It takes both a male and a female to create (using the euphemisms of the pro-abortion lobby) a “product of conception,” a “fetus,” and a “ball of cells.”  Where, then, is the male in all of this talk about “women’s healthcare” and “reproductive rights?”  Does he have anything to do with it?

Indeed, he is either ignored, exonerated from responsibility, or worse yet, actively involved or simply coercively complicit in the “termination” of the pregnancy.  But let’s not play with words here.  Let’s call abortion what it is: the active killing of an innocent, helpless, and voiceless human being.  No amount of ideological word-games about it being “healthcare” for women or that a child only becomes human when it is born or wanted by another can change the fundamental nature of a baby in the womb.  It is a child by virtue of biological fact and theological endowment.

In a less “progressive” era, when a man impregnated a woman, he was expected, alongside the mother, to take responsibility for the child she and he had created together.  Men who refused or ran away were rightly scorned and openly shamed as selfish deadbeats, cowardly dads, and irresponsible fathers.

So-called “shotgun weddings” happened precisely because men were expected (and sometimes threatened by the pregnant mother’s family with a shotgun—thus the name) to be responsible and care for the mother and child.

If my grandmother and grandfather were living in and had embraced the ideologies of this more “progressive” and “modern” age, instead of their more “backward” and “puritanical” era, I would not exist.   My grandfather impregnated my grandmother out of wedlock.  When they found out, they quickly married one another.  Six months later, my mother was born.  Just before dying within three months of each other, they celebrated their 73^rd wedding anniversary.

The story is the same with David with Bathsheba.  For all intents and purposes, Solomon should never have been born since his older brother was conceived in the context of adultery and murder.  But it is through Solomon that the messianic lineage comes down to Jesus, a family tree that also includes a brazen prostitute.  Thank God, He has a way of taking immorality and sin, redeeming it and making it into something beautiful and good.

Men are supposed to care about and be committed to those they have sex with.  They are also meant to take full responsibility for the consequences of that sexual union, especially when it results in the conception of a precious and priceless child.

Framing abortion as merely a matter of “women’s healthcare” is not only deceptive and fallacious, it is tragic for society, lethal for unborn children, harmful to pregnant women, and insulting and demeaning to would-be fathers who instead should be encouraged and expected to step up and take full responsibility for the child he and she have conceived together.