Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. (Genesis 3:20)

Sometimes, we miss it! In the heat of a debate, the point gets lost.

I thought about that earlier this week when Vice President Harris came to Wisconsin to press for abortion rights. She spoke of women suffering since the 2022 Dobbs decision, making abortion a states-rights issue. She talked about women being robbed of freedom and forced to endure unwanted pregnancies. She tagged those who disagreed with her position as “extremists.”

Remember, this is politics. In politics, baiting is cleverly employed to distract from the real issue. Is this really about robbing women of freedom and forcing them to endure suffering? I think not.

So, what is the real issue? Some would say it is the humanity of the unborn child. But as I have pointed out in previous columns, the abortion-rights movement accepts that in an abortion, life is lost. The real issue is dissatisfaction with the inequity of God’s creation.

Our culture has conditioned us to see inequity as synonymous with injustice. It is not. God did not create everything equal. The birds of the air are not the same as the fish of the sea. The trees were different from each other, and so were the flowers.

We deal with each inequity according to its species. When trees falter, we help them to be better trees. When flowers fade, we nurture them back to health. When the manatee numbers declined, we enacted laws to protect them. When the passenger pigeons faltered into extinction, we took measures to protect the birds still with us.

Men and women are different, not only from animals and vegetation but also from each other. They were made different – not equal in design, though equal in value, as evidenced by the love of Christ (John 3:16).

The abortion rights movement rejects God’s design. In pursuing equality not just in privilege but in biology, the abortion rights movement demonstrates the ultimate misogyny by robbing women of the one thing that most distinguishes them from all creation – the ability to procreate. Abortion certainly is not health care when its very purpose is the destruction of what makes women distinct.

God gave me five daughters to raise. I want them to have equal pay for equal work. I want them to have the same opportunities to advance in life as my three brothers and I have had. But the inequity in our designs is what makes them the “mother of all the living.” How dare anyone rob women of that honor and privilege. Let’s work to revere women and motherhood, just as God does.