The revelation this past week that a man named Ariel Castro had kidnapped, sexually assaulted and held captive three women in his Cleveland home for more than a decade has just sickened me. I can hardly listen to or read the reports about this vile man and his vile acts. My heart aches and is crushed for these young women and all they have suffered!
One of my initial thoughts when this story first broke was about children and how there were not more children conceived as a result of this sickening ordeal. Then, it was learned that Castro “terminated the pregnancies of his captives” by starving them and punching them in the stomach until they miscarried. (I am sickened just at the thought!)
But, wait a minute! That’s no big deal! Killing unborn babies is legal in this country! So, what does it matter if this man “terminated the pregnancies of his captives”? That’s the same terminology that abortion clinics use—they are “terminating pregnancies.” So, this man was doing the exact same thing that abortion clinics are doing LEGALLY! So, whatever he did must have been legal, too! Right?
Why, then, could this man face aggravated murder charges for “terminating pregnancies” and potentially face the death penalty? The reason is that HE MURDERED innocent babies! But, isn’t that the very thing an “abortion doctor” does? And he isn’t facing any charges! What’s the difference?
The short answer: when a woman goes to an abortion doctor, she gives her consent to murder the baby in her womb; however, the women in Castro’s home did not give consent for him to murder their unborn babies! The difference is consent!
But, wait one second! So, if someone gives consent to murder another living being, that makes it legal? But, if they do not give consent to murder another living being, that makes it illegal? I have a question: DOES ANYONE EVER GET THE BABY’S CONSENT? Because, the way I figure it, NO BABY in any womb would ever give consent for his life to be terminated!
God condemned the man who would “hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely,” and required that they “take/pay life” (the one outside the womb) “for life” (the one inside the womb) (Ex. 21:22-23). (Notice that God equated “life” in the womb with “life” out of the womb.) Is there any difference, then, in God’s eyes, between a man who jabs his fist in a woman’s stomach to kill a baby and a man who jabs a digoxin-filled syringe into a woman’s stomach to kill a baby? Absolutely none! Both are murder!
For our society to condemn Castro for murdering unborn babies and then to commend abortionists for murdering unborn babies is the height of inconsistency, hypocrisy, idiocy and degeneracy! God help us to defend all unborn souls!