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dential candidate Obama replied, “Whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade.”

How strange to turn leadership of our country over to someone with no clear conclusions about the most fundamental questions about life and death. Of course, with history behind us, we know that the president-to-be then was just being disingenuous. Several years later, he became the first American president to address the national meeting in Washington of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, and concluded his remarks saying, “God bless you.”

Today’s pro-abortion advocates are bolder and clearer than ever in their view that the life in the mother’s womb is simply an appendage to her body, which they claim she owns.

Whenever I hear a woman say, “I own my body, I own myself,” I want to ask that she produce the bill of sale documenting the transaction when she acquired herself.

Again, our national founding document, the Declaration of Independence, is clear that our rights come from our “Creator” because we come from our “Creator.”

But many of our nation turn a blind eye to this. Can we force American citizens to believe? No.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., observed that “Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.”

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal discusses the disappearing reality of grandparents. In 2023, per the article, about half of those ages 50 to 90 were grandparents. This is down from 57% in 2018.

We have lost sight that freedom is important because our Creator gave us free choice — the choice to choose between life and death, good and evil.

Our country is in grave danger because of a culture that has emerged in which more and more are choosing death rather than life.

The deadly results are in front of us. Let’s be honest that the American people need leadership that embraces and buys into a future that is only possible in a free nation under God, in which the choice we make is for life.

Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” Her recent book, “What Is the CURE for America?” is available now. To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www. creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS. COM