In this election year, abortion will once again be a key issue. In the political arena there are those who will say that we should not vote for a person based solely upon their position on abortion, that is not the only issue and may not be the most important. That raises the question as to the importance of the abortion issue. There is no longer any doubt that life begins at conception and that a human body develops very rapidly in the womb so that by the time a woman knows she is pregnant, a human child is already forming in her womb. For example, a face will form after just 2 weeks and a heart will be beating at 65 beats per minute after just 4 weeks.
The Bible teaches that we are human beings from the womb such as, “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;” (Psalm 139:13-14) and both our Lord and John the Baptist were referred to as who they were while still in the womb, (Luke 1:39-45). It is also obvious that to kill the innocent is a sin, to commit murder is a capital crime under the Noahic covenant (Genesis 9:5-6) and the law of Moses (Exodus 21:12-23) and still in many states in the U.S.
The key question becomes what is the value of human life? Is one life of more value than another and is the other life expendable under certain conditions? Who then makes that decision as to what life has value and what life does not? In Hitler’s Germany it was decided that Jews and other people groups were a social inconvenience and that the solution to the social problem was death to these people groups. Some of the current social issues that are in need of a solution are things such as: rape, incest, bringing a child into a life of poverty and hardship, the mother is too young to raise a child, or the child is just too inconvenient.
We live in a society that is presently too stupid and incapable of solving these problems, therefore, the best this society can do is to kill the baby. When death becomes a solution to a social problem then the only question remaining is who is next to die? So yes, it is a big deal when a politician cannot solve a social problem without killing the innocent. All life is given by God, beginning at conception and all life has value as all are created in the image of God.
Those who defend abortion contend that a woman has a right to do with her own body as she wills. The word abortion is used to disguise what is really going on. The word abort simply means to deliver before its due. A military mission may be aborted which means that they called off the mission before they actually carried it out or before it was due. A baby can and has been aborted alive, an abortion, in and of itself, does not cause the death of the child.
There must be a procedure to kill the baby and then abort it, otherwise known as murder. Now as to the right of a mother to do with her own body whatever she wills, the baby is not her body. If a woman decides to have her tonsils taken out or has an appendectomy, or has an arm cut off, those body parts have the same DNA code as the rest of her body. A baby, however, from the moment of conception has his/her own individual DNA and many times even has a different blood type and can be a different gender. The chromosomes of a baby come from both his/her mother and father to make up one new and individual person.
If women really want to have freedom of choice, then their choice needs to be made before conception. A woman does have the right over her own body, she can choose who she is going to give her body to for the purpose of pleasure and the conceiving of a child. She can choose to remain upright, fully clothed with her legs together. Once a child is conceived, that child is a different person with a body separate from his/her mother’s body. To kill the baby is to murder a unique and innocent person. One has to pause and ask, what kind of society condones the murder of a child while in what should be the safety of their mother’s womb? Those who have believed on the Lord Jesus understand the value of human life and that a society that values life over death is better for it.