Last week, Bill Maher entered into a discussion about abortion about abortion. Maher rarely watches what he says. Remember, he got his start on a program called “Politically Incorrect.” He is one of those society has empowered to speak the unvarnished truth – at least from his perspective. In the course of that conversation on abortion, Maher rebuked his pro-abortion allies for accusing pro-lifers of hating women. He doesn’t think that’s true at all. Good for him. He’s right. Maher also empathized with pro-lifers in their sincere conviction that abortion is murder, that is: the willful destruction of innocent human life. Maher said, regarding abortion, “it kind of is [murder].” Amazing. Here is a liberal icon acknowledging the reality for pro-lifers, and the objective reality of what abortion is. It is murder.

Then Maher went off the rails. He followed his comment that abortion “kind of is” murder with the statement, “I’m just OK with that. I am. I mean there’s 8 billion people in the world. I’m sorry. We won’t miss you. That’s my position on that.”

You can listen to the excerpt here.

In fact, that is the position of the abortion industry, and of those politicians and businesses that support abortion and fund abortion. They know that abortion is murder, and they are OK with that. And Maher acknowledges that, thinking those who think abortion is not murder but support abortion are, apparently, kidding themselves. The next obvious question that comes to my mind is: “Who else are you OK with murdering?” The poor? The homeless? The infirm? The elderly? The demented or otherwise mentally impaired? The mentally ill? The dispossessed?

Maher has suffered no consequences for his revealing to all that he is OK with murdering certain people, a particular group of people. His show has not been cancelled, and won’t be. His viewership won’t decline. There have been and won’t be any calls for his removal from the airways. The truth is, abortion is such a sacred cow among our political and social and cultural elites that no amount of reality (much less honesty!) is going to change the position of abortion as the one cause of the political left that may not be tampered with. If any are upset with Maher, it is those who rely on euphemisms and gaslighting to garner their support for abortion. For them, the truth must never be spoken. For them, no one must speak the ugly truth straightforwardly. We must use terms like “reproductive rights” or “terminating a pregnancy” or “women’s healthcare” when speaking about abortion. We must never speak the truth that abortion is the willful destruction of innocent human life. That is murder, and they will insist to their dying breath that abortion has nothing to do with killing people.

Except that abortion has everything to do with killing people, especially minorities and those with disabilities. Margaret Sanger was an unashamed eugenicist and believed that abortion was a method to get rid of the less productive and less civilized in society. Those teeming masses that bring with them disease, poverty, crime, as well as demands for rights and a piece of the pie. Today, those who shouted most loudly for the rights and dignity of the masses, of minorities, the disabled, the poor, the dispossessed in the past are precisely those who are shouting most loudly for the right to abortion. The truth is, and this is also an ugly truth, they long ago surrendered their position as champions of the poor and dispossessed. Rather, they now seek and impose policies that keep the poor and dispossessed in their place – out of the nice neighborhoods and dependent on a government that prefers they be quiet rather than that they participate. Abortions are disproportionately performed on minorities and the poor. Just as well, these “champions of the poor and dispossessed” say. One less person we have to worry about paying to keep quiet, or one less person we have to worry about becoming too noisy.

In the vast array of human history, there have always been a group or groups of people that the dominant culture regarded as less than human whose killing, because of that, was justified. Now, of course, there is that group of people that everyone recognizes as human whose killing we justify. Why? “There are too many people in the world already” seems to be Maher’s justification. “They’re not really human” is the lie that most pro-abortion advocates tell themselves and others. “Women are human, too, and they take priority over the unborn” – yep, that’s a popular one – as if we have to choose between mother and child. We don’t. “A person with such disabilities could never live a happy life” is another, as if we are actually righteous in killing them. “I know children who have been adopted and were abused by their adoptive families” is not as popular, but I actually heard that one in a sociology class once, again as if we’re doing these people a favor by killing them. The human mind is capable of convincing itself of all sorts of bizarre scenarios and justifications.

This is why we cannot be silent. We cannot let them tell the lie without consequence, and we certainly cannot allow them to know the truth and be OK with that. What a dark and precarious hole we have dug. Moloch reigns on the pro-abortion side. We murder our children to the tune of hundreds of thousands a year, and Bill Maher is “OK with that.” Who will be next?

Be Christ for all. Bring Christ to all. See Christ in all.