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The Battle For Life

There have been lots of articles and editorials printed recently about the "abortion debate".

I have read and heard, many times, the point being made that abortion is a "health issue", not a crime. Who's health?

Granted, there are times when the health of the mother becomes a determining factor. But using this "health" aspect as a blanket covering is little more than an attempt to legitimize the debate. After all, "convenience" just doesn't have the same impact and plausibility, does it?

I also find it interesting that even the term used to defend/advocate abortion, "pro-choice", is something of a cover-up. Why not just come out and use the term pro-abortion? I guess, in this day and age, the choice of the individual is of paramount importance, isn't it?

In all of the debate over choice and women's rights, the point is often overlooked that the object of the debate is a living being!

The First International Conference on Abortion, meeting in Washington DC (1967) declared: "we can find no point in the time between the union of sperm and egg and the birth of an infant at which point we can say this is not a human life."

This statement is consistent with Scripture. For example, Psalm 139:13-16 affirms unequivocally three important points.
Firstly, that of CREATION. The process of embryonic growth is neither haphazard nor even automatic, but a divine work of creation.
Secondly, that of CONTINUITY. The psalmist talks not just of past, present and future, but also of the pre-natal stage.
Thirdly, is the fact of COVENANT. What makes us a person is not that we know God, but that He knows us; not that we love God, but that he has set His love on us.

Because of this, we must uphold and protect the sanctity of life. We need to address ways of supporting mothers-to-be and providing positive options for life.

Dear Lord, in the confusion and the clamour of opinions and debate, may I continually seek to hear Your voice saying "This is the way, walk in it." Lord, I pray that our society may be led by conscience and conviction, not merely by convenience. And, Lord, by my attitudes and actions, may I uphold the sanctity of life. Amen.