Every day 3, 700 unborn children are murdered through the gruesome practice of abortion. That’s more than were killed in the World Trade Center in 2001. The whole nation mourned their deaths and many did not think that we would ever be able to overcome our loss. However, more babies than that die every single day and barely anyone even takes the time to realize what a tremendous loss that is to the human race.
A classic question regarding abortion is whether a fetus is human? Yes, it is. A human being is generally determined as having a heartbeat and a brain—a fetus has both after forty days. If we were to take size into account, I would have to point out that a short person can still be ninety years old. Age and humanity have absolutely nothing to do with size.
Have you ever realized that there is only a difference of the eight inches of birth canal between an unborn and a newborn? If life does not exist until the baby is actually born, what happens to suddenly humanize the baby in those eight inches? A baby is still a baby, no matter what. This we can see by ultrasounds and the baby moving around in the womb.
God is pro-life. In Psalm 139, verses 13-16, David says, “Oh, yes, You shaped me first inside, then out; You formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank You, High God—You’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, You know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, You watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before You, the days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.” (The Message Version)
Another Scriptural example is when Rebekah was expecting Jacob and Esau. The two were wrestling inside the womb, and the Lord said that they would be two nations fighting against each other. God knew even then that He had a plan for them, just as He does for you, me, and all those unborn children. God would never let a child be born when it was not the right time for it, and He knows what is going on in the life of the mother as well as the child. He has a special, unique plan for each of His creations, and He wants to see His plan fulfilled.
If you think on philosophical terms, what grounds can there possibly be to define the unborn as being inhuman? The child thinks and reasons, it has a heartbeat, and it can feel pain. I am quite sure that no one would be able to logically refute these three points as not being necessary for humanity.
There may be a few, rare circumstances in which abortion could be vindicated, however, it is murder. One is when the mother’s life is in danger, and it is certain that she will never be able to carry the baby to full term. Then I believe that it is okay to abort the baby who would die either way. Also, if it is a tubal pregnancy, which would result in the death of both mother and child, then I feel that it would be okay to abort the child. However, these are the only two times that I feel it would be okay.
When a woman is raped and becomes pregnant, I believe that she should have the child and then she could either decide to keep it or put it up for adoption, but abortion really is not the answer to something like that. Along with an abortion comes an incredible amount of guilt which shows itself in the way of nightmares, depression, and continual sickness. Someone who has already been hurt so badly certainly does not need to deal with the charge of murder haunting them for the rest of their life. The guilt does not only happen to the mother; many fathers have been afflicted with the same.
Of course, there is always the argument that a woman has the right to choose. In all cases, except rape, the woman does choose—before intercourse. After that, she is committed and it is not a matter of convenience or expense—it’s a reality. My question about a woman’s right to choose is this; would it not be considered murder when a mother kills her newborn baby? How is it any different with an unborn child? Also, since when did we humans have the divine right to choose who can and cannot live (outside of the death penalty which is provided for in Scripture)?
My biggest argument is that the child can feel pain. How in the world can a doctor abort and kill a baby who is grabbing onto his fingers in an effort to get them to stop inflicting pain upon them? How can someone see that and not know that an unborn child is just as human as the rest of us?
One third of my generation is gone. Imagine what it would be like if one of every three children in your hometown were killed—madness, chaos, extreme grief. That is what has happened to my generation—they have all been murdered, and I fear for the future of this nation if this massacre continues at this rate. I beg of you, please listen to what I have to say and find something you can do to try and stop this widespread practice.
All of your arguments: the baby has a heart and a brain, the baby can feel pain – can be applied to an animal too. Why is it that so many of the people who are vehemently against abortion or perfectly okay with slaughterhouses and the factory-farming of meat for food?
Many of your arguments, about the gruesomeness of abortion, the baby grabbing onto the doctor’s fingers, the heartbeat and brain – apply only to a fetus which is, as you say, more than 40 days old, and even at that age it still more akin to a clump of cells than a baby. So how do those arguments hold for clump of cells that is less than 40 days old? Yes, they are more than just a clump of cells, but why, at that particular age and state of growth are they given more importance than those human beings and creatures that are actually alive and suffering in the world? And why are pro-lifers more concerned about a less than 40 day old fetus than a child of a rape victim who may grow up with all the trauma associated with his parentage and the ill-prepared and pyschologically damaged mother. Not to say that no victim of rape can successfully mother, but if a person feels that she cannot provide adequate emotional and financial support for her child, than it is also an act of love compassion toward the future child to not bring it into a life of misery.
Personally, if someone had aborted me (before 40 days), that would have been okay because I wouldn’t even have had a brain to know that I was supposed to have been born and I wouldn’t have had a heart to feel any sorrow. I’d much rather be saved in that way than to have some pro-lifer force my mother to have me and then abandon all concern for my welfare once I’ve been born, leaving me to struggle through life with emotional trauma, an ill-prepared mother and the whims of adoption
“My biggest argument is that the child can feel pain. How in the world can a doctor abort and kill a baby who is grabbing onto his fingers in an effort to get them to stop inflicting pain upon them?”
I concur with all that you wrote. People are always coming up with reasoning to justify their actions. They are making themselves “gods”. They put their own needs and wants before everything else. Self absorbed—selfish.
Response to “me”: Animals and humans are not the same. All creation was vegetarian…read.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i4/differences.asp
http://bible.com/bibleanswers_result.php?id=167
There is suffering of all sorts in this world. It is all due to the fall of man and the curse. Satan is behind all of it. We should all have a heart for those who are oppressed and afflicted; the poor, the widow, those who are raped, those who are hungry, those who are murdered, beat, enslaved, lost, confused, cheated, hurt, etc. Yes even the unborn!
There is a better way: adoption. So many married couples are unable to have a baby and want one…They gladly will want aborted babies.
By the way a fetus is a life, a baby. Keep saying “tissue” because it sounds better. Go ahead, conform yourself to the ways of this world and be everyone’s puppet even the devil’s. Your flesh wants to have its way so continue to please it and harden your heart to the truth. Yes, that’s a lot better than standing up for what is RIGHT.
The next time you enjoy something so pleasurable (ice cream, a warm bath, a breath of fresh air, a cozy bed), just remind yourself you would have never experienced that had you been aborted.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. [The Hebrew words rendered fool in Proverbs denote one who is morally deficient.]