Abortion

"For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb; (14) I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well."                                           Psalm 139:13-14.  NKJV

Is abortion wrong? Of course it is, because it is the act of taking a life. Many people will disagree with this but it is murder. Abortionists would argue with this statement. There are many Pros and Cons to this debate. One such American debate, reads as follows:
Pros 

'Personhood begins after a foetus becomes “viable” (able to survive outside the womb) or after birth, not at conception. Embryos and foetuses are not independent, self-determining beings, and abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, not a baby. A person's age is calculated from birth date, not conception, and foetuses are not counted in the US Census. The majority opinion in Roe v. Wade states that "the word 'person,' as used in the Fourteenth Amendment [of the US Constitution], does not include the unborn."

Cons

Abortion is the killing of a human being, which defies the word of God.The Bible does not draw a distinction between foetuses and babies: the Greek word brephos is used in the Bible to refer to both an unborn child and an infant. By the time a baby is conceived, he or she is recognised by God, as demonstrated in Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee." The Sixth Commandment of the Bible's Old Testament, "Thou shalt not kill" (Exodus 20:13), applies to all human beings, including unborn babies. In the Hindu religion, the holy text Kaushitaki Upanishad states that abortion is an equivalent misdeed to killing one's own parents. The BBC states that "Traditional Buddhism rejects abortion because it involves the deliberate destroying of a life.                   https://abortion.procon.org

The bible points to the fact that children in the womb have Spiritual Identity. Pat Robertson says:

'From the moment of conception, there is a progression of development that continues through adulthood. God condemned the Israelites who were offering their children as sacrifices to the heathen god Molech. Such children, were burned up in fires of sacrifice (Leviticus 20:2) and offered to a god of sensuality and convenience. The same is occurring today and by acting in this way, we are saying that human beings are not worth anything.'
                                                       Spiritual Answers to Hard Questions Pat Robertson

The prophet Jeremiah was called  by God even before he was born: 'Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.' (Jeremiah 1:5)

John the Baptist, leaped in his mother's womb when the voice of Mary - Jesus' mother, was heard. (Luke 1:44) Therefore, obviously, children in the womb have Spiritual Awareness. They sense and probably hear things.

There may be the odd occasion, probably caused by an accident or severe illness, where a termination is the only way forward. However, this must be an exception. Many women long for a baby but for many reasons, their wishes and hopes are not granted. How do they feel when someone who becomes pregnant, decides to have an abortion because it will not fit their lifestyle. You may be one of the many barren women that know how this feels.

Life is life. We only get one crack at it and as Christians, we must take a stand against this practise. There is little difference in what the early Israelites did to their children and what is happening today. It is barbaric and needs to be made illegal.

We need to pray for what is happening in our world today. There are signs of decay all around. While politicians play games with people's lives, we should not sit back without taking action. Otherwise our whole credibility goes out of the window. If we don't shout, we'll go without.

We can't just sit around, going through the actions of Christianity. We can't turn a blind to what is going on. We need to pray and then pray some more because, Jesus wants this changing!

Copyright 2019 Grahame Howard

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