For Life for All.

For nearly fifty years now, I’ve been engaged in one way or another in the pro-life movement. From giving talks in London schools & colleges and helping with the start of a crisis pregnancy center to advocating for adoption and laws that recognize all life as sacred, I’ve counted it a joy to stand with so many who have sought to be a voice for a massive and silent segment of our society: the pre-born.

It's now being widely reported that Roe v Wade will shortly be overturned by the Supreme Court.

When I think back on a lifetime of efforts that so many have made to preserve life and assist expecting mothers, work for changes in the law, and argue for high anthropology rooted in Scripture that sees every person as an image-bearer of God, I give thanks for this news.

Recent medical advances have demonstrated the wonder of a child in the womb, and so many parents have loved to and through life, so many little ones who might not otherwise have received the gift of birth. Those children and parents testify!

If the reports prove to be accurate, then the issue will return to the states. Advocacy will not cease and efforts to care for all children will need to be renewed and refreshed. Yes, politics will be made of this, but for the Christian, the issue isn't first political but moral and spiritual.

Care for all, regardless of religion, race, nationality, or anything else is simply rooted in Jesus' command that we love our neighbor; in the case of little ones, Scripture abounds in testimony to God's prioritizing of babes and children, even while in the womb.

No matter what the Western legal tradition may uphold or deny, this will always be our position. We are fearfully and wonderfully made, knit together by his hand in our mother’s wombs, as the Psalmist wrote so long ago. Loving advocacy and care for children must include their life in the womb but cannot stop with birth. That is where it begins; it is never where it ends.

“Your children are holy.” - 1 Corinthians 7