Moral law vital for pro-life Christians

“BY the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down ... Now how shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land.”

The 1978 Boney M hit captures how some Northern Ireland pro-life supporters are feeling, as the Big Bad Wolf of abortion sharpens its teeth.

“Theodicy” (the vindication of divine providence in view of the existence of evil) offers little comfort. Pro-life campaigning has demanded sacrifices of emotion, energy, time and money.

The Boney M lyrics, drawn from the Bible, refer to the Jewish experience of exile. Pro-life Christians need to remain people of goodwill, even to triumphant opponents in the process of scoring victory.

We pray that Stella Creasy MP has a positive experience of giving birth and that her new family unit is blessed.

We take confidence from the Old Testament revelation, noting that secular, or pagan, leaders can fulfil a place in the divine plan.

Their social media accounts can publicise high-calibre pro-life images: “Twitter-can you get me the CEO of @CCUK_Direct advertising? how much did you get for this c***?”

Below this entry on Stella Creasy’s Twitter is a picture of a “9-week fetus” on a billboard. This image might readily feature in a school biology book, or maybe inside National Geographic magazine. A Presbyterian magazine ran a near enough identical image this June.

What makes Stella Creasy (or others) object to the “9-week living fetus” billboard? Defence, or denial, mechanisms, reinforced by 50 years of mass abortion in England, may be more brittle than we imagine.

Our battle for the unborn will continue with confidence that, “conscience reveals to us a moral law whose source cannot be found in the natural world, thus pointing us to a supernatural lawgiver” (C S Lewis, 1898-1963). Please note that letters should be short and to the point. Letters will be edited as deemed necessary and should be authenticated with a full name and postal address, not necessarily for publication. A daytime telephone number would also be useful.