The "Abortion on Demand" issue

[Saving lives] From the Church of God, Seventh Day, Denver, CO.
USA.

Life and Death Choices

While we cheer pro-life progress, it's no time to give up the
fight.

by Brian Franks


0n the precipice of this new creation He stood, with one more
being to make. He had spoken everything else into existence, but
that would not be enough for this last effort, which would share
His likeness. No, His hands must form His greatest handiwork.
Stooping down to the dust, He gathered and sculpted it into
marvelous form, finishing with His own breath to give it life.
And then He declared it very good.

As the mother watched the procedure on ultrasound, the vacuum
catheter slowly approached its prey, harmlessly floating through
the amniotic fluid of her protective womb. This new creation had
done no wrong, said no words, good or bad. But if allowed to
continue, this life so thoughtlessly begun by its DNA donors
would be inconvenient to them. With the catheter now in position,
the vacuum was switched on and quickly disassembled this one so
fearfully and wonderfully being made. Another soul snuffed out.

Abortion is one of many human acts in which we think we know
better than God. We debate when life begins, thinking that if our
laws decide it's not at conception, then abortion isn't really
wrong.

Life debate

When does life start? Many thinkers regard birth as the
beginning, but science makes no mistake. Pro-abortion geneticist
Ashley Montagu admits, ". . . life begins, not at birth, but con-
ception" (naapc.org). Until prehuman nuclei from a man and woman
merge at conception, there exists only the potential for a human.
The moment they do unite, the resulting cell becomes a new and
unique human being.

An unborn baby has a beating heart, the symbol of life, just
three weeks after conception. That may be only a week after a
woman discovers she's pregnant. All these points are moot to most
Christians. God's Word says that each person's beginning and
identity are found in Him, long before conception. "Before I
formed you in the womb I knew you . . ." (Jeremiah 1:5; see also
Psalm 139:16). The conception that exists in God's mind is long
before we earth-parents get involved.

Abortion is impossible before conception because there is
nothing to abort. If human life begins at conception, then how is
it not murder? To murder is to strike one made in God's image,
though he has done nothing worthy of death. To approve abortion
is to not love our neighbor as ourselves. To abort is to destroy
the handiwork of God, who is "knitting" together that being in
the womb.

Reasons to abort

More incriminating to those who abort are the primary reasons
they do so. Women give three major reasons, according to the
Guttmacher Institute. Three-quarters say that having a baby will
interfere with work, school, or other responsibilities. Another
three-quarters say they cannot afford a child, and half say they
do not want to be single parents or are experiencing problems
with their husbands or partners (Abort73.com - U.S. Abortion
Statistics).

These are matters of convenience. None are life-threatening to
the mother. Politically, abortion may be called "pro-choice," but
the most important choices aren't much considered. The physician
chooses to make money, the parents choose their convenience, and
God's choice is ignored, as is the unborn's. Everyone who favors
abortion has already been born.

If you were the baby in the womb and could talk to your mother
who wanted to abort you, would you agree to it? A woman's right
to choose abor tion tramples the rights of lives that cannot yet
speak for themselves.

Christian response

What should the Christian do in response to the abortion issue?

* Educate yourself. Numerous Christian ministries provide
information on abortion, like Abort73 (abort73.com).

* Speak out. One who knows about evil but does nothing will be
held responsible for his silence (Leviticus 5:1, for example).
This is complicity, from which the word accomplice comes. This
does not mean illogical, raging arguments. Knowing the facts
about abortion, one can argue logically and kindly. Ezekiel (see
33:1-9) was appointed by God as a watchman to sound the alarm
when danger appeared. He was not responsible for how people
responded to the alarm.

* As you lift your voice about abortion, use the opportunity to
speak of the gospel and forgiveness also. Too often we con
demn and stop there. God is the judge, but He also loves to
forgive those who repent. Abortion too is forgivable. The church
is made up exclusively of sinners saved by grace.

* Finally, remember "Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children
a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3). Let us not think that we know
better than God. Let us delight in the gift of children and raise
them in the way everlasting.
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AS WE AS NATIONS HAVE TAKEN THE WEAKEST AND DEFENCELESS OF BEINGS
- THE UNBORN - AND KILLED THEM - BY THE MILLIONS OVER THE LAST
NUMBER OF DECADES; GOD SAYS HE WILL DEAL WITH US - OUR NATIONS -
AND THE WHOLE WORLD - WITHOUT MERCY. HE WILL ALLOW US ONE DAY TO
KILL OURSELVES SO MIGHTILY THAT ***IF*** JESUS DID NOT RETURN TO
STOP IT, NO FLESH WOULD BE SAVED ALIVE. WHAT HE HAVE SOWN WE
SHALL REAP - WE HAVE SOWN DEATH AND DESTRUCTION - WE SHALL REAP
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.

GOD IS BEING LONGSUFFERING AND PATIENT RIGHT NOW, SO SOME CAN
REPENT AND THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, COME TO SALVATION
AND INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. TO RULE WITH CHRIST ON THIS EARTH
OVER THE NATIONS FOR A GLORIOUS AND WONDERFUL AND PEACEFUL, NO
MORE DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN LIVES, 1,000 YEARS - THE AGE TO COME
SPOKEN ABOUT BY ALL THE HOLY PROPHETS SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN.
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