Culture of Death (abortion)

I had a conversation this morning with three people who profess to be Christians. When the topic of abortion came up, with one voice all 3 of them said it is my body and right to choose. I asked them if what is in the womb is life. Two of them said yes and eventually the third person partially agreed. I then asked them if we have the right to choose to murder a person. 

That stirred a lot of preemptive, combative answers because they perceived that I was moving to say, if you affirm life in the womb then you know it's a person and therefore not a right but a wrong and should be illegal to murder the person. ...

The level of blindness or hardness of heart is very unfortunate and breaks my heart for them and for babies. One said that Jesus spoke about choice. I didn't have time to answer every nonsensical statement but yeah, Jesus talked about choosing life or death; the good thing or the bad thing. Another said, well if you are a horrible person and without means to raise a child, then they will grow up to be a murderer or something. That's a broad presumption based on no facts or data for its support. Then one asked, what if they don't have any help to raise the baby? That's actually a good question but there are resources available to help young mothers. My prayer and hope is that God would restore healthy logic and reason to our culture of death. This from professing Christians is clearly not proper Christian thinking. I pray that God would give people a desire to read and understand the Bible and be convicted about what is wrong, so that they can actually know Jesus and leave behind the Jesus of their imaginations, and not rationalize and give approval to murder.

Here is a quiz from Living Waters ~ How would you respond in these situations?

1. A preacher and his wife are very, very poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she’s pregnant with the 15th. They’re living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion?

2. The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. Of their four children, the first is blind, the second has died, the third is deaf, the fourth has TB. She finds she’s pregnant again. Given this extreme situation, would you consider recommending abortion?

3. A white man raped a 13-year-old black girl and she’s now pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion?

4. A teenage girl is pregnant. She’s not married. Her fiancé is not the father of the baby, and he’s upset. Would you recommend abortion?

In the first case, you would have killed John Wesley, one of the great evangelists in the 19th century. In the second case, you would have killed Beethoven. In the third case, you would have killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer. If you said yes to the fourth case, you would have declared the murder of Jesus Christ!

God is the author of life, and He has givenevery single individual supreme value. Each life—whether inside or outside the womb—should therefore be valued by us. God knows the plans He has for each individual and has written in His book all the days ordained for us before one of them came to be. When we presume to know better than God who should be given life, we are putting ourselves in the place of God and are guilty of idolatry.