I’ll be honest. Some articles are hard to write like this one. Some things are so obvious I feel like a fool stating them because it goes against the consensus of the general public. But there comes a time when we need to try to instill common sense in our world. For instance, ‘abortion is not healthcare.’ The majority opinion of most abortion providers is that ‘abortion is healthcare.’ But the majority opinion in the political world is ‘abortion is a woman’s right to choose’. So, my question is, which is it. It can’t be both. But wait, it can be both for about 1%-3% of abortions due to medical reasons. Medical professionals advise and women make a choice. But for the other 97% of all abortions, medical reasons do not apply. (1)
Another logical common-sense argument for ‘abortion is not healthcare’ is; if abortion is healthcare then how is it “642,700 medication abortions in the United States in 2023, accounted for 63% of all abortions in the formal health care system.” (2) That sounds like a ‘woman’s right to choose’. We need to stop fooling ourselves and call it for what it is. It may be considered a choice and excused away as a medical procedure, but the world has been living in this culture of death for many decades. It’s a choice of convenience where most of these abortions take place in the home in the privacy of a bathroom. It’s time to face the facts. As is often said, ‘it is what it is’.
The Lord God has His eye on each of us in this world. We are never out of His sight. God is aware of every medical and non-medical procedure that takes place, and He is there in the midst. Let not God be insulted, and let’s be honest, abortion is not healthcare.
The most notable sermon and the one referred to most often is Jesus’ ‘Sermon on the Mount.’ People, both Christians and non-Christians, strive to live by Jesus’ words in His text. When mentioning the ‘golden rule’ there are not many who would not have heard or understood its meaning. They may not know its origin or where it is found in the Bible, or even that they are the words of Jesus, but they are familiar with, ‘Do unto others’ and try to live in such a way to treat others as they would like to be treated. None of us want to be treated badly, but when we are, most of us wouldn’t want that same fate to fall upon others, especially the most innocent who cannot help themselves, the unborn baby in the womb.
Eva Edl is an 89-year-old woman who escaped a communist concentration camp in Yugoslavia at the end of World War II. Nazi Germany’s death camps were being liberated, but the Soviets were just beginning after the war. Although being born in Yugoslavia, Eva and her family were of German descent and spoke the German language. Soon after the war the communist government embarked on a genocidal operation against the Danube-Swabians as they were called. Eva and her grandmother were forced into a boxcar of a train headed to one of the Soviet death camps. It was in that concentration Eva became a Christian and eventually was rescued from the horrors inside.
Eva immigrated to the United States after spending eight years in an Austria refugee camp after her escape from the communist concentration camp. She became an advocate of the Pro-Life movement since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Eva felt God’s call on her to help rescue babies from death whatever the ramifications were for her own life. She realized many people had laid down their lives to rescue her and others out of the concentration camps and she realized the same thing happening again in the United States of America and she had to respond.
The consequences of her stance on abortion have come to fruition after being arrested 46 times since the 1980’s. Eva was convicted along with six others by a Federal jury on August 20th of this year after their arrest at an abortion clinic in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Aug. 27, 2020. She faces up to 10 years in prison for violation of the FACE ACT and is to be sentenced on September 26, 2024.
Sadly, it takes the example of an Eva Edl who has lived through a death culture and knows what it looks like for us to see what is right before our eyes. We as Christians are complaisant by our attitudes in thinking abortion is only a political issue and that is the problem. We choose to not get involved. But abortion is more than a political issue it is a moral issue, a matter of life and death. The pro-abortion sector is doing all they can to secure pro-abortion candidates in the upcoming election this November, under the guise of ‘reproductive healthcare’ which it is not. The life and health of the baby is never considered, surely not healthcare.
It is time for all Christians, men and women, in America and across the world to become Eva Edl’s. If we do nothing as those who watched the concentration camps trains go by, the evil of abortion will continue to prosper, and our voices will eventually be silence along with the baby in the womb.
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