The Constitutional Imperative for Absolute Abolition at America’s 250th Year
I. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE CREATOR AND THE DELUSION OF REPUBLICS
America stands at a catastrophic precipice as she prepares to mark 250 years of independent existence. We plan to ignite fireworks, display banners, and chant hollow anthems of liberty. Yet, a silent, pervasive, and terrifying blood guilt saturates the very soil of our continent.
National survival is never a guarantee forged by military hardware, fiscal policy, or political legacy; it is a spiritual lease granted strictly by Almighty God. We have forgotten the foundational premise of our national existence—that our rights are a direct endowment from the Creator. Jefferson famously trembled for his country when reflecting that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever. Today, that divine justice hangs like a sharpened blade over a nation that has codified the slaughter of its offspring.
Scripture leaves no room for ambiguity regarding the status of the unborn child or the consequences of hands that shed innocent blood:
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee…” (Jeremiah 1:5).
“These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood…” (Proverbs 6:16-17).
We cannot mock the living God by celebrating two and a half centuries of “liberty” while maintaining a state-sanctioned network of human dismemberment. True national survival requires an immediate, unconditional cessation of this wickedness. It requires national repentance.
II. THE FOUNDATIONAL WARNINGS OF THE FRAMERS
Our founders possessed an unyielding clarity regarding the moral framework required to sustain a free republic. They understood that liberty divorced from the moral law of God rapidly degenerates into anarchy and tyranny.
John Adams, writing to the military in 1798, issued a warning that pierces through to our current generation with prophetic precision:
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
When a nation codifies the destruction of its own children, it destroys its claim to be a moral people. We break the very cords of the Constitution. Similarly, Samuel Adams reminded his contemporaries of the true source of national security:
“He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.”
To elect leaders who permit, fund, or defend the killing of the pre-born is an act of political treason against the Republic. Furthermore, George Washington, in his timeless Farewell Address, explicitly dismantled the secular fiction that a nation can remain prosperous while discarding divine commands:
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.”
By slaughtering the unborn, America has systematically kicked out the indispensable supports of her own house. We are witnessing the structural collapse that Washington foretold.
III. THE SUPREMACY OF NATURAL LAW VS. THE TYRANNY OF THE STATE
The political establishment treats the right to life as a negotiable policy plank, a fundraising tool, or a matter of shifting consensus. This is a fatal apostasy. The right to life does not originate in legislative chambers, judicial robes, or the popular ballot.
Sir William Blackstone, whose legal treatises formed the bedrock of American jurisprudence, made this explicitly clear in his Commentaries on the Laws of England:
“Life is the immediate gift of God, a right inherent by nature in every individual; and it begins in contemplation of law as soon as an infant is able to stir in the mother’s womb… For any defense, use, or action, which a stranger is capable of doing to the infant as an embryo in the womb, is justifiable by the law.”
When civil government presumes to license the destruction of innocent human life, it abdicates its legitimate authority and degenerates into an illicit cartel. Any human edict that contradicts the immutable moral law of God is not law at all; it is a raw act of lawless tyranny. We have traded the eternal rock of absolute truth for the shifting sands of judicial supremacy and legislative pragmatism. To compromise on the absolute duty to protect every unborn child—from the absolute moment of biological conception—is an act of open insurrection against the Ruler of the Nations.
IV. THE ONTOLOGY OF CONSTITUTIONAL PERSONHOOD
The crux of our constitutional degradation lies in the willful, textually fraudulent denial of the personhood of the pre-born child. Secular jurists and compromised politicians have asserted that the word “person” is a flexible, political construct to be defined by legislative caprice or judicial fiat. This is a profound subversion of both language and original intent.
When the framers of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments utilized the term “person,” they did not use it as a political honorific reserved only for those who have drawn breath. They used it as a direct legal synonym for a living human being.
To understand the absolute, unyielding definition of personhood, we must return to Blackstone, who explicitly divided the subjects of law into “natural persons” and “artificial persons.” A natural person is not created by the state; a natural person is created by God. Blackstone wrote:
“Natural persons are such as the God of nature fashioned us…”
This definition was universally understood by the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment. During the congressional debates of 1866, the sponsors of the amendment repeatedly declared that its purpose was to secure the absolute, foundational rights of humanity to every individual who possesses a human nature. To be a human being is to be a person.
The pre-born child is a distinct, living, whole human individual from the moment of fertilization. They possess a unique genetic architecture. They possess a heartbeat. They possess a soul. To argue that a human child is not a “person” under the law until they reach a certain stage of development or location is to resurrect the exact demonic logic of the Dred Scott decision, which sought to strip personhood from an entire class of human beings based on their status and utility.
V. THE COMPLICITY OF INCREMENTALISM AND THE TWOFOLD CONSTITUTIONAL BULWARK
The greatest failure of the modern conservative movement has been its addiction to incrementalism, regulatory compromise, and the cowardice of the “states’ rights” retreat. We have been told to settle for regulations that merely manage the slaughter rather than abolish it. We have been urged to accept exceptions, to compromise with evil, and to remain silent for tactical electoral advantage.
This political pragmatism is an abomination. You cannot regulate murder. You cannot negotiate terms with the shedding of innocent blood. To assert that a child’s right to live depends on the geographic boundary of a state or the circumstances of conception is a total betrayal of both the Christian faith and the American Republic.
The supreme law of the land provides an explicit, dual-layered barrier against this slaughter:
- The Fifth Amendment: Explicitly decrees that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Because the pre-born child is a natural person fashioned by God, their deprivation of life by abortion is a direct violation of this sacred restriction on federal power.
- The Fourteenth Amendment: Commands that no State shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Therefore, any politician, judge, governor, or President who refuses to demand the immediate, total, and equal protection of the law for the unborn child is violating their solemn oath of office. They are acting in direct defiance of the Constitution they swore to defend. If the law protects the born adult from murder, the Fourteenth Amendment demands it must equally protect the pre-born child. Anything less is a declaration of lawlessness.
VI. THE LINCOLNIAN PRECEDENT: THE FRUITS OF MORAL COMPROMISE
We must look to our past to understand the precise nature of our current peril. President Abraham Lincoln, standing on the blood-soaked ground of Gettysburg, recalled that our nation was:
“…conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Lincoln understood with terrifying clarity that a nation cannot long endure if it attempts to institutionalize the denial of God-given personhood. In his Second Inaugural Address, as the fields of America ran red with the blood of her own sons, Lincoln acknowledged the terrible, righteous judgments of the Almighty:
“Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said ‘the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.'”
If God exacted such a terrible price for the sin of human bondage, what will He demand from a nation that has sacrificed tens of millions of its own children upon the altar of secular convenience? The timeline is chillingly parallel. We are arriving at our own “two hundred and fifty years.” If we do not repent of this national holocaust, we cannot escape the matching fury of a just and holy God.
VII. A PROPHECY TO THE PULPITS: AN UNCOMPROMISING REMNANT
The primary blame for America’s advanced moral decay does not rest in the halls of secular governance, but in the pulpits of our churches. Too many pastors have traded the prophetic, unyielding Word of God for political access, social acceptance, and tax-exempt comfort. They have remained silent while the defenseless are led to the slaughter, completely forgetting that judgment begins at the house of God.
National survival requires an uncompromising remnant to rise. We must demand nothing less than the total, immediate, and unconditional abolition of human abortion. We must hold our leaders to a strict standard of biblical righteousness and constitutional fidelity.
If our current political parties, legislative bodies, and judicial systems refuse to uphold the primary purpose of government—which is the security of the God-given right to life—then those structures have lost their moral legitimacy. They must be peacefully, legally, but completely bypassed and replaced by men and women of unyielding principle.
VIII. THE MANDATE FOR THE NEXT CENTURY
As the clock ticks toward our 250th year, the choice before America is stark: Total Abolition or Total Destruction.
We cannot continue to butcher our posterity and expect to remain a free, prosperous, and secure people. God will not be mocked. True patriotism is not found in blind allegiance to a corrupted political apparatus, but in an unshakeable allegiance to truth, justice, and the supreme law of God.
Let us mark this historic milestone not with hollow boasts of liberty, but with sackcloth, ashes, and an unwavering commitment to restore the foundational right to life for every single image-bearer of God. Only then can we look to the future, praying that God might yet grant our land mercy, revival, and survival.
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Travis is a dedicated constitutional abolitionist who was the FMR lead editor of the Peace Through Strength Institute.