The infant in this photograph is premature, only 25 weeks old. Weighing only 8.6 ounces, this human being is a living, breathing miracle. If her mother had been raped or impregnated by a close relative, she could have had her killed legally in the United States.
When liberals lecture the rest of us about helping “the weak and the downtrodden,” they’re referring to increased funding for social programs, not unborn life. Real charitable. Who could be more weak than a growing baby dependent on his mother for protection and sustenance?
Why does such a profane and perverse “right to choose” trump that? This is the result of backward and muddled thinking in our post-modern times, but so exquisitely human! Back in the day people were killing babies; today we’re still killing babies. People will always kill babies. The reasons vary. Sometimes it’s population control or child sacrifice to the gods, etc. Today women cry, “Our bodies, our decision!”
Christians are prone to muddled thinking, too, but as followers of Christ, we know that while we were still sinning, he saw fit to save us. In spite of our rebellion, we were snatched from the jaws of spiritual death and the inevitable wrath to come. Unlike those whose moral authority begins and ends with themselves, we know where ours begins and ends: in the person of Jesus Christ.
In that regard, no matter what I’m inclined to do or what I desire, I must act according to God’s will. If God tells me killing unborn life is wrong, I must be obedient and protect that life and allow the baby to live. Even in cases of rape. “Pro-choice” advocates are probably slumping over their computer keyboards in cardiac arrest right now.
We are selfish creatures by nature. Our own comfort is more important than doing what’s right. Some of the pro-choicers who read this site probably cringe in horror at the thought of a woman doing what’s right by the child and carrying her rapist’s baby. Called a “product of rape,” the child is considered expendable because he was conceived in an unwanted, violent, degrading act. The violence is compounded in a vain attempt to “forget” the rape.
Let’s say you believe killing the baby OK is if the rape is violent and brutal and you’re fully conscious while it’s happening. What about so-called date rape where you’re passed out drunk the whole time? Is it OK to kill the “product” then? If the justification for doing so is to rid yourself of reminders of the rape, should you be allowed to abort if you don’t remember the rape? Or is the mere fact of being raped sufficient justification? Even to ask such questions is stupid, isn’t it?
Have pro-choicers asked themselves, “What if the baby feels the pain of being vacuumed out of his mother?” God forbid it. If you believe that life begins at conception and the viability or “personhood” of that life is irrelevant, as I do, but you’re still “pro-choice,” I pray that God will grant you mercy. He did it for me. He not only gave me physical life but spiritual life:
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2: 1-10)
Archive links:
- Spiritual Way To Kill Babies
- Irreverent Reverends
- The Death Business Is Booming
- Our God Is An Awesome God!
- Barack Obama’s Pro-Death Vote
Links around the web: David Limbaugh and Jim Pfaff on Planned Parenthood, The Abortion Wars, National Right to Life
Update (12/23):
The fight is a central theme of the contest to head the Democratic National Committee, particularly between two leading candidates: former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who supports abortion rights, and former Indiana Rep. Tim Roemer, an abortion foe who argues that the party cannot rebound from its losses in the November election unless it shows more tolerance on one of society’s most emotional conflicts.Roemer is running with the encouragement of the party’s two highest-ranking members of Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and incoming Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Dean, a former presidential candidate, is popular with the party’s liberal wing….
Abortion rights activists are critical pillars of the Democratic Party, providing money and grass-roots energy. Some of them say they are concerned that Democratic leaders are entertaining any changes to the party’s approach to abortion.
A senior official of one of the nation’s largest abortion rights groups said she would be concerned if the party were to choose Roemer to head the Democratic National Committee. (Source)
