Abortion...
One Dead, One Wounded...
It Is Legalized
Murder...
You may be pro-choice, but From the very beginning GOD commanded,
"Be fruitful and multiply; fill the
earth and subdue it."
Genesis
1:28, and Genesis 8:17, and Genesis 9:1
GOD did not add, 'If it is YOUR
will', or 'If it pleases YOU', or 'If YOU decide to do so',
or
'IF IT IS YOUR CHOICE', did He?
No, He said 'DO IT',
It is GOD's will, not ours, that children should be brought into this
world.
If you will notice, this command was repeated at least three times in
Genesis alone, and there are similar verses in other books. Now, why does anyone
repeat himself?
To drive home a very important point, that is
why.
You may be pro-choice, but
GOD is Pro-Life.
But Jesus said to them,
"Let the
little children be,
and do not hinder them from coming to
Me,
for of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven."
Matthew 19:14
Does an aborted child ever get to enjoy this
heavenly privilege?
But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their heart, took a little child and set him
at His side
and said to them,
"Whoever receives this little child for My sake, receives Me;
and
whoever receives Me, receives Him who sent Me."
Luke 9:47-48
Does Jesus Christ love
children?
The word 'children' is mentioned over 1500 times in Holy
Scripture.
From that, I must deduce that 'children' are of
paramount
importance to GOD.
To the author of a book the fruit of his works belongs to the author.
Likewise...
To the Author of
Life, the fruit of His works belongs to the Author.
"But you disowned the
Holy and Just One, and asked that a murderer
should be granted to you;
but
the Author of Life you killed
whom GOD has raised up from the dead;
whereof we are witnesses."
Acts 3:14-15
"Behold all souls are mine: as
the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine:
the soul that
sins, the same shall die."
Ezekiel 18:4
So when does life begin? Holy
Scripture told us the answer. Are pro-abortionists paying attention?
"For
just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is
dead."
James 2:26
It is obvious that life begins at conception, simply
because a dead fetus will not grow.
GOD is Pro-Life.
"Or do you not know that your members are the temple of the
Holy Spirit,
who is in you, whom you have from GOD,
and that you are NOT your own?
For you have been
bought at great price.
Glorify GOD and bear Him in your
body."
1 Corinthians
6:19-20
GOD is Pro-Life.
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother
Abel?"
He answered, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
And the
Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's
blood cries to me from the ground. And now cursed are you
in the soil
which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand."
Genesis 4:9-11
GOD hears the
blood of the innocent who were
slain.
GOD is Pro-Life.
"Learn then that I, I alone, am GOD, and there is no
god besides Me.
It is I who bring
both death and life, I who inflict wounds
and heal them, and from My hand
there is no rescue."
Deuteronomy 32:39
GOD
is Pro-Life.
"Naked came I out of my mothers
womb, and naked I shall return thither.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken
away."
Job
1:21
God is Pro-Life.
"I call heaven and earth today to witness against
you.
I have set before you life and death, the blessing
and the curse.
Choose life
then, that you and your descendants may live,
by
loving the Lord your GOD, heeding His voice,
and holding fast to Him. For
that will mean life for you,
a long life for you to live on the land which
the Lord swore
He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob."
Deuteronomy 30:19-20
In these verses did you notice the
connection between
Life as a Blessing, and Death as a
Curse?
GOD is Pro-Life.
"Thou shalt not kill."
The
Fifth Commandment.
Exodus 20:13.
"You have heard that it
was said to the ancients, You shall not kill;
and that whoever shall kill shall be liable to judgment."
Matthew 5:21
"For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly execute justice
one with another,
if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the
widow,
or shed innocent
blood
in this place, and if you do
not go after other gods to your own hurt,
then I will let you dwell in this
place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers for ever.
Behold, you
trust in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery,
swear falsely, burn incense to Ba'al, and go after other gods that you have
not known,
and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called
by my name, and say,
'We are delivered!'--only to go on doing all these
abominations?"
Jeremiah 7:5-10
"Thou shalt not kill,
thou shalt not commit adultery;
thou shalt not corrupt youth; thou shalt not commit fornication;
thou
shalt not steal; thou shalt not use soothsaying;
thou shalt not practice
sorcery;
Thou shalt not kill
a child by abortion,
neither shall thou slay it when
born;
thou shalt not covet
the goods of thy neighbor."
Didache 2:2
Note: The 'Didache' is the
teaching of the Apostles.
They wrote it and followed it in the first
century,
hundreds of years before there was a New Testament.
*The
entire Didache (Did-Ah-Key) is posted elsewhere on this website*
"Your hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about,
yet you do
destroy me. Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me
as the clay; and
will you bring me unto dust again?
Have you not poured me out as milk, and
curdled me as cheese?
You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have
fenced me
with bones and sinews. You have granted me life and favor,
and
your visitation has preserved my spirit."
Job 9:8-12
"The Spirit of
GOD has made me,
and the breath of the Almighty has given me life."
Job
33:4
"For thou didst fashion my reins, thou didst form me in my mother's
womb.
I praise thee, that I was made so wonderfully, that thy works are
wonderful.
And thou knowest my soul perfectly."
Psalms
139:13-14
"As you know not what is the way of the Spirit,
nor how the
bones are joined together in the womb
of her that is with child; so that you
know not the works of GOD,
who is the maker of all."
Ecclesiastes
11:5
"Thus said the Lord that made and formed you, your helper from the
womb."
Isaiah 44:2,24
"The Lord has called me from the womb,
from
the bowels of my mother He has been mindful of my name."
Isaiah
49:1,5
"Before I formed
you in the bowels of your mother,
I knew you;
and before you came forth
out of the womb,
I sanctified you..."
Jeremiah 1:5
GOD has a plan for each one of us
and He knew when He would form us,
and He knew it for all eternity.
Holy Scripture is quite clear,
the Author of Life gives life, and only He
may take it away.
We, therefore, have no control over who lives and who dies.
We are all
GOD's children (Gal 3:26), and we must live by the rules of Our
Father.
No one 'owns' another human being. No one can say, 'I live but
you
must die'. No one can say of an unborn child, 'This is my body
and I will do
with it as I please'. The unborn child belongs to its
'Author', the Creator
of Life, and to Him alone, and not to its mother.
The mother serves as a
nurturing vessel, as GOD is forming the
child in her womb. Neither she nor
anyone else has a right to destroy
a human creature which GOD has
created.
"Seek not death
in the error of your life, neither procure you destruction by the works of your
hands. For GOD made not death, neither has He pleasure in the destruction of the
living. For He created all things that they might be; and He made the nations of
the earth for health; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom
of hell upon the earth. For justice is perpetual and immortal. But the wicked
with works and words have called it to them, and esteeming it a friend have
fallen away, and have made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to be of
the part thereof."
Wisdom
1:12-16
GOD is Pro-Life.
It is GOD's will that we:
"Be
fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it."
Genesis 1:28,
9:7
As a reward for fidelity to Himself, GOD promises
children:
"No woman in your land will be barren or miscarry;
and I
will give you a full span of life."
Exodus 23:26
"I will look with
favor upon you, and make you fruitful
and numerous, as I carry out My
covenant with you."
Leviticus 26:9
"Lo, children are a heritage of the
Lord;
and the fruit of the womb is His reward."
Psalms 127:3
GOD also promised a punishment for those of infidelity:
For those who
cause a woman to miscarry:
"When men have a fight and hurt a pregnant
woman, so that she
suffers a miscarriage, but no further injury, the guilty
one shall
be fined as much as the woman's husband demands of
him..."
Exodus 21:22
"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by a man shall his
blood be shed."
Genesis
9:6
"Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be
filled with their own devices.
The turning away of little ones shall kill
them,
and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them."
Proverbs
1:31-32
"Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has stood the
test he will receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love
him. Let no one say when he is tempted,
"I am tempted by God"; for God
cannot be tempted with evil and he himself tempts no one;
but each person is
tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has
conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown brings forth
death."
James 1:13-16
More punishment equated to abortion:
"May
they pass like the snail which melts away, like the aborted
fetuses of a woman which
sees not the sun."
Psalms 58:8 (9)
Hosea asks GOD for punishment of
the Israelites for their iniquities:
"As for Ephraim, their glory has flown
away like a bird,
from the birth and from the womb and from the
conception.
And though they should bring up their children,
I will make
them without children among men.
Yes and woe to them when I shall depart from
them.
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place,
but Ephraim
shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
Give them O Lord. What will
you give them?
Give them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts."
Hosea
9:11-14
"Yet you have brought me forth from the womb;
you did watch over me when I
was at my mother's breast."
Psalms 22:10-11
"And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from
you;
and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear,
for your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves, be clean, take
away the evil of
your devices from my eyes."
Isaiah 1:15-16
"For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face,
and
their iniquity has not been hid from my eyes."
Jeremiah
16:17
"But your iniquities have divided between you and your GOD,
and your sins have hid His face from you that He should not hear.
For
your hands are defiled with blood, and your
fingers with iniquity.
Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue utters iniquity."
Isaiah
59:2-3
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children,
nor children for their fathers;
only for his own guilt shall a man be put to death.
Deuteronomy
24:16
"They served their idols, which became a snare to them. They even
sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons, and shed innocent
blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the
idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood,
and they were defiled
by their own works, and fornicated in their crimes."
Psalms 106:37-39
"Now we know that the law is good, if any one uses it lawfully,
understanding this,
that the law is not laid down for the just but for the
lawless and disobedient,
for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and
profane,
for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
immoral persons, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is
contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the glorious gospel of the
blessed God with which I have been entrusted."
1Timothy 1:8-11
"Rescue
those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to
the slaughter. If you say, "Behold, we did not know
this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not render
to a man according to his works?"
Proverbs 24:11-12
"Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh His Soul
detesteth:
haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent
blood."
Proverbs 6:16-17
"Keep far from a false charge,
and do not slay the
innocent and righteous,
for I will not acquit the wicked."
Exodus 23:7
One of the saddest stories in the entire Bible is in the Book of
Matthew.
"Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the Magi,
was
exceedingly angry; and he sent and slew all the boys in
Bethlehem and all its
neighborhood who were two years old or under,
according to the time that he
had carefully ascertained from the Magi."
Matthew 2:16
Those slain children are called the "Holy Innocents".
There is no one any
more innocent and helpless than a newborn child,
or one who is still in its
mothers womb. They cannot speak for themselves.
They are helpless and
defenseless, and they are all the property of GOD.
Scripture does not give a
clue as to the number of Holy Innocents,
but it must have been a small
number, as Bethlehem was a small town.
Compare those Holy Innocents with the
over 40,000,000 in the USA alone,
and the 1,200,000,000 worldwide, slain in
the last 30 years by abortion.
"Thus said the Lord: A voice was heard on high of
Lamentation,
of mourning and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her
children,
and refusing to be comforted for them,
because they are not."
Thus says the LORD: "Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from
tears;
for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD, and they shall come
back from the land of the enemy.
There is hope for your future, says the
LORD, and your children shall come back to their own country."
Jeremiah
31:15-17, Matthew 2:17-18
What did Church Fathers and early Church
writers have to say?
Tertullian, The Soul 27,3 208 A.D.
"We
acknowledge, therefore, that life begins with conception, because we contend
that the soul begins at conception. Life begins when the soul
begins."
Tertullian, Apology 9, 197 A.D.
"...murder being once for all
forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the
human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To
hinder a birth is merely a speedier man- killing; nor does it matter whether you
take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That
is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in its
seed."
St. Hippolytus of Rome, Philosophoumena, or Refutation of all
Heresies, 222 A.D.
"...for this reason women who were reputed to be believers
began to take
drugs to render themselves sterile, and to bind themselves
tightly so as to
expel what was being conceived, since they would not, on
account of
relatives and excessive wealth, want to have a child by a slave or
by any
insignificant person. See, then, into what great impiety that lawless
one
has proceeded, by teaching adultery and murder at the same time."
9:12
St. Basil, the Great, First Canonical
Letter to Amphilochius, 374 A.D.
"A woman who has deliberately destroyed a
fetus must pay the penalty for murder." 188:1
"Those also who give drugs
causing abortions are
murderers themselves,
as well as those who receive the poison which kills the
fetus." 188:8
St. Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion of Faith, Hope, and
Love, 23,86, 421 A.D.
"...though I know not whether man can find an answer:
when it is that a
human being in the womb begins to live, and whether there
is also a
certain kind of hidden life there which is not yet apparent in the
movements
of the living being. It seems very rash to deny that those fetuses
ever lived,
that are cut away and ejected limb by limb from the wombs of the
pregnant,
lest the mothers perish too, if the fetuses be left there dead."
St. Augustine of Hippo, Marriage and Concupiscence, 17, 419 A.D.
"It
is, however, one thing for married persons to have intercourse only for the wish
to beget children, which is not sinful: it is another thing for them to desire
carnal pleasure in cohabitation, but with the spouse only, which involves venial
sin. For although propagation of offspring is not the motive of the intercourse,
there is still no attempt to prevent such propagation, either by wrong desire or
evil appliance. They who resort to these, although called by the name of
spouses, are really not such; they retain no vestige of true matrimony, but
pretend the honourable designation as a cloak for criminal conduct. Having also
proceeded so far, they are betrayed into exposing their children, which are born
against their will. They hate to nourish and retain those whom they were afraid
they would beget. This infliction of cruelty on their offspring so reluctantly
begotten, unmasks the sin which they had practised in darkness, and drags it
clearly into the light of day. The open cruelty reproves the concealed sin.
Sometimes, indeed, this lustful cruelty, or; if you please, cruel lust, resorts
to such extravagant methods as to use poisonous drugs to secure barrenness; or
else, if unsuccessful in this, to destroy the conceived seed by some means
previous to birth, preferring that its offspring should rather perish than
receive vitality; or if it was advancing to life within the womb, should be
slain before it was born. Well, if both parties alike are so flagitious, they
are not husband and wife; and if such were their character from the beginning,
they have not come together by wedlock but by debauchery. But if the two are not
alike in such sin, I boldly declare either that the woman is, so to say, the
husband's harlot; or the man the wife's adulterer."
St. Clement of
Alexandria, Christ the Educator, 2:10, 202 A.D.
"If we should but control our
lusts at the start and if we would not kill off the human race born and
developing according to the divine plan, then our whole lives would be lived
according to nature."
"Women who resort to some sort of deadly abortion
drug kill not only the embryo, but, along with it, all human kindness." Ibid,
23:174
St. Jerome, Letters 22:13, 380 A.D.
"You may see many women
widows before wedded, who try to conceal their miserable fall by a lying garb.
Unless they are betrayed by swelling wombs or by the crying of their
infants...Some go so far as to take potions, that they may insure barrenness
...Some, when they find themselves with child through their sin, use drugs to
procure abortion, and when (as often happens) they die with their offspring,
they enter the lower world laden with the guilt not only of adultery against
Christ but also of suicide and child murder...Yet it is these who say: "...my
conscience is sufficient guide for me..."
St. John Crysostom, Homily 24
on Romans, 391 A.D.
"For I have no name to give it, since it does not take
off the thing born, but prevent its being born.
Why then dost thou abuse the
gift of God, and fight with His laws, and follow after what is a curse as if a
blessing, and make the chamber of procreation a chamber for murder, and arm the
woman that was given for childbearing unto slaughter?"
Flavius Josephus,
though not a Church Father, was the main Jewish historian of his time,
37-101 A.D., so he lived during the time of the Apostles. He had this to
say:
"The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and
forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward;
and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child by
destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind:
if anyone,
therefore, proceeds to such fornication or murder, he cannot be clean."
Josephus against Apion, 2:25...
As you can see from these historical
writings which I have shown,
there is nothing new regarding the abomination
of Abortion.
Holy
Scripture once again is true to the point...
"All things are full of
weariness, a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the
ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done
is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing
of which it is said, “See, this is new”?
It has been already, in the ages
before us. There is no remembrance of former things,
nor will there be any
remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come
after."
Ecclesiastes 1:8-11
A man pleaded with GOD. "Dear GOD, why
don't you give us
someone who can find a cure for cancer and heart
disease?"
GOD replied, "I did, but you aborted them."
I would venture to say, that given the chance,
proponents of Abortion would very likely support
aborting the Son of
GOD.
Pro-Choice, exactly just what does that mean?
The persons who chose that
title did so because it sounds less repulsive
than what it really means,
which is...
"I have a
perfect right to kill another human being,
a creature of
GOD's creation, if I choose to do so."
Let us call it for what it truly is...
Legalized Murder...
For those of you who would say,
"It is only a lump of flesh",
I am compelled to ask:
"And what would that
'lump of flesh' become if it were left alone in the womb?"
I am again
compelled to ask:
"Does a 'lump of flesh' have a heartbeat?"
"And behold, Elizabeth thy kinswoman also has conceived a son
in her old
age, and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month."
Luke
1:36
"And it came to pass, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of
Mary,
that the babe in her womb leapt."
Luke 1:41
"For behold, the
moment that the sound of your greeting came to my ears,
the babe in my womb
leapt for joy."
Luke 1:44
Now please explain to me,
"How can a
'lump of flesh' leap in its mothers womb,
and how does it know
joy?"
"Can a woman forget her infant, so as
not to have
pity on the son of her womb?"
Isaiah 49:15
"And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth,
so that he might devour the child the moment it was born."
Revelation
12:4
What is the difference between the abortionists of today, and the
dragon of Revelation 12:4?
The whales, are protected by animal rightists.
The spotted owls, are
protected by animal rightists.
The snail darter, is protected by animal
rightists.
The human child in the womb, is the most helpless of all, where
are those who protect them?
It would seem that we have more concern over the
life of
animals than we have over the lives of human beings.
And what
did GOD have to say say about all of this?
"Be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the
earth."
Genesis 1:28
It would seem that man has lowered himself from
having dominion over animal life,
to having submission under it.
May GOD have mercy on us for what we have done.
"Thou art my GOD: have mercy on me, O Lord,
for I cry to thee continually.
Give joy to the soul of thy servant,
for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my
soul.
For thou, O Lord, art good and kind,
full of mercy for all who call
upon thee.
Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer,
and attend to the voice of my
supplication.
I call upon thee in the day of my trouble,
because thou wilt
hear me."
Psalms 86:3-7
You may be Pro-Choice, but GOD is Pro-Life.
Abortion transforms a
womb into a tomb.
©
Written by Bob Stanley, November
26, 1998
Updated September 27, 2004
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