ABORTION AND THE BIBLE

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What is it?
the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: as a : spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation.

Statistics
Every year more than 1,000,000 in USA .
Since 1973 some 43,000,000 in USA
Every year an estimated 46,000,000 in the world.
20% of all babies conceived in this country are killed before they ever reach the light of day.

Some encouraging signs.

In May of 2003, the United States Senate voted 64-33 to approve a ban on partial-birth abortion.
The President’s Council on Bioethics concluded, “the case for treating early –stage embryo as simply the mortal equivalent of all other human cell is simply mistaken” (Kass, 2002).

Some Other Interesting facts
88% of abortions occur during the first 6 to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
60% of abortions are performed on women who already have one or more children47% of abortions are performed on women who have already had one or more abortions.
43% of women will have had at least one abortion by the time they are 45 years old.

What Americans think
The Land of The Free Home of The Brave
More than 6 in 10 are against overturning Roe vs. Wade (CBS Poll)

Early Americans
For the first 150 years.
Most would not have tolerated divorce, alcohol and public drunkenness, homosexuality, unwed pregnancy, and pornography in movies and magazines (Miller, AP)
Certainly would have frowned on abortion.
But things have changed due to social liberals brow-beating us at every turn.
Results are that even young in the church honestly state that, “a woman can do what she wants with her own body.”

What Does God Think?
There is no passage that says, “Thou shalt not commit abortion.”
However, there is plenty of passages that helps us to know God’s will.
Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:

Just a glance at this passage would tell us that God places the human soul within man.
When does God do this?
The activity of pre-birth growth is connected to the activity of God.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 (NKJV)
As you do not know what the way of the wind, how the bones God who makes everything.
David insisted that his growth before birth was God’s doing.

Psalm 139:13-16
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; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

Men were chosen to do God’s work before they were born.
Jeremiah 1:4-5 (NKJV)
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Galatians 1:15 (NKJV)
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called through His grace,

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Same term is used to describe a person in and out of the womb.

Luke 1:39-44 (NKJV)
Now Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah, 40 and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

What Does god Think?
Out of the womb.

Luke 2:12 (NKJV)
12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”
Luke 2:16 (NKJV)
And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger.

John is called a “son” after conception.
Luke 1:36 (NKJV)
Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.

Abort Baby Jesus?

Mary would have been within her rights?

According to this logic, Mary would have been within her moral and spiritual rights to abort baby Jesus.
Someone says: Well, that’s different. God had special plans for Jesus.

God has special plans for every human.

Jesus sacrificed His Son for every human!

God’s Law

If someone causes the death of an unborn child accidentally, then eye for eye.
Exodus 21:22-25 (NKJV)
“If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman’s husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe
What Does god Think?

If God punished for accidental death to unborn, what about deliberate, purposeful killing of the unborn?

Exodus 23:7 (NKJV)
Keep yourself far from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.
Proverbs 6:17 (NKJV)
A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood,

If something is alive, then the spirit is present!
James 2:26 (NKJV)
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
If the body is alive, then the spirit is present!
Is the body alive in the womb

5 weeks- Heart is pumping
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7 weeks- unborn practices moving
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8 Weeks – Brain waves measured
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12 weeks – can cry and feels pain
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How far have we gone?
Society has gone mad!!

I’m told that taking possession of an egg containing a pre-born American bald eagle results in a stiff fine and even prison time.
Yet the destruction of a baby before it leaves the womb is legal and often times praised!
We refuse to execute hard-core criminals, while still executing innocent human
;Forgiveness?
Not a sin done by man that can’t be forgiven by the great Jesus Christ

If you are not a Christian, you can become one and join your child in heaven one day to make personal apology.
If you are a Christian and maybe you have had an abortion, God loves you still and promises to forgive you completely. You too can join child in heaven and make personal apology

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