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## Transcript WEBVTT 00:00:00.700 → 00:00:03.140 So, Abortion. 00:00:04.640 → 00:00:09.020 I actually wrote an article on this topic back in 2019. 00:00:09.020 → 00:00:13.060 To be clear, I still hold to the conclusions of that article. 00:00:13.060 → 00:00:16.980 The title of that article, Killing Abortionists is Moral. 00:00:16.980 → 00:00:23.800 The subtitle, A Threat of Deadly Force Against an Innocent, engenders a moral duty to defend. 00:00:23.800 → 00:00:27.880 You can of course find that on my website, [www.coryjmoller.com](http://www.coryjmoller.com). 00:00:27.880 → 00:00:30.980 I know, very difficult to discern. 00:00:30.980 → 00:00:37.340 But let us step back for a moment here and discuss some fundamental matters. 00:00:37.340 → 00:00:41.640 What is abortion sort of a fundamental issue? 00:00:41.640 → 00:00:46.680 If you are going to discuss something, you should be able to define it. 00:00:46.680 → 00:01:04.220 Now, when it comes to abortion, the term is actually over broad because there are two different, not quite different concepts, but two different subtypes under that umbrella term, and they are very different. 00:01:04.220 → 00:01:06.180 It is important to understand that difference. 00:01:06.180 → 00:01:11.880 We’ll get to why it’s important to understand that difference in a minute here. 00:01:11.880 → 00:01:13.580 But first, the two types. 00:01:13.580 → 00:01:18.720 The two types are spontaneous and elective. 00:01:18.720 → 00:01:22.080 Now, a spontaneous abortion is a miscarriage. 00:01:22.180 → 00:01:28.360 That is, the more common term used for what is technically a spontaneous abortion. 00:01:29.860 → 00:01:38.260 And of course, an elective abortion is what we usually mean when we use the shorthand abortion term. 00:01:38.260 → 00:01:46.080 The reason that it matters, the reason we should be careful in using these terms, is that one, terms matter. 00:01:46.080 → 00:01:55.980 We should use words to mean what they mean, not abuse them, not misuse them, and not mislead people by abusing and misusing terms. 00:01:55.980 → 00:02:01.040 And two, the left, they in fact do abuse these terms. 00:02:01.040 → 00:02:06.580 And the reason they do it, of course, is for political ends. 00:02:06.580 → 00:02:12.400 Now of course, there are also moral ends, in their case, immoral ends, evil ends. 00:02:12.400 → 00:02:33.240 But they abuse these terms by saying that, well, what we, our side, the right, those who are, in fact, lower case, are right, what we are doing, they will accuse us of attempting to criminalize spontaneous abortion, which they will call miscarriage, of course, because that is the more common term. 00:02:33.240 → 00:02:41.300 And they are conflating these two senses of abortion, spontaneous abortion on the one hand and elective abortion on the other. 00:02:41.300 → 00:02:45.020 We, of course, are not attempting to criminalize spontaneous abortion. 00:02:45.640 → 00:02:49.180 You cannot criminalize something like that. 00:02:49.180 → 00:02:53.000 Well, yes, I mean, actually, you could, but that would be a very stupid thing to do. 00:02:53.000 → 00:03:01.240 It would be like criminalizing sneezing or something even less voluntary, because you can at least decide, I am not going to sneeze. 00:03:01.240 → 00:03:03.200 You can force yourself not to sneeze. 00:03:03.200 → 00:03:06.100 You can’t really stop yourself from having a miscarriage. 00:03:06.100 → 00:03:14.580 And so, no, we’re not attempting to criminalize that, because a miscarriage lacks the elements necessary to be a crime. 00:03:15.340 → 00:03:19.960 And that is the next point, because what is abortion, ultimately? 00:03:19.960 → 00:03:22.740 The answer to the question is that it is murder. 00:03:23.880 → 00:03:27.440 Well, having defined abortion, what is murder? 00:03:27.440 → 00:03:30.000 Because if we call it murder, we have to know what murder means. 00:03:30.000 → 00:03:37.200 Now, for murder, there are, again, two different senses of the term that it is necessary to know. 00:03:37.200 → 00:03:40.500 The first would be murder under the positive law. 00:03:40.500 → 00:03:45.340 And to be clear, the positive law would be laws enacted by men. 00:03:45.340 → 00:03:49.920 So under our criminal codes and the like, that would be positive law. 00:03:49.920 → 00:03:53.640 And murder under those, I’m going to give a general definition. 00:03:53.640 → 00:03:56.680 This is the one that you should use. 00:03:56.680 → 00:04:03.680 Murder is the unlawful killing of one human being by another with malice of forethought. 00:04:05.580 → 00:04:09.280 Now, there are several requirements in this definition. 00:04:10.160 → 00:04:16.480 Of course, it is an unlawful killing, which is to say, of course, that there are lawful killings. 00:04:16.480 → 00:04:23.920 And most saliently is the mens rea requirement, malice of forethought. 00:04:23.920 → 00:04:27.860 Now, what mens rea means simply is guilty mind. 00:04:27.860 → 00:04:32.420 Because when it comes to a crime, there are typically two components. 00:04:32.420 → 00:04:42.300 The actus reus, which is to say the guilty act, and the mens rea, which is to say the guilty mind or more commonly called intent. 00:04:42.300 → 00:04:50.660 Now, some will think innately that perhaps murder has the highest mens rea, and it actually does not. 00:04:50.660 → 00:04:53.560 And there are reasons for that. 00:04:53.560 → 00:04:58.880 And I’ll get into those in just a minute here or so. 00:04:58.880 → 00:05:08.640 The reason that it’s not the highest is because there are crimes that require what is called specific intent. 00:05:08.640 → 00:05:15.380 And specific intent is the intent to cause the criminal outcome. 00:05:15.380 → 00:05:18.380 You don’t need to have that for murder. 00:05:18.380 → 00:05:22.180 So in a sense, murder has a lower mens rea requirement. 00:05:22.180 → 00:05:27.340 That’s sort of an aside, but it does actually matter. 00:05:27.340 → 00:05:46.760 Now, to get to the second sense of murder before getting into sort of more about mens rea, the second sense of murder would be under the moral law, which is of course more important than the positive law, because the positive law should comport with the moral law and not vice versa. 00:05:46.760 → 00:05:50.080 The moral law is the law that flows from God’s nature. 00:05:50.080 → 00:05:54.900 It is immutable, it is eternal, it is controlling. 00:05:54.900 → 00:05:58.120 Now, under the moral law, here is the definition of murder. 00:05:58.120 → 00:06:02.860 This is the definition I use, and I am again going to say this is the definition you should use. 00:06:04.100 → 00:06:11.340 Under the moral law, murder is the insufficiently warranted killing of one human being by another. 00:06:12.480 → 00:06:20.620 Now again, we have what one could consider a qualifier, or again, I guess more appropriately, it would be an element. 00:06:20.620 → 00:06:29.060 The killing must be insufficiently warranted, which of course means that there is such a thing as a warranted killing. 00:06:29.060 → 00:06:35.260 There are killings under the moral law that do not rise to the level of murder that are not immoral. 00:06:35.260 → 00:06:39.360 It is permissible to kill under certain circumstances. 00:06:39.360 → 00:06:47.400 And now if we talk about what is insufficiently warranted, well, what sort of warrant qualifies? 00:06:47.400 → 00:06:49.200 It would have to be a moral warrant. 00:06:49.200 → 00:06:56.440 So for instance, if someone just annoys you, you are not allowed to kill him for being annoying. 00:06:56.440 → 00:06:59.480 I know, terrible news, some people are extremely annoying. 00:07:00.200 → 00:07:03.080 But you cannot kill someone simply for being annoying. 00:07:03.080 → 00:07:05.040 That is not a moral warrant. 00:07:05.040 → 00:07:10.000 That is, I guess, a personal warrant or a preference, a warrant or something like that. 00:07:11.360 → 00:07:21.060 In order for a killing not to be murder, the warrant for that killing must be a moral warrant. 00:07:21.060 → 00:07:27.100 So for instance, he who sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed. 00:07:28.320 → 00:07:42.180 Someone who kills another human being, again, it would have to be without sufficient warrant, that person is a murderer, and it is the duty of the faithful prince to put murderers to death. 00:07:42.180 → 00:07:44.540 The death penalty is not murder. 00:07:44.540 → 00:07:46.200 It is lawful killing. 00:07:47.280 → 00:07:54.360 Now, between these two definitions, these two senses of the term murder, we have some similarities. 00:07:55.120 → 00:07:57.520 There are qualifiers for both. 00:07:57.520 → 00:08:11.080 There’s the mens rea requirement for the positive law, malice of forethought, and there is the element requirement for the definition under the moral law, insufficiently warranted. 00:08:11.080 → 00:08:15.240 Of course, these are different from one another. 00:08:15.240 → 00:08:16.740 There are reasons for that. 00:08:16.740 → 00:08:18.340 One is pure practicality. 00:08:18.340 → 00:08:21.500 The positive law has to be enforced by the state. 00:08:21.500 → 00:08:29.480 You have to have these hard and fast definitions in order to assess actions and then punish them if they are crimes. 00:08:29.480 → 00:08:35.860 And the moral law is, again, immutable, eternal, flows from God’s nature. 00:08:35.860 → 00:08:42.620 But it has to be transposed into positive law in order for the state to actually enforce it. 00:08:44.880 → 00:08:50.800 So I mentioned that I would go over more of the mens rea, so I’ll go over that now. 00:08:51.960 → 00:08:59.340 When it comes to murder, you have the requirement of malice of forethought. 00:08:59.340 → 00:09:15.740 I’ll actually put up a graphic or a chart showing exactly what homicide is, at least legally speaking, the different kinds of homicide, what makes them different from one another, what the elemental requirements are. 00:09:15.740 → 00:09:18.180 I’ll put that in the show notes or on the website. 00:09:18.900 → 00:09:26.660 But just briefly, when it comes to killing, there are legal and illegal killings. 00:09:26.660 → 00:09:29.540 There are lawful and unlawful killings. 00:09:29.540 → 00:09:34.940 And essentially, the dividing line is mens rea. 00:09:36.180 → 00:09:39.320 It’s why you committed that killing. 00:09:39.320 → 00:09:43.880 Yes, there are warrants for killing if you’re in a war or something like that. 00:09:44.500 → 00:09:56.300 But mens rea is what changes one level of killing into another, what can make a negligent homicide into a murder. 00:09:56.300 → 00:10:01.620 And malice of forethought, as stated before, is not specific intent. 00:10:01.620 → 00:10:06.140 It is not the highest type of mens rea. 00:10:06.140 → 00:10:18.320 And the reason for that is because you can kill someone without the specific intent to kill him and have it still be murder. 00:10:18.320 → 00:10:28.340 And have it be just as bad, or at least legally just as bad, nearly as bad as going out with the specific intent to kill someone and killing him. 00:10:28.340 → 00:10:37.320 Now if you go out, find someone and stab him to death, that specific intent, you specifically intended to kill that person. 00:10:39.020 → 00:10:49.260 Now, if instead of going out, finding someone and stabbing him to death, you go outside, start lighting sticks of dynamite, and just throwing them. 00:10:49.260 → 00:10:52.080 You know, go to the park, just throw dynamite. 00:10:52.080 → 00:10:54.720 You know, normal activity for certain people who fish that way. 00:10:54.720 → 00:10:58.580 But you go to the park and you start throwing dynamite. 00:10:58.580 → 00:11:00.460 And you kill someone. 00:11:00.460 → 00:11:02.920 Well, you didn’t specifically intend to kill someone. 00:11:02.920 → 00:11:05.100 You intended to go to the park and throw dynamite. 00:11:06.280 → 00:11:19.620 But, that action evinces such a reckless disregard for the health and welfare of others, that that killing rises to the level of murder. 00:11:19.620 → 00:11:24.620 That is, one could say, abandoned malignant heart might be the term used for that. 00:11:24.620 → 00:11:35.120 It depends on the jurisdiction as to specifically what the law will say when it comes to the different things that qualify as malice of forethought. 00:11:35.120 → 00:11:38.640 There are different ways to reach that standard. 00:11:38.640 → 00:11:44.240 But if you go out and toss dynamite, and you kill someone, you are a murderer. 00:11:44.240 → 00:11:51.040 Just because you did not intend specifically to kill does not mean that it is some lesser crime. 00:11:51.040 → 00:12:01.200 And that’s the reason we have this higher, well, higher conception of mens rea, but lower requirement when it comes to murder. 00:12:01.920 → 00:12:08.440 And to tie this into scripture, this is pretty much exactly what we have in the Fifth Commandment. 00:12:08.440 → 00:12:12.600 Thou shalt not murder in our modern language. 00:12:12.600 → 00:12:17.420 Thou shalt not kill in older English or certain other languages. 00:12:17.420 → 00:12:37.520 And the reason we have that distinction, the reason we have this sort of confusion as to which specific term applies is because the term used for the prohibition actually encompasses both, but only part of killing. 00:12:37.520 → 00:12:42.060 And the reason it encompasses it is because it’s exactly what I just said. 00:12:42.060 → 00:12:50.200 It encompasses that reckless disregard, killing that is not specific intent, but is still murder. 00:12:51.960 → 00:12:59.120 And so, it sort of encompasses a severe form of negligent homicide and up. 00:12:59.120 → 00:13:10.440 Of course, it doesn’t encompass all negligent homicide, because those who murder, in the sense used in the commandment, have to be put to death. 00:13:10.440 → 00:13:24.180 Whereas those who commit a merely negligent homicide, so for instance, the example in scripture, gentlemen who were out in the woods chopping wood and an axe head goes flying and kills someone, well, he’s allowed to flee to a city of refuge. 00:13:24.180 → 00:13:26.220 He does not have to be killed. 00:13:26.220 → 00:13:31.900 And so, that does not fall within the prohibition of the Fifth Commandment. 00:13:33.000 → 00:13:46.000 Now, to move on to the legal setup, as it were, without delving deeply into the law here, but just sort of the legal background, the superstructure of abortion in the US. 00:13:46.000 → 00:13:48.640 Obviously, we have to start with Roe v. 00:13:48.640 → 00:13:50.320 Wade, 1973. 00:13:52.880 → 00:14:01.160 Instead of discussing specifically the legal underpinnings and all of that, because that has been gone over ad nauseam. 00:14:01.160 → 00:14:02.740 There are plenty of resources. 00:14:02.740 → 00:14:06.840 Go out and find them if you’re so inclined to read them. 00:14:06.840 → 00:14:08.320 For some people, that will be interesting. 00:14:08.320 → 00:14:10.000 For most, it’s probably a waste of time. 00:14:11.540 → 00:14:15.960 But I want to discuss something more fundamental. 00:14:15.960 → 00:14:22.220 Think about the state of society in 1973. 00:14:22.260 → 00:14:36.160 Think specifically about technology, and think specifically within the technology subset of the even smaller subset of surveillance technology. 00:14:37.560 → 00:14:49.640 In 1973, when you walked up to someone’s front door, you were not going to be on a doorbell camera because they didn’t exist. 00:14:50.900 → 00:15:08.400 Now, there was closed-circuit television of a particularly grainy and terrible type, the kind that you somehow still see in footage of robberies of convenience stores because apparently they haven’t updated their technology in 50 years. 00:15:08.400 → 00:15:12.360 But surveillance was at a much lower level. 00:15:12.360 → 00:15:19.220 You had significantly less pervasive surveillance of individuals and just society generally. 00:15:20.600 → 00:15:23.200 Now compare that to today. 00:15:23.200 → 00:15:27.520 Today you have surveillance everywhere. 00:15:27.520 → 00:15:29.340 You are on camera constantly. 00:15:29.340 → 00:15:31.940 You’re on camera when you go to the store. 00:15:31.940 → 00:15:34.040 You’re on camera when you go to the coffee shop. 00:15:34.040 → 00:15:36.340 You’re on camera a lot of the time you drive. 00:15:36.340 → 00:15:39.560 You’re on camera when you walk your dog through your neighborhood. 00:15:39.560 → 00:15:41.560 There are cameras everywhere. 00:15:42.700 → 00:15:51.120 And so today, you could not get away with things that you could have gotten away with in 1973. 00:15:54.500 → 00:15:59.180 Now of course, what I am saying should be obvious to many. 00:15:59.180 → 00:16:00.980 To some it will not be. 00:16:00.980 → 00:16:06.640 But the point is, there are certain duties. 00:16:06.640 → 00:16:22.240 There are certain tasks that fall to men that are incumbent on men when society, when the proper authorities, which is to say the state, the prince, does not do its or his duty. 00:16:24.520 → 00:16:29.160 It is the doctrine of lesser magistrates in essence. 00:16:29.160 → 00:16:40.080 And so where the prince does not do his duty, it falls to those below him and then those below them and eventually to individual men. 00:16:40.080 → 00:16:55.260 And so if you have a country that has legalized the mass scale slaughter of infants, which is to say infant sacrifice, demon worship, to be blunt, there is a moral duty to end that. 00:16:55.260 → 00:17:02.880 In 1973, it was very possible to end that then and there. 00:17:02.880 → 00:17:05.340 Today you would not get away with it. 00:17:05.420 → 00:17:07.360 Today you would be caught. 00:17:07.360 → 00:17:09.820 Back then, very slim chance. 00:17:09.820 → 00:17:17.740 And not only that, but society, by and large, probably would have agreed with you, probably would have protected you, would not have turned you in. 00:17:17.740 → 00:17:20.460 Less of that today, depending where you live. 00:17:20.460 → 00:17:25.960 So at present, not viable, not an option. 00:17:25.960 → 00:17:30.360 There are other methods that will have to be used to resolve things. 00:17:30.360 → 00:17:35.220 Thankfully, we are making some legal headway, which is good. 00:17:35.220 → 00:17:39.620 But there is much work that remains to be done. 00:17:39.620 → 00:17:49.400 To switch to, well, back to a more technical topic, let’s cover the types of abortion. 00:17:49.400 → 00:17:54.180 When it comes to abortion, there are essentially two types. 00:17:54.180 → 00:17:57.060 Surgical and chemical. 00:17:57.060 → 00:18:04.440 For surgical abortions, there are various methods, various types of surgeries for terminating pregnancies. 00:18:04.440 → 00:18:08.180 I’m not going to go over those because this isn’t a medical course. 00:18:08.180 → 00:18:10.920 There’s no real reason to go over them. 00:18:10.920 → 00:18:22.780 But I am going to highlight that there is one particularly heinous form, which is partial birth abortion, in which the child is partially delivered, and then typically the neck severed. 00:18:22.780 → 00:18:28.100 And that’s just straight up inexcusable, completely… 00:18:29.760 → 00:18:30.520 It is murder. 00:18:30.880 → 00:18:37.260 There’s no way around the fact that that is just blunt homicide. 00:18:37.260 → 00:18:41.760 And everyone participating in it knows that. 00:18:41.760 → 00:18:45.540 Now the second type of abortion is chemical. 00:18:47.340 → 00:18:49.760 Many will immediately think, oh, it’s the abortion pill. 00:18:49.760 → 00:18:51.760 And you are correct. 00:18:51.760 → 00:18:55.420 But there are two other kinds that people do not bring to mind. 00:18:56.360 → 00:19:00.380 There is the abortion pill, which is very obviously an abortifacient. 00:19:00.380 → 00:19:01.620 That is, it’s very nature. 00:19:01.620 → 00:19:04.020 That is the reason it exists. 00:19:04.020 → 00:19:06.400 And then there is Plan B. 00:19:06.400 → 00:19:13.040 Plan B, so called, the morning after pill, is also an abortifacient. 00:19:13.040 → 00:19:19.600 It seeks to stop implantation of the zygote into the uterine wall. 00:19:21.980 → 00:19:31.380 And that is abortion, because you are aborting what is already a unique human life. 00:19:31.380 → 00:19:33.680 That is, already a child. 00:19:33.680 → 00:19:47.780 Just because it’s one cell or two cells or four or eight, however many cells, still a child, still a unique life, still entitled to protection and destroying it, still abortion. 00:19:50.160 → 00:19:52.120 But I said there were three. 00:19:52.120 → 00:20:00.040 And this is the one that will cause many people to have to reconsider some things in their lives. 00:20:01.100 → 00:20:03.480 So-called birth control. 00:20:06.120 → 00:20:10.640 There are a number of methods of birth control. 00:20:10.640 → 00:20:16.460 The one I am referencing here is very clear, at least it should be, given that I am talking about chemical abortion. 00:20:16.960 → 00:20:20.740 It is hormonal birth control given specifically to women. 00:20:21.100 → 00:20:31.380 I am not discussing so-called male birth control, which I advise strongly against, deeply unwise, and sinful to use. 00:20:31.380 → 00:20:33.560 Do not use it. 00:20:33.560 → 00:20:37.820 Now, female hormonal birth control. 00:20:37.820 → 00:20:39.500 How does it work? 00:20:39.500 → 00:20:48.480 It is actually an anticonception or an abortifacient, depending upon the stage at which it works. 00:20:49.620 → 00:20:52.560 Here is essentially the rough methodology. 00:20:52.560 → 00:20:55.820 Again, not a biology course, not a medical course. 00:20:55.820 → 00:20:57.760 I am giving an overview. 00:20:57.760 → 00:21:02.220 So this is accurate, but not detailed. 00:21:02.220 → 00:21:04.940 Three steps, in essence. 00:21:04.940 → 00:21:17.920 First, the hormonal birth control through changes to vaginal mucus and chemistry of the body, attempts to kill or prevent the sperm from reaching the ovum. 00:21:20.600 → 00:21:30.580 Two, through chemical changes, hormonal changes, the birth control attempts to prevent sperm from penetrating the ovum, thereby preventing conception. 00:21:31.700 → 00:21:39.920 Now, these two methods are objectionable for a number of reasons, but going over birth control is a topic for another time. 00:21:40.020 → 00:21:43.900 It is involved and takes a while to cover. 00:21:43.900 → 00:21:47.080 Objectionable, not yet abortion. 00:21:48.520 → 00:21:51.220 But I said there are three steps. 00:21:51.220 → 00:21:56.680 And here is the third, preventing the zygote from implanting in the uterus. 00:21:56.680 → 00:22:12.400 That is abortion, because that zygote, as stated before, and to remind those who didn’t pay particularly close attention in high school biology, the zygote is the result of fertilization, of conception. 00:22:12.400 → 00:22:17.640 That is a unique human life from the point of conception onward. 00:22:17.640 → 00:22:23.800 And so preventing it from implanting in the uterus is killing it. 00:22:23.800 → 00:22:24.480 That’s what that is. 00:22:24.480 → 00:22:26.380 That’s abortion. 00:22:26.380 → 00:22:34.760 And so every single woman on hormonal birth control is a murderess. 00:22:36.640 → 00:22:43.640 Now, that’s going to make people uncomfortable because there are a lot of women who are on hormonal birth control. 00:22:43.640 → 00:22:47.440 But the fact of the matter is it is an abortifacient. 00:22:47.440 → 00:22:56.700 And if you engage in behavior that is tantamount to the criminal action, you have committed the crime. 00:22:57.920 → 00:23:13.040 So again, to be exceedingly, entirely clear, female hormonal birth control is abortion, and abortion is murder. 00:23:13.040 → 00:23:16.980 So I ask again, what is abortion? 00:23:16.980 → 00:23:22.900 And to be entirely, exceptionally clear, abortion is murder, period. 00:23:24.020 → 00:23:29.600 That is the ground, that’s the foundation, that’s the simple truth. 00:23:30.640 → 00:23:37.720 Now for the Christian, we should think, and I quoted it earlier, we should think it should come to mind. 00:23:37.720 → 00:23:45.000 Genesis 9, 6, He who sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed. 00:23:45.000 → 00:23:46.700 That’s a command from God. 00:23:46.700 → 00:23:49.580 That is moral law, not civil or ceremonial law. 00:23:50.520 → 00:23:54.720 That is an eternal requirement that flows from God’s nature. 00:23:54.720 → 00:24:00.900 We are not permitted to oppose on moral grounds the death penalty. 00:24:00.900 → 00:24:04.040 We are required to support it. 00:24:05.280 → 00:24:12.280 Now other than murder, and I also mentioned this earlier, other than murder, what is abortion? 00:24:12.280 → 00:24:14.100 Well, it’s also child sacrifice. 00:24:15.780 → 00:24:26.620 And we have many examples in history of cults of nations of societies that engaged in child sacrifice. 00:24:26.620 → 00:24:28.580 You have the Canaanites. 00:24:28.580 → 00:24:33.220 God drove them out before Israel because of their evil. 00:24:33.220 → 00:24:38.080 God did not give the Israelites the promised land because they were good. 00:24:38.080 → 00:24:40.600 Scripture is very clear about this. 00:24:40.600 → 00:24:42.280 He drove out the other nations. 00:24:42.380 → 00:24:47.860 He dispossessed them because of their evil, their extreme evil. 00:24:47.860 → 00:25:00.420 And what is always signaled out is their destruction of their own children, their burning of their own children to the various idols, child sacrifice. 00:25:01.600 → 00:25:04.600 Abortion is not better. 00:25:04.600 → 00:25:06.940 Abortion may seem better to some. 00:25:06.940 → 00:25:14.880 It may look like it is less egregious because you’re not letting the child be born and then burning the child. 00:25:14.880 → 00:25:20.200 But is it any less egregious to destroy a child in utero? 00:25:20.200 → 00:25:24.260 One place above all others where the child should be safe. 00:25:25.860 → 00:25:43.580 To give another example of a culture of a civilization that engaged in child sacrifice, you had the Carthaginians who were destroyed by Rome judgment from God for their evil because they also engaged in child sacrifice. 00:25:45.220 → 00:25:49.860 Another example, the Aztecs, this time a new world example. 00:25:49.860 → 00:25:56.180 The Aztecs engaged in rampant human sacrifice, including child sacrifice. 00:25:57.860 → 00:26:04.460 When Europeans came to the new world, we wiped out much of that evil. 00:26:05.980 → 00:26:11.640 And one way in which that evil was wiped out was via plague. 00:26:11.640 → 00:26:32.780 If you can look at a plague that kills some untold number of people estimates very wildly, people engaged in human sacrifice and demon worship and not see that that is the hand of God, then you should probably pay a little closer attention to your scripture, or maybe perhaps just read it. 00:26:35.420 → 00:26:44.260 Now, there are those who will try to say that Europeans also engaged in child sacrifice, and there was some in Europe, significantly less. 00:26:44.260 → 00:27:01.700 It essentially amounts to a handful of cultures from time to time in their history would leave out infants they deemed to be defective and let them die by exposure, which is its child sacrifice. 00:27:01.700 → 00:27:18.060 It is slightly different in nature because it is purely practical, which doesn’t make it much less evil, but it is not as heinous as deliberately worshipping demons by burning your children to death or otherwise destroying them. 00:27:18.060 → 00:27:19.260 Not excusing it in any way. 00:27:19.300 → 00:27:23.840 It’s still evil, it should be stamped out, and it is good that Christianity did so. 00:27:27.640 → 00:27:33.660 But to move on and address a tangentially related issue about what is abortion. 00:27:34.680 → 00:27:40.280 Many, when they discuss abortion, will say that, well, it violates the right to life. 00:27:40.280 → 00:27:50.060 And yes, I used that language in my article on it in order to reach people who are in that mindset because I want them to actually understand what I’m saying. 00:27:50.060 → 00:27:52.360 But ultimately, rights do not exist. 00:27:53.400 → 00:28:00.300 To be clearer, more specifically, rights do not have independent existence. 00:28:00.300 → 00:28:01.900 So what is a right? 00:28:01.900 → 00:28:06.440 Well, a right is merely the shadow of a duty. 00:28:06.440 → 00:28:19.980 And so what we actually mean when we oppose abortion, if we’re saying right to life, what we’re talking about ultimately, the actual reality is that there is a duty not to murder. 00:28:19.980 → 00:28:23.300 And that duty is incumbent on everyone. 00:28:23.300 → 00:28:29.380 And so the so-called right to life is a shadow of the duty not to murder. 00:28:29.380 → 00:28:33.320 So the right to life exists just not independently. 00:28:33.320 → 00:28:41.080 It’s a philosophical point, but it is an important point because there is a world of difference between a duty and a right. 00:28:43.260 → 00:28:46.080 So what do we do? 00:28:46.080 → 00:28:49.500 What do we do about abortion here and now? 00:28:49.500 → 00:28:54.880 Today, what should we be doing with regard to this issue? 00:28:54.880 → 00:28:57.760 Well, first off, simply take a stand. 00:28:57.760 → 00:28:59.800 Take the hard stand. 00:28:59.800 → 00:29:01.440 Abortion is murder. 00:29:01.440 → 00:29:06.860 And those who procure abortions are no less murderers than those who perform them. 00:29:08.560 → 00:29:13.320 Which is to say, women who obtain abortions are murderesses. 00:29:14.980 → 00:29:16.680 So do not compromise. 00:29:16.680 → 00:29:24.000 Exceptions for incest, rape, and the quote life of the mother unquote are false. 00:29:24.000 → 00:29:27.220 These only weaken our position. 00:29:27.220 → 00:29:35.200 When two lives are endangered to address the life of the mother exception, the moral choice is to attempt to preserve both. 00:29:35.920 → 00:29:39.260 Unless there is a higher moral duty to one. 00:29:39.260 → 00:29:48.920 So, in the case of a woman and her child, even if the life of the woman is given some sort of preference, then it should still be the goal to save both. 00:29:48.920 → 00:29:53.020 Termination of the child should not be an option. 00:29:53.020 → 00:29:57.880 You do not get to murder one individual to save another. 00:29:57.880 → 00:30:04.680 Yes, you can expend more effort toward saving the woman than saving the child. 00:30:05.500 → 00:30:09.320 But, you cannot kill the child in order to save the woman. 00:30:10.720 → 00:30:17.000 So we must recognize what the real solutions are to move on. 00:30:17.000 → 00:30:22.880 We have to recognize what the real solutions are to these problems, to the problem of abortion. 00:30:25.100 → 00:30:27.620 The solution isn’t marches. 00:30:27.620 → 00:30:30.800 The solution isn’t rallies. 00:30:30.800 → 00:30:32.440 The solution isn’t pickets. 00:30:32.740 → 00:30:34.660 The solution isn’t holding up signs. 00:30:34.660 → 00:30:38.600 I’m not saying these things do not work, do not have an effect. 00:30:38.600 → 00:30:41.580 I’m not saying we should not engage in them. 00:30:42.960 → 00:30:46.080 I am saying they do not solve the problem. 00:30:46.080 → 00:30:52.580 I am saying they do not actually address and resolve the issue. 00:30:52.580 → 00:30:56.920 And let me permit me to quote Bismarck. 00:30:57.800 → 00:31:08.060 Nicht durch Reden oder Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschieden, sondern durch Eisen und Blut. 00:31:09.400 → 00:31:16.860 To translate, not through speeches or majority, votes. 00:31:16.860 → 00:31:20.420 Will the great questions of our time be decided? 00:31:20.420 → 00:31:23.340 Rather, through iron and blood. 00:31:26.340 → 00:31:29.320 Ultimately, power is the answer. 00:31:29.320 → 00:31:34.440 And we must obtain it and then use it. 00:31:36.480 → 00:31:41.940 The ultimate solution to this problem and so many others is power. 00:31:41.940 → 00:31:47.120 And the reason it’s power is because those who wield the power make the rules. 00:31:48.500 → 00:32:02.400 And so if you are just out picketing or marching or doing anything like that, if that’s all you’re doing, then you are just losing slowly, or not so slowly in some cases. 00:32:02.400 → 00:32:05.480 You have to have power. 00:32:05.480 → 00:32:09.700 What actually changed the law on abortion in this country? 00:32:09.700 → 00:32:20.980 Well, having control of the executive and thereby getting at least some control of the court and thereby changing the law. 00:32:20.980 → 00:32:24.320 Power is what actually changed things. 00:32:26.200 → 00:32:32.900 Now, I recognize that of course, not everyone is going to run for president and appoint Supreme Court justices. 00:32:32.900 → 00:32:37.300 Not everyone is going to be a Supreme Court justice, et cetera. 00:32:37.300 → 00:32:39.720 I’m not saying you have to do that. 00:32:39.720 → 00:32:40.720 Support the right people. 00:32:41.560 → 00:32:43.780 Listen to the right people. 00:32:43.780 → 00:32:48.480 But here is what you can do in your daily life. 00:32:48.480 → 00:32:51.240 Other than of course, the first two points. 00:32:51.240 → 00:32:54.560 Take the hard stand and do not compromise. 00:32:54.560 → 00:32:58.580 And of course, you can take the third one as well, which is to recognize what the real solutions are. 00:32:58.580 → 00:33:03.480 Recognizing them and being intimately, directly involved in them, two different things. 00:33:03.480 → 00:33:05.200 So do the first three things. 00:33:05.200 → 00:33:07.400 And here’s a fourth. 00:33:07.400 → 00:33:08.600 Hold your pastor accountable. 00:33:10.140 → 00:33:11.960 Talk to your pastor about the issue. 00:33:11.960 → 00:33:13.880 See where he stands on abortion. 00:33:13.880 → 00:33:17.340 See if he has any misconceptions about it. 00:33:17.340 → 00:33:20.160 Teach him about the issue if necessary. 00:33:20.160 → 00:33:23.200 Of course, that implies that you need to learn about the issue first. 00:33:23.200 → 00:33:26.920 If you don’t learn about the issue, you cannot teach him. 00:33:28.240 → 00:33:35.280 If you find yourself unfit for the task of teaching him, then direct him to those who are fit for the task. 00:33:36.260 → 00:33:38.480 There are plenty of resources out there. 00:33:40.500 → 00:33:50.240 Now, vitally important, one more point under holding your pastor accountable, get him to preach about the issue. 00:33:52.580 → 00:33:58.800 It is vitally important that pastors preach about relevant issues. 00:33:58.800 → 00:34:01.600 I am not saying, of course, that they have to do that all the time. 00:34:01.600 → 00:34:14.100 I attend a liturgical church, we follow the cycle of readings, typically the sermon is on the gospel reading, sometimes might be the epistle or even the Old Testament reading, but we follow a cycle of readings. 00:34:14.100 → 00:34:19.100 That does not mean there is no room for preaching on these issues. 00:34:20.200 → 00:34:29.120 The issues come up in the readings, address them when they come up, or if necessary, take a Sunday to address them. 00:34:29.120 → 00:34:30.640 This is a vitally important issue. 00:34:32.400 → 00:34:47.520 God destroyed nations throughout history for their evil, and one of the main issues has always been child sacrifice, because ultimately the demons want us to destroy ourselves. 00:34:47.520 → 00:34:55.820 And there are a few better ways to do that than destroying, literally destroying, the next generation. 00:34:55.820 → 00:34:57.520 And so that is why this keeps recurring. 00:34:58.160 → 00:35:01.260 And so, your pastor should address this issue. 00:35:01.260 → 00:35:04.000 So get him to preach about the issue. 00:35:04.000 → 00:35:06.860 We have Advent coming up shortly. 00:35:06.860 → 00:35:10.000 We’re looking forward to the birth of the Christ child. 00:35:10.000 → 00:35:19.660 There will be opportunity to bring up this issue in a sermon, to address this issue in a Bible study. 00:35:19.660 → 00:35:24.420 It is incumbent on every pastor to address this issue. 00:35:27.180 → 00:35:31.560 And so, in conclusion, two points. 00:35:32.600 → 00:35:36.940 We have to stop making weak claims. 00:35:39.680 → 00:35:51.620 There’s always the temptation to make exceptions, to say that, oh, well, these women were deceived, and so they didn’t really commit murder. 00:35:51.620 → 00:35:52.920 They’re not murderesses. 00:35:53.580 → 00:36:01.100 And, yes, there are some women who were deceived, particularly very young women who are forced into abortions. 00:36:01.100 → 00:36:06.120 And we do have to recognize it’s still murder. 00:36:07.320 → 00:36:30.460 There may be necessity of changing the punishment in these cases, because those who actually meet the requirements of murder, those who fulfill the elements would be the abortion so-called doctor, those who push for the abortion, those who legalized abortion, etc., many others. 00:36:30.460 → 00:36:35.660 But there may be some women who are victims, but not all. 00:36:35.660 → 00:36:44.020 There are many women who go out and procure for themselves abortions knowing full well what they are doing, knowing exactly what it is. 00:36:45.320 → 00:36:50.000 There are those on social media who will say that abortion is part of their religion. 00:36:51.060 → 00:36:53.800 So stop making weak claims. 00:36:53.800 → 00:36:55.960 Don’t make excuses. 00:36:55.960 → 00:36:58.620 Don’t try to make these exceptions. 00:36:58.620 → 00:36:59.880 State what it is. 00:36:59.880 → 00:37:01.260 Murder is abortion. 00:37:01.260 → 00:37:03.040 Those… 00:37:03.040 → 00:37:04.780 Abortion is murder, rather. 00:37:04.780 → 00:37:10.720 Those who commit abortion are murderers, and murderers deserve death. 00:37:12.660 → 00:37:17.640 So point two, be unashamed of scripture and the moral position. 00:37:19.000 → 00:37:24.240 Don’t balk from stating what scripture says about these things. 00:37:24.240 → 00:37:27.060 Memorize Genesis 9 6. 00:37:27.060 → 00:37:32.140 Know what God says about those who commit child sacrifice. 00:37:33.440 → 00:37:39.520 Do not be ashamed to stand on the truth of scripture, what scripture is and what scripture says. 00:37:40.560 → 00:37:43.180 Take your stand on God’s word. 00:37:45.320 → 00:37:48.520 So those are my two points in conclusion.