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1. God's law declares "Thou shalt not kill" (Rom. 13:9), literally, "Thou shalt do no murder." Murder is the deliberate taking of human life without provocation. Abortion in demand violates this sacred code. God hates hands that shed innocent blood (Prov. 6:16-17).
2. Jesus said, "all things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them" (Matt. 7:12). Every mother considering abortion, every doctor, parent or friend recommending it, should first ask himself, would I want my life terminated without trial or opportunity to defend my rights? Apply this golden rule and the abortion clinics would all be closed for lack of business.
3. Philippians 2:4 charges, "not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you to the things of others." Selfishness and personal interest are the underlying motives in the overwhelming majority of abortion cases. Mothers are thinking of their own convenience and careers. Some are demanding liberty to control their own bodies; thus abortion on demand. What is this but selfishness? This is a basic cause of unwed mothers choosing abortion rather than bearing the embarrassment of their sin.
4. Romans 1:31 says that the Gentiles were "without natural affection" and stood condemned for it. This term,astorgos, "denotes the want of affectionate regard towards their children. He doubtless refers here to the practice of common among heathens...of exposing their children, or putting them to death" (A. Barnes). Surely when a mother can deliberately kill the child in her womb she is lacking that normal, natural motherly affection God expects of us.
SOME MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS
1. To plan and carry through a abortion is "playing God". God gives life. Only He has the right to take it. Who are we to infringe upon His prerogatives?
2. Abortion is not the matter of "the mother's rights". Rather the question is, Is it Right Before God?
3. The time to exercise one's rights is before intercourse. It is a fact that where no sex is engaged in no unwanted babies appear.
4. The concept of a woman's right to control her body is faulty. First God gave her life and body. She is His by right of creation (Acts 17:25). If she is a Christian, her body is his again by the new birth. She was bought with a price, she is not her own (I Cor. 6:19-20). If she is married, she "hath not power over her own body, but the husband..."(I Cor. 7:4). True she has certain rights, but not unlimited. Those rights are subject to the higher will of God.
5. If abortion is accepted, upon what grounds would we oppose so called "mercy killings" of the defective, elderly, insane and depraved?
6. Is this practice really any different than the ancient Roman practice of infanticide? What is the difference in killing a child at 90 days or 275 days after conception?
7. If New York's 150,000 abortion deaths is accepted as amoral, what was so bad about Herod killing a few dozen babes at Bethlehem? or Pharaoh's command to drown all newborn Hebrew boys? Wherein lies the fundamental difference? Death certificates are issues for each abortion in New York.
8. The difference between an unborn child and a new born child is only a matter of time, not essence. The unborn child has all the potential of the day old child. The only difference in a day old baby and a pre-natal child is the way he feeds and obtains oxygen.
9. Abortion trends reflect the non-Christian evolutionary concept that man is only a highly evolved animal. It is part of secularism's dehumanization of mankind. One reason why people can accept this new attitude about abortion is that the present generation has been educated to think of themselves as only an extension of the animal realm.
10. The Supreme Court has obviously decided for paganism and against Christianity in this matter. The court observed, "ancient religion" did not bar abortion. This clearly refers to paganism since Judaism and Christianity did protest abortion.
11. A second century Christian writer said, "To hinder a birth is merely a speedier man-killing; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one..." ( The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles).
12. The noble Hippocratic Oath that all medical doctors use to take, states, "So far as power and discernment shall be mine, I will carry out regimen for the benefit of the sick and will keep them from harm and wrong. To none will I give a deadly drug, even if solicited... I will not aid a woman to procure an abortion." How ironical that this ancient pagan physician had a more exalted estimate of life than his modern counterparts...many of whom profess to be Christian.'
SOME ALTERNATIVES TO ABORTION
1. First, above all else, we recommend moral chastity and purity. No virgin ever faced this decision. Nor did she regret her continence.
2. The poor and those with health problems can practice birth control to prevent conception. This is not wrong.
3. The irresponsible can be voluntarily sterilized rather than to destroy their ill-conceived offspring.
4. Unwed mothers should bear their children with the aid and help of the church and society. If they choose not to keep them, then offer them for adoption to the thousands of couples anxiously desiring to find children to grace their homes.
Abortion is not a question of "public health" or of women's civil rights. It is a question of how a society looks upon human life in whatever form it appears. Man bears the image of the living God and the unborn child at the very least must be viewed as a potential image bearer of God (Ps. 139:13-16).
"A society that refuses to insist that abortion is a crime against humanity aborts its own future"(J.C. Nederhood). Legal right to abortion on demand does not grant moral right! The Christian is challenged to exercise his moral judgement and conscience more than ever before. Now we must refuse to take this alternative, not because it is illegal by man's law, but because we honor God's law and man, made in Jehovah's image. We Christians must cry out against this wickedness and boldly demonstrate the Christian reverence for human life. May God help every Christian and our national leaders to reverence the life made in the image of God.
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