I am not aware of God ever shutting down those clinics. Even though I prayed and prayed for the life of those babies. It was as if He was saying that He was giving them a choice.
There are several problems with this argument, especially from the perspective of Wesleyan theology, which I teach in my two mission parishes, in that It presupposes a Calvinist determinism which is contrary to Methodist Arminianism, and even under Calvinism or it still fails because it fails to acknowledge the idea of sinfulness and repentence, and under Arminianism it fails on an absolute basis because with Arminian theology, God, to quote the Book of Common Prayer, “desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live” but as Arminians, Wesleyans say that God gives us a choice.
To put it another way, it was absolutely not God’s will that the idols to the demon Moloch would be constructed in Gehenna, and of the horror that fires were lit in them into which even the people of Israel were deluded into sacrificing their children, God said “It had not occurred to me that you would do such a thing,” which is strong language from He who knows all things. However, despite the manifest evil of these Moloch idols, which like all idols are according to Psalm 95:5 LXX demonic (“The gods of the gentiles are demons”), God did not at the time destroy them, although it was within His power to do so, although fortunately most or all of them have been destroyed since, one would hope by the hand of the Jews under the Maccabean dynasty and the Roman Empire under St. Theodosius, with a few more hopefully eradicated by Muslims.
Likewise God did not immediately destroy the Coliseum, although the games were eventually banned under Emperor Honorius thanks to the intervention of St. Telemachus, who was the last of many Christians (including St. Ignatius of Antioch, who was famously fed to lions and who famously forbade the church in Rome from trying to rescue him) to receive the Crown of Martyrdom in the Arena, which he entered in an attempt to get between the gladiators and physically prevent them from fighting, which resulted in him being stoned by the crowd, which moved Emperor Honorius to repentance, which for him entailed the prohibition of the games.
Now the law prohibits Christians from obstructing access to abortion clinics, and we should not do that anyway; indeed earlier today I read a sermon by St. John Chrysostom on the importance of not depriving people of their moral agency. The point is that, contrary to your hypothesis, God having not yet eradicated abortion clinics does not mean that He approves of them, nor does it mean that He will not eradicate them in the future.
Indeed, we are moving closer to being delivered from this evil thanks to the ruling of the Supreme Court last summer, which was an act of enormous good, to the extent that in the years to come I think it is quite possible that some Christian members of the Supreme Court who made that decision, as well as a great many of the millions of Roman Catholic, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox and traditional Protestant Christians who campaigned for this might be beatified or even glorified as saints among the Catholics, Orthodox, and High Church Anglicans, Lutherans and Methodists who actively venerate the saints.
Clearly in some cases abortion is the "easy" choice if the baby has downs syndrome and will be a life time job to take care of a disabled child. I am still against abortion for any reason, but it is a difficult choice for people to make. I would not want to take care of their baby for them.
The mass murder of infants with Down Syndrome is a great tragedy of our time, reminiscent of ancient Sparta, where “defective” infants were discarded, or “Aktion T4” in the Third Reich in which “invalids” were given what today we would no doubt call “assisted suicide,” something the United Church of Canada has started to actually celebrate, writing a liturgy for it and allowing these homicides to occur in the apses of their parish churches! The tragedy of aborting or killing someone with Down Syndrome is that people with Down Syndrome actually can live enjoyable and fulfilling lives. And to me, abortion is at least as bad as killing them after birth, because with abortion one is even denying them the chance to experience a sunrise or any of the other pleasures of life.
Also, there are registries of couples which can be viewed online who have pledged a willingness to adopt and care for children with Down Syndrome, so it is not aa though these infants are without hope of proper medical care.
I am well aware that there are lots and lots of babies in Heaven. When we get there we will be teaching them and helping to take care of them. Jesus said heaven is all about the children. If people do not want to take care of their babies then heaven may not be the right place for them.
That is a beautiful sentiment.
