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by Rev. Aaron Clark
In 2022, 77% of Vermont voters approved the so-called Reproductive Liberty Amendment, also known as Article 22. California, Michigan, and Ohio also passed constitutional amendments, joining Vermont in allowing state citizens to enjoy the right to murder their own sons and daughters. Others are likely to follow.
But the question is, can a state really confer a right on its citizens that so clearly contradicts the Law of Nature?
The Law of Nature is what we call those laws which transcend human societies. They are the principles that govern this world, whether you like it or not. While I have no qualms arguing this from the rock-solid foundation of the Bible (and freely confess that God is the Creator and Designer of all things), you do not need a Bible to see this. Plenty acknowledge and appeal to this higher Law, even if they do not recognize the God of the Bible or His eternal Son Jesus.
In fact, there was a time when every human philosophy sought to conform themselves to reality, and not conform reality to their will. However, we are in strange times. C.S. Lewis powerfully showed this contrast when he wrote this in his short three essays compiled as “The Abolition of Man”:
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men; the solution is a technique.
Today, “the wishes of men” are absolute “bodily autonomy” – that is, the absolute authority to do whatever they want with their bodies, even to murder the children located within their bodies (though granted that is an extraordinary stretch of “bodily autonomy”). And in our case, the technique is legislation.
To agree with Lewis, the fundamental problem is that so-called Progressives do not care about what reality says. For them, “What’s real?” is not a question that bothers them in the slightest. The real question is “How do we get what we want?” And in this battle, their answer has been “legislation.”
For those of us who still care about reality, however, this so-called “right” doesn’t carry much water. The Law of Reproduction may be revoked in our constitution, but it is a Law written on every person’s body, carved in flesh uniquely and complementarily in both male and female bodies. To put this another way, each sex is designed for multiplication, and they are designed to work at this together.
More to the point, the woman’s body is designed to be a vessel for cultivating the seeds of human life. She only is endowed with specialized organs to carry out her life-producing task, in utero, in child birth, and in child-rearing. It is a fact that, without woman carrying out her vital function, there would be no human life on earth. That is what the Law of Nature tells us, particularly about a woman’s body.
But this man-made amendment transforms her body into a gas chamber. It turns the womb into a graveyard. Worse than that, it turns the path of life into death row. In the name of “reproductive autonomy,” it militates against reproduction. In the name of “reproductive liberty,” it makes slaves of our sons and daughters – chattel beasts that we conjure or kill at will.
It is no law. No thinking person should think it truly law. Nor should they respect or obey it. Rather, every Vermonter should fight against it on every beach, on every landing ground, on every fair field and snow-laden street, on every hill, until abortion is abolished, and until it is known that every human truly is created equal, regardless their stage of growth.
The author is Pastor Of Discipleship, Evangelism & Missions at Crossroads Christian Church.
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Regardless of one’s opinion on abortion, Vermont having a constitutional amendment to protect the right of a “pregnant person” to have sovereign decision making ability over the life of an unborn and innocent human, we should also have self defense laws that allow the use of deadly force against another human who presents a serious threat to us. To be consistent in this philosophy, Vermont also needs at the very least statutory allowances for Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground type self-defense laws. To not allow such legal protections is the highest level of hypocrisy.
Re: the absolute authority to do whatever they want with their bodies, even to murder the children located within their bodies (though granted that is an extraordinary stretch of “bodily autonomy”).
It was 1857 when the SCOTUS ruled (7-2 in Dred Scott v. Sanford – “arguably the worst” ruling ever written) that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. And we all know the trials and tribulations during the Civil War that resulted from the decision.
Today, the ‘my-body-my-choice’ cohort applies the Dred Scott logic to the unborn. And they never address the fact that it’s not their body that’s at stake.
It’s someone else’s body, created by the fertilization of one person’s egg by another person’s sperm (IVF included). Thus, today, our society is confronted with two choices. Whether or not to allow ‘the owner’ of a fertilized human egg (but not the partner in the process of creation) to determine its fate. This includes an ‘owner’ of any age, and for any reason, or for no reason at all, and at any time… even after a failed ‘medical’ procedure results in a live baby, … to deny it any protection from the federal government or the courts.
Deny this reality all you would like. Vermont’s Reproductive Freedom amendment (an oxymoron if there ever was one), allows all of the above. Read it.
But Rev. Clark is wrong. This is a ‘rule of law’. As was the Dred Scott decision. And we must accept responsibility for it, or change it. American citizens, after all, are charged “… to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them…”.
The Dred Scott decision was overturned by the 1865 13th and 1868 14th Amendments. Let’s get back to work on this.
Now, did the parents allow their children to get the COVID KILL SHOT??????
Very well said. Thank you, Rev. Clark
Amen to what Paul said. Indeed, an excellent article. Thank you for writing it, sir.
Well conceived, well written, logical presentation based on the objective reality of Natural Law. Amen and thank you for speaking Divine Truth to Dark ‘power’.
Let this sink in, 77% of Vermont voters approved the so-called Reproductive Liberty Amendment, this goes to show the rot within our state.
I assume this 77% don’t understand what reproductive means, sex is sex, and killing a baby is just killing another person, it’s pretty pathetic when you need to abort your own child for a few minutes of pleasure, one day you’ll meet your maker, good luck with that, but then again, if your thinking abortion is birth control, you have no morals or self-esteem.
an obscene amount of money was spent on tv ads misstating the reproductive liberty amendment; even worse, every town in the state voted in its favor which was praised by our governor; someone once said that if God lets america get away with our actions on abortion and multiple extra genders, etc. He will have to apologize to sodom and gomorrah
And let’s not forget Phil Scott was a leader in pushis between this forward.
Republican senator Joe Benning helped write the law and was a big leader in making sure this law passed.
I was at a Republican Committee meeting in center Rutland Vermont and I raised the question as to why republicans were not vocal about the slaughter of the unborn and they said they got together and chose not to say anything about it.
We have been sold out continually by the rinos that keep claiming they are republicans in the state of Vermont
I hope the Vermont GOP understands that the real republicans in the state of Vermont are keeping the close eye on everything they do.
If you’re going to claim to be a republican at least have a backbone and stand up for what is right.
There is no fear of God before their eyes
What is REALLY scary in the big spiritual scheme of things is that Canada and the UK have both begun as in actively carrying out — suicide by euthanasia — who they are targeting is those with ‘long covid (read bioweapon outcome)’, dementia, loss of hearing, depression, isolation, poverty and homelessness, or a dis-ease that it costs more to fix than the patient is worth to society: read: poor, old, sick, alone… you fill in the blank…they are coming for you and your children!
Our health is built upon a DEATH CULT that believes our way out is to be dead… good thing I missed that bulletin and am fighting for my life out here in the wilderness where hard hearts rule, and He is teaching me ‘long suffering’, endurance, patience, and even joy in my suffering…
Can you imagine opening your stocking and finding a gift card to you local euthanasia (big people’s planned parenthood) stopnshop?
We built this here in Vermont… what do you think the end game is in the home of doctor assisted suicides, and abortion, and BIOGEN labs at UVMMC?