Nancy Wilson on The War on Woman

This may be stating the obvious, but for each abortion, there is a woman. Our streets and offices and homes and schools and churches and malls are full of women, and millions of them have an abortion (or two or more) on their conscience. These women do not have marks on their foreheads so we can identify them. Nevertheless, they carry an unseen burden. Abortion doesn’t just maim and kill babies. It maims and kills women. It kills their femininity; it kills their desire to be womanly; and it certainly kills their capacity to be maternal . . . or to rejoice in others being maternal. The womb is not just the place where physical abortions occur. The womb itself can be spiritually aborted, and that is what is happening around us.

 

Woman is made in the image of God. She is created to be fruitful and created to nurture and nourish that fruit. When she willingly destroys the fruit, she is at war with her very nature and purpose. She is deforming and defacing the essence of her feminine gifts and calling, and this has a hardening and deadening effect on her person and soul. These consequences are as real as the baby is dead.

 

This collateral damage affects our culture at large. Massive, large-scale blood guilt is not inconsequential. It weighs on the individual women (not to mention the husbands, fathers, doctors, judges, and politicians who enable and support abortion). It changes the way women view themselves, their purpose, and their relationships. Everything is expendable. Throw it away. Even the most precious thing in this world is simply trash if we “choose” it to be.

 

Woman’s God-given feminine instinct to protect her young is at the heart of any healthy society. It restrains much lawlessness. Children, being utterly dependent, need safety and security and care. When mothers fiercely protect their own children, all of society learns to back off. But when this barrier of love is broken down, men are free to do awful things. Cruel things. Destructive things.

Abortion makes women hard and heartless. It leaves them estranged from their very nature and estranged from other women who embrace their feminine calling. Society urges them to ignore this and invent themselves all over again, which explains the constant striving and chasing the wind, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a meaningless world. But a creature cannot find meaning and purpose while simultaneously denying the Creator.

 

Finally, we have not been left without an answer. Our Maker has provided a way of forgiveness and restoration. He makes all things new, no matter how defiled they may have become. The Gospel is the Good News. Jesus Christ died for sinners. And it turns out, we are, all of us, a race of sinners. That makes for a perfect fit.