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G3 Ministries, Virgil Walker Attack Nebraska Pro-Life Amendment

This year, ten states will have ballot measures pertaining to abortion, each with varying requirements for ratification and different particulars that would be codified by the people. Nebraska, home to the Cornhuskers, is one of those states. What makes Nebraska unique is that they have two competing ballot measures pertaining to abortion.

The first would enshrine as an amendment the “fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability.” Fetal viability would be left to the “professional judgment of the patient’s treating health care practitioner,” per the amendment’s language. This is the amendment that pro-abortionists are seeking. This would effectively allow second and third-trimester abortions all the way until birth if the doctor agrees with the mother.

The second initiative was crafted as a response to the pro-abortion initiative. The language states:

Except when a woman seeks an abortion necessitated by a medical emergency or when the pregnancy results from sexual assault or incest, unborn children shall be protected from abortion in the second and third trimester.

This would effectively enshrine Nebraska’s current 12-week abortion ban into their Constitution. The exceptions as laid out above match the current law.

Per NBC:

For a ballot measure to pass in Nebraska, it needs to receive a majority of the vote and at least 35% of the total votes cast in the election in favor of it. If both amendments pass, the one with the most votes prevails.

In other words, both amendments could exceed the simple majority threshold but the amendment with the most votes becomes ratified. Since voters are stupid, they might check “yay” for both initiatives, failing to understand how the amendment process works. These are the rules and how the game is played unless one wishes to usurp the government, this is the process.

Enter Nebraska resident, Virgil Walker, Vice President of Ministry Relations for G3 Ministries. When it comes to politics, Walker is an abolitionist on the issue of abortion; however, G3’s notorious anti-Christian nationalist stance was partially spearheaded by Virgil Walker. G3 centers around its annual conference while providing resources primarily catering towards pastors, meaning their impact is multiplied if their consumers are pastors who then use their content inside the church ministries. Once again, their political ineptitude manifests regarding the dueling abortion amendments.

In his recent article entitled, “Nebraska’s Ballot Initiatives: Enshrining Death in the State’s Constitution” published through G3, Walker advocates voting NO on both ballot initiatives. Walker correctly interprets the first initiative to establish an arbitrary standard regarding viability, though he neglects to mention the “professional medical opinions” that would effectively allow women who want late-term abortions to seek out practitioners who will give them their heart’s desire.

But why does he oppose the second ballot initiative?

The second initiative, promoted by some pro-life organizations, is just as dangerous. It proposes to ban abortion after 12 weeks, with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. This measure might sound like a step in the right direction, but it is a trap—a dangerous compromise that perpetuates the very evil it claims to oppose. By allowing abortion up to 12 weeks, this initiative sends a clear message that it is acceptable to murder a child as long as it is done early enough. Worse, by including exceptions, it perpetuates the lie that some lives are less valuable than others, based on how they were conceived or the circumstances of their birth.

This is the standard abolitionist talking point, that any laws that include exceptions are inherently wicked; however, he does not hold that view towards laws, only amendments. Fundamentally, it is flawed and stems from an idealistic “all-or-nothing” approach to politics, failing to consider the current state of human depravity or the particular landscape. It is inconsistent with Reformed political thought which accounts for particularity and circumstance regarding matters of law. While undesirable, rape and incest exceptions represent a minutia of cases that are statistically insignificant, but make people, particularly nonbelievers, “feel good.”

This initiative is a feeble, diluted attempt to appease both sides of the debate, providing just enough to pretend moral superiority while permitting the legal destruction of human life. The mere consideration of exceptions—for rape, incest, or the life of the mother—betrays the essential belief that life is sacred from conception. These exceptions aren’t acts of compassion; they are acts of compromise, and compromising with evil is nothing short of surrender.

If only there was a third option for equal protection. Oh wait, there was. Choose Life Now sought to add a third ballot initiative centered around equal protection, but after a late start, it failed to get the requisite number of signatures. Ballot Initiative 2 is not a “diluted attempt to appease both sides” but a safeguard against the pro-abortion amendment from passing. This is playing defense, not offense. It is a means to protect the gains already achieved from being eroded by a wicked populace. Rather than having one means of defeating a pro-abortion amendment, that is via a NO vote on the amendment, there are two hurdles that the abortionists must overcome.

Walker goes on to emphasize the significance of amendments:

Even more concerning is the permanence these amendments would carry if they were passed. Once enshrined into the Nebraska Constitution, removing or amending them would require a Herculean effort…This is no easy task and is intentionally designed to ensure that constitutional changes are made only with substantial public support.

If these amendments are passed, we could be locking in the legal right to terminate life at 12 weeks for years, if not decades, making it incredibly difficult to reverse course and fully protect the unborn. These are not merely simple laws that the legislature—Nebraska’s Unicameral—can easily alter or repeal, like the current 12-week ban; they are fundamental amendments to the state’s constitution. Such changes would create an almost insurmountable barrier to achieving true justice for the unborn.

Amendments in Nebraska, like most states, function as “super laws” and the simple majority threshold makes amending a simple process, unlike Florida which necessitates a 60% majority. Achieving a simple majority is not a Herculean task for the Left, which has won in several red states. Furthermore, the amendment’s language does not prohibit future restrictions, whether they be equal protection laws, heartbeat bans, or a prohibition on abortifacients. Each of these would ignite future amendment fights. Going forward, every anti-abortion measure they pass will doubtless face repeat challenges through ballot measures. This initiative only enshrines the current restrictions as a foundation upon which to build.

One Shall Pass

Though polling is limited in Nebraska, this is one poll that precisely lays out why voting yes on the second initiative is imperative for Nebraskans.

Nebraska_Abortion_Polling

Currently, Yes on enshrining the 12-week ban into the state constitution would pass and is out-polling the “fetal viability” initiative. However, given the undecideds, the first initiative could still top 50% if enough undecideds break in favor. Or if they do not vote and skip the ballot measure, then they are not counted in the No category, which would also allow the Yes to achieve a simple majority. It also cannot be forgotten that there might be enough illiterate voters who will vote Yes on both. The pro-abortionists will have money to educate their voters and have them vote in favor of the first initiative.

The optics here matter. Since no anti-abortion ballot measure has succeeded since the overturn of Roe, the movement needs victories under its belt to build upon, and the greater the margin of victory for enshrining the 12-week ban as an amendment, the greater the mandate there is to pass further restrictions, including equal protection. A 51% victory is not a mandate for future legislation, but rather a deterrence. It is not enough for the second initiative to win, it must also run up the score.

Virgil Walker is suggesting that Christians vote No on both initiatives, which could in theory depress the results of Initiative 2 which would be a disaster if Initiative 1 outperforms. In a close race, a scenario could arise where Initiative 1 becomes enshrined in the Nebraska constitution, thus nullifying all the progress the pro-life movement has made in Nebraska, including the current 12-week ban. The downside risks far outweigh the benefits of Walker’s call to action.

Conclusion

Rather than understand or play politics as the rules dictate, Virgil Walker countersignals the viable pro-life amendment which could be defeated by the pro-abortion amendment. Failure to understand the risks of this election is how we lose down here. Walker has fewer qualms with exceptions in the existing law, believing these could be easily changed, but he refuses to use that rationale on an amendment, which is really just a “super law” that is easily passed by a simple majority. Rather than think logically about the stakes, Virgil Walker is purity spiraling on abortion, ultimately to the detriment of the pro-life movement.

G3 and Virgil Walker are influential to pastors across the country. Just as with all the other states with abortion measures on the ballot, Nebraskan Christians need all hands on deck to support the pro-life amendment and ensure that the pro-abortion amendment fails, and the church should be leading the drive to defeat the pro-abortion amendment. Purity Spiraling will never end abortion, but it will make one feel self-righteous.

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One Response

  1. these sorts of laws are a social challenge for me.
    i don’t see laws being passed at the zero-abortion level. if i am correct, there is a next best option: strongly stating such a position at all times. that is what i need to do more of

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