Guest Opinion by Don Bendell

Roe Versus Wade

My name is Don, and for over seventy-five years I have been a grateful, recovering fetus. When I started writing this, the news had just broken that a draft decision to end Roe versus Wade was leaked from, apparently a law clerk, in the United States Supreme Court. This is unconscionable.

Maintaining the critical balance of power of the three branches of government, the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial is an absolute necessity for the survival of the United States of America as a nation-state. Our Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. They established, not a democracy, but a representative Constitutional republic with a system of checks and balances that works like a well-oiled machine, unless one part is corrupted. The one branch that is most sensitive when it comes to checks and balances is the Judicial branch, and the Supreme Court which is the ultimate arbiter of the Constitution, must not ever be politicized or corrupted in any way.

When Roe versus Wade was passed in 1973, science was far less advanced than it is now. Even if you do not care about the Pro-Life arguments, experts have now definitively proven, scientifically, that life begins at conception, and at twenty weeks a child is almost always viable outside the womb.. If you watch TV shows like Long Lost Family, the first words out of the mouth of almost every person who was given up for adoption as a baby and is reunited with their birth-mother is “Thank you so much for giving me life.”

Except for the possibility of a mother dying giving birth, getting an abortion because you are a rape or incest victim, or as a means of birth control, or because being pregnant for nine months is extremely costly or inconvenient for you, is not an excuse to abort the baby, because it is a human life. For whatever reason, only He understands, God chose you to be a vessel to carry and deliver a child and bring a new life into the world. God never promised any of us a rocking chair on the front porch and a gold mine in the back yard. We were never promised an easy life. If you are pregnant, it is not your body, your choice. You are already raising a baby with a sacred duty to protect and nurture it.

If you do not believe in God, or do not want to accept it is Divine Providence, or simply are determined to abort that baby, do not stand near me. Why? Because I do not know what the bursting radius of a lightning bolt is.

A very small minority of our professional politicians in today’s America are statesmen or stateswomen. Abortion is a billion dollar-plus industry In today’s society, another political tool for bureaucrats, the party does not matter. In modern day, John F, Kennedy would have been-considered a conservative republican. Politicians have perfected race-baiting and name-calling to a fine art, to simply get votes and expand their base. President Biden came out and stated, without any evidentiary reference, that over two thirds of Americans favor Roe versus Wade. That is simply untrue. Roe versus Wade is actually split down the middle in our country with only one or two percentage points dividing the two sides. Unfortunately, way too often, powerful PACs and lobbyists dictate to politicians which side to support anyway.

Morality is also very much a part of this heated debate. Has life become so trivial to us? It shouldn’t be. Not counting Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, or even those who simply believe in God, let’s just look at Christians.

According to a 2020 survey by the Pew Research Center, 65% of adults in the United States identified themselves as Christians, but in 1995 85% of Americans did, and many wonder why they feel God has abandoned us. Throughout the entire world less than 7 percent are atheists. That includes all countries.

In Matthew 18:6 of the New Testament, Jesus stated, “Whoso shall offend one of these little ones...it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

It states in several places that “Children are a gift from God.” It does not say, “unless they are a product of rape or result of incest,” or “a major inconvenience.”  

I am ashamed that in the state where I live, Colorado, they just passed a law stating that abortions can be performed right up until birth. How many of you reading this, were born a few days, weeks, or months premature or had children who did?

It is time for Roe versus Wade to be aborted, before our entire nation is. It is time to come down hard on any who try to politicize our Supreme Court. It is time to protect our children, those who are born and those who grow inside the women chosen to give them life.

As I previously said, “What is the bursting radius of a lightning bolt?”

ABOUT THE WRITER

Don Bendell is a best-selling author whose style has been likened to Louis L’Amour, Zane Grey, and Robin Moore, a former US Army Special Forces Captain and 100% disabled Green Beret Vietnam veteran, and a 1995 inductee into the International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame. Don owns the Strongheart Ranch in southern Colorado, with his social psychologist and fellow author, wife, Dr. Janet Bendell. Don is the author of 30 books, mainly westerns and military thrillers, with over 3,000,000 copies in print worldwide, a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2011, and a successful motion picture which he also produced, directed, and co-starred in. He has 6 grown children and 13 grand-children and has a master’s degree in leadership from Grand Canyon University.