You can negotiate with the left on almost anything.

Tax rates. Climate policy. Immigration numbers. Healthcare premiums. There is always a version of the conversation that sounds like compromise is possible. That sounds like reasonable people can find middle ground.

Then you touch abortion and the room changes entirely.

Suddenly there is no middle ground. No nuance. No room for the other side to have a point. It is the one issue where the tolerance crowd becomes completely intolerant. The conversation-is-everything crowd stops having conversations. The my-body-my-choice crowd refuses to acknowledge that another body is involved.

I have thought about why for a long time.

I think it is because abortion is not really a political position for the left. It is a sacrament. It is the sacred center of an entire worldview built on the idea that personal autonomy is the highest authority. That nothing – not God, not nature, not the life of an unborn child – gets to place a limit on what a person chooses to do with their body.

When you understand it as a religious conviction rather than a policy preference everything else makes sense. The rage when it is challenged. The willingness to march in the streets. The complete inability to even consider the other side.

They are defending their altar.

God knew you before you were born. Before your mother felt you move. Before anyone gave you a name. He called Jeremiah from the womb. He knit David together in secret. The image He placed in that child did not start at birth. It started at conception.

That is not a political opinion. That is Scripture. And it does not negotiate.

 

 

Stephon Rudd

 

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