Great question. It would take pages and pages to cover every angle on this, so I'm going to risk brevity (just so I don't bore you) and try to keep my answer simple!
The Bible is absolutely clear that to take a human life is murder, and our own consciences tell us the same thing. So the question of whether abortion is wrong becomes, "Is a fetus in it's mother's womb a human being?"
King David said that God formed him in his mother's womb (Psalm 139:13). Verse 16 ( The Message translation) goes on to say, "Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day." Those verses seem like pretty strong evidence to me that God considers life in the womb as valuable as life outside it.
I've heard the argument that a baby isn't human until it's outside its mother's womb because until then it can't survive on its own. But even once a baby is born it can't survive on it's own. It needs someone to give it food, shelter and safety or it will die! Yet no one would argue that a newborn baby isn't human.
I have to tell ya, nothing will make a woman more pro-life than being pregnant! Each week of my pregnancy (starting with two weeks), I've been reading about what changes are going on to the little life inside me. It's positively breathtaking to see just how human that little girl inside me is, even from the very earliest weeks of pregnancy. No, she didn't look very human at first (more like an alien!), but all her bodily functions—from heartbeat to digestion to nervous system, etc.—were formed at an astonishingly early age, far before most abortions are even performed.
So to answer your question, I'm 100 percent convinced that a child is human from conception, and that being the case, then to end that child's life is murder.
Love,
The Bible is absolutely clear that to take a human life is murder, and our own consciences tell us the same thing. So the question of whether abortion is wrong becomes, "Is a fetus in it's mother's womb a human being?"
King David said that God formed him in his mother's womb (Psalm 139:13). Verse 16 ( The Message translation) goes on to say, "Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day." Those verses seem like pretty strong evidence to me that God considers life in the womb as valuable as life outside it.
I've heard the argument that a baby isn't human until it's outside its mother's womb because until then it can't survive on its own. But even once a baby is born it can't survive on it's own. It needs someone to give it food, shelter and safety or it will die! Yet no one would argue that a newborn baby isn't human.
I have to tell ya, nothing will make a woman more pro-life than being pregnant! Each week of my pregnancy (starting with two weeks), I've been reading about what changes are going on to the little life inside me. It's positively breathtaking to see just how human that little girl inside me is, even from the very earliest weeks of pregnancy. No, she didn't look very human at first (more like an alien!), but all her bodily functions—from heartbeat to digestion to nervous system, etc.—were formed at an astonishingly early age, far before most abortions are even performed.
So to answer your question, I'm 100 percent convinced that a child is human from conception, and that being the case, then to end that child's life is murder.
Love,