"Abortion What Insights Can We Gather From God’s Word”

“Abortion What Insights Can We Gather From God’s Word”

Psalm 139:13-18 Jeremiah 1:4-10 9/2/2022

In every generation, there are issues that arise in society that cause divisions among people. Both sides assume their side is the right side, and not only is it the right side, their side is God’s side. There is a race by each side to claim a label for themselves and to assign a label either directly or indirectly to the other side.

No where is this more evident than in the abortion movement. When one says I am pro-life, does that mean everyone on the other side is pro-death. When one says I am pro-choice, does that mean everyone on the other side is against all choices being made.

Only recently have people begin to use the terms pro-abortion and anti-abortion. But even those terms are not definitive. On may be pro-abortion for the first six weeks of a pregnancy- but vehemently opposed to partial birth abortions in which the abortion is completed only after part of the baby’s body has come out. One may be anti-abortion, but may feel differently if a mother’s physical life is at stake.

We live in a society in which fear is used to obliterate the truth. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade it did not outlaw abortion. It stated, the Constitution does not grant a right to an abortion. Since it is not found in the Constitution, it is a matter for each state in the union to decide for itself what laws it wants to make concerning abortion. The people in each state should decide for themselves what laws they want concerning abortion through their elected officials.

It wasn’t long before the Court’s decision was leaked that fear was used to convince people that the Court had ruled abortions were now illegal in this country, and that next the court would ban gay and interracial marriages. None of this was true, and everyone should take the time to read the Supreme Court decision for themselves, instead of getting sound bites from people with an agenda of their own.

When it comes to forming an opinion on abortion, many people want to act out of what they consider the most loving thing to do or what they think is going to be most helpful to the persons involved. Not everyone acts out of pure motives. There are some who seek to use abortion for their own financial gain or selfish purposes.

All of our opinions have been influenced by someone or something. We can either be conscious of those influences or unconscious of them, but the influence is there. Sometimes, what we have experienced ourselves or through someone close to us will impact the foundation upon which our opinions are based. Having known someone who had an abortion or having had one ourselves, will impact what we think about abortion.

We want to make good choices for ourselves, and we want to help others make good choices. So what do you do with a young girl who is a teenager that’s pregnant. The guy she’s been going with says the kid is not his. Her parents can’t seem to get the truth out of her from the story she’s telling. They are angry, hurt and upset. She’s now 13 weeks pregnant.

Her support system is collapsing around her. What advice would you give her concerning abortion? We all want what’s best for this young woman, but we are limited in our ability to always know what’s best. For if we had counseled her to get an abortion and she took our advice, we would have eliminated her son “Jesus, was coming to take away the sins of the world.”

If it were not for politics, we would allow science to inform us as to when human life begins. Human life begins at the moment of conception from a scientific perspective. Therefore we are ending a life in an abortion rather it occurs at two weeks, 20 weeks, or 36 weeks. We should at least be honest about what we are doing and the consequences of it. The reality is, there is a separate human life growing inside a woman’s womb.

The Scriptures inform us that life begins even before conception. There was a prophet by the name of Jeremiah. Jeremiah lived during a time when the people of God had rejected God’s law concerning how they were to treat other people. They had a number of unjust laws to keep the poor oppressed.. They didn’t follow God’s commandments in terms of their behavior. They pretty much lived as they pleased worshipping their own man made gods.

Jeremiah spent decades of preaching to the people and to the kings trying to get them to turn back to God. The people laughed at Jeremiah. The mocked him and his messages. They told him to shut up, they didn’t want hear about God. They beat him with rods. They put him in prison. They threw him into a well and left him there to die of starvation. Jeremiah had a hard and difficult life.