ABORTION FYI
Abortion-
Why this is wrong. As told by a pathologist.
Take the most obvious type of abortion that can be considered “wrong” or murder. The "partial birth abortion’ procedure is taking the life of an infant that would be completely viable if born at that instant. There is absolutely no way to justify that horrific ‘procedure’ that then cuts the back of the head that was partially delivered and the brains were scrambled using stainless steel instruments, and evacuated with a suction. This is clearly murder. This is clearly unlike the usual practice of medicine. Does the baby have a ‘choice’? Even Hillary Clinton talks about ‘children’s rights’. This fully formed baby needs no respirator and could go home shortly after birth. We have no right to fuss about Milosevic’s immorality (as bad as that is) when we allow this to occur in the United States. Bill Clinton cannot lead us into a moral battle and do well to save people.
What about earlier gestational age fetuses and even embryos? As a pathologist, I have seen many spontaneous abortion, ‘products of conception’. At even less than 12 weeks gestation, the fetus is incredibly complex and human. It is nowhere near our ‘developed’ state but it is clearly different from other types of “tissue”. The DNA is clearly, from the moment of conception, completely unique from everyone else on earth. It has taken us thousands of years to obtain the capability of in-vitro fertilization. God performs this miracle thousands of times daily.
What about the mother’s ‘choice’? The argument that she has the right to choose what happens to her own body is markedly flawed. The same ones who want to give a woman the right for an abortion would condemn women for smoking and fight what was her ‘choice’, clearly affecting her own body. In abortion, the baby is clearly separate in content and being than the mother. It is only riding with the mother for a few months. As Christians, we should protect the helpless, including the unborn individual as it grows. Why doesn’t anyone expose that the reason for an abortion is simply selfishness? The mother’s ‘choice’ is simply what inconvenience she wants to escape.
We take way too much credit, credit that God deserves. We think that we created the life. Just a minute. One act of sex, a few minutes in length, ‘made’ a life? NO! First, God gave us bodies capable of procreating with incredibly complex and accurate hormonal balance and physiologic changes that allow this to work. It is unbelievable, when you choose to think about it, that our bodies are capable of the processes that allow life to renew. How many infertile couples have learned how difficult it is to simply conceive and to develop. The point is simple. Without God ‘making’ the baby, it would not occur. A few minutes of sex and some time growing in a uterus is not ‘making’ a baby. If I want to make a car, it requires hours of careful action and thought to accomplish this. A baby is much more complex. We cannot make all needed DNA, we cannot take the needed DNA and form life under the most controlled situations. We still have not made any kind of life, even the most simple one-cell kind. We can do some pretty incredible stuff but we cannot make life. God does this routinely. Give Him the credit.
I believe the reason people call for abortion to be legal is, simply put, selfishness. The abortion occurs as the mother (maybe under other’s pressure) does not want the baby. Others do not want to feel the guilt of not picking up the pieces to help an unwanted baby. They selfishly want to spend their money on themselves and their wants rather than to sacrifice some for unwanted or unsupported babies. The mother puts her own wants above the baby’s needs. In this day of birth control, she forgot to ‘choose’ abstinence or birth control and for some reason God gave her a life. Why? Ask Him.
Here is are some examples. There are many. Ethyl Waters was a product of a rape and she turned out to positively affect many people’s lives. My wife and I thought our own family was complete a few years ago with our 2 boys. Suddenly, after an 8 year gap, at nearly 40 years of age, my wife became pregnant again. This was extremely difficult on our lives. We would not ever consider an abortion but we absolutely had no interest in going through the difficulties we well knew raising another child. God had a better idea. Despite the trauma, our daughter has been clearly a gift from God. The ideas of another child were unwelcome. On her birth and with developing a relationship with her, she is probably the best gift God could have given to our family. This is true of any child born. They can all be loved and they deserve that, even if it is by strangers.
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
"…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness NANCY
