By Dave Andrusko
Joe Biden is campaigning in Georgia today on behalf of his fellow pro-abortion Democrats, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who will compete January 5 in runoff elections to determine whether Republicans maintain control of the Senate in 2021. They face pro-life incumbents Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
As it happens, today is also the second day of early voting in The Peach State. The election takes place exactly three weeks from today.
“Biden’s campaign, together with the Democratic National Committee, has steered about $5 million to Democrats’ coordinated campaign in Georgia,” the Associated Press reported.
National Right to Life is pulling out all the stops to help re-elect Sens. Loeffler and Perdue.
“Raphael Warnock is endorsed by Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion chain in the country, responsible for the deaths of more than 345,000 unborn babies every year,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Warnock made it clear in last week’s debate that he would oppose any effort to protect unborn babies at any stage of pregnancy, and he believes Georgians should pay for abortion with their tax dollars.”
Warnock, who is an African-American, ignores the profound impact abortion has on the Black community. For every 1,000 Black babies born alive in Georgia in 2019, 413 Black babies were killed in an abortion.
In that vein, Michael Ruiz of Fox News reported that “More than two dozen Black pastors, many of them from Georgia, sent a letter to a Democratic Senate candidate Friday urging him to reconsider his stance on abortion heading into a runoff in the Peach State.” They wrote
You have gone on the record saying that you are a “pro-choice pastor ”who will “always fight for reproductive justice.” You have publicly expressed your views that abortion is an exercise of “human agency and freedom” that is fully consistent with your role as a shepherd of God’s people. We believe these statements represent grave errors of judgment and a lapse in pastoral responsibility, and we entreat you to reconsider them. As a Christian pastor and as a Black leader, you have a duty to denounce the evil of abortion, which kills a disproportionate number of Black children. Your open advocacy of abortion is a scandal to the faith and to the Black community.
Abortion is fundamentally in conflict with the plain reading of the Bible. The Bible clearly teaches that human life is created by God beginning at conception. As Psalm 139 proclaims: “You knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am wonderfully and fearfully made.” What human being could possibly have the right to blot out an innocent life that God has wonderfully and fearfully made?
Abortion prematurely thwarts God’s providential and loving plan for a promising human life. And by terminating an innocent unborn life in the womb, abortion directly violates the seventh commandment: “Thou shalt not kill.” God demands that every faithful Christian protect and uphold the sanctity of innocent human life, at every stage of life. Supporting abortion represents a serious abdication of and a transgression against that responsibility, just like the disrespect of the poor, the disabled, or the elderly.
Couching abortion in the language of “reproductive justice” may be savvy marketing, but killing an innocent human life has nothing to do either with reproduction or with justice. Do American adults really need another public voice urging them to put their own short-term desires ahead of the needs of their children? As a pastor who speaks for the Christian community, we implore you to speak the plain truth about a practice as barbaric and destructive as abortion.