Don't Walk Away
This evening while I was driving home from Michelle's, I was listening to a Christian radio station here in Louisville and the radio host was interviewing a lady who had worked in an abortion clinic before coming to faith in Jesus.
It was a very interesting listen. She admitted that she was involved in the DEATH of nearly 35,000 unborn children, even the death of her OWN child. Also, she told stories of how the nurses and doctors would deceive the women by telling them that they are pregnant when, in actuality, they are not. In doing so, the business would profit from this deception. The issue is not the money, but rather, it's the deception.
So, what, right? Well, this shows that the abortion clinic workers and doctors do not care about the women and, obviously, the unborn children. Who could have the heart to murder an unborn child? I know there are arguments about when life actually begins but let's think about this:
- At conception, a separate, unique, human individual with its own genetic code comes into being, needing only food, water, shelter, and oxygen to grow and develop.
-Like the infant, the child, and the adolescent, the unborn baby is a being in the process of becoming. He/She isn’t a potential human life, but a human life with potential. The fetus doesn’t become more and more human and of greater and greater value. You didn’t come from a zygote, you once were a zygote (fetus, embryo, child).
-The Official Senate report on Senate Bill 158, the "Human Life Bill", summarized the issue this way: "Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being - a being that is alive and a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings."
-Everything that determines the individuality & originality of a person is established at conception. The first single cell contains the entire genetic blueprint in all its complexity.
-The baby is fully developed before his mother's pregnancy is even noticeable.
-There is no essential difference between an unborn entity and a newborn baby, just a difference in location.
So, what does the Bible say about Abortion?Psalm 139: 13-16 – “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Gen. 25:21-22 - “…and Rebekah his [Isaac’s] wife conceived. And the children struggled together within her…”
Jacob and Esau are referred to as “children.” The Hebrew word used, commonly refers to children after birth, and often has a more specific meaning, “sons.”
Luke 1:41-44 uses the usual Greek word for baby, brephos, to refer to the unborn John the Baptist, who “leaped in her [Elizabeth’s] womb” because of the presence of the unborn Christ.
Ex. 21:22-25 - In Old Testament Israel, a criminal injury that caused a pregnant woman’s unborn child to die was treated the same as any other murder. The criminal was punished less severely, only if the baby was born alive, although premature.
Things that make you go, hmmm…-Why is abortion OK, while killing a baby a pregnant woman is carrying is considered murder? Only difference is that one child is wanted!
-Why is abortion OK, but killing logger-head sea turtle eggs can get you arrested? Animals are great and should be protected, but it is absolutely asinine that we would adore animals and abort babies!
-“Pro-choice”… Does the baby get a choice? Pro-choice is really pro-abortion/pro-murder.
Final Thoughts...YOU could have been aborted...
YOU could have been rejected and unloved by your mother...
YOU could have been considered a "nothing"...
YOU could have been killed for no reason...
YOU could have been considered a nuisance...
You could have been helplessly murdered...
...but by the grace of God, you are alive.
(information provided by Daryl Summey, FBC Eastman, Ga)
