In 2022, National Right to Life released “An Open Letter to State Lawmakers from America’s Leading Pro-Life Organizations” signed by 75 other pro-life organizations, in opposition to a bill in Iowa that would have criminalized abortion as murder.

This opposition was grounded on the standard pro-life rhetoric that along with her child, every woman involved in an abortion is a victim of the abortion industry, not a perpetrator of injustice against the child. This posture was described in detail in the letter, and culminated in the following declaration:

As national and state pro-life organizations, representing tens of millions of pro-life men, women, and children across the country, let us be clear: We state unequivocally that we do not support any measure seeking to criminalize or punish women and we stand firmly opposed to include such penalties in legislation.

These organizations suck millions upon millions of dollars from the Christian community, while actively opposing the biblical stance against sin — that every person is personally responsible before God for his or her sin, regardless of whatever contributing influences encouraged the sin. Like Adam, Eve was held accountable for eating of the fruit and destroying humanity, despite Satan’s deception of her (Genesis 3). The law of God is written on every human heart regardless of cultural advantages and disadvantages (Romans 2:12-16), and as such we are personally accountable before God and without excuse when we sin.

The pro-life movement undercuts the work of the gospel by undermining law that would rightly classify sinners (particularly aborting women), convicting their consciences, and thereby spurring them on to find relief from their guilt in the cross of Jesus Christ. Christians should not support the pro-life movement or label, as it historically and presently represents and advances an anti-Christian understanding of justice and mercy. In their laws, they acquit the guilty, and actively oppose attempts to advance biblical legislation that treats every human being as equally protected and equally accountable under law.

Consistent Christians should not be pro-life, and should not support pro-life organizations. Consistent Christians should be abolitionists, aligning with the anti-abortion movement that grounds itself ideologically on the word of God as it works against the genocide in our midsts.