October 17, 2007
Pro-Life: Against Abortion
The term "Pro-Life" is central to the debate of the validity of abortion. Pro-Lifers are generally against all types of Induced Abortion, both Therapeutic Abortion and Elective Abortion. They feel that human life begins at conception, and that every stage of this life, from embryo to fetus to newborn, has a right to life.
People who are against abortion believe that more growth and change in physicality occurs in the gestational period before birth than occurs throughout the rest of a person's life. Within the first three weeks, basic biological set up for the brain, spinal cord and nervous system begin to develop and the heart begins to beat. In the next few weeks, the baby forms limbs, lungs, eyes, musculature, and eventually begins to move. At five months, the mother can feel the baby kick; at six months, the baby can hear; at seven months, the baby's eyes open and it can see. They are also against abortion because they believe it can be painful for the baby.
With all of the growth and change listed above, Pro-lifers believe that the baby is also developing a soul and a consciousness that will be destroyed by abortion. The issue of the existence of a soul is commonly brought up by those who are against abortion. Many Pro-Lifers believe in God and in the creation of a person's soul at the moment of conception.
Pro-Lifers who are Christian believe that the Bible reinforces their beliefs against abortion. Christians use Bible verses to build logic behind their belief system. For example, the Bible teaches not to destroy innocent life (Genesis 9:6, Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 27:25a, Proverbs 6:16-19). Many claim that the Bible states that unborn babies are human life in books like Luke and Genesis. The books of Luke and Jeremiah state that God knows a person's soul before they are born. Therefore, an unborn child must be human life because God knows the child, and it is against God's will to destroy human life.
Pro-Lifers are against abortion even in the case of rape or incest. While they believe that these are despicable crimes and the perpetrators should be punished, they feel that the unborn children created by these crimes should not be punished. These are innocent byproducts of sexual crimes.
They do not feel that abortions should be funded in any way by the government. This includes the funding for clinics like Planned Parenthood. People who are against abortion sometimes commit violent acts of aggression aimed at abortion clinics. Abortion doctors have been killed, and clinics have been destroyed because of fanatical Pro-Lifers. Most Pro-Lifers feel these people are wrong to kill in order to prevent abortions.
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I don’t know if people are for or against abortion on here, but what I do know is, it is not FOR a fact murder, that is extremely ridiculous! It’s just a mass of cells until it is fully developed by at which stage a doctor would not perform the abortion! It also does not say in the bible anywhere that abortion is against is murder! What about those women who need to have an abortion or else they could die at childbirth?Who are you to judge a women or young girl for that matter! You’re so quick to judge and point a finger, but do you actually have any idea what they’re going through? Do you think they actually enjoy having to go through it? It doesn’t help when you have people who think they’re so perfect saying “keep the baby” “give it up for adoption” “abortion is murder” well I don’t see any of you voting to look after they baby, cloth it, feed it for the next 18 years! So just why don’t you just skip the part where you pretend to be righteous!
FREE WILL or LIFE
“I (ELOHI) created man and woman with free will and next to the promise of immortal life, free
will is my greatest gift to you,” according to the response [from ELOHIM],
Free will, of course, means the freedom to choose. According to Genesis 1-3, ELOHIM
created Adam and Eve to have freedom of choice, among other blessings. In fact, contrary
to the statement above, freedom of choice was even more important than immortal life,
because the Bible says that Adam and Eve already had immortal life, and God decided to
put that immortality at risk in order to safeguard their freedom of choice.
Eve is of particular interest in this story. According to Romans 5:12, death entered into
the world through the sin of one person Adam. If Eve had not sinned by disobeying ELOHIM and
eating of the forbidden fruit, there would be no death. At the point where Eve is speaking
with the serpent, therefore, ELOHIM our Heavenly Father has two options: either He can
take a pro-choice stand and protect Eve’s right to choose even though the result is the deaths of her
as-yet-unborn children, and All Humans or He can take a pro-life/anti-choice stand, deny Eve her right to
choose, and thus prevent the deaths of her as-yet-unborn children and You & Anthony (me) .Under these
circumstances, ELOHIM clearly regards the woman’s right to choose as being of greater
value, and more necessary to protect. He takes the pro-choice option, Eve makes her
choice, and as a result her yet-to-be-born offspring you and I are doomed to death.
Some will, of course, protest that this isn’t the same thing as abortion, and I agree.
Abortion only affects the offspring’s physical body, whereas the Bible tells us that
Eve’s & Adam decision not only led to the inevitable physical deaths of All Mortal Humans,
but tainted their souls as well, thus putting them in danger of eternal torment and
separation from God, a fate which most men are doomed to suffer. And God still
upheld the woman’s right to choose as being more precious.
Peace in Christ Jesus
Anthony Hall
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