DALLAS — According to Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, those who criticize presidential candidate Donald Trump for saying women should be punished for having abortions are being “hypocritical.”
Trump, who’s received stark criticism for his statements during an MSNBC town hall in March, recently suggested that if abortion becomes illegal he thinks women should receive some form of punishment.
Jeffress defended Trump in a tweet saying those who are critical of Trump’s comments must not “believe abortion is murder.”
However, Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, believes pro-lifers need to make clear that “protecting unborn babies is not about punishing women but punishing an industry and a culture that dehumanizes human beings,” according to The Christian Post.
Moore said most women who get an abortion are not “ideological foot soldiers in the culture war” and one of the biggest misconceptions about pro-life is that pro-lifers are “pro-baby and anti-women.”
For those who do get abortions, “the abortion clinic appears to be an escape route from a life of unbearable shame, secrecy and hardship,” Moore said. “But these women are being lied to and their consciences are under assault under the accusations of the Deceiver both leading up to and following an abortion. No one is more pro-choice than Satan during the drive to the abortion clinic and nobody is more pro-life than Satan during the drive home.” (TAB)
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