Chapter 18: Myth—Abortion Doesn’t Matter

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Myth—Abortion Doesn’t Matter

“For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning:

from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life. Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed; for in His own

image God made humankind.” Genesis 9:5-6 NRSV

“So that the blood of an innocent person may not be shed in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”

Deut. 19:10 NRSV

“From oppression and violence He redeems their life; and precious is their blood in His sight.” Psalm 72:14 NRSV

Does all of this information on fetal development sound like some mass of tissue is in the womb awaiting a breath of air from God to establish actual life? Not hardly. A few years ago, I lost my grandson Dylan who

was taken by c-section stillborn at seven months. The cause of death was a twisted umbilical cord. It would appear that he played and twisted the cord too much, eventually cutting off his supply of life sustaining nutrients.

Dylan would have been my daughter Patty’s second boy. We were all looking forward to his birth, when suddenly he stopped moving. In the hospital I had the opportunity to hold Dylan and I can tell you he was perfectly developed. At six pounds, he would have made it outside the

womb if an accident had forced a premature birth before he died. Dylan’s fully formed and perfect body changed hearts on the issue of legal abortion.

If you choose to abort your baby, you should realize that is exactly

what you are doing. You are not dealing with a glob of tissue that has no life. You are killing a living and breathing baby at some stage of their development. What can their lungs breathe in the womb? They can take in amniotic fluid inside the uterus. That is what protects them and flows into

their lungs when they open their mouths. The idea that there is no life until they breathe air is just another specious argument. God has provided the