Abortion…it is a practice
that should have every Christian screaming and running for the door if someone
said they had to do it. If a Christian willingly agrees to this practice they
should know it is unbiblical. They should be examining their heart and their
heads to assure they are walking a Christian walk if they pursue this course of
action. I believe the more liberal of our persuasion prefer the term
pro-choice. I personally see it as pro-murder...but enough of my views.
For the sake of brevity and
clarity I will save the topic of pregnancy terminations due to survival threat
to the mother (as in ectopic pregnancy) and/or rape issues for another time. I am not avoiding it. That
would be intellectual cowardice and an easy way out. I will not do this. These
two variables (rape & survival) in particular are thorny at best when it
comes to the choice to have an abortion. Unfortunately, these variables are
often used to re-frame the argument of killing an unborn child. In these
situations the victims of rape often become a victim twice. First from the
rapist and then by the politicized pro-choice movement that use them as
exceptions to the rule but they are not the norm. As is obvious, everyone is
free to choose their own actions, right or wrong. People can make righteous
decisions and unrighteous ones. I agree, it is a matter of choice: The choice
to murder or not to murder. I cannot make people do things. I can inform them
though. I will say that, in my opinion, the only possible acceptable situation
for termination is if BOTH lives are in jeopardy and even this is a tentative situation-based and positional statement. In any case this should be exceptionally
rare.
I am primarily focusing on
abortion as birth control method and abortion as irresponsibility of the
parties involved (i.e.: people that want to play, but they don't want to pay).
The type of irresponsible behavior that ends up leading to wholesale slaughter.
Unfortunately, adult businesses/enterprises like Planned Parenthood usually
prey on those in society that are socially or financially disenfranchised or
worse, they prey on the young. Young girls that have a much more difficult time
making mature decisions in the absence of a parent (where many will need to
make this decision as parents are not informed most times). These young women
will then need to live with this traumatic and life-changing decision the rest
of their lives.
The Bible is clear of the
condition of the unborn in the womb and murder in general. I will throw in a
few early Christian views sources for good measure as many were based in the
Bible anyway. Let’s review shall we?
Biblical Sources:
Human life begins in the
womb.
Psalms 139:13-14 “For you created my inmost being; you
knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and
wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I
knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a
prophet to the nations."
God considers us to be human
before we are born. Before God gave Moses this law, He gave Noah animals for
food and said, "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its
blood". At the same time, God gave the law and penalty for murder
(shedding of "man's blood").Therefore, God considers blood to be the
basis for life (blood is also a metonymy for life) and the shedding of human
blood which results in death to be murder. A heart of the human fetus begins to
form 18 days after conception. There is a detectable heart beat at 21-24 days
after conception. Therefore blood pumps in the veins of a fetus and blood flow
would allow for bleeding...so...blood-letting in this situation that lead to a
death...would be murder. End of discussion.
The most damning evidence
that says and unborn can be viewed as a human in person/persona is in the birth
narrative of Luke of our Lord Jesus Christ. In context these women knew this
was the Messiah based on Elizabeth’s response, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!” We
then hear…
Luke 1:41 ~“And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of
Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy
Spirit”
Luke 1:44 ~“For behold, when the sound of your
greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.”
In other words, infants in
the womb are reactive. They respond to stimuli. This is the sign of a cognizant
being (human). What’s more, this wasn’t just any human being it was the Son of
God. If he is indeed considered a person in the womb, who are we to doubt? Can
we even imagine if someone have attempted to abort Jesus Christ. How could we
possibly say that anything in the womb is not human when we can see a narrative
right in the Gospels about our Lord Jesus Christ In Utero being referred to as a person. If he…then logic follows that
everyone else would be human in the same situation. The thought of killing
Jesus in the womb is unthinkable but then again…this is essentially what Herod
tried to the same thing outside the womb and it is what the religious leaders
like the Scribes and the Pharisees succeeded in doing at Jesus’ Crucifixion.
The progressive barbarians
will have us believe things are much better now that we have the killing
covered by our insurance and by taxpayers through organizations like Planned
Parenthood (thank you Margaret Sanger). If anything we have regressed as we
have now industrialized and automated the processes to make the killing more
expedient, efficient and clean. Frankly, we are just as barbaric in our
butchery as we have always been since time immemorial. To me, any practice that
leaves one dead and the other injured is not health care...it’s either an
attack or war.
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