There is a difference between “killing” and “murder.” Killing is the justified taking of a life and murder is the unjustified taking of a life. Killing is legal and murder is illegal. Killing is moral and murder is immoral (self-defense would be an example of killing while a robbery attempt gone bad would be an example of murder). This is true of both American law and of the Bible.
Malcolm Watts, writing in the journal California Medicine (113, no. 3, 1970):
Since the old ethic has not been fully displaced it has been necessary to separate the idea of abortion from the idea of killing, which continues to be socially abhorrent. The result has been a curious avoidance of the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception and it’s continuous whether intra- or extra-uterine until death.
The very considerable semantic gymnastics which are required to rationalize abortion as anything but taking a human life would be ludicrous if they were not often put forth under socially impeccable auspices. It is suggested that this schizophrenic sort of subterfuge is necessary because while a new ethic is being accepted the old one has not yet been rejected.
Who determines morals? For instance, why is it wrong to murder? Is it wrong to murder? The only answers that relativistic pop-culture offers are, in essence, 1) because it is illegal (which begs the question) and you could go to jail (which is selfish) and 2) because it harms others (which begs the question).
Or as some are fond of saying, your karma would catch up to you and something would happen to you (this is selfish and is also a very popular concept with atheist, sans the reference to karma).
This is utterly selfish because it reasons that it is not intrinsically wrong but only that you should not do it because it would cause you trouble in return.
The only real answer is not that it would affect you negatively or that it is not a nice thing to do but it is wrong because God has given us life and it is not for us to take that life away (in a murderous manner). Thus, the politically incorrect, yet factually, reason that murder is wrong is that God has deemed it so.
Ponder the reason that anything is morally wrong: stealing, lying, adultery, etc. and society will offer naught but selfish reasons (such as that benefiting society will, at least ultimately, benefit you in return). But there is no reason other than that an infinitely wise and loving God has laid out for us the highest moral standards. Thus, the bible states, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13, though translations vary in stating “kill” or “murder” the context is clear what we ought not do is murder. On the other hand killing such as due to capital punishment is allowable).
The Declaration of Independence states:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men…
Plain and simple, it is obvious, self-evident. We were created by our creator who is also termed nature’s God. We enjoy unalienable rights, this word means the negation of alienation (alienation is to make estrange, withdraw, detach, transfer, etc.) it means that these right are not to be withheld from a person. Among these unalienable rights is the right to life and if you have ever wondered where the Pro-Life phrase right to life came from, now you know that it is part of the very founding concepts of the USA’s government.
Some people claim that the Bible does not address the issue of abortion but you shall not murder covers murder regardless of the age of the innocent victim. Besides this we learn that God is repulsed by the sacrifices to such false gods as Moloch aka Molech.
The worshippers of Molech would build a metal idol of the god with a fire chamber inside of it. They would light a fire until the metal idol was red hot and they would throw their own children into the fire to be burned to death or place them upon its red hot arms (see Ritual Human Sacrifice in the Bible, and EvilBible.com).
The only advantage of abortion (for the perpetrator) is the concept of out of sight, out of mind. The parents do not have to see the brutal manner in which abortions are conducted (and Pro-Abortionists want to keep it that way). Maybe the parents should be made to witness this and see what they think afterwards, or preferably beforehand, as one time lead abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson suggests.
The following two quotes speak of the practice of child burning:
When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire…For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed such for you (Deuteronomy 18:9-10a, 12-14).
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign. Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God, as his father David had done. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel (2nd Kings 16:1-3 see also 17:17).
We have found that one popular Pro-Life slogan came from the Declaration of Independence. Another, “choose life,” comes from the Bible. While contextually it is not referring to abortion, the basic concept is that life should be chosen over death. God offers options and requests a choice:
This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Deuteronomy 30:19-20).
We end this article by quoting a beautiful and poetic description of the creation of a child in the womb:
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 (Ps 139:13-16)
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BOOKS:
Bernard Nathanson, The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind
Randy C. Alcorn, Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers
Randy C. Alcorn, Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments Expanded & Updated
Scott Klusendorf, Pro-Life 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Case Persuasively
ESSAYS:
“Sacred Abortion”
Richard Dawkins – On Abortion, Tadpoles, Rape, Cows, Murder and Sheep
The Exorcist’s Abortion and the Satanist’s Repentance
George Tiller, Abortionist Murders, and the Richard Dawkins Correlation
Is pro-life and pro-death penalty a contradiction?
Dan
Barker – His Views On Human Dignity
The
Abortion Money Machine Rolls Out the Ads in the UK
Pro-abortionists target pro-lifers
Greg Koukl on pro-abortion “logic”
Abortion and the Intolerance of the Pseudo-Tolerant