It appears that, to some degree, Republicans are awakening to the folly of embracing a no-compromise position on the evils of abortion, after the Arizona Supreme Court became the most recent judicial body to raise hackles, proclaiming a decision to resurrect, in this particular case, a Civil War-era statute barring the procedure except in life-threatening situations for the mother.
Even Kari Lake has seen some sort of light, though she now claims to agree with Donald Trump and his convenient stance of leaving it to the state(s) and, as Lake puts it, “her people.”
As hinted at in a previous post, Republicans appear to be trying to put some distance between themselves and the SCOTUS decision that overturned Roe v Wade– itself a ruling which had always been a tough pill to swallow for a lot of Evangelical Christians.
In fairness, principles are seemingly at stake, namely a faithful and obedient embrace of the 5th Commandment, but this has always clouded and unduly influenced what I believe to be the more consequential provisions of Roe v Wade via the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
The trouble, as I see it, boils down to a difficulty in coming to terms with the separation of church and state, with a letting go of the faith-based need to intervene in and control the decision-making process of women who want to retain the right to make informed decisions about their own bodies, their own situations. It’s obviously been very difficult for anti-abortion advocates to let go of this self-righteous attitude and need for control, as if they are somehow the ones gifted with the wisdom of Solomon, the only ones who somehow know what is best.
There is no room for self-determination in such a stance, or an allowance for a just and gracious God. There is, instead, a temptation to play God, or at least to force one’s religious beliefs on people who aren’t heathens and who may not embrace those religious beliefs with the same zeal, or embrace them at all.
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