Biblical Strategies to Abolish Abortion

Rusty Thomas

• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781685260293
• eBook ISBN: 9781685260309
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

Rusty's book is a must-read for anyone wanting a clear concrete road map to abolish legalized abortion! It is not just abstract theory but rather a phenomenal practical comprehensive applied handbook and reference guide for the battle to end abortion. Rusty gives an incredibly detailed history and present backdrop of abortion, clear direct vision, and detailed short- and long-term strategy going forward on how to explicitly, biblically, effectively, abolish abortion and why we should do so from God's perspective and not men.

This book bleeds from a very faithful man of God of great depth of wisdom and character, distilled from many years of deep trials, tribulations, tears, heartbreak, experience, study, and deep personal sacrifice in the battle to abolish abortion. He addresses how God sees the situation, what He expects of us, the church, and how to engage. He details out the surprising enemies of abolition. He addresses questions, objections, in almost every conceivable way and in relation to all arenas. Rusty does a masterful job of weaving the tapestry, and I know of absolutely no one more qualified to speak on the subject!

John Jacob

Indiana State Representative

Chapter 13

Five Elements of an Abolitionist Bill

In the appendix section of this book, there is contact information to our constitutional lawyer, Bradley Pierce, who drafts all our bills of abolition throughout America. He will help any state put together a proper bill. He sorts out and keeps what is good in the state statutes (pre-Roe statutes prohibiting abortion) and where it is weak, he will strengthen the language to put forth a clean bill of abolition.

It is vital that we understand the principles, language, and elements that make up these bills. To be effective at establishing them in our individual states, we must be precise in all pertinent sections of the bill.

In this last chapter of the book, we are going to explore the different elements that must be there to constitute a clean bill of abolition. There are five main components. Each individual aspect must be interwoven together to create a legal fabric that must not be torn asunder. Otherwise, it would not be considered a true bill of abolition. To easily remember the five facets of an abolitionist bill, the acronym IMAGE is employed.

Image of God. Imago Dei must be recognized from the biological beginning onward. It must be accompanied by the subsequent acknowledgment of value, worth, and dignity. Thus, the term person, individual, or human being as applied to the homicide section of the criminal/penal code must expressly include preborn children from fertilization.

Murder. Consistency demands penalties be the same for intentionally killing a preborn child as it is for intentionally killing a postborn child. Homicide statutes must be amended to expressly include the preborn, along with an explicit prohibition against abortion as an act of homicide. This applies regardless of whether the murder takes place in the womb, in a lab, via surgery or chemicals, or in any other place or with any other method.

Accordant. There must be penalties for the mother or any other party complicit with homicide. There may be degrees of culpability that need to be considered in each case. Obviously, medical professionals who have studied the subject and make a lucrative income from killing the preborn may receive a stiffer penalty than others involved with the crime.

Nonetheless, mothers who seek out the destruction of their own children should be held accountable for homicide. Law enforcement, judges, the district attorney’s office, and prosecutors retain discretion in prosecution.

Sentencing in the matter where genuine ignorance and/or coercion are detected can be considered. Most states already have that aspect of compulsion in crime already written into their statutes. It can be applied in abortion cases.

Detractors against abolition try to scare people away by saying we seek the death penalty for every woman who commits abortion. What we are seeking is equal justice and equal protection under the law. We are seeking consistency.

God puts no distinction between the born and preborn, and neither should we. All human beings are made in the image of God and must be welcomed in life and protected by law. This is the biblical consistency we seek to establish. It is the only position that passes God’s true test. The same laws that protect born people from being murdered should be applied to protect the preborn. We are seeking nothing more and nothing less.

The homicide code has different charges and penalties concerning murder. They range from first-degree murder to second-degree murder to third-degree murder.

The classification of first-degree murder is invoked when someone knows with certainty that their behavior will result in a person’s death. In other words, the murderer plots the death of another person and executes it.

Second-degree murder occurs when there is no premeditated plan associated with the act of killing. If there is an altercation and an individual beats another and the latter eventually dies, the aggressor’s action may be considered involuntary manslaughter.

Third-degree homicide happens when the person responsible for the death has acted irresponsibly or recklessly. Consequently, the law punishes for lack of care. The court can find a person guilty of lacking good sense, which caused another’s death.

Each case will be tried individually. All evidence will be presented. The justice system will determine the level of guilt, if any, and the proper penalty applied as with all other cases of homicide.

Genuine. Interposition by the lesser magistrate against the unlawful Roe opinion must be explicitly stated. The state legislature must make it clear that this legislation is not designed to pick an unwinnable fight with the judiciary. Bills of abolition are not to be considered a potential means of challenging the Roe decision in the courts. If they end up doing that, fine, but that is not the ultimate purpose.

Rather, the bills are to recognize that the courts are in gross error. Courts have violated their constitutional limitations, and consequently, their current opinions regarding abortion are null, void, and without force.

Exceptions. There will be no exceptions made. Rape, incest, and life of the mother or any other loopholes that have been used to intentionally destroy the life of a preborn human being must be rejected. They are logically inconsistent, morally unacceptable, and unjust in their application. Once a city, county, or state passes a bill of abolition, there must be in that law a provision that clearly states this bill is not open to debate and will not answer to any court.

This will shut the door to judicial tyranny and defend the law that defends the innocent child in the womb. It is time to say no to the bullies in the sandbox. When the courts ignore the Constitution, we should ignore the courts. City, county, and state governments have lawful authority, and it is time they break this suicide pact with this out-of-control oligarchy.

Judicial supremacy is an idol that needs to be toppled in the minds of Americans if our national creed of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” will be preserved for our posterity.

Appendix Section A: Church Resolution

Church Resolution

This church resolution was written by Southern Baptist Pastors to convince their national convention to adopt a more biblically consistent response to our national holocaust, abortion. It is included here for other churches and denominations to adopt as well.

1. WHEREAS, from the moment of fertilization, all humans are created in God’s image by, through, and for Jesus to the glory of God, and all souls belong to Him (Genesis 1:27, 4:1, 21:2; Isaiah 7:14; Colossians 1:16; Romans 11:36; Ezekiel 18:4), and
2. WHEREAS, as God’s image-bearers, all humans both display His divine worth, power, and attributes, and possess the same objective worth before God, not varying on the basis of incidental characteristics; such as ethnicity, age, size, means of conception, mental development, physical development, gender, potential, or contribution to society (Romans 1:19–20; Genesis 1:28, 9:6; Matthew 18:6), and
3. WHEREAS, all humans are created with God’s law written on their hearts, which works with their conscience to accuse or excuse them before God, and to undermine law and conscience is to ask, “Did God really say?” (Romans 2:14–16; Genesis 3:1), and
4. WHEREAS, to murder any preborn image-bearer is a sin, violating both the natural law of retributive justice as set forth in the Noahic covenant, as well as the sixth commandment forbidding murder, and as such, is ultimately an assault on God’s image, seeking to usurp God’s sovereignty as Creator (Genesis 9:5–6; Exodus 20:13; Proverbs 6:17), and
5. WHEREAS, God’s Word clearly declares ...

Table of contents

• Foundations
• The Order of God
• The Governments of God
• Separation of Church and State
• Upon this Rock
• Roe v. Wade
• Incrementalism
• The Doctrine of Interposition
• The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate
• Short-Term and Long-Term Strategies to Abolish Abortion
• Openings That Must be Shut
• Biblical Distinctions between Sin and Crime
• Five Elements of an Abolitionist Bill