Thursday, April 26, 2012

Murder of convenience

 

Abortion is a topic that has kind of fallen in to the background in recent times. It becomes more and more “Justifiable” in the popular view as time goes on, and in many ways has ceased to be a question of morality concerning the killing of unborn babies; and become more a struggle over the idea of “Who has the right to tell a person what to do with their body, and their life”.

This must be said however about Abortion, the unfortunate truth is that the while there are certain circumstances that can result in an unwanted pregnancy, such as rape or a drug addicted mother; the majority of Abortions are chosen by women out of convenience. That sounds like a harsh accusation, but truth is truth. I know that the reasons sound really rational when you think about them “I can’t afford a baby” or “I’m not mature enough to take care of a baby” or the even popular “how can someone bring a life in to this world with as bad as it is”? These reasons as well as many others have the illusion of sounding like the thoughts of a mature and responsible individual but it’s only an illusion.Honestly speaking the reality that you aren’t ready for a baby or that you cannot afford to raise a child are not truths that come about because you are pregnant, they were true before that. Not to mention that it was obviously no result of the unborn child’s will that they came to be. Perhaps the “Choice” in prochoice should be considered before one becomes pregnant, rather than after. And in cases where the choice was taken from you… you still have the ability to choose life, to choose to protect life.

If you went to a store and walked by a car on the way and saw that a baby had been left unattended in the car you’d be upset, you’d see the criminality of that child’s guardian for leaving that baby alone in a car. Many people have been prosecuted and imprisoned for such crimes. Why? Because a baby’s are helpless to take care of themselves, because a baby left in a car alone might die. If it’s wrong for a person to willingly put a child in a situation where they may die, how can it be right for a person to willingly kill there child?

In the Bible God says “Before I shaped you in your mother’s womb, I knew you”. If God can say he knew you before such a time as you were created in your mother’s womb then what does that mean? If you think about it logically and chronologically it would have to mean that the person God created and more to the point you, which God created; the essence and spirit that is you existed before there was a body to go along with it. Picture your spirit, your soul as the engine of a car and your body as the car itself. When an engineer builds a new car they do not make the car and then attempt to build the engine within the confines of the structure of the car, the build the engine by itself and the cars body by itself and final put the engine into the car. Before the engine is placed in the cars body, the car is itself; empty and useless.

So chronologically there is a you, an engine and then after there was a you there was a body or a car. As God the engineer builds you he places that engine or soul into the vehicle your body and after this you are born.

When you ponder the standard quandary of what point in time does a baby in the womb become a person. I would have to say that the Bible tells us that a person exists even before the body with in the mother’s womb begins to form.

Abortion I have to say is murder; moreover it’s the murder of a baby. We look down upon the idea of murdering children and even adults in this world because of the injustice involved. We can see the tragedy in the death of a child, we see the injustice in the murder of an innocent person, we even find the same compassion and outrage with the abuse or killing of an animal because they are helpless to defend themselves from their attackers and yet somehow we can see that but not the injustice of murdering a baby that is even more helpless than anyone else.

Abortion is an argument that has raged sense before I was even born, and I’m not expecting that everyone who reads this might immediately change their opinion, however it’s my hope that anyone who does read this would think about it and while you are thinking about it take a second to appreciate the fact that you are able to ponder such a thing because you yourself were not aborted.

When you think about which side of the debate you are on never forget to ask yourself the question why.

Why is it ok to kill a child in favor of convenience, in favor of not having to step up to meet the challenge of raising that child. Abortion is a murder of convenience.

It’s more convenient to kill a baby because you can’t afford it then it is to try and take care of that child.

It’s more convenient to kill a baby then it is to try and become mature enough to take care of that child or to give that child to someone who can.

It’s more convenient to kill a baby then it is to have a child with someone you wish you hadn’t.

Murder is not okay weather you are a Christian or not it’s never ok and murder of the innocent is even less acceptable. It’s easy to let a subject like abortion fall out of mind because you may not have ever had to deal with that decision in your life, but it’s always important to speak out against injustice, against what’s wrong. Abortion is wrong.

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Always remember that no matter what situation you may find yourself in no matter what you have done or how far beyond redemption you might feel, that God forgives you. You need only ask in Jesus name.
Amen

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