WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:04.240 So, Abortion. 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:08.880 I actually wrote an article on this topic back in 2019. 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:12.800 To be clear, I still hold to the conclusions of that article. 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:16.800 The title of that article, Killing Abortionists is Moral. 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:21.520 The subtitle, A Threat of Deadly Force Against an Innocent, engenders a 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:23.600 moral duty to defend. 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:27.760 You can of course find that on my website, coreyjmahler.com. 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:30.800 I know very difficult to discern. 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:35.120 But let us step back for a moment here and discuss some 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:37.040 fundamental matters. 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:39.680 What is abortion? 00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:41.600 Sort of a fundamental issue. 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.640 If you are going to discuss something, you should be able to 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:46.400 define it. 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:52.400 Now, when it comes to abortion, the term is actually overbroad, because 00:00:52.400 --> 00:01:00.000 there are two different not quite different concepts, but two different subtypes 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.840 under that umbrella term, and they are very different. 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:06.160 It is important to understand that difference. 00:01:06.160 --> 00:01:10.640 We'll get to why it's important to understand that difference in a 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:11.840 minute here. 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:13.600 But first the two types. 00:01:13.600 --> 00:01:18.480 The two types are spontaneous and elective. 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:23.680 Now, a spontaneous abortion is a miscarriage, that is the more common 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:29.440 term used for what is technically a spontaneous abortion. 00:01:29.440 --> 00:01:33.040 And now, of course an elective abortion is what we usually mean 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:38.000 when we use the shorthand abortion term. 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:41.680 The reason that it matters, the reason we should be careful in 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:45.840 using these terms, is is that one, terms matter. 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:49.680 We should use words to mean what they mean, not abuse them, 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:55.760 not misuse them, and not mislead people by abusing and misusing terms. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:01.120 And two, the left they in fact do abuse these terms, and 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:06.240 the reason they do it, of course, is for political ends. 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:10.400 Now of course there are also moral ends, in their case, immoral 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:16.560 ends, evil ends, but they abuse these terms by saying that well, 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:20.960 what we, our side, the right, those who are, in fact, lowercase 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:25.840 our right, what we are doing, they will accuse us of attempting 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:31.120 to criminalize spontaneous abortion, which they will call miscarriage, of course, because 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:35.280 that is the more common term, and they are conflating these two 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:40.320 senses of abortion spontaneous abortion on the one hand and elective abortion 00:02:40.320 --> 00:02:41.120 on the other. 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.440 We of course are not attempting to criminalize spontaneous abortion. 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:48.880 You cannot criminalize something like that. 00:02:48.880 --> 00:02:52.080 Well yes, mean actually you could, but that would be a very 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:52.960 stupid thing to do. 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:58.720 It would be like criminalizing sneezing or something even less voluntary, because 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:01.280 you can at least decide I am not going to sneeze. 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.040 You can force yourself not to sneeze. 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:05.840 You can't really stop yourself from having a miscarriage. 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:09.120 And so no, we're not we're not attempting to criminalize that because 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:14.640 a miscarriage lacks the elements necessary to be a crime. 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:18.000 And that is the the next point. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:19.920 Because what is abortion ultimately? 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:23.520 The answer to the question is that it is murder. 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:27.200 Well having defined abortion, what is murder? 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:29.280 Because if we call it murder, we have to know what murder 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:34.240 means. Now, for murder, there are again two different senses of the 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:36.960 term that it is necessary to know. 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:40.400 The first would be murder under the positive law. 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:44.960 And to be clear, the positive law would be laws enacted by 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.240 men, so under our criminal codes and the like. 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:49.760 That would be positive law. 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:50.960 And murder under those. 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:54.880 I'm going to give a general definition, this is the one that 00:03:54.880 --> 00:03:56.400 you should use. 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:02.000 Murder is the unlawful killing of one human being by another with 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:03.440 malice aforethought. 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:09.840 Now, there are several requirements in this definition. 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:13.280 Of course, it is an unlawful killing, which is to say, of 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:20.880 course, that there are lawful killings, and most saliently is the mensrea 00:04:20.960 --> 00:04:23.600 requirement, malice aforethought. 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.760 Now, what mensrea means simply is guilty mind. 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:31.760 Because when it comes to a crime, there are typically two components 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:36.240 the actus reus, which is to say the guilty act, and the 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:40.160 mens rea, which is to say the guilty mind, or more commonly 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:42.160 called intent. 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:48.160 Now, some will think, innately, that perhaps murder has the highest mens 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:53.200 rea, and it actually does not, and there are reasons for that, 00:04:53.200 --> 00:04:58.080 and I'll get into those in in just a minute here or 00:04:58.080 --> 00:05:00.240 so. The reason that 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:06.160 it's not the highest is because there are crimes that require what 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:08.560 is called specific intent. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:11.040 And specific intent is the intent 00:05:12.080 --> 00:05:15.120 to cause the criminal outcome. 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.160 You don't need to have that for murder. 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:22.000 So, in a sense, murder has a lower men's rare requirement. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:27.040 That's sort of an aside, but it does actually actually matter. 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:32.240 Now to get to the second sense of murder before getting into 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:36.160 sort of more about mensrea, the second sense of murder would be 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:40.880 under the moral law, which is, of course, more important than the 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:44.720 positive law, because the positive law should comport with the moral law 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:46.560 and not vice versa. 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:50.000 The moral law is the law that flows from God's nature. 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.560 It is immutable, it is eternal, it is controlling. 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:58.000 Now, under the moral law, here is the definition of murder. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.560 This is the definition I use, and I am again going to 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:00.880 say this. 00:06:00.880 --> 00:06:03.760 To say this is the definition you should use. 00:06:03.760 --> 00:06:09.120 Under the moral law, murder is the insufficiently warranted killing of one 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:12.160 human being by another. 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:17.280 Now again, we have what one could consider a qualifier, or again 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:20.400 I guess more appropriately it would be an element. 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:26.400 The killing must be insufficiently warranted, which of course means that there's 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:28.800 some is such a thing as a warranted killing. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:32.320 There are killings under the moral law that do not rise to 00:06:32.320 --> 00:06:35.120 the level of murder, that are not immoral. 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:39.040 It is permissible to kill under certain circumstances. 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:44.800 And now, if we talk about what is insufficiently warranted, well, what 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:47.120 sort of warrant qualifies? 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.040 It would have to be a moral warrant. 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:54.240 So for instance, if someone just annoys you, you are not allowed 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.240 to kill him for being annoying. 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.000 I know, terrible news, some people are extremely annoying. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:03.040 But you cannot kill someone simply for being annoying. 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.560 That is not a moral warrant, that is, I guess, a personal 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:11.120 warrant, or a preference of warrant or something like that. 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:18.160 In order for a killing not to be murder, the warrant for 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:20.880 that killing must be a moral warrant. 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:25.840 So for instance, he who sheds the blood of man, by man 00:07:25.840 --> 00:07:28.080 shall his blood be shed. 00:07:28.080 --> 00:07:31.760 Someone who kills another human being, again it would have to be 00:07:31.760 --> 00:07:33.840 without s sufficient warrant. 00:07:33.840 --> 00:07:38.080 That person is a murderer, and it is the duty of the 00:07:38.080 --> 00:07:41.840 faithful prince to put murderers to death. 00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:47.120 The death penalty is not murder it is lawful killing. 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:52.960 Now, between these two definitions, these two senses of the term murder, 00:07:52.960 --> 00:07:54.960 we have some similarities. 00:07:54.960 --> 00:07:57.360 There are qualifiers for both. 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:02.640 There's the mensrea requirement for the positive law, malice aforethought, and there 00:08:02.640 --> 00:08:02.960 is 00:08:04.080 --> 00:08:10.800 the element requirement for the definition under the moral law, insufficiently warranted. 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:15.040 Of course, these are different from one another. 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:16.640 There are reasons for that. 00:08:16.640 --> 00:08:18.320 One is pure practicality. 00:08:18.320 --> 00:08:21.360 The positive law has to be enforced by the state. 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:24.640 You have to have these hard and fast definitions in order to 00:08:24.640 --> 00:08:29.280 assess assess actions and then punish them if they are crimes. 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:35.680 And the moral law is again immutable, eternal flows from God's nature, 00:08:35.680 --> 00:08:39.440 but it has to be transposed into positive law in order for 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:44.560 the state to actually enforce it. 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:48.640 So I I mentioned that I would go over more of the 00:08:48.640 --> 00:08:51.680 mens rea, so I'll go over that in that now. 00:08:51.760 --> 00:08:53.440 When it comes to 00:08:54.400 --> 00:08:59.360 murder, you have the requirement of malice of forethought. 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:04.640 I'll actually put up a a graphic or a chart showing 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:10.880 exactly what homicide is, at least legally speaking, the different kinds of 00:09:10.880 --> 00:09:15.120 homicide, what makes them different from one another, what the elemental requirements 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.760 are. I'll put that in the the show notes or on the 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:25.280 website. But just briefly, when it comes to killing, there are legal 00:09:25.280 --> 00:09:29.360 and illegal killings, there are lawful and unlawful killings. 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:30.240 And essentially 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:35.920 the dividing line is mensrea. 00:09:35.920 --> 00:09:39.120 It's why you committed that killing. 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:43.040 Yes, there are warrants for killing if you're in a war or 00:09:43.040 --> 00:09:49.840 something like that, but men's rea is what changes one level of 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:56.240 killing into another, what can make a negligent homicide into a murder. 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.600 And malice aforethought, as stated before, is not specific intent. 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.840 It is not the highest type of mens rea. 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:11.520 And the reason for that is because you can kill someone without 00:10:11.520 --> 00:10:18.000 the specific intent to kill him and have it still be murder. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.320 And have it be just as bad, or at least 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:25.120 legally just as bad, nearly as bad, as going out with the 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:28.000 specific intent to kill someone and killing him. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:32.240 Now if you go out, find someone and stab him to death, 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.320 that's specific intent. 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:38.720 You specifically intended to kill that person. 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:43.120 Now, if instead of going out, finding someone and stabbing him to 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:48.640 death, you go outside, start lighting sticks of dynamite and just throwing 00:10:48.640 --> 00:10:51.760 them. You go to the park and just throw dynamite. 00:10:51.760 --> 00:10:54.800 You know, normal activity for certain people who fish that way. 00:10:54.800 --> 00:10:58.240 But you go to the park and you start throwing dynamite. 00:10:58.240 --> 00:10:59.920 And you kill someone. 00:10:59.920 --> 00:11:03.680 Well, you didn't specifically intend to kill someone, you intended to go 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:06.160 to the park and throw dynamite. 00:11:06.160 --> 00:11:13.440 But that action evinces such a reckless disregard for the health 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:18.640 and welfare of others, that that killing rises to the level of 00:11:18.640 --> 00:11:20.160 murder. That is 00:11:21.040 --> 00:11:24.320 one could say abandoned malignant heart might be the term used for 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:28.640 that. It depends on the jurisdictionary and is dis as to specifically 00:11:28.640 --> 00:11:32.880 what the law will say when it comes to the different things 00:11:32.880 --> 00:11:35.120 that qualify as malice of forethought. 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:38.320 There are different ways to reach that standard. 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:42.640 But if you go out and toss dynamite, and you kill someone 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:46.960 you are a murderer, just because you did not intend specifically to 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:50.880 kill does not mean that it is some lesser crime. 00:11:50.880 --> 00:11:55.200 And that's the reason we have this higher 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:01.040 well, higher conception of mensrea, but lower requirement when it comes to 00:12:01.040 --> 00:12:05.280 murder. And to tie this into scripture, this is pretty much exactly 00:12:05.680 --> 00:12:11.040 what we have in the fifth commandment thou shalt not murder in 00:12:11.040 --> 00:12:15.760 our modern language, thou shalt not kill in older English or certain 00:12:15.760 --> 00:12:16.720 other languages. 00:12:16.880 --> 00:12:22.160 No And the reason we have that distinction, the reason we have 00:12:22.160 --> 00:12:22.480 this 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:28.640 sort of confusion as to which specific term applies, is because the 00:12:28.640 --> 00:12:36.000 term used for the prohibition, actually encompasses both, but only part 00:12:36.160 --> 00:12:37.200 of killing. 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:40.800 And the reason it encompasses it is because it's exactly what I 00:12:40.800 --> 00:12:41.840 just said. 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:48.960 It encompasses that reckless disregard, killing that is not specific intent, but 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:51.600 is still murder. 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:56.240 And so it it sort of encompasses a severe form of negligent 00:12:56.640 --> 00:12:58.800 homicide and up. 00:12:58.800 --> 00:13:04.960 Of course it doesn't encompass all negligent homicide because those who murder 00:13:05.680 --> 00:13:09.600 in the sense used in the commandment have to be put to 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:14.640 death. Where those who commit a merely negligent homicide, so for instance, 00:13:14.640 --> 00:13:18.240 the example in Scripture, gentlemen who are out in the woods chopping 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.680 wood and an axe head goes flying and kills someone, well he's 00:13:21.680 --> 00:13:24.080 allowed to flee to a city of refuge. 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:27.840 He does not have to be killed, and so that does not 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:32.640 fall within the prohibition of the fifth commandment. 00:13:32.640 --> 00:13:38.800 Now to move on to the the legal setup, as it were, 00:13:38.800 --> 00:13:41.520 without delving deeply into the law here, but just sort of the 00:13:41.520 --> 00:13:45.840 legal background, the superstructure of abortion in the US. 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.560 Obviously, we have to start with Roe v. 00:13:48.640 --> 00:13:52.640 Wade, 1973. 00:13:52.640 --> 00:13:58.960 Instead of discussing specifically the legal underpinnings and all of that, because 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.200 that has been gone over ad nauseum. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:02.560 There are plenty of resources. 00:14:02.560 --> 00:14:06.560 Go out and find them if you're so inclined to read them. 00:14:06.560 --> 00:14:09.280 For some people that will be interesting, for most it's probably a 00:14:09.280 --> 00:14:11.280 waste of time. 00:14:11.280 --> 00:14:15.760 But I want to discuss something more fundamental. 00:14:15.760 --> 00:14:22.160 Think about the state of society in nineteen seventy-three. 00:14:22.160 --> 00:14:28.720 Think specifically about technology, and think specifically 00:14:29.760 --> 00:14:37.280 within the technology subset of the even smaller subset of surveillance technology. 00:14:37.280 --> 00:14:43.760 In nineteen seventy three, When you walked up to someone's front door, 00:14:43.760 --> 00:14:48.800 you were not going to be on a doorbell camera because they 00:14:48.800 --> 00:14:50.560 didn't exist. 00:14:50.560 --> 00:14:56.240 Now there was closed circuit television of a particularly grainy and terrible 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:01.600 type, the kind that you somehow still see in footage of robberies 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:06.720 of convenience stores because apparently they haven't updated their technology in fifty 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:08.720 years, but 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:12.400 surveillance was at a much lower level. 00:15:12.400 --> 00:15:20.320 You had significantly less pervasive surveillance of individuals and just society generally. 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:23.120 Now compare that to today. 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:25.280 Today, you have 00:15:26.160 --> 00:15:27.520 surveillance everywhere. 00:15:27.520 --> 00:15:29.280 You are on camera constantly. 00:15:29.280 --> 00:15:31.840 You're on camera when you go to the store. 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:33.920 You're on camera when you go to the coffee shop. 00:15:33.920 --> 00:15:36.640 You're on camera a lot of the time you drive, you're on 00:15:36.640 --> 00:15:39.440 camera when you walk your dog through your neighborhood. 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:42.400 There are cameras everywhere. 00:15:42.400 --> 00:15:45.600 And so today, you could not get away with things 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:52.240 that you could have gotten away with in 1973. 00:15:54.160 --> 00:15:58.960 Now of course what I am saying should be obvious to many, 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:03.600 to some it will not be, but the point is, there are 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:08.800 suit and there are certain duties, there are certain tasks that fall 00:16:08.800 --> 00:16:09.840 to men. 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:16.640 That are incumbent on men when society, when the proper authorities, which 00:16:16.640 --> 00:16:20.960 is to say the state, the prince, does not do its or 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.080 his duty. 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:28.800 It is the doctrine of lesser magistrates in essence. 00:16:28.800 --> 00:16:33.360 And so where the prince does not do his duty, it falls 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:38.000 to those below him, and then those below them, and eventually to 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:39.760 individual men. 00:16:39.760 --> 00:16:44.480 And so if you have a country that has legalized the mass 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:49.680 scale slaughter of infants, which is to say infant sacrifice, demon worship 00:16:49.680 --> 00:16:55.040 to be blunt, there is a moral duty to end that. 00:16:55.040 --> 00:17:00.720 In nineteen seventy three, it was very possible to end that then 00:17:00.880 --> 00:17:02.720 and there. 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:05.360 Today you would not get away with it. 00:17:05.360 --> 00:17:07.120 Today you would be caught. 00:17:07.120 --> 00:17:09.760 Back then, very slim chance. 00:17:09.760 --> 00:17:12.960 And not only that, but society, by and large, probably would have 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:16.480 agreed with you, probably would have protected you, would not have turned 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:17.360 you in. 00:17:17.360 --> 00:17:20.320 Less of that today depending where you live. 00:17:20.320 --> 00:17:25.760 So at present not viable, not an option. 00:17:25.760 --> 00:17:29.680 There are other methods that will have to be used to resolve 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:35.200 things. Thankfully we are making some legal headway, which is good, but 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:39.520 there is much work that remains to be done. 00:17:39.520 --> 00:17:41.120 To switch to 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:45.920 Well back to a more technical topic. 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:49.120 Let's cover the types of abortion. 00:17:49.120 --> 00:17:55.520 When it comes to abortion there are essentially two types surgical and 00:17:55.520 --> 00:18:02.160 chemical. For surgical abortions there are various methods, various types of surgeries 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:04.080 for terminating pregnancies. 00:18:04.080 --> 00:18:07.840 I'm not going to go over those because this isn't a medical 00:18:07.840 --> 00:18:10.160 course, there's no real reason to go over them. 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:14.080 But I am going to highlight that there is one particularly heinous 00:18:14.080 --> 00:18:18.400 form, which is partial birth abortion, in which the child is partially 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.520 delivered and then typically the neck severed 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:28.240 and that's just straight up inexcusable completely 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:33.680 it is murdered there's there's no way around the fact that that 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:41.440 is just blunt homicide, and everyone participating in it knows that. 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:46.880 Now the second type of abortion is chemical. 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:50.400 Many will immediately think oh it's the abortion pill, and you are 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:55.040 correct. But there are two other kinds that people do not bring 00:18:55.040 --> 00:18:56.080 to mind. 00:18:56.080 --> 00:19:00.480 There is the abortion pill, which is very obviously an abortifacian, that 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.680 is its very nature, that is the reason it exists. 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:06.160 And then there is plan B. 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:12.560 Plan B, so called, the morning after pill, is also an abortifacient. 00:19:12.560 --> 00:19:19.600 It seeks to stop implantation of the zygote into the uterine 00:19:19.600 --> 00:19:26.000 wall. And that is abortion because you are aborting 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:33.520 what is already a unique human life that is already a child. 00:19:33.520 --> 00:19:38.320 Just because it's one cell or two cells or four or eight, 00:19:38.320 --> 00:19:44.400 however many cells, still a child, still a unique life, still entitled 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:49.680 to protection and destroying it still abortion. 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:54.000 But I said there were three, and this is the one that 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:59.200 will cause many people to have to reconsider some things in their 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:04.960 lives. So-called birth control. 00:20:05.840 --> 00:20:10.400 There are a number of methods of birth control. 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:13.920 The one I am referencing here is very clear, at least it 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:16.800 should be given that I am talking about chemical abortion. 00:20:16.800 --> 00:20:21.120 It is hormonal birth control, given specifically to women. 00:20:21.120 --> 00:20:26.720 Not discussing so called male birth control, which I advise strongly against, 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:31.200 deeply unwise and sinful to use. 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:33.120 Do not use it. 00:20:33.120 --> 00:20:37.600 Now, female hormonal birth control. 00:20:37.600 --> 00:20:39.280 How does it work? 00:20:39.280 --> 00:20:44.080 It is actually an anticonception or an abortive facient depending 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:49.360 upon the stage at which it works. 00:20:49.360 --> 00:20:52.640 Here is essentially the rough methodology. 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.320 Again, not a biology course, not a medical course, I am giving 00:20:56.320 --> 00:20:57.760 an overview. 00:20:57.760 --> 00:21:01.920 So this is accurate, but not detailed. 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:04.800 Three steps, in essence. 00:21:04.800 --> 00:21:10.960 First, the hormonal birth control through through changes to vaginal mucus and 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:16.240 chemistry of the body, attempts to kill or prevent the sperm from 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:19.200 reaching the ovum. 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:19.360 two 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:26.800 through Chemical changes, hormonal changes, the birth control attempts to prevent sperm 00:21:26.800 --> 00:21:31.520 from penetrating the ovum, thereby preventing conception. 00:21:31.520 --> 00:21:36.560 Now, these two methods are objectionable for a number of reasons, but 00:21:37.040 --> 00:21:39.920 going over birth control is a topic for another time. 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:43.680 It is involved and takes a while to cover. 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:48.240 Objectionable not yet abortion. 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.720 But I said there are three steps, and here is the third, 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:56.400 preventing the zygote from implanting in the uterus. 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:01.280 That is abortion, because that zygote as stated before, and to remind 00:22:01.280 --> 00:22:04.880 those who didn't pot who didn't pay particularly close attention in high 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:12.320 school biology, the zygote is the result of fertilization, of conception. 00:22:12.320 --> 00:22:17.600 That is a unique human life from the point of conception onward. 00:22:17.600 --> 00:22:22.080 And so preventing it from implanting in the uterus in the uterus 00:22:22.320 --> 00:22:23.520 is killing it. 00:22:23.520 --> 00:22:24.480 That's what that is. 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:26.160 That's abortion. 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:26.640 And so 00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:36.240 every single woman on hormonal birth control is a murderer. 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:40.000 Now that's going to make people uncomfortable, because there are a lot 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:43.360 of women who are on hormonal birth control. 00:22:43.360 --> 00:22:47.440 But the fact of the matter is, it is an abortive facient. 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:53.280 And if you engage in behavior that is tantamount to the criminal 00:22:53.840 --> 00:22:57.760 action, you have committed the crime. 00:22:57.760 --> 00:22:59.600 So again, to be 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:08.160 exceedingly entirely clear, female hormonal birth control is 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:12.720 abortion, and abortion is murder. 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:16.800 So I ask again, what is abortion? 00:23:16.800 --> 00:23:22.560 And to be entirely exceptionally clear, abortion is murder. 00:23:22.560 --> 00:23:24.880 Period. That is 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:30.320 the ground, that's the foundation, that's the simple truth. 00:23:30.320 --> 00:23:35.360 Now for the Christian, we should think, and I quoted it earlier, 00:23:35.360 --> 00:23:40.080 we should think it should come to mind Genesis nine six He 00:23:40.080 --> 00:23:43.520 who sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be 00:23:43.520 --> 00:23:46.560 shed. That's a command from God. 00:23:46.560 --> 00:23:50.320 That is moral law, not civil or ceremonial law. 00:23:50.320 --> 00:23:54.640 That is an eternal requirement that flows from God's nature. 00:23:54.640 --> 00:24:00.880 We are not permitted to oppose on moral grounds the death penalty. 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:04.960 We are required to support it. 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:09.280 Now other than murder, and I also mentioned this earlier, other than 00:24:09.280 --> 00:24:15.440 murder, what is abortion well it's also child sacrifice. 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:22.640 And we have many examples in history of cults, of nations, of 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:26.400 societies that engaged in child sacrifice. 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:28.400 You have the Canaanites. 00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:33.040 God drove them out before Israel because of their evil. 00:24:33.040 --> 00:24:36.880 God did not give the Israelites the promised land, because they were 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:40.400 good. Scripture's very clear about this. 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:45.120 He drove out the other nations, he dispossessed them because of their 00:24:45.360 --> 00:24:50.240 evil, their extreme evil, and what is always signaled singled out 00:24:51.840 --> 00:24:56.160 is their destruction of their own children, their burning of their own 00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:01.360 children, to the various idols, child sacrifice. 00:25:01.360 --> 00:25:04.080 Abortion is not better. 00:25:04.080 --> 00:25:08.560 Abortion may seem better to some, it may look like it is 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:13.120 less less egregious, because you're not letting the child be born and 00:25:13.120 --> 00:25:14.800 then burning the child. 00:25:14.800 --> 00:25:20.000 But is it any less egregious to destroy a child in utero, 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:25.520 one place above all others where the child should be safe? 00:25:25.520 --> 00:25:30.800 To give another example of a culture of a civilization that engaged 00:25:30.800 --> 00:25:37.360 in child sacrifice, you had the Carthaginians, who were destroyed by Rome, 00:25:37.360 --> 00:25:42.640 judgment from God, for their evil, because they also engaged in child 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:49.520 sacrifice. Another example, the Aztecs, this time a new world example. 00:25:49.520 --> 00:25:57.600 The Aztecs engaged in rampant human sacrifice, including child sacrifice. 00:25:57.600 --> 00:26:03.920 When Europeans came to the new world, we wiped out much of 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:05.840 that evil. 00:26:05.840 --> 00:26:09.760 And one way in which that evil was wiped out was via 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:15.840 plague. If you can look at a plague that kills some untold 00:26:15.840 --> 00:26:22.320 number of people estimates very wildly, people engaged in human sacrifice and 00:26:22.320 --> 00:26:26.720 demon worship, and not see that that is the hand of God, 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:31.040 then you should probably pay a little closer attention to your scripture, 00:26:31.040 --> 00:26:33.040 or maybe perhaps just read it 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:38.560 Now there are those who will try to say that Europeans also 00:26:38.560 --> 00:26:44.000 engaged in child sacrifice, and there was some in Europe, significantly less. 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:48.720 It essentially amounts to a handful of cultures from time to time, 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:53.840 in their history, would leave out infants they deem to be defective 00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:56.640 and let them die by exposure. 00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:57.360 Which is 00:26:59.840 --> 00:27:01.680 It's child sacrifice. 00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:05.920 It is slightly different in nature because it is purely practical, which 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:11.440 doesn't make it much less evil, but it is not as heinous 00:27:11.520 --> 00:27:16.080 as deliberately worshipping demons by burning your children to death, or otherwise 00:27:16.080 --> 00:27:17.760 destroying them. 00:27:17.760 --> 00:27:20.320 Not excusing it in any way, it's still evil it should be 00:27:20.320 --> 00:27:24.560 stamped out, and it is good that Christianity did so. 00:27:27.520 --> 00:27:32.480 But to move on and address a tangentially related issue about what 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:37.840 is abortion, many when they discuss abortion will say that well it 00:27:37.840 --> 00:27:40.080 violates the right to life. 00:27:40.080 --> 00:27:43.520 And yes, I used that language in my article on it in 00:27:43.520 --> 00:27:47.600 order to reach people who are in that mindset because I want 00:27:47.600 --> 00:27:49.840 them to actually understand what I'm saying. 00:27:49.840 --> 00:27:52.880 But ultimately rights do not exist. 00:27:52.960 --> 00:28:00.080 To be clearer, more specifically, rights do not have independent existence. 00:28:00.080 --> 00:28:01.680 So what is a right? 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:06.160 Well a right is merely the shadow of a duty. 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:11.120 And so what we actually mean when we oppose abortion, if we're 00:28:11.120 --> 00:28:15.280 saying right to life, what we're talking about ultimately, the the actual 00:28:15.280 --> 00:28:19.680 reality is that is that there is a duty not to murder, 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:23.040 and that duty is incumbent on everyone. 00:28:23.040 --> 00:28:26.800 And so the so called right to life is a shadow of 00:28:26.800 --> 00:28:29.040 the duty not to murder. 00:28:29.040 --> 00:28:33.120 So the right to life exists, just not independently. 00:28:33.120 --> 00:28:37.120 It's a philosophical point, but it is an important point, because there 00:28:37.120 --> 00:28:42.880 is a world of difference between a duty and a right. 00:28:43.120 --> 00:28:45.760 So, what do we do? 00:28:45.760 --> 00:28:50.080 What do we do about abortion here and now, today? 00:28:50.080 --> 00:28:54.640 What should we be doing with regard to this issue? 00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:57.280 Well, first off, simply take a stand. 00:28:57.600 --> 00:28:59.520 Take the hard stand. 00:28:59.520 --> 00:29:05.200 Abortion is murder, and those who procure abortions are no less murderers 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:08.320 than those who perform them. 00:29:08.320 --> 00:29:14.720 Which is to say, women who obtain abortions are murderesses. 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:16.640 So do not compromise. 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:21.280 Exceptions for incest, rape, and the life of the mother 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:23.840 are false. 00:29:23.840 --> 00:29:26.880 These only weaken our position. 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:31.040 When two lives are endangered to address the life of the mother, 00:29:31.040 --> 00:29:36.400 exception, the moral choice is to attempt to preserve both, unless there 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:39.200 is a higher moral duty to one. 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:42.800 So in the case of a woman and her child, even if 00:29:42.800 --> 00:29:45.840 the life of the woman is given some sort of preference, then 00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:48.720 it should still be the goal to save both. 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.720 Termination of the child should not be an option. 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:57.600 You do not get to murder one individual to save another. 00:29:57.600 --> 00:30:00.240 Yes, you can expend more effort 00:30:01.360 --> 00:30:06.480 toward saving the woman than saving the child but you cannot kill 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:10.400 the child in order to save the woman. 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:12.160 So we must recognize 00:30:13.040 --> 00:30:16.800 what the real solutions are to move on. 00:30:16.800 --> 00:30:21.200 We have to recognize what the real solutions are to these problems, 00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:24.560 to the problem of abortion. 00:30:24.560 --> 00:30:26.640 The solution isn't marches 00:30:27.520 --> 00:30:30.720 The solution isn't rallies. 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:32.640 The solution isn't pickets. 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:34.640 The solution isn't holding up signs. 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:37.840 I'm not saying these things do not work, do not have an 00:30:37.840 --> 00:30:42.640 effect, I'm not saying we should not engage in them. 00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.840 I am saying they do not solve the problem. 00:30:45.840 --> 00:30:52.560 I am saying they do not actually address and resolve the issue. 00:30:52.560 --> 00:30:52.880 And 00:30:53.760 --> 00:30:57.600 let me permit me to quote Bismarck. 00:30:57.600 --> 00:31:03.840 Nicht durch Reden oder Majoritzbeschlusse werden die Grossen Fragen der Zeit entschieden 00:31:05.040 --> 00:31:09.200 Zondan durch Eisen und Blut. 00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:14.320 To translate, not through speeches or majority 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:22.000 votes will the great questions of our time be decided rather through 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.000 iron and blood? 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:32.640 Ultimately power is the answer, and we must obtain it and then 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:36.240 use it. 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:41.680 The ultimate solution to this problem, and so many others, is power, 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:46.160 and the reason it's power is because those who wield the power 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:48.160 make the rules. 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:53.040 And so if you are just out picketing or marching or doing 00:31:53.040 --> 00:31:56.080 anything like that, if that's all you're doing, 00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:01.200 then you are just losing slowly, or not so slowly in some 00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:05.200 cases. You have to have power. 00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:11.360 What actually changed the law on abortion in this country Well, having 00:32:11.360 --> 00:32:17.440 control of the executive, and thereby getting at least some control of 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:23.200 the court, and thereby changing the law, power, is what actually changed 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:29.520 things. Now I recognize that of course, not everyone is going to 00:32:29.520 --> 00:32:33.600 run for president and appoint Supreme Court justices, not everyone is going 00:32:33.600 --> 00:32:36.960 to be a Supreme Court Justice etc. 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.520 I'm not saying you have to do that. 00:32:39.520 --> 00:32:41.280 Support the right people. 00:32:41.280 --> 00:32:43.520 Listen to the right people. 00:32:43.520 --> 00:32:48.160 But here is what you can do in your daily life. 00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:51.040 Other than of course, the first two points. 00:32:51.040 --> 00:32:54.240 Take the hard stand and do not compromise. 00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:56.400 And of course you can take the third one as well, which 00:32:56.400 --> 00:33:00.160 is to recognize what the real solutions are, recognizing them and being 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:03.440 intimately, directly involved in them, two different things. 00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:07.040 So do the first three things, and here's a fourth. 00:33:07.040 --> 00:33:09.760 Hold your pastor accountable. 00:33:09.760 --> 00:33:11.840 Talk to your pastor about the issue. 00:33:11.840 --> 00:33:13.600 See where he stands on abortion. 00:33:13.600 --> 00:33:17.120 See if he has any misconceptions about it. 00:33:17.120 --> 00:33:20.000 Teach him about the issue, if necessary. 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.640 Of course that implies that you need to learn about the issue 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:28.000 first. If you don't learn about the issue, you cannot teach him. 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:32.480 If you find yourself unfit for the task of teaching him, then 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:35.520 direct him to those who are fit for the task. 00:33:35.520 --> 00:33:39.360 There's there are plenty of resources out there. 00:33:40.080 --> 00:33:47.040 And now vitally important, one more point under holding your pastor accountable, 00:33:47.040 --> 00:33:50.080 get him to preach about the issue. 00:33:52.320 --> 00:33:58.560 It is vitally important that pastor that pastors preach about relevant issues. 00:33:58.560 --> 00:34:00.960 I am not saying, of course, that they have to do that 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:01.520 all the time. 00:34:01.520 --> 00:34:05.200 I attend a liturgical church, we follow the cycle of readings. 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:09.760 Typically the sermon is on the gospel reading, sometimes might be the 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:13.360 epistle or even the Old Testament reading, but we follow a cycle 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:14.080 of readings. 00:34:14.080 --> 00:34:18.240 That does not mean there is no room for preaching on these 00:34:18.240 --> 00:34:23.520 issues. The issues come up in the readings. 00:34:23.520 --> 00:34:27.600 Address them when they come up, or if necessary, take a Sunday 00:34:27.600 --> 00:34:28.880 to address them. 00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:32.080 This is a vitally important issue. 00:34:32.080 --> 00:34:38.320 God destroyed nations throughout history for their evil, and one of the 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:45.040 main issues has always been child sacrifice, because ultimately the demons want 00:34:45.040 --> 00:34:47.200 us to destroy ourselves. 00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:52.560 And there are few better ways to do that than destroying, literally, 00:34:52.560 --> 00:34:55.440 destroying the next generation. 00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:59.360 And so that is why this keeps recurring, and so your pastor 00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:03.760 should address this issue, so get him to preach about the issue. 00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:06.560 We have Advent coming up shortly. 00:35:06.560 --> 00:35:09.520 We're looking forward to the birth of the Christ child. 00:35:09.520 --> 00:35:15.600 There will be opportunity to bring up this issue in a sermon, 00:35:15.600 --> 00:35:19.440 to address this issue in a Bible study. 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:26.800 It is incumbent on every pastor to address this issue. 00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:32.400 And so in conclusion, two points. 00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:39.360 We have to stop making weak claims. 00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:44.880 There's always the temption the temptation to make exceptions, to say that 00:35:45.040 --> 00:35:45.840 oh well 00:35:47.040 --> 00:35:51.920 these women were deceived, and so they didn't really commit murder, they're 00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:57.360 not murderesses, and yes, there are some women who were deceived, particularly 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:01.840 very young women, who are forced into abortions, and we do have 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:03.120 to recognize 00:36:04.080 --> 00:36:07.200 that It's still murder. 00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:13.520 There may be necessity of changing the punishment in these cases because 00:36:14.160 --> 00:36:19.520 those who actually meet the requirements of murder, those who fulfil the 00:36:19.520 --> 00:36:25.360 elements, would be the abortion so called doctor, those who pushed for 00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:28.000 the abortion, those who legalized abortion, etc 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:33.520 Many others, but there may be some women who are victims. 00:36:33.520 --> 00:36:35.280 But not all. 00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:39.680 There are many women who go out and procure for themselves abortions 00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:44.880 knowing full well what they are doing, knowing exactly what it is. 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:48.640 There are those on social media who will say that abortion is 00:36:48.640 --> 00:36:50.800 part of their religion. 00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:53.440 So stop making weak claims. 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:54.640 Don't make excuses. 00:36:55.600 --> 00:36:58.400 Don't try to make these exceptions. 00:36:58.400 --> 00:36:59.680 State what it is. 00:36:59.680 --> 00:37:01.200 Murder is abortion. 00:37:01.200 --> 00:37:01.840 Those 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:07.280 abortion is murder, rather, those who commit abortion. 00:37:07.600 --> 00:37:12.320 Are murderers, and murderers deserve death. 00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:18.640 So point two, be unashamed of scripture and the moral position. 00:37:18.640 --> 00:37:24.000 Don't balk from stating what scripture says about these things? 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:26.800 Memorize Genesis 9:6. 00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:33.120 Know what God says about those who commit child sacrifice. 00:37:33.120 --> 00:37:37.040 Do not be ashamed to stand on the truth of Scripture, what 00:37:37.040 --> 00:37:40.320 Scripture is and what Scripture says. 00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:45.120 Take your stand on God's word. 00:37:45.120 --> 00:37:48.560 So those are my two points in conclusion.