I was in high school when abortion
was made legal. I was horrified that people could seriously set out to
kill their unborn child. My reaction then and my reaction now is only
different in that I have much more information about the whole subject now
than at that time. Over thirty years have passed, and American policy
has allowed tens of millions of children to be aborted. It is still
horrible! Here I would like to state my objections to the whole evil of
abortion. I want to
state first of all the terminology I will be using. I will say 'child' or
'baby' and not 'fetus.' Fetus is Latin for 'baby,' but since I never
learned Latin, I will speak English. I will say 'pro-abortion' because
'pro-choice' is a misnomer. The pro-abortion people are not fond of
choice; they are all for death. The baby gets no choice in the matter.
Years ago, when I was in college, I was talking to a classmate who was for
abortion. However, I also knew she was a vehement animal rights person who
was horrified at the thought of Persian lamb coats. Why? Because
they used the wool of aborted baby lambs. When asked why aborting a lamb
was so awful, but it wasn't awful to abort a human child, her reply was that the
ewe's wishes were not consulted. She also said that with a straight face.
The first
thing pro-abortion people say is that they are for choice; the choice of a woman
to do as she pleases with her body. That sounds so American, freedom to be
whom you want to be; don't let anybody else (especially the father of the child,
for he is next to nothing in this equation), tell you what to do with your body.
That sounds very free-like. One problem. The baby is not part
of your body. This is so obvious that it amazes me that people
don't get it. The DNA is different. From the time of
conception the child is a completely different individual. The genetic
code is set.
Now granted
a woman is hosting the baby until the time of the birth, but that does not mean
the baby is the same as, say, a big toe, or a mole. The baby is completely
dependent on her for life; but then again so is a newborn. A newborn is no
more viable without help than an unborn child. Can you imagine a woman
going to a surgeon and requesting the removal of her leg for no reason, other
than it is her body and she can do with it as she wants? Any doctor who is
worthy of the title will decline her request, and her leg really is a part of
her body. A baby is not.
Back to the
inconvenience of carrying a child for nine months. There are a few women
out there who waltz through pregnancy with absolutely no problem. Most of
us don't. We often face nausea from three to nine months; there is the
beached whale syndrome in the third trimester, with labor to look forward to.
(It is my belief that God has us pregnant for nine months because by that time,
we won't care what we have to go through to be delivered of the baby.)
However, that said, it is no reason. in any shape or form. to up and kill the
one who is causing you that inconvenience.
One of
main lines of the pro-abortion people has been to abort to save the 'health' of
the mother. 'Health" has been defined as mental and economic health, not
just life and death health. That is where the woman can tell the doctor
that she is really disturbed about being pregnant, then before you know it that
baby is out of there. They had to change the definition of 'health'
because there are very few births now, with advances in medicine, that actually
threaten the life of the mother. People seem to think it is still like the
pioneer days where women routinely died in childbirth. I'm sure someone
has some statistics of the deaths of mothers, but it can't be anything like to
numbers of abortions that use that as an excuse.
When talking
to abortion supporters, they will often pull out the rape/incest card.
This is one exception that usually makes pro-lifers waiver.
The problem here is that the child didn't commit the crime. You want
somebody to pay for what happened to you? Fine! Then the man who committed the
crime should pay. Since when do we execute the child for the father's
crime? (The answer to that question is: since Roe v. Wade in 1973.)
People will
also point to the numbers of teenage pregnancies as a reason to keep abortion
legal. Because we all know that having a child when still a child is the
worst thing on earth. Right? Wrong. What is the worst thing
you can do is to take away any of the results of wrong behavior, therefore
encouraging more of the same. This also goes for handing out birth control
to Jr. High and High School kids. You are giving them a carte blanch.
"Go do all the wrong things, and we will take care of any of the negative
consequences." The child is not the negative in this scenario. The
behavior that brought it about, and the parents and school officials that think
they are helping the situation by making the children exemplars of
irresponsibility, they are the negative in this picture. "Let's murder to
cover up our immorality."
How many people
have you heard say that they are personally against abortion (they wouldn't do
it themselves), but didn't want to infringe on another person's right to do as
they wish? There were plenty of people in Germany that maybe didn't
personally kill any Jews, but they stood by and let it happen. Even if
they couldn't have stopped it, they should have tried. What can one voice
do to stop the tide of abortion in this country? Not much maybe, but my
voice will be heard.
Years ago,
when I was wondering if I should put my life's effort into battling this great
evil, I came to the conclusion that the real problem is in the heart of people.
The whole situation would improve if people were more moral, if they were
obedient to God, if they were responsible for their actions. But I knew
that this could only happen when people came to know Christ. When they
learned that Jesus died for all their sins, including women who have aborted
their babies, and the doctors who performed them, the fathers who went along
with them, Jesus paid it all. And then He rose from the dead. He is
victorious.
There needs
to be a change of heart. God can perform that change. When you
acknowledge your sin, and ask forgiveness, then the change happens.
If any woman
out there in cyber-land, wants to talk more about this, I'm willing. Put
in your message from the homepage.