ABORTION
State
officials must know that we are serious about stopping abortion, which is a
matter of clear principle concerning the babies themselves and concerning a
high view of human life.
Certainly
every Christian ought to be praying and working to nullify the abominable
abortion law. But as we work and pray, we should have in mind not only this
important issue as though it stood alone. Rather, we should be struggling and
praying that this whole other total entity “(this godless) worldview” can be
rolled back with all its results across all of life.
Francis Schaeffer
A
Christian Manifesto, Crossway, 2005.
I agree
with Raymond Johnston, the director of CARE Trust, when he wrote in a newspaper
article: “I personally am convinced that the destruction of the unborn on this
massive, deliberate scale is the greatest single offence regularly perpetrated
in Britain today, and would be the first thing an Old Testament prophet redivivus
[revived; back to life] would reproach us for.”
John Stott
Issues Facing Christians Today, Zondervan,
2006.
For the
fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and
it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to
enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a
field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought
surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has
come to light.
John Calvin
Commentary,
Exodus 21:22.
Ten
Reasons Why it is Wrong to Take the Life of Unborn
Children:
1. God commanded, "Thou shalt not murder" (Exodus 20:13).
2. The destruction of conceived human
life – whether embryonic, fetal, or viable – is an assault on the unique
person-forming work of God.
3. Aborting unborn humans falls under the
repeated biblical ban against "shedding innocent blood."
4. The Bible frequently expresses the
high priority God puts on the protection and provision and vindication of the
weakest and most helpless and most victimized members of the community.
5. By judging difficult and even tragic
human life as a worse evil than taking life, abortionists contradict the
widespread biblical teaching that God loves to show His gracious power through
suffering and not just by helping people avoid suffering.
6. It is a sin of presumption to justify
abortion by taking comfort in the fact that all these little children will go
to heaven or even be given full adult life in the resurrection.
7. The Bible commands us to rescue our
neighbor who is being unjustly led away to death.
8. Aborting unborn children falls under
Jesus' rebuke of those who spurned children as inconvenient and unworthy of the
Savior's attention.
9. It is the right of God the Maker to
give and to take human life. It is not our individual right to make this
choice.
10. Finally, saving faith in Jesus Christ
brings forgiveness of sins and cleansing of conscience and help through life
and hope for eternity. Surrounded by such omnipotent love, every follower of
Jesus is free from the greed and fear that might lure a person to forsake these
truths in order to gain money or avoid reproach.
John
Piper
Ten Reasons Why it is Wrong to Take the Life of
Unborn Children, Sermon: April 7, 1989, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by
Permission.
A
conservative estimate of unborn babies killed in the world each year is 30
million – about a third of those in Russia. Romania is reported to have the
highest abortion rate in the world (3 out of 4 pregnancies). In America, since
the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 made it legal to take the lives of an unborn
baby for any reason, there have been about 43 million abortions. One baby
aborted every 26 seconds, 151 every hour, 3,629 every day.
John
Piper
Abortion and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil, Sermon: January 25, 2004, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
At this
time in American history, (this) is one of the most powerful sentences a person
can speak: “I do not want a child at this time.” It's powerful, because in a
world without God, and without submission to His will, the will – the “want” –
of a mother has become the will of a god. I say it carefully and calmly and
sadly: Our modern, secular, God-dethroning culture has endowed the will (the
“want”) of a mother not just with sovereignty over her child, but with
something vastly greater. We have endowed her will with the right and the power
to create human personhood. When God is no longer the Creator of human
personhood, endowing it with dignity and rights in His own image, we must take
that role for Him, and we have vested it in the will of the mother. She creates
personhood.
John
Piper
Abortion and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil, Sermon: January 25, 2004, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
The offspring
of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have
dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the
death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is
why Christ died.
John
Piper
Abortion and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil, Sermon: January 25, 2004, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
It is evil
to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one
killed. This same justification could be used to justify killing one-year olds,
or any heaven-bound believer for that matter. The Bible asks the question:
“Shall we sin that grace may abound?” (Romans 6:1) And: “Shall we do evil that
good may come?” (Romans 3:8). In both cases the answer is a resounding NO. It
is presumption to step into God’s place and try to make the assignments to heaven
or to hell. Our duty is to obey God, not to play God.
John
Piper
Ten Reasons Why it is Wrong to Take the Life of
Unborn Children, Sermon: April 7, 1989, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by
Permission.
My aim is
to hasten the day when being publicly pro-choice will be as reprehensible as
being publicly racist. My aim is to hasten the day when declaring yourself pro-choice would be like declaring yourself a white
supremacist… Racism might…result
in the killing of innocent humans in our history, it often did. But abortion always results in the
killing of innocent humans. Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 Black people were
lynched in America. Today more Black babies are killed by white abortionists
every three days than all who were lynched in those years.
John
Piper
When is Abortion Racism? Sermon: January 21, 2007, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by
Permission.
Every day 1,300
black babies are killed in America. Seven hundred Hispanic babies die every day
from abortion. Call this what you will – when the slaughter has an ethnic face
and the percentages are double that of the white community and the killers are
almost all white, something is going on here that ought to make the lovers of
racial equality and racial harmony wake up… O that the murderous effect of
abortion in the Black and Latino communities, destroying tens of thousands at
the hands of white abortionists, would explode with the same reprehensible
reputation as lynching.
John
Piper
When is Abortion Racism? Sermon: January 21, 2007, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by
Permission.
If we were
made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby’s legs and arms one by one and
place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth – if all
Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion
being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer.
John
Piper
Abortion: The Innocent Blood of Our Sons and
Daughters, Sermon: January 27, 2008, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
The law of
our land today is that any abortion is legal in America until birth if the
mother can give reason that the pregnancy or the child will be an excessive
burden or stress on her well-being.
Since that ruling 14 years ago Thursday, about 20,000,000 babies have
been aborted in America.
John
Piper
Abortion: You Desire and Do Not Have So You Kill,
Sermon: January 18, 1987, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
The
formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not
merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting:
“Thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb” (psalm 139:13). The life of
the unborn is the knitting of God, and what He is knitting is a human being in
His own image, unlike any other creature in the universe… The destruction of
conceived human life – whether embryonic, fetal, or viable – is an assault on the
unique person-forming work of God.
John
Piper
Abortion: You Desire and Do Not Have So You Kill,
Sermon: January 18, 1987, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
James
says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill
marriages and we kill unborn babies because they cut across our desires; they
stand in the way of our unencumbered self-enhancement. And we live in a culture
where self-enhancement and self-advancement is god. And if self-enhancement is
god, then the One who is at work in the womb shaping a person in His own image
is not God and the assault on His work is not sacrilegious, but obedience to
the god of self.
John
Piper
Abortion: You Desire and Do Not Have So You Kill,
Sermon: January 18, 1987, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
On March
6, 1857, the Supreme Court, in Dred Scott vs. Stanford, ruled that no act of
Congress or territorial legislature could make laws banning slavery. The
fundamental argument was that slaves are not free and equal persons but the
property of their masters. The ruling is analogous to Roe vs. Wade because
today no state may make a law banning abortion to protect the unborn. The
argument is similar: basically because the unborn are at the sovereign disposal
of their mothers and do not have personal standing in their own right. There was no consensus in this country on the
personhood and rights of salves. We were split down the middle. But the issue
was so fundamental that the states went to war, and in the end the Lincoln
administration overturned the Dred Scott decision. And today, 130 years later,
we look back with amazing consensus and marvel at the blindness of our
forefathers.
John
Piper
Abortion: You Desire and Do Not Have So You Kill,
Sermon: January 18, 1987, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
Use your
imagination to see what abortion really is! Fight against the kind of social
stupor that gripped Nazi Germany – the feeling that the problem is so huge and
so horrendous and so out of our control that I just can't be wrong to let it
be. Use your imagination to see and feel what is really happening behind those
sterile clinic doors. If you could see each little handiwork of God and what it
looks like when it is being crushed or poisoned or starved, you would say, this
can’t be happening. Civilized people do not do this! The children will not be
saved and God’s work will not be reverenced without an act of sustained
sympathetic imagination. Otherwise it is out of sight out of mind – just like
Dachau, Buchenwald, Belsen, and Auschwitz. It just
couldn't be happening and so we act as if it isn't.
John
Piper
Abortion: You Desire and Do Not Have So You Kill,
Sermon: January 18, 1987, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
The root
cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love.
And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life,
the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion – a satisfaction
for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling.
John
Piper
Abortion: Where Does Child Killing Come From?
Sermon: January 25, 1998, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
God is calling…all Christians to expose the dark and
fruitless work of abortion:
1. To
expose the fact that there are 1.5 million abortions in America every year – 27
million since the Supreme Court overturned the public conscience of 48 states
19 years ago.
2. To
expose the fact that 30% of all babies conceived in America are killed by
abortion.
3. To
expose the fact that medically women are told not to have abortions before the
seventh week of pregnancy (see the Yes/Neon booklet), and yet by the eighth
week the heart of the baby has been beating for a month, there are measurable
brain waves, there is response to touch, there's thumb-sucking, grasping with
the hands, swimming with the arms in the amniotic fluid, distinct arms and legs
and sexual organs. This much must—not may, must—be present before most abortion
centers will cut the baby to pieces with a suction machine 4,000 times a day.
4. To
expose the fact that 9,000 babies were killed after the 21st week of pregnancy
in 1987, fully formed and on the brink of being able to breathe for themselves – killed, legally!
5. To
expose the fact that in Minnesota we have a fetal homicide law that makes it
"murder to kill an embryo or fetus intentionally, except in cases of
abortion" – in other words, it's unlawful to kill the unborn child unless
the mother chooses to have it killed. And that is a strange and dark criterion
for lawful killing.
6. To
expose the fact that "There is inescapable schizophrenia in aborting a
perfectly normal 22 week fetus while at the same hospital, performing
intra-uterine surgery on its cousin" (Steve Calvin).
7. To
expose the fact that viability outside the womb is not a criterion of
personhood and right to life, because we ourselves don't want to give up our
personhood and our right to life if we must be sustained on a respirator or
dialysis machine the way a baby has to be sustained by a placenta.
8. To
expose the fact that the size and reasoning power of a tiny person is
irrelevant to human personhood because if it were, we might allow tiny and
unthinking newborns to be killed.
9. To
expose the fact that genetically human embryos and fetuses are utterly
different from all other animal life; if they are just left alone, with nothing
added but nourishment, they will grow up.
10. To
expose the fact that if it is unlawful to crush the egg of a bald eagle, it is
not excessively restrictive to make it unlawful to crush the egg of a human.
11. To
expose the fact that when two legitimate rights conflict – the right not to be
pregnant and the right not to be killed – justice demands that we give place to
the greater right, the right that does the least harm – the one that does not
willfully kill.
12. To
expose the fact that there are thousands of crisis pregnancy centers in this
country ready to help, and almost all of them are free – unlike the abortion
mills that charge plenty of money – and the older the baby, the more they
charge.
13. To
expose the fact that there are no unwanted babies in Minnesota. Mary Ann Kuharsky (President of ProLife
Minnesota) said in the Tribune she would take any baby whose life
depended on it, and there are hundreds like her.
14. To
expose the fact that it is hypocritical to speak as though choice were the
untouchable absolute in this matter and then turn around and oppose choice in
matters of gun-control and welfare support and affirmative action and minimum
wage and dozens of other issues where so-called pro-choice people join the
demand that people's choices be limited to protect others. It's a sham
argument. All choices are limited by life.
15. To
expose the fact that trespassing to save life is not a crime and that it does
not undermine our legal system, but on the contrary endorses the one foundation
stone without which that legal system in this land will fall, namely, the
inalienable right to life. There will be no law but the law of individual
choice (=anarchy) if the foundation stone of life's value is destroyed. And
abortion is destroying it.
John
Piper
Exposing the Dark World of Abortion, Sermon: January
26, 1992, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
According
to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention about 43% of all American
women will have at least one abortion by the age 45 (p. 18). 20% of these are
performed on teenagers (p. 28). 50% are performed on women who have had at
least one abortion already (p. 31). Every third baby conceived and viable in
this country is killed by abortion (p. 35).
John
Piper
The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth,
Sermon: January 26, 2003, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
The vast
majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the
baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound.
All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the
liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a
fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we
are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.
John
Piper
The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth,
Sermon: January 26, 2003, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
Christ
died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that
someone might live differently.
John
Piper
The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth,
Sermon: January 26, 2003, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
It isn’t sex
by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things
that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our
satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for
these we covet, and abortion is the result.
John
Piper
The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth,
Sermon: January 26, 2003, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
How
do you get from, “We do not know whether this is protectable human life,” to
“Therefore, we will not protect it?” Wouldn’t the logic just as likely (some would say far
more likely) be, “Since we do not know whether this is protectable human life,
therefore we will protect it?” Why does the judicial uncertainty about the
humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?
John
Piper
The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth,
Sermon: January 26, 2003, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
Ways to be
actively involved in the solution:
1. Consider adoption.
2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
3. Volunteer in a Crisis Pregnancy
Center.
4. Be involved in spreading truth with good literature.
5. Make your presence know at the abortion clinics in town (by) writing or phoning or visiting and talking, if you can, with those who work there.
6. Dream a new kind of ministry.
7. Pray!
John
Piper
The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth,
Sermon: January 26, 2003, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
One
accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing
done in a way that the people don’t recognize it as child-killing. That reality
is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the
same way procedures are created to cloak reality. “Abortion” is cloaked
child-killing
John
Piper
Abortion, Race, Gender and Christ, Sermon: January
23, 2005, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
Questions
to ask a pro-choice legislator:
1. Are you willing to explain why a
baby's right not to be killed is less important than a woman's right not to be
pregnant?
2. Are you willing to explain why most
cities have laws forbidding cruelty to animals, but you oppose laws forbidding
cruelty to human fetuses? Are they not at least living animals?
3. Are you willing to explain why
government is unwilling to take away the so-called right to abortion on demand
even though it harms the unborn child; yet government is increasingly willing
to take away the right to smoke, precisely because it harms innocent
non-smokers, killing 3,000 non-smokers a year from cancer and as many as 40,000
non-smokers a year from other diseases?
4. And if you say that everything hangs
on whether the fetus is a human child, are you willing to go before national
television in the oval office and defend your support for the "Freedom of
Choice Act" by holding in your hand a 21 week old fetus and explaining why
this little one does not have the fundamental, moral, and constitutional right
to life? Are you willing to say to parents in this church who lost a child at
that age and held him in their hands, this being in your hands is not and was
not a child with any rights of its own under God or under law?
John
Piper
Being Pro-Life Christians Under a Pro-Choice
President, Sermon: January 17, 1993, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
The dismembering
of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases – or any other
way – is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long – like churches
within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.
John
Piper
Love Your Unborn Neighbor, Sermon: January 22, 2006,
www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
Only half
the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.
Author Unknown
If it
isn't a baby, then you aren’t pregnant, so what are you aborting?
Author Unknown
Since God
compels believers to care for children whose parents have been killed (orphans
– Jas. 1:27), wouldn't He also compel us to care for children whose parents
want to kill them? Whereas the orphan is bereft because his parents are dead,
the unborn child on the way to the abortion clinic is bereft because his
parents want him dead, and that's a worse condition to be in. By reasoning from
the lesser to the greater, we can be fairly certain that God's concern for
orphans also mandates concern for unborn children.
Author Unknown
www.Abort73.com. Used by Permission.
We must not become so "spiritual" in our Christian life that we
forget about meeting physical needs, and we must not become so
"worldly" in meeting those needs that we lose sight of God's ultimate
design. Or, to say it in specifically "pro-life" terms, we must not
become so "spiritual" in our Christian life that we write off the
daily slaughter of 4,000 innocent human beings as a political issue (beyond our
jurisdiction), and we must not become so "worldly" in intervening for
them that we lose sight of the bigger picture (reconciling people to Christ
through holiness and love). This balance is the essence of pure and undefiled
religion.
Author Unknown
www.Abort73.com. Used by Permission.
Christ is
calling His followers not to the mere theoretical opposition of injustice, but
rather to the real and practical (and often painful) ministry of meeting
physical needs in a dying world. The gospel life is not merely about right
thinking, it is far more about right… What good is it if you say you're opposed
to abortion, and yet you are not doing anything to actually help those who are
dying?
Author Unknown
www.Abort73.com. Used by Permission.
Those who have been rescued unto salvation are far more accountable to God than
those who remain mired in blindness and unbelief. When history looks back,
someday, on the massive bloodshed of abortion, could the same indictment (of
silent Christians in Nazi Germany) be said of us? In the end, unmanisfested opposition towards injustice is nothing more
than masked complicity.
Author Unknown
www.Abort73.com. Used by Permission.
Many
wonderful and godly saints have suggested that evangelism is the best and only
hope for changing people's minds about abortion. Merely changing someone's mind
about abortion (without getting them saved), they argue, does no good in the
long run. "They will simply go to hell as a more moral person." While
this is true as it applies to the parent, such reasoning wholly neglects the
person whose life hangs in the balance, and for this reason, such logic is faulty…
If we only rely on evangelism as a means of changing people's minds and
behavior concerning abortion, then all those people who do not repent and
believe (which is the vast majority) will continue to kill their children en
masse. If, however, we also educate young people about what abortion actually
is and who unborn humans actually are, then they will be far less likely to
abort their children, even if they ultimately reject salvation. The external
morality which results will not make a difference for their souls on the Day of
Judgment, but it will make a HUGE difference in the lives of their children,
children who would have otherwise been destroyed.
Author Unknown
www.Abort73.com. Used by Permission.
The vast majority of unsaved Americans do not need convincing that child-killing
is wretched and immoral. What they do need convincing of is that abortion is
child killing. Likewise, the vast majority of unsaved Americans do not need
convincing that it is wrong to tear people's arms and legs and heads off, but
they do need convincing that abortion does just that, four thousand times a day
in this country. Thank God that so many of the people who reject Him as Creator
and Saviour still have enough of His law written on their heart to govern their
actions and inform their morality (at least as it applies to murder). What this
means for us is that the major obstacle keeping most people on the
"pro-choice" side is not so much moral as educational. We are not
trying to preach them into a "new" morality, we are educating them
towards a more consistent application of the morality they already have in
place (one that condemns killing innocent people).
Author Unknown
www.Abort73.com. Used by Permission.
Abortion
persists in this country because it is masked and hidden and ignored. Even its
most ardent supporters rarely use the term. Child-killing is called choice,
pro-abortion marches are renamed for "women's freedom", and every
effort is made to ensure that the procedure itself is never debated. Abortion
is legal in America not because of legislation, but because of judicial decree,
because it slithered through the back door. It has never had to stand the test
of full-disclosure, nor could it.
Author Unknown
www.Abort73.com. Used by Permission.
We are not
permitted, since murder has been prohibited to us once and for all, even to
destroy the fetus in the womb. It makes
no difference whether one destroys a life that has already been born or one
that is in the process of birth.
You shall not
kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.
Christians
are differentiated from other people by country, language, or customs. They do not live in cities of their own or
speak speak some strange dialect. They live in their own native lands, but as
resident aliens. They marry and have
children just like everyone else, but they do not kill unwanted babies.
America, as a nation, is highly committed by law and by
practice to a form of mass murder…. This nation, which certainly prides itself
on its humanitarianism, is in a murderous cycle of violence that makes the Nazi
Holocaust look mild by comparison. Nearly 2,000,000 babies are aborted a year
in America. Every third baby conceived now is being murdered. Among teenage
women there are 736 abortions for every 1,000 births. Among married women
abortions now exceed births! More babies are killed than are born. Some would
tell us that there is an abortion about every 15 seconds in America.
John Macarthur
The Biblical View on Abortion, Part 1,
Sermon, 1993.
Bags of
babies are found by trash compactors (as we all know); yet on the other side of
this, a wounded American eagle was found recently in Maryland and rushed to
emergency treatment. However, it died and a $5,000 reward was offered for the
arrest of whoever injured it. It is illegal to ship a pregnant lobster: it's a
$1,000 fine. In the State of Massachusetts there is an anti-cruelty law that
makes it illegal to award a goldfish as a prize. Why? This is what it says,
"To protect the tendency to dull humanitarian feelings and to corrupt
morals of those who abuse them." The same people that want to save the
goldfish are leading the parade, usually, to kill the babies.
John Macarthur
The Biblical View on Abortion, Part 1,
Sermon, 1993.
1. Somewhere between 400% and 800% of
suicide rates increase in women who have had abortions.
2. Hypochondria, depression, withdrawal,
guilt, shame, drugs, alcohol dependency, serious
emotional trauma – all of these come from abortions.
3. Six to seven times more women die each
year from legal than illegal abortions.
4. The risk of pregnancy outside the womb
which threatens the mother's life is doubled for women who have had one
abortion, and quadrupled where there have been two or more.
5. Miscarriages are almost twice as
common for women who have aborted. A study of 26,000 births indicated a more
than threefold increase in the number of stillborn babies and deaths of
newborns among mothers who have had an abortion.
6. Since about two or three women per
hundred needs a blood transfusion, there is an increased risk of exposure to
hepatitis and AIDS.
7. Bleeding is more common in subsequent
wanted pregnancies.
8. Many researchers have observed
subsequent premature births and low birth weights.
9. Among women who have had abortions
there is an increased risk of damage to the cervix.
10. There is up to a 30% greater risk of
pelvic infection.
John Macarthur
The Biblical View on Abortion, Part 1,
Sermon, 1993.
Conception, then is the act of God whereby a person
is created by God's sovereign will. A soul is breathed into the living tissue
by the Holy Spirit. That soul's destiny is already known to God and determined
by Him from before the foundation of the world. Abortion then becomes a violent
anti-God act. It is not only a murder of the individual,
it is an affront to the Creator… I believe abortion is the last official stand
of the defiant apostate against God. It says, “God, you will not determine who
lives or dies – I will!”
John Macarthur
The Biblical View on Abortion, Part 1,
Sermon, 1993.
No human
being…is ever conceived outside God's will or ever conceived apart from God's
image. Life is a gift from God created in His own image.
John Macarthur
The Biblical View on Abortion, Part 1,
Sermon, 1993.
Is the unborn
baby a human being?
1. YES! The unborn baby is alive from the moment of fertilization.
2. YES! The unborn baby has a heartbeat at three weeks and brain waves at six
weeks.
3. YES! The unborn baby is complete! He or she is programmed from the inside
for an ongoing process of growth and development.
4. YES! The unborn baby has 46 chromosomes in the cells of his or her body –
the scientifically verifiable human genetic code.
5. YES! The answer is clear... You were you from the moment of fertilization –
a unique human being never to be repeated in all of history.
Nothing magical occurs at birth which suddenly makes an unborn baby human. The
baby is the same baby, whether inside or outside the uterus. Every unborn baby
is a complete, individual, living human being from the earliest moment of his
or her existence at fertilization.
Author Unknown
Minnesota
Citizens Concerned for Life, www.mccl.org. Used by Permission.
Eleven years ago while giving an anesthetic for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy
(at two months gestation) I was handed what I believed was the smallest living
human ever seen… Within the sac was a tiny human male swimming extremely
vigorously in the amniotic fluid . . . This tiny human was perfectly developed,
with long, tapering fingers, feet and toes. It was almost transparent, as
regards to the skin, and the delicate arteries and veins were prominent to the
ends of the fingers. The baby was extremely alive and swam about the sac
approximately one time per second, with a natural swimmer's stroke. It is
my opinion that if the lawmakers, and people realized
that very vigorous life is present it is possible that abortion would be found
more objectionable than euthanasia.
Author Unknown
Minnesota
Citizens Concerned for Life, www.mccl.org. Used by Permission.
Physical and
Psychological Effects of Abortion:
1. More than 100 physical complications have been associated with abortion.
Immediate physical effects include: infection, hemorrhage, cervical damage, damage to other internal organs, perforation of the uterus,
abdominal pain, menstrual irregularity, headaches, dizziness, and blood clots.
In some cases, today's so-called "safe-legal" abortions can result in
death.
2. Long-term physical effects include: sterility, stillbirth, miscarriage of
further children, and premature births of subsequent children, (which can lead
to many complication in newborns.)
3. Secondary health problems associated with abortion are now being studied.
Abortion can lead to an increase in substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, tobacco,
etc.), which has many well-known negative health consequences.
4. Many women suffer from psychological aftereffects of abortion. These
complications are called post-abortion syndrome, or PAS.
5. Some of the behavior which mark PAS are: recurrent
memories, dreams and repetitions of the abortion experience; avoidance of
emotional attachment; relationship problems; sleep disturbances; guilt about
surviving when the unborn child died; memory impairment; hostile outbursts;
suicidal thoughts or actions and substance abuse.
6. Some women begin to suffer from PAS right after their abortions; for others.
The symptoms may not begin to appear from many months of years after the
abortion. Often, a major life event, such as the birth of another child, can
trigger PAS in a woman.
7. The negative psychological effects of abortion can also be seen in fathers,
grandparents and siblings. Even medical personnel involved in the abortion
industry have reported that they suffered from negative effects.
Author Unknown