The Lord called me from birth,
from my mother's womb he gave me my name....
For now the Lord has spoken
who formed me as his servant from the womb,
That Jacob may be brought back to him
and Israel gathered to him (Is. 49: 1 & 5).
Yesterday's news reported the case of an abortionist doctor who for years has been delivering live babies (one was six pounds, and the "doctor" joked that this baby could walk him to the bus stop) and then sticking scissors into the spinal cord at the neck to kill the child.
The world is outraged----but what has the doctor done "wrong"? We are all okay with the same act performed on the child in the womb. Is it that if we can see the baby, it is wrong to kill it, but if we cannot see it, it's okay to do the same thing?
According to that line of logic, we should excuse murder in general if the victim is behind a veil or screen; as long as the murderer doesn't see the victim, there is no crime. The Nazi murderers didn't actually see their victims die in the gas chambers, nor hear their silent screams, so no harm was done, right?
We might all say that babies will be born into horrible circumstances, so we are justified in preventing their birth. But I cannot see how that justifies taking the life of an innocent child. I don't blame desperate mothers; I blame our mind-set of disposal-for-convenience as a society. Surely as a nation, we can figure out better ways to care for unwanted infants, just as now some states are coming up with better alternatives to incarceration and prisons for non-violent offenders.
In Old-Testament Israel, the nation as a whole suffered terribly for the crimes against their babies. (They used to sacrifice the infants to Molech, by tossing the babies onto the super-heated lap of the brazen idol.) According to the prophets, God was enraged with their blindness and stupidity and removed His protective covering from the land, allowing their enemies to over-run and destroy the nation.
I wonder if we will fare any better as a nation. In the meantime, I fail to see how we can logically prosecute the "doctor" who took our national mind-set to its logical conclusion. God told Cain that his brother's blood was crying to Him from the ground, and because of that pollution, the ground was forever cursed. Will our soil ever recover from the spilled blood of our 6 million babies? What if one of those babies had a mission from God to save us as a nation?
I've known several women who have had abortions because they wanted to protect their unborn children from their own addictions and other forms of abuse to which they would, or had already, exposed their babies.
ReplyDeleteTheir question may be the choice of sinning once by giving the unborn baby back to God before they lead their own child to sin, or to sin repeatedly by bringing a child into their own terribly broken life and network. When I was in a relationship with a drug addict and thought that I was pregnant, I seriously contemplated suicide to solve my dilemma.