Presidential Candidate supports Denying Care to Dying Infants
Is this one issue enough to vote on? I think so.
Human Life Trumps All.
OC
August 30 2008 09:34 pm | Politics and The War and Uncategorized
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OOC on 31 Aug 2008 at 8:32 am #
OC,
Thank you for finding and posting those videos…very powerful. It’s difficult for me to watch knowing we have family that have been trying to adopt for two years and adoption regulations are so cumbersome…and abortion is so easy.
I did a quick Google search for “Abortion + Bible” for an easy way to layout what the Word teaches regarding abortion. Here’s a summary from http://www.godandscience.org:
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When does life begin?
Many Christians believe that the Bible is silent in regard to God’s view on life before birth. Although the Bible does not specifically define when life begins, it does give us enough information to formulate a solid biblical position.
The sayings of Jesus demonstrated the love of God for children often during His ministry. In one passage, Jesus took a child to him and sat with him. He said, “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their angels in heaven continually behold the face of My Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 18:10). Jesus tells us not to despise or look down upon the least powerful and significant (by human standards) of humans. It is ironic that the most helpless humans are those inside the womb. Of all the risks that we must face in our lives, the most dangerous place we can be is in the womb, since fully one third of all human babies are aborted in this nation - over one million every year. Greater than 98% of all abortions are done for non-medical reasons.
Old Testament law
The Old Testament provides most of the information on God’s view of life before birth, since it gives us the law. The law specifically addresses the issue of taking the life of a fetus in the book of Exodus:
“And if men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage, yet there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him; and he shall pay as the judges decide. But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life.” (Exodus 21:22-23)
Therefore, the law tells us that a man who induces an abortion or miscarriage is to be punished, indicating that God values life before birth. A verse from Hosea3 says that abortion is a punishment for sin, indicating God views it as bad. Likewise, God expressed His disgust for the Ammonites, who “ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead”.4 When does this life begin?
Human life begins in the womb. The Bible tells us God is involved in our creation from the womb:
“Did not He who made me in the womb make him, And the same one fashion us in the womb? (Job 31:15)
Yet Thou art He who didst bring me forth from the womb; Thou didst make me trust when upon my mother’s breasts. Upon Thee I was cast from birth; Thou hast been my God from my mother’s womb. (Psalms 22:9-10)
For Thou didst form my inward parts; Thou didst weave me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Thy works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from Thee, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Thy book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. (Psalms 139:13-16)
Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you, `Do not fear, O Jacob My servant; And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen. (Isaiah 44:2)
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, “I, the LORD, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, And spreading out the earth all alone, (Isaiah 44:24)
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OOC
CatholicMom on 31 Aug 2008 at 6:23 pm #
When we have politicians like Nancy Pelosi attempting to redirect the things that both the Bible AND science tell us (unborn babies are alive!), we have a serious moral problem in our country. We just can’t ignore it.
Like OOC, I have loved ones who bear the Cross of infertility and would love to adopt a baby. I completely understand how sickening it is to hear politicians call babies “burdens” and to dismiss human life as unimportant…
Affirmation of life before birth dates back to the very earliest days of the Christian church. For example, the Didache (i.e., the so-called “Teaching of the Twelve Apostles”) says:
“And the second commandment of the Teaching; You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born.” (Didache 2:2; ca. 100 A.D.?)
Let me offer one final Old Testament selection - we heard it proclaimed at church this morning, and I think it’s appropriate to this discussion.
“You duped me, O LORD, and I let myself be duped;
you were too strong for me, and you triumphed.
All the day I am an object of laughter;
everyone mocks me.
Whenever I speak, I must cry out,
violence and outrage is my message;
the word of the LORD has brought me
derision and reproach all the day.
I say to myself, I will not mention him,
I will speak in his name no more.
But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart,
imprisoned in my bones;
I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.”
–Jer. 20:7-9
Somebody's Mimi on 05 Sep 2008 at 2:02 pm #
This situation breaks my heart. I was in a situation once where people may have thought I should have an abortion, but that thought never entered my mind. I instead gave birth to a premature baby, a doctor told me that our son wouldn’t make it. I knew God was watching over this baby and although it was a struggle for his little body I prayed that he would live… Someone needs to protect all babies. This is not just biblical it is just common sense… you don’t kill another human!!
CatholicMom on 08 Sep 2008 at 11:06 pm #
Exactly, Somebody’s Mimi. May God bless you for taking care of your baby and protecting him. Everyone deserves life. God’s plans are so far greater than ours - who knew that the Maryland slave named “Minty” (Harriet Tubman) would lead so many people to freedom, or that Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu would dedicate her life to the “least of these” and win fame as Mother Teresa?
Thank you for sharing your story. We never, ever know what God has called us to do for Him and for all the lives He creates.
OOC has provided so many beautiful scriptural references…it’s mind-boggling to think that people who profess to believe that the Bible is the Word of God could label themselves “pro-choice.”
God knows us each by name. He cares for us and calls us to Him. Shouldn’t we protect the “least of these” and pray for the unborn, the undefended and the unwanted?