Shout Your Abortion (SYA), a pro abortion group whose slogan is “We Will Aid & Abet Abortion,” has erected a series of six billboards along a two hundred mile section of I-55 from West Memphis Arkansas to southern Illinois as signposts of encouragement for those traveling to procure abortions. You can hear about it on an NPR segment:
What particularly caught my attention was the SYA billboard pictured above which proclaims, “God’s Plan Includes Abortion.”
The sign as-is is neither true nor false; it is simply ambiguous.
The sign is certainly true if your god is Aphrodite, worshipped today through sex as pleasure devoid of meaning or commitment or natural purpose.
The sign is certainly true if your god is Autonomy or Convenience or Choice, the gods of our Western culture.
The sign is certainly true if your god is Molech in any of his modern incarnations.
But, the sign is false if your God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who was himself God from God, the perfect image of the Father.
Christian theologian Stanley Hauerwas once said, “If in a hundred years, Christians are identified as the people who don’t kill their children or kill their elders we will have done well.” He could say this only because he understands that God’s will does not include abortion. His quote sets a low bar for Christianity, but even so it is a stretch for some who proclaim that God’s plan includes abortion.
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