heartbeat can first be detected, as inconclusive evidence of a human life, and therefore rendering the “fetal tissue” an “eligible” candidate for aborting that life.
An Abortion Argument
Editor’s Note: I decided against using fetal images to underscore my argument, here. The photographic images are too gruesome.
The argument for abortions seems to converge from an assertion, and a social premise. The first is that people have an absolute right, as individuals, to do what they will with their own body–it is theirs. Within this context, “body” implies the aggregated total of the physical substance that comprises a human being, ostensibly including reproductive tissue.
The government argument for funding abortions has its ground in the premise that it is responsible to financially support citizens below identified income levels. Correlative to that premise is its perceived responsibility to financially support individuals with recognized medical needs who do not have the means to purchase their necessary care: Hence, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Cultural Boundaries
Cultural conventions set boundaries between acceptable (moral), and unacceptable (immoral) acts. Acts deemed immoral often become subject to legal action. The severity of the legal consequence is usually proportional to the culture’s perception of the severity of the moral breach; more severe deviations from acceptable norms invoke greater legal consequence. Among the most severe immoral acts is terminating a person’s life processes in the absence of justification or sanction (murder).
A Biblical Argument
Explicit theological support for murder being an immoral act has its ground in the biblical text, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13, NASB). Further, he who does take a life, his life is forfeit (Gen. 9:6).
From the very beginning, man was told to “be fruitful and multiply” (Gen. 1:28).
The Bible’s implied abhorrence against the murder of children is repeated in Deuteronomy (12:31, 1810), Leviticus (18:21), Psalms (106.37), and Jeremiah (32.35). And, as God elected ancient Israel to be His people, He instructed Israel that every first born male belonged to Him, and was to be redeemed rather than sacrificed (Ex. 13:12-13).
A government cannot condone, let alone fund, the abortion of its own unborn children and still be considered moral. By taking the lives of its sons and daughters through abortion, the modern equivalent of “sacrificing their sons and daughters to the fires of Molech,” such a government condemns itself to its own destruction.
The United States Congress morally cannot approve the administration’s budget proposal and fund abortion.