Tag: Abortion

SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE: Is Abortion Murder?

“Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed…do not defile yourself in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled; so I punished them for their sins, and vomited out their inhabitants.” (Leviticus 18:21, 24-25)

While the word abortion is not explicitly used in any text, the concept of killing an unborn child and its consequences could not be clearer!

Scripture even goes so far as to mandate punishment to those that bring harm to an unborn child.

“If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined…but if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise (Ex 21:22-25).”

The debate over physician assisted suicides, passive and active euthanasia, and abortion begs the question of the sanctity of life and elevates human desire over subjection to divine will. It places function ahead of human uniqueness. However, know this. No matter how many there might be who align themselves against God and the sanctity of human life; dismembering an embryo, killing a fetus, and heart stopping injections to the elderly are all indisputable murder. It has always been and it always will be. Regardless of what our earthly judges hold, our heavenly Judge will soon have His day in court and everyone will be held accountable for their actions.

Devotion taken from Pastor John Hagee’s book Bible Positions on Political Issues

SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE: Abortion in America

“These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” (Proverbs 6:16-18)

On January 22nd, 1973, the United States Supreme Court, in a decision known as Roe v. Wade, ruled that state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional. The court ruled that a woman’s privacy was more important than the interest of any state in protecting unborn children.

This decision was neither voted on by the populace nor mandated by the legislative or executive branches of the government. With a stroke of a pen, the Supreme Court struck down abortion laws in over 40 states and declared that the unborn child was not a “person” and had no constitutional rights.

The 7-2 ruling in Roe v. Wade stated:

(1) A woman’s constitutional right to privacy includes the right to determine the outcome  of her pregnancy.

(2) An unborn child is not a “person” within the meaning of our Constitution.

(3) A state may only ban abortions in cases when the unborn child has already reached  viability and there is no threat to the woman’s health.

A second, and even more far-reaching, decision known as Doe v. Bolton was also handed down by the Supreme Court on that same day. In this ruling, the Court issued the following definition of “health” of the mother:

“[T]he medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all factors—physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age—relevant to the well being of the patient. All these factors may relate to health.” Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179, 192 (1973).

Doe v. Bolton, in effect, made abortion on demand through the ninth month of pregnancy the law of the land.

Since 1973, over one million legal abortions have been performed annually in the United States. Estimates are that in excess of 51 million unborn children have been aborted as a result of these two United States Supreme Court rulings.

Devotion taken from the website of the North American Mission Board (SBC).