A biblical principle of justice is that the more we know that our action is wrong, the more guilty we are and the more we deserve punishment (Luke 12:47-48). The purpose of this blog post is for us to know who we are. all Americans know that. We kill children, both pro-choice and pro-life people know it.
But before we show you this, let’s make clear what the Supreme Court did forty years ago: in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has really made abortion, every time someone asks for it, untouchable by law. It was two steps.
- One step was to say that laws cannot prevent abortion.
- Even during the full nine months.
- If the goal of abortion is to “preserve the life or health of the mother.
- “The other step was to define? Bless you? As?All the factors? Physical.
- Emotional.
- Psychological.
- Family and the age of the mother?Relevant for patient well-being ?.
For forty years, this has meant that any perceived stress has been a legal reason to eliminate the child. We killed fifty million babies. And what increases our guilt as a nation is that we know what we’re doing. Here’s proof that we know we’re killing children.
Many simply say he is the least of two evils. I went to lunch with someone for abortion, once prepared to give them ten reasons why the fetus is a human being. He interrupted me and said, “I know. We kill children. ? I was stunned. He said, “It’s just a matter of justice for women. Would it be a greater evil to deny them an equal right to reproductive freedom?This means that women should not be more responsible for the consequences of an unplanned pregnancy than men. This egalitarian freedom from the burden of raising unplanned children is the basis of abortion that President Obama repeatedly refers to when he talks about equal rights for women. We know we’re killing children.
We know what we’re doing because 38 states (including Minnesota) consider the death of a fetus a form of homicide. They have what we call ‘fetal homicide laws’.
It is illegal to take the life of the fetus if the mother wants the baby, but it is legal to take the life of the fetus if she does not want it. In the first case, the law treats the fetus as a human being. be with rights; in the second case, the law treats the fetus as a non-human without rights.
Humanity is defined by the desire of the strong, perhaps you have a right. We reject this right to define personality in the case of Nazi anti-Semitism, Confederate slavery based on the races and gulags of the former USSR. When we define the child’s humanity as born of the will of the powerful, we know what you are doing.
Dr Steve Calvin, a high-risk pregnancy specialist, wrote in a letter to the Arizona Daily Star a few years ago, wrote, “There is an unavoidable schizophrenia to abort a perfectly normal 22-week fetus while in the same hospital that undergoes intrauterine surgery on his cousin. When a fetus is desired, it is treated like a child and a patient. When you don’t want it, you’re not a child. We know what we’re doing.
A teenage son’s large body guarantees him no more right to life than a 23-inch body of his younger sister in his mother’s arms. The size is morally irrelevant, one inch, 23 inches, 68 inches?Never mind. This is morally irrelevant in deciding who to protect. We know what we’re doing by killing the child.
A one-month-over baby, who sucks milk from his mother’s chest, has no reasoning ability, but only a few would dare say infanticide would be acceptable. Many discern better. Outside and inside the womb, the child still can’t reason, but he’s a human person. We know what we’re doing.
Location or environment does not determine the right to live. Scott Klusendorf asks, “How does a simple seven-inch journey through the genital canal suddenly transform the essential nature of the fetus from non-person to person?”We know what we’re doing.
We consider people on respirators or dialysis to be human beings. Unborn children cannot be disqualified from human personality because they depend on their mother for food and oxygen. In fact, we apply the opposite principle: the more dependent a baby is on us, the more we feel responsible for protecting it. We know what we’re doing.
(These four previous observations, 4-7, were summarized under the acronym SLED?Size, level of development, environment, degree of dependence?None of them is a morally relevant definition of human life. )
The genetic makeup of a human being is different from all other creatures from the moment of conception. The human code is complete and unique from the start. There was a time when we didn’t know, now we know.
At eight weeks gestation, all organs are present: the brain works, the heart beats, the liver does its job, the kidney cleanses fluids, the finger has an impression, but almost all abortions occur at this time. We know what we are doing.
The wonder of ultrasound gave an impressive window in the uterus that shows the fetus, for example, 8 weeks, sucking his thumb, removing irritations, responding to sound. Watch this four-minute video on fetus development. We know they’re children.
We know the principle of justice that when two legitimate rights come into conflict the law that holds the highest value must prevail We reject the right to drive at 100 km/h because the value of life is greater than the value of being punctual or feeling strong The right of the fetus not to be killed and the right of the woman not to become pregnant may be at odds, but they are not the same. Being alive is more valuable and basic than not being pregnant. We know what we do when we kill a child.
For Christians who believe in the Bible, we could add at least ten other reasons why we know what’s happening in abortion and why not, but the goal here is threefold.