It’s a sign of mental myopia when a Christian / Kingdom citizen loudly proclaims the institutional racism of Planned Parenthood due to the founder’s advocacy of eugenics and the disproportionate placement of abortion centers within walking distance of heavily Black and Latino populated neighborhoods, but completely dismisses any legitimacy of institutional racism (and its impact today) in any other form in the United States.
It’s also a sign of mental myopia when a Christian / Kingdom citizen proclaims institutional racism and its impact in the areas of criminal justice, education, employment, housing, wealth, and healthcare in the United States but then dismisses the institutional racism of Planned Parenthood and its impact in Black and Latino communities today. Interestingly, Planned Parenthood recently committed to “reckon publicly with [their] own racist history.” Planned Parenthood’s Founder Margaret Sanger stated in a 1923 New York Times article “Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”
This mental myopia is typically the result from having a primarily political lens instead of Heaven’s (Kingdom) lens. A political stronghold will tie your mindset to the world’s ideas or the ideas of partisan politicians, yet the Kingdom of God is counter-cultural.
In John 10:10, Jesus says “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” Life at its fullness! Some translations say life to the full until it overflows.
This is why the concept of “Pro-Life” needs less political entanglement and more Kingdom alignment. In other words, instead of allowing politics to create the idea of “Pro-Life”, doing our part as Kingdom citizens to influence politics and our spheres of influence in a way that aligns with the King’s view and the Father’s heart for LIFE (on this side of Heaven). Life from the womb to the tomb.
