A SENSIBLE AND DRAMA FREE DEFENSE OF BEING PRO-LIFE FROM A NORMALLY EMOTIONAL DRAMA QUEEN!

A SENSIBLE AND DRAMA FREE DEFENSE OF BEING PRO-LIFE FROM A NORMALLY, EMOTIONAL DRAMA QUEEN

     I believe that abortion is the taking of an innocent human life.  I also believe that too many women who choose to have an abortion do so without the truth of just what is going on with the developing pregnancy.   I further believe that because of the lack of true and factual information and the false perceptions that society creates about the rights of a woman to her own body, a majority of women, if given trustworthy information, would reconsider their decision to abort their child.

     The scientific facts are:  As reported in National Geographic’s 90 minute video, IN THE WOMB.

Before a woman has missed her first menstrual cycle, and even knows she is pregnant, a little heart has already begun beating at 21 days after conception.  At 40 days after conception, brain waves can be measured.  At 6--11 weeks, every organ has been formed.  Yet, the little person is less than 3 inches long!  At 8 weeks, the baby can suck his or her tiny thumb!  At 12 weeks, the baby has eyelids, toes, ears, a fully formed mouth, fingernails and even finger PRINTS!  The tiny child also has a fully working circulatory system, the gender of the child can be distinguished, red blood cells are already being produced in the liver and the baby can make a fist with his or her fingers.

At “the moment of conception an individual’s unique set of DNA is created.  [This DNA ] is a human signature that has never existed before and will never be repeated.”

In other words, your DNA makes you not only a human being, but a PERSON...

AN INDIVIDUAL!  

There is a horrible hypocrisy surrounding the issue of abortion, as well.  Roe vs Wade guaranteed the right to a legal abortion throughout the full nine months of pregnancy.  Since then, some states have put restrictions on the access to the procedure.  However, while such restrictions might shorten the time frame for an abortion to occur, and mandate that a minor must have the consent of a parent, it is still legal in all states for a woman to terminate the life of her unborn child

It is the term “Child” you will seldom hear used to describe what is being formed in the womb of a pregnant woman.  It is most often referred to as a “fetus”.  While the word actually means  “tiny child” or “offspring”,  perhaps few people realize that, since so many who support abortion on demand deny that the fetus is a human child.  And are careful never to use the word “child”. .. as if the two words have different definitions.

Now, for the most telling hypocrisy of the issue.  Let’s imagine this.  A pregnant woman at any point in her pregnancy is involved in  an automobile accident. She miscarries the baby.  The accident is not ruled her fault.  She can sue for the LIFE OF HER CHILD.

      If a pregnant woman is an addict and her drug causes the death of the child in her womb, she can be charged with manslaughter.  She can serve a prison sentence!  However...and here is the blatant hypocrisy of the legal questions surrounding the issue of abortion:  a pregnant woman can, LEGALLY, enter a womens “health” clinic, make a deliberate decision to have her baby cut out of her body or burnt to death from injections of saline  and no one is charged with anything.  

We have set up a justice system that protects the right of a woman to INTENTIONALLY end the life of her unborn child.  Do you see the insanity of this?  While a woman using drugs is responsible for the  death of her child, she did not intend to kill her baby by using drugs.  She was a substance abuser whose habit caused her to harm her child.  And when a person accidentally kills an unborn child, she or he must pay a monetary penalty.  If the accident which resulted in the unborn child’s death is caused by someone being DUI, the penalty can be more severe.  S/he may have to serve time in prison.

     If the death is an intentional choice, as abortion is, it is nothing more than a mass of tissue.  It is the woman’s right to extract the tissue from her body. Or the “fetus”.  If the life in the womb is terminated, unintentionally and accidentally, it is then called a baby.  The problem here is two-fold.  The life in the womb is a child, as the scientifc evidence proves.   And the legal definition of murder is the INTENTIONAL taking of an innocent life.  What would you call abortion?

And last, but surely not least, as a believer, as a Christian, God tells me that the life in the womb is no less than a unique human being, into whom God Himself has breathed life.  Life that God has known before the beginning of time.  When God says to Jeremiah,  “I knew you before I formed you in the womb..”,  He says the same thing to each of us.  God is the Creator and the Sustainer of Life.  All life.  And He calls each of us by name.  He knows the number of hairs on our heads and the number of our days.  

     And that little yet to be born baby, gently rocking in his or her mother’s womb, is every bit as loved and cherished by His Creator as we are.