Abortion

In an Ann Landers column, a story is told of a professor in a world-acclaimed medical school once posed this medical situation -- and ethical problem -- to his students: "Here's the family history: The father has syphilis. The mother has TB. They already have had four children. The first is blind. The second had died. The third is deaf. The fourth has TB. Now the mother is pregnant again, The parents come to you for advice. They are willing to have an abortion, if you decide they should. What do you say?" The students gave various individual opinions, and then the professor asked them to break into small groups for "consultation." All of the groups came back to report that they would recommend abortion. "Congratulations," the professor said, "You just took the life of Beethoven!"



Abortion is clearly the devils sales package to prevent a generation of new leaders, champions and heroes in our society.Evidently we don't want humans to live unless they are perfect to our expectations and our own selfish ideals. Let me explain. A recent poll found in The Utne Reader, quoted from the Signs of the Times in it's January 1993 issue page 6 said that of couples in New England revealed that, if they were able to know these things in advance, 1 percent of them would abort a child on the basis of sex, 6 percent would abort a child likely to get Alzheimer's disease, and an incredible 11 percent would abort a child predisposed to obesity.



This is truly sick people. In our opinion, at not cost should any child be aborted.The Bible is very clear that a child is formed by the Lord. Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee".



So we see here from scripture that God forms children and KNOWS them. Is there a way to know a fetus or a child. It is very clear that the unborn is clearly children that are being legally slaughtered with the condoning and stamp of approval of the United States government.Now that is what God says but let's for a moment look at what modern day medicine says.



According to the publication, Sanctity of Life with C Swindoll 1990 p 11-12, Medical authorities determine a person to be "alive" if there is either a detectable heartbeat or brain-wave activity. With that in mind, it is eye-opening for some to realize that unborn children have detectable heartbeats at eighteen days (two and one-half weeks) after conception and detectable brain-wave activity forty days (a little over five and one-half weeks) after conception. What is so shocking is that essentially 100 percent of all abortions occur after the seventh week of pregnancy.



The royal leader, pastor and prophet; Moses laid it out very clearly with few words to cover the issue in Exodus 20:13, "Thou shall not kill". However, blood is running throughout the streets of America. It is happening at a rate that is beyond your comprehension. Are you sitting down? How many children are aborted? Worldwide, 55 million unborn children are killed every year. That is enough to wipe out 44 of the largest cities in the United States starting with New York and Los Angeles and the list goes on. Entire city populations we are killing. What if bombs destroyed the 44 of the largest cities in America? What would be our reaction? Worse than that these are innocent babies.




Around the world, every day 150,685 children are killed by abortion; every hour, 6278; and every minute, 105. Those are the reported cases. If you are an American citizen, no doubt your greatest interest is in your own nation, as is mine. Let me break the abortions down to a national statistic: 1,600,000 babies are aborted in these United States every year. Per day, that's 4,383; per hour, that's 183; per minute, there are 3. C. Swindoll, Sanctity of Life, Word, 1990, p. 13

Abortion is not a modern idea. We hear the origins of abortion spoken in the book of Psalms. "Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto idols of Canann: and the land was polluted with blood". Psalms 106:37, 38

The land, the United States land is polluted. Polluted not with gas and emissions from vehicles and factories, but with blood. Innocent blood pollutes our streets and our cities.

It is very difficult for us as a family to even imagine a "christian" voting for anyone in public office who thinks it's ok to make abortion or the shedding of innocent blood legal.

What about a woman's right? If a woman understands that her body is not her own but belongs to the Lord, she will not think she has so many rights over herself. Instead, she must understand that her body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in her. If we look at the cause of Abortion we will see that the reason most have it is because of selfishness. Why are children aborted? The Alan Guttmacher Institute (the research arm of Planned Parenthood) states: * 1% are victims of incest or rape * 1% had fetal abnormalities * 4% had a doctor who said their health would worsen if they continued the pregnancy * 50% said they didn't want to be a single parent or they had problems in current relationships * 66% stated they could not afford a child *75% said the child would interfere with their lives. Statistics cited in Rescue Update, June/July 1989, Southern California Operation Rescue, quoted in Sanctity of Life, C. Swindoll, Word, 1990, p. 12.

When we submits our bodies holy and acceptable unto God as a living sacrifice, which is our reasonable service unto God, (Romans 12:1,2) then we will clearly know the good, acceptable and perfect will of God for our lives. If you have had an abortion in the past you should renounce this as a sin and repent of it. Ask God to forgive you of this sin of murder and ask God for to have mercy upon you. Did you know that God will also forgive this sin and that, if truly repentant from the heart, God will give you a way to continue living with yourself.D
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