I did not alter the article heading from The Nation. If unfamiliar, The Nation is one of the most far left in political ideology magazines that are published in America. The Nation is rife with darkness and dead in heart and mind souls.

That said, I find it incredible, especially among those professing to be Christians, thus people who ought to be fluent and literate in the Word of God who place emphasis on American politics, and vainly, foolishly imagine that morality can be legislated. Rather than easily, clearly understand no law has ever been handed down that keeps people from being grossly, intently immoral.

This ought to have been learned from the handing down of The Ten Commandments from God. To every law that has within its words woven the threads of attempting to weave a fabric of societal morality.

How naive to think that the U.S. Supreme Court in any of their opinions can stop the rampage of evil in the escalating spiritual war that is the greatest story taking place in America. Not any political story, not any train derailment, not any vain and ridiculous men with a Titanic obsession imploding in the ocean — it is the spiritual war, that ongoing and always escalating war taking place within and around every person, without exception that is the greatest story being untold. Not written about. Not addressed.

Roe v Wade and making the murder of human children the law has been one of the gravest moments in American history, and attempting to allow or ban the premeditated murder of human children.

Evil is never going to run up the white flag and surrender. Roll over and die. Until the Lord Jesus Christ returns a Second and Final time and relegates the Evil One and all those who have been blinded by him and serving him to the eternal pit of hell. In reality, the Evil One, the father of lies, is growing in fervor and intensity in the knowledge his days are numbers in order to draw and keep as many people as possible in darkness, spiritually dead, turned from God, turned from Jesus, turned from the Holy Spirit, and turned from the truth, light, and life contained within the Holy Bible.

The blind and devoted followers of Satan, of evil contend their rights trump reality, the truth, God, and what any person might think or say. It is their belief, which they fight to maintain tooth and nail that they can murder the human child growing inside of them at their whim and will. And no one ought to say differently. They do this spewing continual lies and delusion that what is inside of them is not human, is nothing more than a clump of cells, and isn’t even living!

Could you honestly think that a person as selfish, ignorant, lazy, irresponsible, and immoral as to get impregnated and conceive a human being in their womb could come to any other conclusion? Since all they have learned and know is at the feet of Satan and the world? Living in perpetual darkness.

There is nothing dead within any person, any woman except their spirits, their souls, their hearts, and minds that are given over to the world, to evil, to the darkness. If there were any dead cells, any dead tissue, any dead part within any human being that deadness within them would lead to rot, decay, and death. The only rot and decay within any person appearing alive are and only could be their spirits, their soul. Which is directly tied to their relationship with God, with Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, and with the Holy Bible.

Even the dung in their lower intestines is living [containing on average more than 3,300,000 living microbes and bacteria]. While the dung that comes from their mouths reveals the dead spirits, the dead souls, and the lifelessness within their cold dark hearts and minds.

Now let’s look at those such as Mr. James Bopp and organizations such as National Right to Life. Now totally surprised that a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade the premeditated murdering of human children in America has only declined by an estimated 25,000.

I recall there was so much celebration, so much rejoicing, so much patting on each other’s backs and praising each other for the fight they had maintained for so many years and the success of defeating Roe v. Wade.

Deluded folks. Tragically, so many deluded folks. Oh, with the best of intentions. But what road is it that is paved with good intentions? Please remind me.

My point?

It takes more, much more, exceedingly more in this escalating spiritual war than going to Washington, D.C., then standing outside with a sign, than composing banners and slogans, than forming organizations, then putting measures on ballots and election outcomes, it takes more than what any court can say to stem the tsunami of evil that has covered the land. And deluded the people. Supposedly good people [though the Word of God lets us know there is no such a thing as a good person] doing the Lord’s work who focus all their attention and energy into the worldly political arena rather than putting that same focus and energy into God, into Christ, into the Holy Spirit, and into God’s hands.

Vainly, foolishly imagining they somehow can bring about legislative morality and the kingdom of God on earth.

Once the door has been thrust open permitting any and every evil to enter there is no sweeping it away and out.

And to imagine the passing of a law, putting something on the ballot, winning an election, and a Supreme Court opinion coming down can somehow restore a dying and evil infected nation is foolishness. And living in denial of the Soverienty of God, that God is in control. And that those who profess to be His ought to turn to Him rather than this world.

Why, oh why foolish and vain man and woman do you imagine morality, evil can be legislated and rid of through the creating or passing of a human law when everyone rebels against, refuses to heed, and obey the Law from God!?

On one hand, the efforts of Mr. Bopp and organizations such as National Right to Life are to be commended. But as evidenced — all that time, all that effort, all that money, all that hope placed amiss that all that work would lead to some incredible change within America has not and will not come to fruition. Which ought to lead some, hopefully many, to wake up. Realize what is most important. And rather than placing faith and effort in men and women, in human government, in human laws and courts, and in human hearts and minds to do that which is right we all ought to place those same efforts, that degree of hope and faith in God rather than anything doing with any man, any woman, any group, any government, any nation.

For all things here will fade away. Be rolled up and forever forgotten.

But the things of God are eternal.

Those who serve Satan and insist on remaining enslaved to him rebelling against God, against Jesus, against the Holy Spirit, against the Word of God and reality, truth, what is to come for what they choose to believe, the choices they freely made will receive their just judgment.

Let us grow in spiritual wisdom, discernment, and knowledge, in spiritual maturity growing closer to God. Being a light unto the world and the salt of the earth. And that has nothing, nothing at all to do with politics, America, political ideologies, human courts, human laws, and the vain pursuit of thinking any morality can be legislated and the people will somehow come around and obey.

If no one can obey God what makes you think or believe in their selfish, dark, serving Satan heart they will someone cease and desist and obey a law handed down by man?

To the contrary, as witnessed over the past year, all that has been accomplished is evil intensifying becoming more arrogant, emboldened, indignant and loud. Determined to increase and scream loud enough to drown out any truth.

Yes, according to statistics, which can be accurate or inaccurate — there were 25,000 fewer premeditated murders of human children in America in the past year.

And that is a great blessing. Twenty-five thousand who are hopefully now alive and growing and some in that number will come to know and follow Christ in their lifetime.

But many within the anti-abortion movement are as deluded as those committing premeditated murder in thinking the Supreme Court, any law, or any actor of human government will quell the advancement and growth of evil in this land.

Only our renewed, vigilant, daily, faithful turning to God and quell the advancement of evil. Not advancing on Washington, D.C., or the statehouse, or the polling station where you reside.

What resides in one’s spirit, one’s heart, one’s soul and is truly exhibited in their daily life is what can bring about lasting real change. And that is all spiritual in nature. Nothing whatsoever to do with politics, political ideologies, America, or any law written.

Except for the Law of God written in a heart and heard and obeyed.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

John 3:36

Evil rejoices in its victories. The people of God should not exalt and celebrate what are considered earthly, political victories, but victory over sin and evil in their personal life and in spreading the gospel which is Jesus. Christ alone, Christ crucified, Christ risen and ascended, Christ the only way to Life and heaven.

And the opinion passed down a year ago by the U.S. Supreme Court amounted to much ado about not very much. Because evil will never surrender or fade until The Day of the Lord.

What to do if not remain so politically and earthly bound? Why not get ahold of the Word of God and spend some time, a lot of time, a lot of quiet, focused, studied, meditative enduring time, prayerful, faithful time in the Word of God and let’s find out, shall we?

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Wednesday, June 28th, 2023

The Anti-Abortion Movement Gets a Dose of Post-“Roe” Reality

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

By Amy Littlefield

Reprinted from The Nation

Almost a year to the day after the Supreme Court ended the legal right to abortion, one of the main architects of the strategy behind the decision stepped to a podium in a Pittsburgh airport hotel. James Bopp had worked to defeat of Roe v. Wade since 1978, when he became general counsel for the nation’s largest anti-abortion group, the National Right to Life Committee. Nearly half a century later, he still serves in this role. As he worked to win over politicians to the cause, Bopp had recognized the significance of weakening campaign finance rules, which led to another major conservative Supreme Court victory, Citizens United.

Now, Bopp, dressed in a salmon-pink polo shirt and blazer, was about to admit that his life’s work wasn’t panning out exactly the way he had planned.

The Supreme Court’s decision to reverse Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization had been a “a monumental event that required enormous effort,” Bopp said during his panel at this year’s annual National Right to Life Convention. Still, the results had been disappointing. “We have 20-some states who have substantive, significant restrictions on abortion,” Bopp said. “We would have expected, like, 300,000 fewer abortions.”

But, thanks in large part to the herculean efforts of abortion funds and providers, the bans are not having the effect Bopp expected.

In fact, a survey by the Society for Family Planning found that in the nine months after Dobbs, the number of abortions provided by clinicians had dropped by just 25,000 compared to the nine months before. Bopp paused, letting the audience absorb the number in stunned silence. Somewhere, in the beige-paneled room, someone let out a whistle.

A year after the Dobbs decision, the anti-abortion movement is contending with two unexpected results. The first was neatly expressed by the banner headline in a newspaper that abortion rights groups We Testify and INeedanA.com printed to mark the Dobbs anniversary: “We are Still Having Abortions All Across the Country.” Not only did the Society for Family Planning’s survey of reported abortions find less of a decrease than many expected; it doesn’t account for the untold number of people who are accessing abortion medications through overseas or peer-to-peer suppliers, even in states where it is banned. Meanwhile, other states and localities are taking historic steps to ease abortion access. On the day Bopp spoke, New York’s governor signed a law to protect abortion providers in the state who are openly planning to provide telemedicine abortions in states where it is banned.

The second debacle is that these bans have come at a profound political cost for the anti-abortion movement. Since Dobbs, abortion rights supporters have won all six abortion-related ballot measures, stifled the “red wave” in the 2022 midterms, and cinched a key Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. In the convention’s host state, Pennsylvania, outrage over Dobbs helped Democrats flip the state House, elect a Democratic governor, and send Democrat John Fetterman to the US Senate. Sitting in his booth in the convention hallway, Christopher Pushaw, executive director of Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, told me he wasn’t sure Dobbs had been worth the price.

“I don’t think as a country we were ready for this,” Pushaw said. “To me it’s an imperfect, somewhat of a Pyrrhic victory.”

The victory was more complete for activists in the 14 states like Louisiana, Oklahoma, and South Dakota that have banned abortion since Dobbs.

But Bopp wanted activists in most of those states to reopen their laws and modify them to make them more popular—and more enforceable. For one thing, Bopp and the rest of NRLC were coming to terms with the fact that very few people support their position that rape and incest victims should be forced to carry pregnancies to term. (All but four of the current total abortion bans make no exception for rape or incest.)

“Even after 50 years of education, just 10 percent of the public believes abortion should only be allowed in order to save the life of the mother,” Karen Cross, political director for NRLC said in a panel earlier that day. “We have not moved the needle on rape and incest in 50 years.”

It’s not that Bopp wanted rape and incest victims to be able to have abortions—not at all. But he had a larger agenda. He wanted states to implement radical steps to make enforcement of their bans more effective—and he thought rape and incest exceptions would sweeten the deal for reluctant state lawmakers. To make the bans work, Bopp told attendees, they would have to revoke enforcement authority from local prosecutors, many of whom have declined to enforce abortion bans, and give it to state attorneys general. They would need to allow citizens to enforce abortion bans with civil lawsuits, apply RICO laws used to take down the mob to abortion providers, and weaponize anti-trafficking laws to make it harder to leave the state—as Idaho has done, on Bopp’s advice.

These measures might face “enormous opposition,” Bopp acknowledged. So rape and incest exceptions would form the sugar coating on the poison pill. Of course, these exceptions are meaningless in states where abortion clinics have closed. But to NRLC, that doesn’t matter. They’re part of a new marketing strategy that is aimed at winning over the 61 percent of Americans who think Dobbs was a “bad thing.” The strategy includes ditching what Bopp called “the big ban word.” In polls, the word “ban” seemed to make policies that ban abortion at various stages of pregnancy less popular.

“We want to talk about ‘protections’ and not ‘bans,’” Cross advised.

Also out of favor is the term “crisis pregnancy center” to describe the nation’s thousands of anti-abortion organizations that often masquerade as clinics to deter people from seeking abortions. One attendee pointed out that if you Google the NRLC-preferred term “pregnancy resource center” the search results are less likely to mention these deceptive practices than if you use the term “crisis pregnancy center.”

Less discussed at the panels I attended was a more serious PR problem—the near-constant stream of horrific stories about women suffering miscarriages who are being forced to the brink of death because abortion bans have made doctors afraid to treat them until they become severely ill. No one seemed to have a workable strategy to address the risk that abortion bans might be killing women. “I think over time, that’s going to be worked out through the judicial process, and through the legislative process,” NRLC’s executive director Scott Fischbach told me when I asked. “But our position has always been one of compassion and understanding.”

Fischbach, who is married to Minnesota Representative Michelle Fischbach, became executive director of NRLC in January after more than 20 years as head of the Minnesota affiliate. In the wake of Dobbs, his home state had just elected a Democratic trifecta for the first time in eight years. Those lawmakers would go on to repeal all the state’s abortion restrictions, erasing much of Fischbach’s work. In his new role, Fischbach let go of eight national staff members in a restructuring he said would allow the group to focus on state work, including fighting pro-abortion ballot initiatives. That will be a challenge with a record high 69 percent of Americans saying abortion should be legal in the first three months of pregnancy.

But if other factions of the anti-abortion movement prevail, public opinion won’t matter.

On Saturday, the first anniversary of the Dobbs decision, Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, stood in the hot sun, preparing to take to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Hawkins seemed optimistic. The day before, she had had an encouraging private meeting with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a GOP presidential contender. She said her group would be calling for Republican presidential candidates to commit to signing a six-week abortion ban like the one DeSantis signed in Florida. Today, another Republican contender, former vice president Mike Pence, would take the stage alongside a coalition of anti-abortion leaders from influential groups including Susan B. Anthony List. The rally’s message represented a more direct path to the end goal than NRLC’s—granting 14th Amendment protections to embryos.

“Let me speak with one clear message: We demand equal protection for pre-born children,” Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action, declared to a chorus of cheers. “California, New York, states across our country are violating our 14th Amendment by preying upon our most vulnerable pre-born brothers and sisters.”

For decades, anti-abortion leaders have coopted the language of civil rights to claim that the 14th Amendment, enacted in 1868 to grant legal personhood to the formerly enslaved, should apply to fertilized eggs. The appeal of this strategy, beyond the fact that it could take out all abortion and possibly even birth control, is that it wouldn’t require approval from Congress or public support.

“If the courts had the courage to recognize the unborn as a person under the 14th Amendment, that would prevail,” former Arizona Representative Trent Franks told me, standing in the crowd at the rally. Franks had championed a national 20-week abortion ban before he was forced to resign from Congress in 2017 for pressuring his aides to bear his children. He stood chatting with former Arkansas state senator Jason Rapert, who had introduced the first-ever six-week abortion in 2013. Back then, the idea of six-week ban was considered fringe, even within the anti-abortion movement. With such bans now signed into law in several states, including Georgia, Rapert was feeling vindicated. He has gone on to form the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, an alliance of state legislators that he said will push for fetal personhood under the 14th Amendment at the state level. Standing nearby was anti-abortion strategist Josh Craddock, who has called for the next Republican president to instruct federal agencies to behave as if the 14th Amendment already applies to embryos. It was all starting to feel like the kind of multifront strategy that could eventually persuade the Supreme Court to take up the issue of fetal personhood, although experts think that’s unlikely to happen soon.

Still, Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California who has studied the history of the anti-abortion movement, noted that they have proven themselves at winning the long game. “If [the] people in the [anti-abortion] movement [are] saying it took us 50 years to get rid of Roe and we’re willing spend the next 50 on personhood, then you can never say never,” Ziegler, who watched the livestream of the rally from home, told me.

There was a sense that the fringe of the anti-abortion movement has now taken center stage, even though their ideas are deeply unpopular. As tourists milled around taking pictures of the memorial, and Pence pumped supporters’ hands backstage, a passerby called out: “You’re killing women! Congratulations!”

At the edge of the crowd stood a man who is part of the anti-abortion movement’s newly emboldened fringe. His billboard-sized banner read: you can’t end abortion if moms can still get away with murder. Most anti-abortion groups are “not really into the woman going to jail,” Philip Miedzinski, the man holding the banner, acknowledged. But there are moments when Miedzinski gets the sense that people agree with him more than they let on. Sometimes, when no one is looking, they flash him a thumbs-up.