Laws are good. Laws help society keep order. Laws give parameters to those of us who don’t seem to grasp, or care, about right and wrong.
But do laws only change our actions, and not our heart?
In reading about the controversy in Texas regarding this recent abortion bill, I rejoice that we have legislators who work diligently to protect life. And I’m all on board to see laws passed that will keep us from taking the lives of our pre-born children.
But do laws change the heart?
We can put a bundle of laws in place to impede abortion, even make it illegal, but we know that there will always be a way to circumvent the law. I’ve read articles where some are already conceiving ways to get abortive medications outside of Texas, in Mexico.
Laws may lead to a change of heart in some, but probably few. So what would happen if we could get through to abortion advocates to help them see our pre-born children as made in the image of God, and so only He has the right to choose when life starts and when it ends? How do we affect change of heart to show them that their words about taking care of women, are misplaced when they advocate such a non-loving action as abortion? How do we change their hearts to align with what we know to be true: no child is a mistake.
I long for the time when we go from abortion being the law of the land, to a time when each and every person decides with their hearts that abortion is not love.
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