Such a passion for abortion

What causes people to be passionate advocates for the killing of voiceless and vulnerable human beings in the womb, especially for the sake of convenience? Imagine that being an important issue to you. Death. And without embarrassment, guilt, or shame, you openly and publicly castigate those who believe a child has a right to live and should not be killed because of how he was conceived.

As the Doritos Super Bowl commercial shows, abortion advocates don’t want unborn babies to be humanized, because seeing the baby as a de-humanized clump of cells might make it mentally easier to deal with as the abortionist scrapes “it” from the womb.

Campus Reform reported on what happened after pro-life students at Purdue University posted flyers and wrote messages that dared play on leftist jargon. Apparently, Ryan Bomberger of The Radiance Foundation and its website TooManyAborted.com inspired Purdue Students for Life. The bi-racial Bomberger, who was conceived in rape, is a passionate pro-lifer and adoption advocate. He created a billboard campaign that referred to black children as an endangered species. The campus group’s flyers declared black children an endangered race and the phrase “Hands up, don’t abort,” co-opting the Black Lives Matter “Hands up, don’t shoot” slogan. The students also wrote “All lives matter” in chalk on campus sidewalks.

Abortion advocates did not appreciate it. Jamie Newman, a staff member in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Purdue, called the pro-lifers “vile, racist idiots, who richly deserve all the opprobrium that will be heaped on you as a result of this unbelievably thoughtless, stupid escapade.” Black History Month seems like a good time to mention the racial disparities in abortion, but Newman doesn’t think so, wondering if the pro-lifers are “epically clueless or profoundly malicious.”

“If you seriously think that black women voluntarily terminating their own pregnancies is evidence of genocide and racism,” he wrote, “then you’re just an idiot who doesn’t understand the meaning of those terms.”

Other abortion advocates compared people who want to protect the unborn to the KKK and Islamic terrorists and called them “human garbage” and told them to “drink bleach.” Human depravity knows no political party or ideology, of course, and all sides can go too far, but having such passion for abortion? Even during my unsaved, liberal younger days, I was pro-choice in the abstract. I didn’t think about what happens to the baby, and in retrospect, I don’t think I would have chosen to kill my own.

Among the things God hates are hands that shed innocent blood. But even the vilest murderer can be washed clean. God says that under the New Covenant, He “will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Among those wishing evil things on pro-lifers could be our future repentant brothers and sisters in Christ. As we puzzle over their strong support for the deaths of unborn babies, let’s imagine their post-salvation testimony about why they changed their minds.