Answering Joe Burrow's Post On Abortion And Roe v. Wade

This is my brief response to a pro-abortion post the Cincinnati Bengal's (and former LSU) quarterback, Joe Burrow, made about the overturning of Roe v. Wade and caring for women. I have included the text of his post and put my answers to the post in brackets, indented below:

Joe Burrow: I'm not pro-murdering babies.

[Yes, actually you are. But you, the world, and the devil have deceived you into thinking that you are not.]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Becky who found out at her 20 week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs.

[This is a very sad situation. We should pray for Becky and grieve with her and get her all the medical and counseling help we can. If her baby is already dead in the womb, that is called a miscarriage. It is not an abortion. Overturning Roe v. Wade does not address her very sad situation. Overturning Roe v. Wade has to do with parents, doctors, and politicians who want the right to murder living children in the womb].

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Susan who was sexually assaulted on her way home from work, only to come to the horrific realization that her assailant planted his seed in her when she got a positive pregnancy test result a month later.

[This is another very sad situation. We should pray for Susan, grieve with her, and get her all the medical and counseling help we can. We should seek to bring her rapist to justice and punish him to the fullest extent of the law. But we should not punish the innocent child that God is knitting together in her womb (Psalm 139). It is never good, right, or just to punish an innocent person for the crimes of another. The child in Susan’s womb is a human being, made in God’s image (Genesis 1:26-27). This baby should be protected. Putting the baby up for adoption is an option if she is unable to keep this baby conceived by rape.

One of the reasons rape is so evil is because the rapist is forcing his will on a woman against her will. This is exactly what abortion is: parents and doctors forcing their will to murder on the baby who desires to live. Punish the rapist, not the innocent child. This is the best way to be pro-Susan. One option is for Susan to give her baby up for adoption. It should also be noted that abortion due to rape is less than 0.5% of all abortions. In other words, it very rarely happens, but it is often the first reason brought up against the pro-life position. 80% of abortions are due to sexual immorality between two consenting adults. (https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/)]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Theresa who hemorrhaged due to a placental abruption, causing her parents, spouse, and children to have to make the impossible decision on whether to save her or her unborn child.

[If the life of the mother is in danger, then hard decisions do have to be made. Yes, care for Theresa and her unborn baby as best as possible. (These situations rarely happen!) Do everything you can to save both of their lives. Again, it must be noted that these cases are very rare, and some mothers may choose to give up their lives in order to save their children. Noble mothers do this all the time: (https://abort73.com/end_abortion/is_abortion_ever_justified/)]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-little Cathy who had her innocence ripped away from her by someone she should have been able to trust and her 11 year old body isn't mature enough to bear the consequence of that betrayal.

[This is another very sad situation. We should pray for Cathy, grieve with her, and get her all the medical and counseling help we can. We should seek to bring her child molesting rapist to justice and punish him to the fullest extent of the law. But we should not punish the innocent child that God is knitting together in her womb (Psalm 139). It is never good, right, or just to punish an innocent person for the crimes of another. The child in Cathy’s womb is a human being, made in God’s image (Genesis 1:26-27). This baby should be protected. Putting the baby up for adoption is an option if she is unable to keep and raise this baby conceived by this horrific assault.

One of the reasons rape is so evil is because the rapist is forcing his will on a woman against her will. This is exactly what abortion is: parents and doctors forcing their will to murder on the baby who desires to live. Punish the rapist, not the innocent child. This is the best way to be pro-Cathy. One option is for Cathy to give her baby up for adoption. It should also be noted that abortion due to rape is less than 0.5% of all abortions. In other words, if very rarely happens, but it is often the first reason brought up against the pro-life position. 80% of abortions are due to sexual immorality between two consenting adults. (https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/)]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Melissa who's working two jobs just to make ends meet and has to choose between bringing another child into poverty or feeding the children she already has because her spouse walked out on her.

[Poverty never justifies the murder of an innocent child. Adoption is the better option.]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Brittany who realizes that she is in no way financially, emotionally, or physically able to raise a child.

[Poverty and emotional and physical limitations never justify the murder on an innocent child. Adoption is the better option.]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Emily who went through IVF, ending up with SIX viable implanted eggs requiring selective reduction in order to ensure the safety of her and a SAFE amount of fetuses.

[I would not condone IVF as a method for having children: (See: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/evangelicalisms-silence-ivf/) What should Emily do now? I agree with Matthew Lee Anderson and Andrew T. Walker who write:

 

First, we’d urge them to see this embryo as a person awaiting future development: He or she is owed love, care, and respect. The embryo is also made in God’s image. Second, if they have no intention to transfer him or her, we’d encourage the couple to consider allowing the embryo to be given to a family through embryo adoption. Third, we’d implore them to never allow this embryo to be destroyed or used for research. Absent these options and considering the toll that would come with possible embryo degeneration, couples might consider allowing the person they created to go into the hand of God and engage in the penitent lament that marks grief at our complicity in human death.

And if a couple is infertile and considering IVF? We’d advise them to alert their pastor and community so they do not walk through infertility alone. We’d urge them to avoid IVF, but to pursue every therapeutic medical treatment that might make natural conception more probable. Most importantly, we’d exhort them to explore how their life together might bear witness to God’s kingdom by forging non-biological, parental bonds. In doing so they bear witness to a hope fundamentally fulfilled not through the birth of children, but through the advent of our Lord.

We believe, and have tried to argue, that the good news for infertile couples means saying “no” to means of generating life that are contrary to the integrity of God’s good creation. We tear apart what God has joined together only at grave peril to ourselves: By dividing sex from procreation, we reconfigure the form which God has laid down for us to understand the nature of his agency in bringing new life into the world. If a people who emphasize the gospel cannot say no to that division, we are a people unworthy of our name.]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Christina who doesn't want to be a mother, but birth control methods sometimes fail.

[Not wanting to be a mother does not give you the right to murder your own child. Adoption is the better option.]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Jessica who is FINALLY getting the strength to get away from her physically abusive spouse only to find out that she is carrying the monster's child.

[Spousal abuse is a great evil and should not be tolerated. Jessica’s abusive spouse should be reported to the police and brought to justice. Jessica should find refuge in a safe place, and we should help her do this. But murdering her child is not an option. The child is innocent. By having an abortion, you are committing the very evil that Jessica’s abusive spouse committed. You are abusing an innocent life – the child. You are murdering the child. Again, adoption is the better option.]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Vanessa who went into her confirmation appointment after YEARS of trying to conceive only to hear silence where there should be a heartbeat.

[Miscarriages are very sad, but they are not abortions.]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Lindsay who lost her virginity in her sophomore year with a broken condom and now has to choose whether to be a teenage mom or just a teenager.

[It’s never right to murder an innocent child. Adoption is the better option. Being pro-Lindsay also means explaining to her the consequences of premarital sex and God’s design for sex to be enjoyed only within the covenant of marriage. Sexual immorality accounts for 80% of abortions. If sexual immorality stopped, most abortions would stop.]

Joe Burrow: I'm pro-Courtney who just found out she's already 13 weeks along, but the egg never made it out of her fallopian tube so either she terminates the pregnancy or risks dying from internal bleeding.

[This is an ectopic pregnancy, and a medical procedure to remove the egg is not considered an abortion. This has nothing to do with Roe v. Wade being overturned: (https://aaplog.org/what-is-aaplogs-position-on-treatment-of-ectopic-pregnancy/)]

Joe Burrow: You can argue and say that I'm pro-choice all you want, but the truth is: I'm pro-life. 

[No you are not. You grossly misunderstand what you are talking about, and you are totally denying that the child in the womb of the mother is a human being, made in God’s image.]

Joe Burrow: Their lives. 

[We should care for both the lives of the mothers and the lives of the unborn children.]

Joe Burrow: Women's lives. 

[Yes, and we should care about the lives of the little women developing in the womb as well.]

For more information on abortion, please read: To Be Pro-Choice Is To Be Pro-Murder And Anti-Christ

What Becky, Susan, Theresa, Cathy, Melissa, Brittany, Emily, Christina, Jessica, Vanessa, Lindsay, Courtney, and all men and women desperately need more than anything else is Jesus Christ and His Gospel message: His life, His death for sinners, His burial, and His resurrection from the dead.

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