Abortion Exceptions

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Former President Donald Trump has come out in favor of the rape and incest exception [with regard to abortion], and that's a pity. And yet a friend says we need to have abortion precisely because some women are raped or are victims of incest. What that shows is that people are not listening or are confused by the propaganda press, which is the only press half the country ever gets.

But what about rape and incest? An uncle rapes a niece. What should happen? The rapist should be punished and in a big way. But what of the child in the womb? Should the child die for the sins of her father? Is any child, any person, worth less, even worthless, because of her parents? Because she has an evil biological father?

But there's more. Abortion takes the life of child. But who benefits? Sex traffickers, child traffickers, that's who. Abusers, that's who. The powerful use and abuse women, and then push abortion to clean up what they see as messes. When abortion is on demand, it serves the purpose of a very dark segment of society, including the Jeff Epsteins and Harvey Weinsteins of the world. Abortion is said to empower women, when it is so often used to enslave women, and to turn them into nothing but objects, even slaves of the wealthy. We speak of a woman's right to choose, but so often that choice is coerced.

This logic will come back to bite many, especially with the rise of euthanasia. The right to die soon becomes the obligation to die. Remember, according to the logic of abortion, you have no inherent worth. You matter only if other people think you matter. That's a lesson, I thought, we taught our teens, as we warned them about not to worry about what others think of them. The truth is, all are loved by God, and all are valuable, and that truth includes children in the womb, and the elderly or frail who are told that they no longer have anything to contribute to society.

The Rev. Dr. Peter Scaer is professor and chairman of the Exegetical Department at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind.

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“When we engage in the political process, we as Christians rightfully assert these rights, knowing that in doing so we are defending not only or even primarily ourselves, but our neighbors … By asserting the right to life, and to other natural rights, we are in fact confessing God’s given order.” -Rev. Dr. Peter Scaer