OPINION:
Back in June of 2022, one of the all-time bellwether court cases involving the issue of abortion was handed down by the United States Supreme Court in their Dobbs decision. Essentially it returned the question of the availability of abortions back to the individual states and removed the federal court-mandated provisions of their previous Roe and Doe decisions. Many pro-life groups hailed it as a great and long-awaited victory, but it was not. On the other hand, pro-abortion supporters reacted with great angst. Whether their grave concern was feigned or real, they were by no means victims of defeat.
Many of us with legal backgrounds realized that what actually occurred could be considered an overall victory for those who promote the termination of the life of a child during pregnancy. The states where abortion is culturally acceptable and even promoted opened their floodgates to an even greater degree of child sacrifice. On the other hand, a few states made the killing of children in the womb more difficult and even in fewer still almost impossible to accomplish, at least within their borders.
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Now, two and a half years later, we are reaping the statistical reality of an increased holocaust. While the total number of abortions is often difficult to pin down completely, it appears that in 2022, the year of the Dobbs decision, there were a total of 613,833 babies aborted. The following year in 2023 saw that number escalate to 1,037,000. Then according to a recent CNN article, the first three months of 2024, the latest figures now available, saw an average of 98,990 babies killed in each of those months.
If those numbers are extrapolated for the remainder of the year, the total will come to 1,187,880. You would have to go all the way back to the year 1997 to find an equivalent amount to those exterminations perpetrated in 2023 and 2024. Even a casual observer would be hard-pressed to find any victory in these numbers for those of us who value the lives of the unborn.
Yet, in a recent article from the Christian Post, the writer pointed out correctly that the abortion industry is facing cutbacks in the number of abortion facilities and in individuals willing to participate in the slaughter. While I suppose that is good news in one way for the pro-life community, the reduction in facilities only moved from 670 facilities in 2023 to 667 in 2024, which is not even statistically significant by any measurement. Operation Rescue President Troy Newman’s claim that “there is no doubt that abortion facilities are struggling to survive in this post-Roe environment” is simply not holding water in the face of the realities of the evolution of murder in this new paradigm.
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According to the CNN article, the news is even more stark than the mere statistical information would indicate. Although there is obviously an increased volume of total abortions, the number of in-house abortions has remained roughly the same in 2024. The marked difference has come through so-called “telehealth procedures” that have arisen by more than 28% in less than a year.
The adoption of this murder by internet methodology has allowed the expansion of unregulated termination of life even into those states where abortion may be limited or effectively banned. Dr. Ushma Upadhyay, co-chair of #WeCount and a professor at the University of California, states this position very clearly: “Telehealth providers are really going through tremendous efforts to offer this care at very low or no cost to patients. As long as we keep seeing more states increasing restrictions, I think we will continue to see the abortion volume grow as people learn about telehealth.”
Not only that, but in talking with those who are at the forefront of the fight against abortion, it appears that those states who have placed restrictions on abortion are realizing a problematic unintended consequence. Because of the easy availability of the telehealth abortion pill, women who even suspect that they may be pregnant are choosing to take the pill prior to obtaining access to an ultrasound. Obviously, the ease of this new life-terminating methodology has decreased the opportunity for counseling and has increased the utilization of abortive tele murder across state lines. This does not even take into consideration the potentially great harm that can be brought about by this most serious type of self-induced medication taken often alone in a home setting where real medical care may be unavailable if things go wrong, which in many cases it will.
While Mr. Trump was, and is, very much an advocate of returning the decisions regarding abortion to the individual states, he, like Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, and the rest of the abortion-minded crowd, are symbiotic promoters of “telechild sacrifice” on demand. So, regardless of your political choice for White House residency, the end result will be the death of more babies. Further, it appears that for the near future, at least this whole slime-like scenario will continue to grow in its headlong juggernaut of a homicidal blitzkrieg war against the unborn.
Ultimately there is no adequate political response to the stain of abortion. Likewise, as has obviously been seen, the Roe decision and the Dobbs decision together with their aftermath show clearly that even the highest court in the land is not capable of addressing the carnage. The only thing that stands between the clear unchanging biblical viewpoint of the protection of life and the wholesale slaughter of the innocent is a true change of heart of the American populace particularly as it applies to our younger citizens.
That’s why for over three decades Southern Evangelical Seminary has stood steadfast in support of life regardless of what stage you may find it. While we know that judgment is the destiny of those who disobey the laws of God, we have also been the recipients of His amazing grace. We know firsthand as an institution and as a people what it ultimately means to be forgiven and redeemed by Christ himself. It all starts with turning to Christ, recognizing the error of our ways, followed by true repentance. Christ accepts us not the way we are, but despite the way we are, and He will then help us to become more like Him. That is why it is so imperative for the people of our nation to experience a change of heart and why for over 30 years SES has worked tirelessly to equip men and women to engage our culture with grace on life-and-death issues such as abortion. Only when this scenario fully comes to fruition can we really begin to see the lives of babies and their mothers being saved and the soul of our nation being cleansed. In the final analysis, it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that is the only truth that matters, and that is why we are inviting you to partner with us to truly change hearts.
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After a successful career as a lawyer and judge, Judge Phil Ginn retired as the Senior Resident Superior Court Judge for the 24th Judicial District in North Carolina. Throughout his 22-year judicial career, he had the privilege of holding court in almost 50% of the county seats in North Carolina. Currently, Judge Ginn serves as the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary (ses.edu) and is a regular contributor to Christianity.com and The Washington Times. Judge Ginn has also been featured on Fox News, CBN, Newsmax, Decision Magazine, The Christian Post, Townhall and many others.
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