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August 28, 2010
Carl Janssen
Abortion is often thought of as a choice to have a baby or not have a baby. But in reality abortion is a choice to murder a baby that already exists. The woman has to be pregnant before an abortion occurs, so the woman already has a baby in her. If the baby was already born, I would consider it morally wrong to murder the baby. It is essentially the same baby five minutes before it is born, so it seems to me that it would also be morally wrong to kill the same baby. A baby’s arms and legs sometimes develop before the woman even knows she is pregnant. If a woman was to use drugs or drink alcohol during this initial stage the baby would potentially have no arms or legs as an adult. Whatever is done to that baby will potentially affect that person as an adult. If women should not drink alcohol to prevent injuring the baby and having a disabled child, why should they do something to prevent the child from having a living body in the future. In the same way that drinking alcohol at an earlier stage of pregnancy may cause disability to a future adult an abortion at an early stage of pregnancy if done correctly seems to me like murdering a future adult.
Why abortion is morally wrong even when rape is involved in the pregnancy.
If a woman was raped and she gives birth to a child who grows up and eventually reaches the age of 35 years old. That adult should not be murdered just because he was born due to his mother being raped. It is the same person who was at one time inside the mother when she was pregnant. If it is not okay to kill the adult born as a result of rape, why should it be okay to kill that person when he or she was a child?
Why abortion is wrong in the case of incest and genetic abnormalities and disabilities.
People today denounce those involved in the holocaust who murdered adults based on genetic or eugenic reasons and based on disabilities and parental origin. Yet they support murdering babies based on these reasons. If you should not murder an adult because of his genes, disability or parentage then you should not murder a baby based on these traits.
Some people say that abortions should be done to the disabled or those with genes predisposed to disability because life is not worth living as a disabled person. Many disabled people, believe that life is worth living, and it is wrong to take life away from them against their will such as in an abortion or by other means, unless they have committed an actual crime for which God has prescribed death. If those who said we should murder disabled babies openly said the same thing about those disabled babies when they grew up to be disabled adults, how would the disabled adults respond?
Why the cost of taking care of babies is not a good argument for abortion.
Those who make this argument for abortion are saying it is okay to murder for money. Furthermore adoption has been free for the mother for centuries all she has to do is give the baby to someone else. And childbirth has been free for the mother for centuries, it never required a massive hospital building the way it was first done in nature. Additionally many women are trying to increase the number of calories they expend per day in America and being pregnant does that for free without having to pay for a gym membership.
Exceptions
In the case where a baby can not live, and survive through childbirth and the mother will die without an abortion, an abortion may be acceptable. This is because the baby will die even if an abortion is not performed, but it will prevent the mother from dying. That being said such an exception is often misrepresented.
Under many circumstances those who know abortion is murder and vote for pro-abortion candidates have committed murder. Those who know Obama’s stance on abortion and that voted for Obama and know abortion is murder have committed murder and may not have good eternal life!
“Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” 1 John 3:15
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