What Gave Us Gosnell?

The surest way for sin to prosper is for a culture to stop calling it sin. In America, the foremost example of the rotten fruit born of neglected sin is Kermit Gosnell. In case you missed it -- which is very likely, given the way the mainstream media had to be dragged kicking and screaming into covering Gosnell's trial (after Gosnell's guilt was pronounced, 56 days since the trial began, ABC News finally broke its silence!) -- Gosnell was found guilty of, among hundreds of other things, first-degree murder in the cases of three babies born alive after botched abortions.

Americans who have paid attention know the gruesome details: "snipped" necks, frozen body parts, tiny arms and legs stored in jars, and so on. For decades, while earning millions of dollars, Gosnell and his associates butchered women and children alike.

After weeks of a trial that revealed a shocking callousness for both the born and the unborn and after ten days of jury deliberations, there was plenty of time for all of America to see the truth when it comes to abortion and the ghastly practices that occur in abortion clinics.

No one should be surprised that the culture in America produced a Kermit Gosnell. After decades of lies from the abortion industry and its willing cohorts within the liberal media and the Democratic Party (along with "pro-choice" Republicans like Governor Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania -- where Gosnell performed his butchery), millions of Americans were led to believe that, after sperm fertilizes egg, what grows inside a woman's body is not a life, but a "choice." Such blatant disregard for sound morality, sound science, and plain common sense produced Gosnell's "House of Horrors." After weeks of a trial that revealed a shocking callousness for both the born and the unborn and after ten days of jury deliberations, there was plenty of time for all of America to see the truth when it comes to abortion and the ghastly practices that occur in abortion clinics.

I am not saying that abortions are right. I am saying that the practice of abortion as such is not God's primary focus of concern. It is the practice of legalized abortions that is the focus of God's concern and wrath. When abortion is legalized, this testifies to the depraved moral condition of the community. It is the moral condition of the community that concerns God, not the fact that this or that physician is practicing abortions. God can bring judgment in eternity, and will, against those who practice abortion and against the mothers who authorize it. Abortion is a crime in God's eyes. But the focus of God's concern is not with stopping the abortions by his representatives' individual actions. The focus of God's concern is to legislate against abortion and then to have the representative ordained agents, that is, the civil magistrates, take public action against the abortion. God's judicial focus, in other words, is corporate and judicial. This is the focus of God's concern in the question of abortion....
....The intent of the passage [Deuteronomy 21:1-9] was to show God does not hold a community or a society guilty for the acts of an individual that are immoral, if the community takes appropriate actions to suppress the action. That is, if the community passes laws against the practice, and seeks to enforce these laws against the practice, and bring sanctions against those who violate the law, then that society is not brought under the judgment of God. The state is authorized to bring sanctions against those individuals who commit such acts against the law of God precisely because of the threat of God's corporate sanctions. If the State does not take action in the name of God, then God will take action in the name of God and bring the sanctions against the whole society. This is the teaching of Deuteronomy 28:15-66. This is the teaching of the whole covenant pattern of Old Testament law.
-- from part 5 and part 7 in the thread series Letter To Paul Hill [1994 Fla. shooter of abortionist Dr. Britton]

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