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Democratic Party candidate Spencer Waugh stated, at the October 1, 2024, forum <\/a>for candidates for Iowa House District 21, that, \u201cYou also need to know that faith plays a role too. Because it always has. Jesus Christ is my Savior and I\u2019m not going to apologize for that. And my primary job as a Christian is to love God first and to love my neighbors second. And that is the lens that has helped me to serve others to serve my community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Who is our neighbor? When Christ was asked this question by a lawyer, Christ told how a man was robbed and beaten and left beside the road. Several persons came upon him but each turned away without helping. Finally, a Samaritan took care of the beaten man, bound his wounds, and paid for his care by another. When Christ asked the lawyer who was a neighbor to the victim, the lawyer answered, \u201cHe who showed him mercy.\u201d Christ answered: \u201cGo and do likewise\u201d. (Luke 10:25-37)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A depiction of the Good Samaritian by Francesco Bassano (Circa 1575)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Waugh was asked about his position on Iowa\u2019s heartbeat bill, which, with some exceptions, prohibits the killing of an unborn child by abortion after a heartbeat has been detected. Waugh answered the bill was \u201ctoo extreme\u201d. He claimed that the passage of this law may exacerbate the shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists in Iowa, which could ultimately endanger women and unborn children because \u201clife threatening conditions\u201d may not be detected in a timely manner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waugh also made the outlandish claim that \u201ca foundational problem with this bill is that it sets up a paradigm in which fundamentally, women are valued only for their reproductive organs.\u201d The heartbeat bill doesn\u2019t even mention a woman\u2019s reproductive organs. Does Waugh actually believe, through some form of intellectual voodoo, that wanting to protect an unborn child from abortion \u201csets up a paradigm in which fundamentally, women are valued only for their reproductive organs\u201d? Does he believe that the rejection of that paradigm makes abortion morally acceptable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waugh\u2019s purported concern for the lives of unborn children, hypothetically threatened by a shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists, contrasts sharply with a complete absence of any recognition by him, or any comment by him at all, on the very real danger of death by abortion for the unborn child selected for abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is the unborn child apparently a \u201cneighbor\u201d for Waugh, if it\u2019s care may be hypothetically threatened by a shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists, but the unborn child is not at all a \u201cneighbor\u201d if it faces the very real danger of death by abortion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Waugh is really motivated by Christian love for his neighbor, he ought to support the heartbeat bill, and \u201cshow mercy\u201d to the unborn child threatened by abortion. While he is considering that he might reflect that the most accurate translation of the Sixth Commandment, \u201cThou Shalt Not Kill\u201d is \u201cThou Shalt Not Murder.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Waugh should ponder the words of the man he identified as \u201cJesus Christ, my Savior\u201d: \u201cIt would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.\u201d (Luke 17:2) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald W. Bohlken of Indianola is an attorney and a retired administrative law<\/em> judge with the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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