OPINION:
President Joe Biden is in the fight of his life. His rhetoric during his State of the Union Address was solely meant to energize the pro-abortion voting bloc. President Biden promised to reinstate Roe v. Wade and said, “America could not go back” on “reproductive freedom.”
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“Reproductive freedom” is how President Biden attempts to sanitize the topic of abortion, which the University of Washington defines as, “having the ability to decide whether and when to have children.”
Yet, if President Biden wishes to engage in an authentic conversation about “reproductive freedom,” he must first discuss and acknowledge the freedom to say no to having sex. Politicians can debate laws and policies about access to life-ending and life-altering abortions and sugarcoat it as “reproductive freedom,” but since sex must occur before a woman can have an abortion, then that is where we must return in this conversation.
An authentic discussion about “reproductive freedom” must also explore if it is appropriate to punish the child for the mother’s choice to have sex. The concept that an individual’s freedom to participate in an act of pleasure or passion should permit the destruction of a fellow human being is much closer to the ancient and barbaric practice of human sacrifice than President Biden will ever admit.
True reproductive freedom means having the ability to decide whether and when to have children and many current policies stand in the way.
For example, the Biden administration, while claiming they are in favor of reproductive freedom, is allowing hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors into this country along our virtually open southern border, exposing those children to sex slavery and rape.
While children are being sold in this country for sexual acts by the cartel for $3,000, the same cost as a 16-inch MacBook Pro, this administration is denying these children or any other woman coming across this border reproductive freedom by eliminating their “ability to decide whether and when to have children.”
The Biden administration has rejected forcing porn sites, like Pornhub, to verify users’ ages and refused to punish porn sites for publishing videos of rape.
Refusing to take action against these sites encourages not only the promotion of rape for clicks and pay but desensitizes men and women to think these sinful sexual activities are normal, all the while limiting support to messages about abstinence. Rape hampers reproductive freedom by eliminating their “ability to decide whether and when to have children.”
Further, the Biden administration has promoted and advocated the sterilization of children in the destructive name of “gender-affirming” care which does not affirm God’s choice for their gender.
When children, who are too young to legally decide on military service, tobacco use or even tattoos and piercings, are pressured by their parents, doctors and even taxpayer-funded teachers to be sterilized, they are completely removing true bodily autonomy. Where’s the reproductive freedom choice in that?
Recently, England’s National Health Service banned these puberty-suppressing hormones due to the lack of evidence to “support the safety or clinical effectiveness.”
A recent U.S. study found that “68% of adults oppose access to puberty-blocking medication for transgender children ages 10-14 and 58% oppose access to hormonal treatments for transgender kids ages 15 to 17.”
Despite these statistics, the Biden administration is hell-bent on pushing their agenda and labeling those who disagree with them as bigots. These children are unaware they are destroying their bodies and their future to decide the “ability of whether and when to have children.”
Giving lip service to “reproductive freedom,” while simultaneously allowing or even creating environments that victimize women is wrong and election double speak. If politicians genuinely cared about women and reproductive freedom, they would immediately stop the dangerous policies that promote the grooming and oversexualization of our children, the encouragement of rape and gender mutilation, and choose instead to return to programs and policies that promote true reproductive freedom of women.
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Peter Demos is the author of “On the Duty of Christian Civil Disobedience” and the host of “Uncommon Sense in Current Times.” A Christian business leader from Tennessee, Demos uses his biblical perspective and insight gained from his own struggles to lead others to truth and authenticity in a broken world. To learn more, visit peterdemos.org.
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