So-called States' Rights and Abortion








It's hard to image evangelical Christians being killed in Massachusetts rejecting protection from federal marshals; but it's easier to claim state supremacy when the blood is not one's own. Claiming that any subdivision of government, whether state, district, tribe, or province, should be tolerated even if it decriminalizes the shedding of innocent blood is an example of giving man's law supremacy over God. No true principle of justice, but only unrighteousness, would lead a nation to tolerate murder within its borders, whether of concubines (Israel), of Jews (Germany), or children (America).

Another lesson from the Bible regards the head of Israel's "federal" government. Even though Ahab was not the one who ordered the killing of a man named Naboth, the Scriptures teach us that Ahab himself was guilty of murder (1 Kings 21:19). Why? By not prosecuting that murder, he became an accessory after the fact.

Notice also that the pro-life emphasis that "judges don't make law" misses the mark. Hundreds of states and nations have enacted legislation condoning the killing of innocent children. This argument only makes sense when used opportunistically, to exploit some incidental public anger against the judiciary. But it is not a fundamental argument against child killing. If judges don't make laws, but legislators do, then legistlators will. In reality though, true law is discovered, not invented, by any governing official. Further, in the slightly askew phrase, "make law" is ambiguous. If a righteous judge in an evil nation asserts that a human being has the right to convert to Christianity, for example, he is not "making law", but recognizing basic human liberty given by God to every man. If a righteous judge in Germany had ruled against the killing of Jews, he would not have been therefore evil for "making law", but righteous for upholding the foundation of all human law, God's enduring command, Do not murder. Thus, "judges don't make law" is another attempt in a centuries-long series of seeking process solutions to fundamental moral questions.

If you love any governing official, federal or otherwise, you will not lead him to ignore Solomon's warning from almost 3,000 years ago:

Deliver those who are drawn toward death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, "Surely we did not know this," does not He who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He not know it? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds? - Proverbs 24:11-12

"The law condemns and punishes only actions
within certain definite and narrow limits;
it thereby justifies, in a way,
all similar actions that lie outside those limits."
-Leo Tolstoy 
widely attributed


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Update -- 1966 or 1967? What's in a year? There's a reason why some people wrongly think that the modern U.S. abortion era began in 1967 in Colorado, instead of 1966 in Mississippi. That reason is Nat'l Right To Life.

NRTL supports politicians who hold the same position that began the U.S. abortion holocaust. That is, NRTL supports politicians who will kill various children, including for example, if the father is a criminal. So NRTL's website at Abortion History Timeline and their Events by Year menu bar (click on the first link, 1959-1970), omit the 1966 "legalization" in Mississippi of the killing of the baby of a rapist. Why? Because how could they highlight that grave wickedness without exposing the same wickedness in the politicians that they misrepresent as 100% pro-life? While NRTL's two timeline charts omit Mississippi, 1966 is included in their text (i.e., in the fine print), which most readers ignore (including those who innocently repeat NRTL's misinformation, e.g. Students for Life).

Federally, Roe v. Wade was decided by a Republican court, written by a Republican justice, and passed with mostly  Republican votes. At the state level, the "Model Penal Code on Abortion" permitting child killing for fetal handicap, maternal health, rape and incest, was first signed into law by Republican governors John Love in Colorado and Ronald Reagan in California. Since 1973, the court has always had a Republican majority yet has never overturned its own Roe opinion; working toward that as the primary way of ultimately ending abortion is a politically naïve strategy; and not a single sitting justice has ever acknowledged the unborn child has a right to life. Yet with all this, of course American RTL opposes all Democrats (see our unfurling of the world's largest protest sign against Barack Obama) and all Republicans (as we exposed the radical pro-abortion record of Mitt Romney) who support the intentional killing of any innocent children. Jesus rebuked hypocrites and while the general public, not surprisingly, give liberals a pass, they quickly condemn as hypocrites conservatives who have double standards. Thus American RTL makes an effort to avoid double-mindedness (James 1:8), differing measures (Proverbs 20:10), and hypocrisy (Luke 6:42).

Taking yet another page from liberals, Nat'l RTL has been guilty of their own partisan revisionist history with a political spin on reality that makes it particularly hard to end child killing, since the responsible parties are often misrepresented as blameless (e.g., Republican Justices, Romneycare, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, etc.). Like lawyers, NRTL covered themselves in the fine print. (Their section, How the Nation's Largest and Most Effective Pro-Life Group Began, mentions 1966.) So for decades, NRTL has led activists to think that the current U.S. abortion holocaust began in 1967 in Colorado because the actual truth shines too bright a light on their own child-killing candidates and regulations, which are similar to the very ideas, child killers, and laws that started today's abortion holocaust in the first place. If you'd rather not know such things, then don't bookmark our ARTL website, don't sign up for our 40 Days Pro-life Education, and whatever you do, don't watch our Focus on the Strategy documentary. Instead, you can get all your information at

Tragically, America elected Donald Trump, a pro-abortion child killer for president,
who began spending taxpayer dollars by fully funding Planned Parenthood
and who says he'd be happy for states to kill unborn children.