Nine Week Aborted Baby Hearts are "Cute"

The latest Center for Medical Progress video shows an abortion doctor from Texas referring to aborted 9 week old baby hearts as "cute." The video is not graphic (ie. it does not show abortions or baby hearts, so please watch it), but it is heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking for the baby, for the mother who allowed this to happen, and it is heartbreaking for the doctor in the video.

You might be surprised I used "heartbreaking" to describe the doctor who laughs at how cute murdered baby hearts are. Why not say it is enraging. Well, it is. There is a righteous anger over the oppression of the weak. However, there a sense of heartbreak that I don't want to personally move past either.

As Isaiah wrote, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" (Is. 5:20).

It is heartbreaking to see this woman enslaved to sin and blinded by sin. Evil appears good or cute to her and that has put her at odds with the holy God who pronounces judgment against evil. I was in that boat once too. I didn't call abortion good, but I have justified all sorts of sins. In God's mercy, however, he saved me and caused me to call my sin what it is: evil.

Let's call abortion what it is. It is barbarism, sickening, and, yes, evil. But let's not stop there. Let's call men and women to repent of this evil and ask for God's mercy in Jesus Christ.

One more thing I'll point out about this video. Again we are confronted with the reality of what abortion is. The doctor refers to "hearts" and "spines" (which she rips out) of fetuses (even 9 week old ones). Again, whether or not planned parenthood has committed any crimes, we ought to realize that abortion ought to be seen as a crime. This isn't a "lump of cells" or "part of the mother's body." We are talking hearts and spines, and they don't belong to the mother. Abortion is the unjust taking of an innocent human life.