Michael Wear Offers Mur­der­ing the Pre-born as a Solu­tion to Avoid a Dif­fi­cult Polit­i­cal Sea­son

In a recent arti­cle on Sub­stack, Michael Wear out­lines how in a post Roe polit­i­cal cli­mate
pol­i­tics could get messy and dif­fi­cult. So what is his pro­posed solu­tion? I will let him tell you in
his own words:

A sus­tain­able com­pro­mise would include the fol­low­ing ele­ments: a fed­er­al ban on
abor­tion post-via­bil­i­ty with excep­tions for the life of the moth­er, rape and incest (the
ceil­ing); the legal­iza­tion of abor­tion up to a cer­tain ear­ly-stage in a preg­nan­cy
(some­where, per­haps, between eight-fif­teen weeks, depend­ing on the make­up of the
coali­tion to sup­port such a bill; the floor); the cod­i­fi­ca­tion of the Hyde Amend­ment; the
cod­i­fi­ca­tion of robust con­science clause pro­tec­tions; a pro­hi­bi­tion of fed­er­al laws
over­rid­ing state restric­tions on abor­tion as pro­posed by the WHPA; and a man­date that
states ensure rea­son­able access to a safe abor­tion provider.” 1

That’s right he is propos­ing we com­pro­mise by allow­ing babies to be mur­dered some­where
between 8 to 15 weeks and to allow for full excep­tions. Con­sid­er­ing the fact that he worked on Obama’s
cam­paign in 2012, you might be think­ing “this is a pret­ty con­ser­v­a­tive take for such a lib­er­al!” But
Wear has also been involved with The And Cam­paign and has con­tributed arti­cles to The
Gospel Coali­tion.

This is a pret­ty rad­i­cal posi­tion for a sup­posed Chris­t­ian to have per­haps he has missed what
the Bible has to say about the shed­ding of inno­cent blood?

Proverbs 6:16–19 There are six things that the Lord hates, sev­en that are an
abom­i­na­tion to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed inno­cent
blood, a heart that devis­es wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false
wit­ness who breathes out lies, and one who sows dis­cord among broth­ers.

Exo­dus 23:7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the inno­cent and right­eous, for
I will not acquit the wicked.

Exo­dus 20:13 “You shall not mur­der.”

Scrip­ture is clear that chil­dren are alive in their mother’s womb Psalm 139:13 “For You formed
my inward parts; You cov­ered me in my mother’s womb.” And God even knew Jere­mi­ah before
he was in his mother’s womb, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were
born I sanc­ti­fied you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (Jere­mi­ah 1:5).

What Wear is propos­ing here is not a com­pro­mise, it is a con­ced­ing of all Chris­t­ian ethics and
val­ues to a wicked world that wants to rip inno­cent chil­dren limb from limb for the sake of sim­ple
con­ve­nience.

Scrip­ture tells us how we are to over­come evil and it isn’t by com­pro­mis­ing with it. In the face of
evil God gives us this instruc­tion in Romans 12:9 “Let love be with­out hypocrisy. Abhor what is
evil. Cling to what is good.” What Wear is propos­ing is a hyp­o­crit­i­cal love that would allow for
chil­dren to be mur­dered all for the sake of polit­i­cal expe­di­en­cy.

He isn’t abhor­ring what is evil.

He is open­ly try­ing to com­pro­mise with it; and he cer­tain­ly isn’t cling­ing to what is good.

The Christian’s response to the mur­der of the pre-born should be an uncom­pro­mis­ing stand for
jus­tice. It is only by abhor­ring what is evil and cling­ing to what is good can we tru­ly over­come
the great atroc­i­ty known as abor­tion.