Since the Supreme Court made their erroneous decision on Roe v. Wade, allowing states to determine life and death instead of defending the right to life as enshrined in natural law and our founding documents, abortion has increased! Did you know that there has been a higher percentage of abortions since the death of Roe v. Wade than before? Gratefully, some precious sons and daughters of God have been spared and will now enjoy an earthly existence that they might otherwise have been denied. However, in other places, the death factories are working overtime to genocide the future generation of Americans. 

While conservatives celebrated the death of Roe v. Wade – and I then acknowledged it as at least a partial step forward – I warned that the Supreme Court’s decision would weaken America, embolden radicals, and not end abortion. I argued that by so blatantly ignoring the Declaration of Independence’s and Constitution’s guarantee of God-given rights, the Supreme Court usurped authority they did not have by making abortion – the issue of our right to life – a states’ rights matter. That is an insane misinterpretation of the Constitution and of the entire concept of natural law and republican government. 

The rationale of states’ rights as it relates to cardinal human rights that supersede all man-made governments is much like the rationale of Protestantism. When you allow everyone to decide for themselves what is right and wrong, don’t be surprised when you suddenly have mass confusion, volatile clashes, institutionalized division, and 45,000 unique opinions on the same topic that, truthfully, only has one correct interpretation. 

The simple reality is that states do not have the right to determine for themselves what our God-given rights are. They cannot justly say, for instance, that you don’t have a right to life, a right to defend yourself, a right to own and use private property, a right to buy and sell as you wish, a right to free speech, a right to worship God as you choose, etc. These are not states’ rights prerogatives, but human rights given by God Almighty, codified in the law of nature, and inherited by all at birth. 

If states have authority to decide these issues for themselves, there can be no security of any of our rights because they are held at the whim of whoever controls the state government at any given time. If states have always had the right to decide what are and are not human rights, then there were no legal grounds against slavery and the South was perfectly justified in retaining the damnable institution. The logic simply does not hold water. In America, natural law is king, and your personal opinions are irrelevant. 

Can you imagine the chaos and instability if we allowed California or New York – or any other state – to decide for themselves what constituted your right of conscience? Christians are already persecuted as it is, but the limits of that persecution would cease to exist if we took the matter of Freedom of religion out of the federal realm and gave it to the states. States could declare this or that ideology a “public danger” and simply ban it. 

I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On October 27, 1838, our Church was declared by Governor Boggs of the state of Missouri to be a public threat. Using similar logic to that displayed by the Supreme Court which purposes that states can do whatever they please, the Constitution be damned, Governor Boggs issued a literal extermination order against Latter-day Saints and authorized militia groups to either drive them from the state at the barrel of a gun or “exterminate” them. 

If we can acknowledge that all Americans regardless of political jurisdiction should have their rights of conscience held sacrosanct and protected against government intervention and interference at all levels, then why is it so difficult to acknowledge that our right to life is similarly sacrosanct and must not be made the purview of the states? 

The faulty logic of “conservatives” is that the Constitution’s Ninth and Tenth Amendments reserve the authority over such matters as abortion to the states. However, to accept this incorrect idea is to accept that the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution mean absolutely nothing, have no power, and are themselves incorrect. Let me explain by quoting myself. 

In an article immediately preceding the Roe v. Wade opinion, titled “What is Federal, What is State,” I wrote: 

“The Supreme Court is gearing up to potentially release an opinion that would not exactly overturn Roe v. Wade, but which would allow the states to decide for themselves. I think this is repugnant to the spirit and meaning of both the Declaration and the Constitution.  

“First in the list of rights declared to be self-evident, and which government is duty bound to protect, is life. Some among us repeat “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” without really thinking about it. If we believe these are rights, then how can we permit abortion? If life is a right, how can government, which is created for the purpose of securing our rights, deny that right to millions?  

“There is little difference between the atrocious institution of slavery and the infanticide of tens of millions of unborn men and women (in fact, more blacks have been destroyed through abortion than slavery in this country). Both deprive the individual of “life” in any meaningful sense. Without Liberty, life is meaningless. Without Liberty, there is no ability to pursue happiness. Before you can have Liberty or pursue happiness, however, you must have life. Without life, you have neither Liberty nor happiness. 

“Those who support the life-destroying scourge of abortion are enemies to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and America. This is not just another “political issue”; it is a defining principle dealing with the fundamental, natural, God-given rights of individuals. There is a right and a wrong on abortion as much as there is a right and a wrong about slavery, genocide, free speech, or the right of self-defense.  

“The U.S. government was created to defend natural rights, including the right to life. This is not the job of the states, though the states should be a secondary defense if the federal government neglects its duty. This is a federal, or national, issue. The federal Constitution, not the individual state constitutions, is the supreme law of the land. If the federal government has no jurisdiction to defend life in the states, then, in all honesty, please tell me why we even have a national government and a constitution.  

“The Declaration of Independence, which declared our right to life, was written by the representatives of the whole People. It is as good as gospel law for Americans. Remember what the Founding Fathers said in the Declaration, that if ANY government falls short of its mandate to secure the rights of life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to its people, it is despotic and must be altered or abolished. . . . 

“I repeat that the right to life is a right guaranteed by the Declaration and the Constitution. The Declaration explicitly champions the right to life and the Preamble to the Constitution explicitly states that its purpose is to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” If babies do not have a right to life, then we older human beings don’t either. It either applies equally to everyone or it’s not a right. 

“Roe v. Wade is a bastardization of law, Liberty, and logic, to say nothing of conscience and morality. It is a demonic violation of the most fundamental of all God-given rights guaranteed by our founding documents. The judges usurped power, concocted a “right” out of whole cloth, and stripped young human beings of their implicit right to life. . . . 

“In America, we don’t take our principles from the courts, we take them from the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and they took them from natural law and the Bible. In America, polls and popularity don’t decide policy, law, or rights. It doesn’t matter how many feminists screech and howl or how many Antifa thugs march through the streets, the right to life is sacred and has been codified by U.S. law since 1776. 

“Defending Freedom is not a states’ rights issue; it is a human issue. Specifically, the right to life is one of the big-picture problems that the nation as a whole must face and must collectively solve. Life is a federal/national issue that the states do not have exclusive purview over, but one in which they may ratify, support, and confirm the People’s national representatives in safeguarding.  

“In all seriousness, dear reader, if the Constitution does not encompass the right to life, being one of the most fundamental rights, then what is its purpose? The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and I submit to every rational mind that it authorizes its agents – those who raise their arm and swear to uphold it – to defend, protect, and preserve life. Abortion is a blatant violation of eternal law, natural law, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and science. It is human sacrifice. It is evil and must be stamped out.  

“If the Supreme Court refuses to undo Roe v. Wade nationally, eternal shame on them – and eternal shame on all government representatives and citizens at all levels who are too cowardly to stand up for the right to life. If the high court attempts to make it a state issue, they have abdicated their duty to uphold the Constitution and show their own cowardice. At least, if protecting life becomes a state issue, half of the nation will rise to the challenge and create pockets of life and Liberty. Sadly, however, the plague will not end, divine judgements will not be averted, and the Declaration of Independence and Constitution will slide further down the totem of importance.” 

Was I right or was I wrong? If the babies who are being slaughtered at a higher rate could speak, they would tell you I was right, the Supreme Court was wrong, the Constitution has been even widely ignored by the states since 2022, and abortion is a scourge that will draw down the judgements of an offended God. 

To all the so-called “conservatives” who thought it was a genius idea to allow states to decide whether we have a right to life, spitting upon the Constitution and Declaration of Independence in the process, shame on you. Repent and throw your weight behind the Constitution and the God-given rights it guarantees to every America regardless of the state in which they reside. 

America is falling. We are buckling under the weight of our collective immorality, ignorance, apathy, arrogance, and contention. We are being divided and conquered by a single-minded Elite of Satanic conspirators who wish to subjugate us. The Roe v. Wade decision was a step forward on one hand, but a huge blow against whatever residual unity we still had in 2022. 

With baby murder now being enshrined as a “right” in the constitutions of several states, and with an activist Supreme Court that things states have a greater right to define life than does the U.S. Constitution which they are supposed to uphold, America is more hopelessly divided than before. In our divided state, we will be easier to rip apart – and, trust me, there are jackals within and abroad who are collaborating to rip us into pieces and devour the scraps. 

About a decade ago, I read a private communication revealed by Wikileaks, which I have unfortunately lost, between two Elitists discussing the rumblings of opposition among the general population. One of the two voiced concern about the popular uprising that was beginning to emerge. The other individual, however, simply laughed and said the political opposition meant nothing because their plan of undermining our morality was in full swing and succeeding on all fronts. 

History has proved this same point; namely, that immoral nations are incapable of Freedom. Benjamin Franklin warned about this when he said: 

“[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters” (Benjamin Franklin to Abbes Chalut and Arnoux, April 17, 1787). 

John Witherspoon agreed with his contemporary, contending: 

“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue. On the other hand, when the manners of a nation are pure, when true religion and internal principles maintain their vigor, the attempts of the most powerful enemies to oppress them are commonly baffled and disappointed” (John Witherspoon, “The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Man,” May 17, 1776). 

General Washington concurred, warning the nation of the need for religion and morality: 

“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” (George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796).   

Using the colorful lexicon which he employed so powerfully, John Adams asserted: 

“We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” (John Adams to the Massachusetts Militia, October, 11, 1798). 

Another time, Mr. Adams declared: 

“The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our people in a greater measure than they have it now, they may change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty. They will only exchange tyrants and tyrannies” (John Adams to Zabdiel Adams, June 21, 1776).  

Unless America repents of her wickedness and returns in humility to Jesus Christ who is the God of this land and embraces our Heaven-inspired Constitution with its guarantee of natural rights, such as the right to life, Liberty, property, self-defense, and conscience, she will fall. If we continue to sanction the slaughter of innocent children, and even celebrate the constitutionally illiterate judges who allow the slaughter to be institutionalized by the states in defiance of the Declaration of Independence and federal Constitution, we will deserve the terrible cleansing God has in store for us. 

Dear reader, I warn you that upholding the practice of abortion places you in opposition to the Kingdom of Heaven. To all, I say, prepare for the coming collapse. Get right with God. Pick yourself back up each time you stumble or backslide. We all do. We all need daily repentance. Even the dastardly evil of abortion can be repented of if the offender is sincere enough and goes through the proper process. Please try, as imperfectly as we mortals can, to follow in the footsteps of our Savior. His Gospel is the only path of holiness that leads to the Kingdom of Heaven and, I use the words deliberately, eternal life. 

Zack Strong 
November 18, 2023