If You Know Abortion Is Wrong But You’re Not Doing Anything
You are likely here if you believe
- Abortion is the killing of a human being and is sin before God.
- It’s a problem — one you’ve voted against and maybe donated to organizations that fight it.
- You have never been to an abortion clinic, never raised it in your church, never called a legislator.
- Activism is a calling not everyone has. There are many ways to serve the Lord; this one isn’t yours.
- God is sovereign over this. He will abolish abortion in His time.
The question your position cannot answer
“Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, ‘Behold, we did not know this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?” — Proverbs 24:11–12
You cannot take shelter in verse 12. You are not a reader who did not know. You know. The question is not theological — it is pastoral: what have you done?
The church’s silence is not neutral. This corpus is explicit: the movement in the United States does not lack votes; it lacks pastors and congregations willing to say from the pulpit that abortion is murder and to act accordingly. Francis Schaeffer put it plainly: “Every abortion clinic should have a sign in front of it saying, ‘Open by the permission of the Church.’” If that permission is not yours to give, where are the receipts?
Your apathy is not a weakness to outgrow. It is a sin to repent of. The priest and the Levite in the Good Samaritan parable had other callings too. Their passing by was not prudence — it was sin. The corpus names it, Luke 11:42 names it, and Proverbs 24 names it. You have not been too busy. You have been disobedient.
Read in this order
- Stay Steeped in Prayer as You Seek to Abolish Abortion — Prayer first, because action without prayer becomes activism-as-idol; but prayer as the source of action, not its replacement — this piece is explicit that the fight “begins on your knees” and must not stay there.
- Fruits of Abolitionism: Is True Repentance Necessary? — The pivot: apathy is a sin requiring named repentance, not a posture to gradually improve; “I’ve always been an abolitionist, I just didn’t know it” is the exit the corpus refuses to let you take.
- It’s All About the Church — The ecclesiology: the local body of believers — not a specialized caste of activists, not a parachurch lobby — is the ordained instrument, and a church that is silent in the midst of a holocaust ceases to be a real church.
- Abolitionists Must Stand Firm to Oppose Murder, Love Murderers — The posture this reader must adopt: oppose the act without flinching, love the actor without enabling — and understand that love, not severity, is what demands both.
The specific objection the corpus answers
“I’m not a lobbyist or activist — this isn’t my calling.”
Proverbs 24:11 is not addressed to a specialized class of Christians. Scripture does not carve out an “activist” gift that releases the rest of the body from the duty to rescue those being led to slaughter. The corpus treats parachurch specialization as part of the problem — the pro-life movement, the lobbying apparatus, the “leave it to the professionals” mindset — and names the church, the local body of believers, as the ordained instrument. Read It’s All About the Church. Every believer has a sphere of influence. Silence within it is not calling-discernment; it is complicity.
When you’ve read these
If you have read these honestly, you do not need another path. You need to go.
You do not need to become a lobbyist. You need to open your mouth in your church, walk to the killing center in your city, meet with your state representative, and stop pretending that someone else’s obedience discharges yours.
The corpus closes one door before you reach it: do not say “I’ve always been an abolitionist; I just didn’t know it.” That is a language swap, not repentance. Repentance sounds like this: “I have been indifferent and apathetic toward the murder of children, but no more. I will act.”