When Does Life Begin?
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. - Psalm 139:13-14
One of the topics we discussed during the Talkshoe radio show on May 12th was abortion. We covered the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point anti-abortion protest vandalism by a student senator and his cronies.
The 4,000 crosses were placed to represent the lives lost each day to abortion. Mr. King, the senator, remains on the senate and has not been reprimanded for his fascist actions.
The photos above, show Amillia Taylor. She was born two weeks before the legal abortion limit in the U.K. at just 9.5 inches (24.13 cm) long and less than 10 ounces (284 g) and is now a happy, healthy, and normal two year old.
If the pro-abortion, anti-lifers have their way, babies like Amillia will continue to be murdered every day.
Remember SLED. Size - Does your size make you human? Level of Development - Do your capabilities make you human? If I’m smarter or faster than you am I more qualified as a human? Environment - Doe your location in space make you more or less human? Dependency - Does your reliance on air and food make you less of a human? Does someones use of a wheelchair or insulin make them less human?
These four factors are the only differences between a developing human in its mother’s womb and those of us already born.
Pro-Lifers will always win the abortion debate when it is considered in terms of human rights.
May 27 2008 06:02 am | The War
GN on 05 Jun 2008 at 1:20 am #
Semantics are always an integral aspect of this abortion argument. When I was in nursing school, my instructors told our class that IUDs did not cause abortions, they simply prevent pregnancies. They said, likewise, that morning after pills functioned the same way—they PREVENTED pregnancy.
The students in my class took it in like fools. Not one of them questioned her in this. But I did. And I finally got her to admit to the class that she was speaking with the assumption that pregnancy began at implantation, not at conception.
That’s a big difference!
With parsing of words like that, and with our ignorant youth listening, of course IUDs and MAPs sound like good, acceptable, moral methods of birth control. Even many Christians are okay with IUD’s and taking birth control pills because they don’t bother to question their doctors when they tell them that BCP’s and IUDs operate by PREVENTING pregnancy only.
I totally agree that abortion is 100% wrong. But many pro-lifers don’t pay attention to the (likely) countless numbers of “unwanted” abortions every year among well-meaning Christians. It’s too touchy a subject and so many don’t want to make waves.
But I am personally so glad that I discovered the truth about BCP’s in time to make an informed decision about whether I wanted to play Russian roulette with my unborn children. And I think a lot of other Christians would feel the same way. I’d much rather be informed than ignorant.
Sure, it might be a little more difficult to “plan” pregnancies or find an acceptable method of BC, but at least they wouldn’t be wondering if they were inadvertently killing their children.
Okay, I’ll get off my soap box now.
GN
OC on 05 Jun 2008 at 9:42 am #
GN,
I think your soap box is the right place to be. The aboritfacient nature of birth control pills is a life or death issue that very few Christians consider.
I don’t recall the dogma surrounding IUDs and BCPs when I was in nursing school but that might be because I pretty much a marginal Christian at the time wasn’t paying attention.
I do recall a big focus on “Healing Touch” and other New Age teachings. One of my professors was in on the Healing Touch” stuff back in the 1960’s.
Thanks for your comment.
David