Jerry,

I believe we Christians need to be coming to grips with the essence of why abortion is wrong. It is wrong because God is the only one who has the sovereignty to determine who should live and who should die (Deut. 32:39). Watching such a film as you referred us to can make one feel sentimental and/or abhorred over the mutilation of little bodies, but when we go to the root of why this is wrong we must stand in the fact that God is, that He is Creator of life, and therefore is the only one who may determine who should live or die. This Sovereign Creator God has given us direction concerning the killing of certain people (capital punishment for murder, rape, kidnapping, adultery, homosexuality, etc. as according to God’s Word), but He has given us no authority to take life from the womb, from newborns, or from sickly or deformed people. Therefore we must not take it. If God wants someone dead, He is well able to remove life from them (or as in instances of capital punishment mandated by God the state is authorized). Humans are not authorized to decide who lives and dies apart from those instances in which we are directed by God’s Word.

Are we Christians impotent in the “right to life” fight because we compromise with sentimentalists who do not bow to this truth? Are we in doing so as the Children of Israel going into Canaan failing to deal totally with the enemy? (Deut. 33:55-56). Do we allow the enemy to live in our midst and so render ourselves unable to carry the battle forward because we do not deal with the real issues?

I believe ending abortion must be accomplished by restoring to our culture (and by insisting in our pro-life endeavors) the absolute sovereignty of God over life. We bow before Him. To fight abortion on the terms of antinomian sentimentalists who feel queasy over the destruction of little bodies will continue to render us without lasting success.

As we are wise as serpents and harmless as doves, we must maintain “No Neutrality!”