The CUNY Abortion Game

If you want to see just how bad the depravity of the American people has become, turn your attention to some students at Hunter College in New York City.  Founded in 1870, Hunter College is now the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system.  Located in the heart of Manhattan, its current enrollment runs around 22,000 from all different backgrounds.

 

Recently, some of their sundry students gathered in a cafeteria and began playing a game that they called ‘Abortion Battles.’  Students, mostly male, placed a balloon under their shirt and then would square off against another balloon toting student and try to pop each other’s balloon with a plastic fork.  The game itself seems harmless at first, but when you think about the implications, it’s rather chilling. 

 

Assuming these students are under the age of 40 and thinking, they should have been giving thanks to God for their very lives … because since 1973 (40 years ago) it was perfectly legal to terminate their lives.  They should be asking – Why was I spared being aborted?

 

Now kids have been trying to pop each other’s balloons since I was a kid.  It was just what kids innocently did with no malice.  However, in this case, the college students are mocking and trivializing abortion, and the killing of unborn innocent babies.  Much of this mockery was captured on video.  In one part of the video, you can hear a bystander shout, “Kill the baby, kill it.”  Sadly, more and more Americans believe there is no real difference between popping a balloon and murdering an unborn child; and the actions of these college students clearly demonstrate it.

 

America is becoming desensitized to the horror of abortion.  With all of the violence on television, in movies and video games, they are numb to pain inflicted on a child in the womb … when they have their limbs ripped from their tiny bodies.  Popping the amniotic sac and emptying out its contents to them is no different than popping a balloon and emptying out its contents. 

 

Surely our time of judgment as a nation is coming, and perhaps it’s already here.  God gives nations rulers that they deserve; and since America has murdered nearly 60-million unborn children since the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision of 1973, our current governmental officials could be just what God wants us to have as part of His judgment.  And I’m sure that judgment includes the fall and collapse of America as we knew it; all because we turned away from God and embraced a hedonistic religion that thrives on the blood sacrifices of unborn children.

 

Trusting that God is not finished with the United States, I want to give you three specific things that you can do to end abortion:

I.  Speak Out

Proverbs 31:8-9 says, “Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the unfortunate.  Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.”

The 60-million babies aborted in the United States since 1973 don’t have a voice, but we do.  We need to start talking about it whenever and wherever the subject matters.  That means defending life in the relevant conversations in the coffee shop … as well as to contacting our law makers on capitol hill.  The trends in this nation right now are clearly showing that people are uncomfortable with abortion.  We have an opportunity (right now) to set right millions of wrongs.  But we’ve got to make noise to make it happen.

For years the tact of the liberals and abortionists has been to make the most noise.  It’s time that we talk back.  We may not get a chance to testify before a congressional committee, but each one of you can contact your congressmen.  You should – “Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the unfortunate ...” (Proverbs 31:8)  That is righteousness; that is religion that God sees as undefiled.

Now, you might ask, “What will I say?”  Tell them what you know.  You don’t have to be a neonatal specialist to have a clue here.  Women – I would think that your testimony is stronger in some respects than that of men.  Way back around 200 AD there was a Christian theologian named Tertullian who recognized that as he argued against abortion in his day (it is an ancient evil) he said, “I call on you, mothers, whether you are now pregnant or have already borne children; ... Tell us: Do you feel any stirring of life within you in the fetus?  Does your groin tremble, your sides shake, your whole stomach throb as the burden you carry changes its position?  Are not these moments a source of joy and assurance that the child within you is alive and playful?  Should his restlessness subside, would you not be immediately concerned for him?”

Take what you know to be true and speak out!  The goal must not be merely to limit, but to end the murder of innocents.  We need to speak out, even at the risk of offending people.  We need to win in the court of public opinion, and we need to win on capitol hill, and in the Supreme Court.

But we have to do more than speak out, we’ve got to step up to the plate and take action.

II. Step Up

Proverbs 24:11-12 reads, “Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to death; don’t stand back and let them die.  Don’t try to avoid responsibility by saying you didn’t know about it.  For God knows all hearts, and he sees you.  He keeps watch over your soul, and he knows you knew!  And he will judge all people according to what they have done.”

We have got to do whatever we can to save those innocent lives.  What does that mean you can do?  In addition to equipping yourself to think and argue persuasively on the pro-life issue, we need to begin acting as if we believe that abortion is a serious moral wrong.  We normally act based on what we believe to be true; but too often we’ve decided to become completely passive.

Now many of you might agree with the person who says “I believe abortion is wrong, but I don’t have a right to tell a woman what to do?  Oh really?  Than why do we lock up thousands of people in prison for murder, rape and drugs every year?  Haven’t we made an action based upon what we believe to be right or wrong?  If we really believe abortion is murder (and it is) than we have the mandate to act against it.

How do you do that?  Pray for God’s intervention certainly, but how about being the intervention?  Rescue the perishing by intervening in the process … if we can.

Yet as we step up to the plate to take action, we’ve got to remember that our goal is not to destroy people, but to bring them redemption.  We need to destroy the sin, but we have got to make sure that in the process we don’t destroy the sinner.  Remember the purpose of Christ? – To seek and save the lost?  We, too, have got to reach out with compassion in hopes of redemption.

III. Reach Out

It is sad to say, but it’s easier as a Christian to confess to sins of adultery, fornication, or theft than it is to be a Christian who has had an abortion.  We cannot forget that the procedure has two victims.  The child is gone, but the mother remains … and more often than not, she is daily haunted with a memory she can’t erase.  To that woman, God offers the sacred gift of complete forgiveness.  Abortion has created a multitude of ‘walking wounded’ who silently suffer their guilt and their shame.  And the devil uses the rhetoric to keep them locked in feelings of guilt, even if they’re Christians now.

My friends, the Church cannot afford to be self-righteous.  Psalm 14 reminds us, “...There is no one who does good.  The LORD has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.  They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt;  There is no one who does good, not even one.”

When we talk about an action plan, perhaps this one point needs to be actively put into our lives more loudly than the others; and that is this – An offer of acceptance and forgiveness to any who would dare to seek it.

Are you willing to be like Jesus in this?  He stood before the crowd around Him and offered them redemption.  Matthew 11:28-30 reads, “Then Jesus said, ‘Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you.  Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke fits perfectly, and the burden I give you is light.’ ”

As we reach out to a sin worn world, we need to carry the message that redemption is possible; acceptance is available; and that we are the people willing to offer it in the name of Jesus Christ.

I challenge you to contact your congressmen; to put some feet on what you believe; to speak out for the unborn; to step up to action and reach out to the wounded.

I for one will accept without judgment and with compassion anyone who seeks redemption for anything.  How about you?

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel