What Our Leader Should Do

Posted on November 7, 2008
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If President-elect Obama truly believed in the value of children he would use his gift of public speaking to truly champion children. He’d speak clearly that an unborn baby is an honest-to-goodness human life. He wouldn’t be political or partisan or unresolved about it. He’d be brilliantly clear. He’d say that abortion is murder. He’d use that word and he’d say it with the greatest of outrage and passion and intensity and fervor.

He would be adamant that unborn children deserve to live and to thrive in our great country, just like he has! He would confront the selfish reasons for abortions. Head on, he’d confront the excuses and the rationalizations. He would not pull a single punch. He’d make it painfully clear that such selfishness is wrong. And he’d plead for moms to protect their unborn children, as they were protected by their own mother.

He would present the case that every American deserves liberty and freedom. And that nobody in America has the right to remove those freedoms and liberties out of self-serving reasons.

He would speak with a heavy and agonizing heart about the rare circumstances where an abortion does happen in the case of incest or rape or the health of the mother, but he would painfully add that those babies never, ever deserved to be killed. He would speak of the horribly conflicted emotions and ethics in such cases.

He would speak to the moms who in their past made decisions to abort children, but whom have had second and third thoughts about it. He would acknowledge their deep grief, their heavy guilt, their unresolved regret. He would speak passionately about forgiveness from Jesus Christ and from our compassionate country.

After those statements, he would present a spirited and convincing and logical case to remove abortion from political ideology and into the hearts of men and women, boys and girls, parents and teachers, and pastors and doctors.

He would articulate that the human heart is teachable and changeable, but it is also often blind and hardened and prideful. He would ask hard rhetorical questions about the real reasons our hearts open both the national and personal door for abortion. And he’d ask even harder questions about what each of our consciences says about a country that so often kills unprotected, innocent, helpless babies.

He would not let the conscience issue rest. He’d hit it from every angle, wanting to stir our hearts, to cry out, to mourn at the very thought of any child in such a great country being slaughtered without outrage, without protest, and without national tears.

He’d hold up a baby. He’d say, “THIS IS LIFE! LET IT BE BORN! LET IT LIVE!” And in his giftedness he’d move our hearts to be a country, a people, that truly champion children alongside him.

He’d end such a speech on a very personal note. Not about him, though, but about each of us. We’d know exactly where he stood, but he, as the leader of our great nation, would not rest until he fought to reach each of our hearts directly. He’d plead. He’d encourage. He’d convict. He’d inspire. And with those great gifts of his, we’d hopefully be profoundly moved.

But he wouldn’t be done. No, far, far from it. He’d often speak about it, and write about it. He’d repeatedly call for a cultural and national revolution. He’d directly link it to the Civil War, and slavery, and emancipation. And to Martin Luther Kind, Jr., and civil rights for all. He’d be the Commander in Chief in a national war to stop the murder of innocent, helpless, beautiful babies.

What Our Leader Should Do

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