Men Are Not Excused for Where They Sow Their Seed of Life

Massachusetts has crossed a line that should sober every man who claims the name of Christ. On August 10, 2026, Governor Maura Healey signed legislation that removes the state’s previous 24-week limit on abortion. The new standard is simple and expansive: an abortion may now be performed based upon the professional judgment of the physician. Gestational age is no longer a meaningful barrier. In practice, this means abortion is permitted up to the moment of birth.

She was celebrated for it. Advocates called it progress, compassion, and freedom.  A living, viable child—capable of feeling pain, of breathing, of being held—can now be ended because the state has decided that desire, under the covering of medical judgment, is sufficient.

Most public conversation stays locked in the familiar battle over women’s rights, bodily autonomy, and the role of government. Those arguments matter. But there is a deeper, more foundational failure that almost no one addresses with clarity: every abortion begins with a man.

No child is conceived without a man sowing his seed. The woman who later claims the absolute right to end that life did not create it alone. A man participated. In countless cases, a man chose her, pursued her, and deposited the potential of a human being into her body without first examining her character, her values, or her view of the image of God in the womb. Then he walked away—or stood by—while the culture handed her the legal authority to extinguish what he helped create.

This is not neutral. It is abdication.

Scripture gives us a hard and relevant word in the account of Onan in Genesis 38. Judah’s son Er died without leaving an heir. According to the custom of levirate marriage, Onan was commanded to go into his brother’s widow, Tamar, and raise up offspring for his brother. Onan went into her, but he deliberately spilled his seed on the ground so that he would not give offspring to his brother. The text is clear: what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.

Onan’s sin was not merely a private act of self-gratification. It was a calculated refusal of responsibility. He was willing to enjoy the intimacy, but he rejected the purpose and the duty that came with the seed. He treated the potential of life as something he could use and then discard for his own convenience. God judged him for it.

Men who casually sow their seed and then allow—or enable—the destruction of the life that results are walking in the same spirit. They treat the gift of procreation as a recreational privilege rather than a weighty stewardship. They deposit life without accepting the duty to protect it. They hand another person the power of life and death over their own progeny and call it freedom. It is not freedom. It is the same refusal Onan practiced: the refusal to accept the responsibility that accompanies the seed.

A man is not called to be passive about the consequences of his desire. He is called to exercise dominion over it. That dominion begins long before conception. It begins with the decision of where—and with whom—he will plant life. Do not sleep with a woman who believes a viable child is disposable. Do not give your seed to a woman who celebrates laws that permit the killing of the nearly born. Do not treat sex as a transaction, a conquest, or a temporary comfort when the possible outcome is a human life that someone else will claim the right to extinguish.

This is not about condemning every woman who has had an abortion. Many have been abandoned, pressured, or deceived. It is about men recovering the courage to stop creating the crisis in the first place. If men will choose wisely, many women will never face the “choice” at all. The most effective abortion prevention is not only better legislation—though just laws are necessary and worth fighting for. It is better men. Men who refuse to plant life where it will not be protected. Men who select wives and partners who revere the image of God rather than the autonomy that ends it.

Our culture has trained men to believe that sexual freedom is the highest good and that responsibility is optional. The result is a generation of men who sow indiscriminately and then outsource the moral weight of what they have done. They want the pleasure without the purpose. They want the intimacy without the obligation. In biblical terms, they are spilling their seed on the ground—not always in the literal act Onan performed, but in the deeper sense of rejecting the duty that the seed carries.

The fruit of the womb is called a reward in Scripture, not a problem to be solved by medical judgment after the fact. When a society celebrates the right to end that life up to the moment of birth, the men who fuel the practice with careless seed share the guilt. Silence is not neutrality. Passivity is not innocence.

There is a better way. It begins with men who fear God more than they fear missing out. It begins with men who understand that their bodies are not their own to use as they please, but temples to be governed. It begins with men who look a woman in the eye and ask hard questions about what she believes concerning the unborn before they ever share a bed. It begins with men who would rather walk in self-control than create a life they are not prepared to defend.

This is not legalism. It is manhood. It is the recovery of the responsibility that was always ours.

If you are a man who has been living below this standard, the answer is not endless shame. The answer is repentance and a new direction. Christ is the High Priest of our confession. He receives the man who turns, confesses, and begins again. The past does not have to define the future. But the future will be shaped by the choices you make from this day forward about where you sow.

That is why I invite you to take the 45-Day Challenge.

The 45-Day Challenge is a focused season of intentional manhood. It is designed to confront passivity, rebuild self-control, clarify purpose, and call men into the kind of disciplined, responsible living that protects rather than discards life. Over 45 days you will be challenged in the areas that matter most: purity, responsibility, spiritual authority, and the courage to lead. You will not be left alone in the process. You will be given a clear path and a community of men who are choosing the same road.

If the news from Massachusetts has stirred something in you—if you recognize that the crisis of abortion is also a crisis of masculine abdication—then do not stop at outrage. Move toward action. Begin with your own life. Choose where you sow. Accept the weight of the seed. Refuse to treat potential life as disposable.

Take the 45-Day Challenge. Step into the kind of manhood that does not create crises for others to solve. Become the kind of man who protects life by the way he lives before it is ever conceived.

The culture will continue to celebrate the expansion of abortion. Men of God must answer with something stronger than protest. We must answer with lives of integrity, self-control, and holy responsibility.

Choose carefully where you sow. Do not spill the seed of responsibility on the ground.