Real Talk about Abortion

Since the legalization of abortion in 1973 (Roe vs Wade), over 56 million unborn children have been killed, more than the entire population of Spain.  Think about it – an entire nation no longer exists! That's 155 babies per hour.  About 1 every 24 seconds. When you finish reading this blog, five more innocent lives will be terminated. Their potential, gifts, and contribution to the world will be aborted with them. The next cure for cancer, technological advance, and inventions are all plummeted into the abyss as being misdiagnosed as waste.  

Charles Swindoll in The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart told the following story. 

A professor in a college ethics class presented his students with a problem. He said, "A man has syphilis and his wife has tuberculosis. They have had four children: one has died, the other three have what is considered to be a terminal illness. The mother is pregnant. What do you recommend?" After a spirited discussion, the majority of the class voted that she should abort the child. "Fine," said the professor. "You've just killed Beethoven."

Those who cry out in support of abortion will say that it is the woman’s moral right to choose.  However, when we hear of a house that burns down and three out of four of the family dies, those same people will say, “What kind of a moral God could take three lives like that?” Making the inference that God is immoral in his decision who lives and dies. Yet, when a woman who supports "choice" gets to play God with another person’s life in her womb, she has no problem on choosing who lives and who don’t. We must understand that when a woman aborts a child, she does not become un-pregnant, but rather the mother of a dead child. American society is too willing to sacrifice morals to preserve convenience. An unborn child should not be considered as an option or an obstacle on the road of convenience. I’m afraid that our selfishness has perverted our vision, destroyed our morals, and has moved us beyond the banks of rational reasoning. Pro-choice is nothing more than a smokescreen for the real underlying problem. It is the attempt to escape the consequences of our decisions. 

To prove my point, we need to look no further than the following scenario. Scientists look diligently on Mars for any sign of life. If they found a single-cell organism there, they would exclaim they have found life. However, these same people can’t acknowledge that a child in the womb fits the same criteria.

Psalm 139:13-16 (KJV)
¹³  For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
¹⁴  I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
¹⁵  My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
¹⁶  Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

In these verses God speaks of his relationship with David while he was developing in the womb before birth. Notice, the Bible doesn't speak of fetal life as nothingness, a blob, or a lifeless mass. The description here is not of a piece of protoplasm that explodes into being David the moment he enters the outside world: this is David already being cared for by God while in the womb.

David reflects and explains how God made and crafted him and how wonderfully made we are.

There is one thread I see throughout scripture. When facing a decision always choose life. When faced with the temptation to gossip which is murder by the tongue, choose life and speak well of. When faced with a decision to lie or tell the truth – choose life and speak the truth. When faced with a decision to abort a child or let live – choose life! 

Pray for America!   

- Dr. Reuben Egolf