Many who favor the right of a woman to abort her unborn offspring assert that such freedom is essential if there is ever to be a just equality between men and women. This contorted thinking causes some to view the freedom to abort one’s offspring as a matter of justice.
However, reproductive inequality is a biological reality. It is a matter of fact. It always has been. It always will be.
Females have been specially designed with eggs. Males have been specially designed with the ability to fertilize eggs. Females have been specially equipped to carry and give birth to and nurse their offspring. Males have not. While this is not universally true in the animal kingdom, it is predominantly so.
If it is reasoned that humans are merely animals, then we are left with only the practical (and often brutal) consequences which naturally accrue to the sex which is most significantly burdened in the process of reproduction. It is only by acknowledging the obvious uniqueness of humans as beings created in God’s image (Gen. 1:26,27) that we can hope to overcome the brutality of nature in this cursed world and actually glory in and fulfill the unique roles our Creator has given to men and women (e.g. 3:16-19).
When humans think of themselves and behave as mere animals, the results are naturally catastrophic for females. It is only when humans behave as God designed and intended them to behave that women are ultimately honored and protected by men as joint heirs of the grace of life (1 Pt. 3:7).
Human laws which ignore natural realities and divine expectations in order to attempt to achieve a semblance of reproductive equality and “freedom” for women are short-sighted, counter-productive, and harmful not only to babies but to society at large. The thinking that women need the freedom to kill their offspring in order to have equality with men ultimately relegates women to being equal to men only in the basest of ways, in their abuse of beings equally created in God’s image.
The stereotype is that it is men who—from their position of power and privilege—abuse women. Women who think having the right to kill their babies gives them power and privilege equal to men have a very warped view of justice. When sexually mature females use their position of power and privilege to abort their helpless offspring who need their protection, they engage in the very same kind of thinking and behavior of males who, instead of protecting their mates, abuse them.
Extending and exercising this freedom to abort human lives accomplishes nothing toward meaningful equality and justice. It is a deadly, demonic, and immoral ruse wherein the biological realities of reproductive inequality remain unchanged while the spiritual realities of beings created in the image of God are debased. This kind of thinking makes us little more than brute beasts destined for darkness and destruction (cf. Rom. 1:24-32; 2 Pt. 2:12; Jude 10). So, beware of false proclaimers of fairness! Do not be deceived by their worldly reasoning which employs divine ideals and biblical verbiage such as freedom and justice. You will know them by their fruits! Advocating for the killing of human offspring to make life “freer” and “fairer” for females is foolishness.
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