Random thoughts on abortion (formerly known as child sacrifice)
The law of our land today is that any abortion is legal in America until birth if the mother can give reason that the pregnancy or the child will be an excessive burden or stress on her well-being. Founders of the constitution didn't address abortion because they didn't think we could invent something so horrible.
The fundamental argument for slavery was that they are not free and equal persons but the property of their masters. The ruling is comparable to Roe vs. Wade because today no state may make a law banning abortion to protect the unborn. The argument is similar: basically because the unborn are at the sovereign disposal of their mothers and do not have personal standing in their own right. But the issue was so fundamental that the states went to war, and in the end the Lincoln administration overturned the Dred Scott decision. And today, 130 years later, we look back with amazing consensus and marvel at the blindness of our forefathers.
In the Bible the word (child or babe) used for the pre-born is the same as the born. Even medieval authorities determined a person to be alive if there is either a detectable heartbeat or brain-wave activity.
Former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop said, “In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.” HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE C-SECTION?
Whether that baby was a product of rape, or whether that baby was in some way malformed, how could a woman think that child in her was an enemy ?
Are you willing to explain why most cities have laws forbidding cruelty to animals, but you oppose laws forbidding cruelty to human fetuses? Are they not at least living animals?
Are you willing to explain why government is unwilling to take away the so-called right to abortion on demand even though it harms the unborn child; yet government is increasingly willing to take away the right to smoke, precisely because it harms innocent non-smokers, killing 3,000 non-smokers a year from cancer and as many as 40,000 non-smokers a year from other diseases?
Use your imagination to see and feel what is really happening behind those sterile clinic doors. If you could see each little handiwork of God and what it looks like when it is being crushed or poisoned or starved, you would say, "This can’t be happening. Civilized people do not do this!" It was the same at Auschwitz. The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient basis is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long – like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.
How do you get from, “We do not know whether this is protectable human life,” to “Therefore, we will not protect it?” Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?
Ways to be actively involved in the solution:
1. Consider adoption.
2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
3. Volunteer in a Crisis Pregnancy Center.
4. Be involved in spreading truth with good literature.
5. Make your presence know at the abortion clinics in town by writing or phoning or visiting and talking, if you can, with those who work there.
6. Dream a new kind of ministry.
7. Pray for change!
I love you mommy
The fundamental argument for slavery was that they are not free and equal persons but the property of their masters. The ruling is comparable to Roe vs. Wade because today no state may make a law banning abortion to protect the unborn. The argument is similar: basically because the unborn are at the sovereign disposal of their mothers and do not have personal standing in their own right. But the issue was so fundamental that the states went to war, and in the end the Lincoln administration overturned the Dred Scott decision. And today, 130 years later, we look back with amazing consensus and marvel at the blindness of our forefathers.
In the Bible the word (child or babe) used for the pre-born is the same as the born. Even medieval authorities determined a person to be alive if there is either a detectable heartbeat or brain-wave activity.
Former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop said, “In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.” HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE C-SECTION?
Whether that baby was a product of rape, or whether that baby was in some way malformed, how could a woman think that child in her was an enemy ?
Are you willing to explain why most cities have laws forbidding cruelty to animals, but you oppose laws forbidding cruelty to human fetuses? Are they not at least living animals?
Are you willing to explain why government is unwilling to take away the so-called right to abortion on demand even though it harms the unborn child; yet government is increasingly willing to take away the right to smoke, precisely because it harms innocent non-smokers, killing 3,000 non-smokers a year from cancer and as many as 40,000 non-smokers a year from other diseases?
Use your imagination to see and feel what is really happening behind those sterile clinic doors. If you could see each little handiwork of God and what it looks like when it is being crushed or poisoned or starved, you would say, "This can’t be happening. Civilized people do not do this!" It was the same at Auschwitz. The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient basis is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long – like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.
How do you get from, “We do not know whether this is protectable human life,” to “Therefore, we will not protect it?” Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?
Ways to be actively involved in the solution:
1. Consider adoption.
2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
3. Volunteer in a Crisis Pregnancy Center.
4. Be involved in spreading truth with good literature.
5. Make your presence know at the abortion clinics in town by writing or phoning or visiting and talking, if you can, with those who work there.
6. Dream a new kind of ministry.
7. Pray for change!
I love you mommy
