Abortion and the Lost Natural Order

A Call To Reason

Those who study this world come quickly to realize that the natural world, outside of the influence of humanity, is a world of supreme order.  It’s a world of infinitely intricate systems and processes that work together seamlessly to create balance and function, for a purpose.  Among the myriad ways humans have found to create chaos out of order, the issue of Abortion is once again playing its role in dividing our great nation.

In a time when proposed ballot measures across the country are calling for “love” to the exclusion of reason, rationally-minded voters must take a step back and consider our role in either endorsing or opposing chaos.  Rationally-minded voters must accept that abortion subverts the natural order.  Nowhere else in the animal kingdom do we see mothers ending, or attempting to end the lives of their offspring in utero purely on the basis of convenience, mental health, physical health, perceived health or lack thereof of the preborn baby, on the basis of who contributed the other half of the DNA, or the perceived available resources.  Unfettered access to abortion is not a societal “advancement”.  It is an age-old illustration of societal decline.  Human mothers championing their right to kill their own babies at will is not an indicator of how far humans have come.  It is an image of how far humans have fallen from the natural order, and, dare I say it, from God’s original plan.   

Now before you go educating me on the fact that mother birds are known, at times, to evict hatchlings from the nest because of a food shortage or deformity, or that rats sometimes eat their own babies, or that fish will consume their own eggs, or any other anomaly of the sort we may witness within the wilds of the animal kingdom at large, these occurrences are the exception, and not the rule.  Science will tell us that it’s quite the opposite in the entirety of the animal kingdom, with mothers willing to endure incredible pain and suffering protecting the lives of their babies, even to the point of death.  And, the more advanced the animal, the greater likelihood it would be willing to die for it’s offspring. 

“But you say we are part of the natural order, are we not? And in the natural world there are reasons animals kill their young.”  Absolutely, we are.  But are we not also unquestionably set apart?  While some rats and birds, and fish of the animal kingdom may indeed have no recourse by which to survive and thrive in certain situations of stress or hardship, and therefore resort to killing their babies, can we really lump ourselves in with those examples and call it natural?  No sane person would say so. It is obvious that humankind is indeed set apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, whether you believe it is through the process of evolution, or that of creation.  We have been created as part of the natural world, and yet, we are set apart… special.  Historians will tell you that, in so many areas of human life, the advancement and evolution of humanity usually signals an increase of compassion, not the other way around. 

So then where does this idea come from, that ending the life of our own children could benefit us?  Well, when something is not of the NATURAL world, reason suggests it would have to be influenced by factors outside of the world we see around us, or, the SUPERnatural. There is nothing new under the sun, and abortion had its rise in virtually every ancient society of the past just like its having its rise in the world right now.  It echoes the Judean child sacrifices to Baal that we read about in the bible (Jeremiah 19), the sacrifices made to the god Moloch by the Caananites, and many others.  As a matter of fact, the barbaric practice of child sacrifice found its way into virtually every major ancient civilization, from the Babylonians and Carthaginians of biblical times, to the Aztec and Incan empires, to the Celtic Druids on the other side of the world.  The age-old formula went like this:  If I give up my child to appease (whatever god), my life will be better in some way.  It will rain more.  It will rain less.  My harvest will be bountiful. The community will become prosperous. And on and on and on. 

We tout ourselves today to be more advanced than any civilization that has come before us.  Why then are we still laying our unborn at the foot of the altar?  Remember, as civilizations advance, we grow in our humanity, and in our compassion.

But the abortion industry does not reflect that same curve.  It may not be made of gold, but there is no doubt that the abortionist’s table is an altar to the gods we make of convenience, pleasure, money, things, time, and above all, SELF.   The gods of our age have evolved beyond golden calves but they are here among us nonetheless, demanding our attention and basking in our worship. Abortion is a sacrifice on the altar of the evil one, who has deceived us into believing it is GOOD for us.  The sacrificer is hoping for a favorable outcome, but any perceived benefit is fleeting, just as it was for the Babylonians, because their hope has been misplaced. Their God-given role as mother-protector has been traded for murderer.  Order has become chaos.  Loving women means pointing them to THE perfect healer, our savior, the one who wipes away all tears and makes all things whole, and to the ONLY God deserving of our worship.  It means pointing them away from the wiles of the deceiver and toward the only true source of living hope, Jesus Christ.