Walk on a breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Back in February, James Tallerico, a U.S. Senate candidate from Texas, claimed that the biblical

story of the enunciation from the Gospel of Luke supports his pro-abortion position.

It was on the Joe Rogan podcast that he asserted

that because the angel sought Mary's consent, a woman also has the right to choose her own

pro-creative destiny. Now, the most obvious flaw with that assertion is that the angel did not,

in fact, ask Mary's permission for anything. The angel the Lord said,

quote, and behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name

Jesus. Now, Mary, of course, submits to accept this as the will of God, but the only person

with questions in the whole conversation was Mary. The angel declared what was going to happen.

Mary humbled herself and accepted it as a calling on her life.

The deeper flaw in this and just about every other pro-abortion argument

is the assumption that whatever's in the womb is not a human life worth protecting.

The inherent value of life in the womb, as evident throughout Scripture,

from Psalms to Jeremiah to Isaiah to Job to Joshua, is something that Christians have insisted upon since the very earliest

days of the church. To deny this theological reality, as Talariko does, is to commit a

Christological heresy. Because in the same chapter in Luke, Elizabeth declared

that her baby, John the Baptist, leapt in her womb when he heard the voice of, and I quote,

the mother of her lord. In other words, both John in the womb and Elizabeth out of the womb,

sense that the Lord was present, though still in his mother's womb. And there are other passages

of scripture that are

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