The world and abortion 11/16/08

1) Last week we looked at how abortion is the shedding of innocent blood.

2) Today we want to think about some of the arguments that are commonly made to support abortion.

3) Abortion has been defended on the basis that a mother’s life might be endangered.

4) If abortion is not legal, mothers can or will die.

a) This argument exemplifies the fact that many arguments about abortion are a smokescreen.

b) The need to choose a mother’s life over the life of an unborn child is very, very rare.

5) For the sake of discussion, let’s say the life of a mother is still a common problem.

6) Should this situation make abortion legal or right? No.

a) Our world contains many times when some are saved and some are lost.

b) It is not uncommon for people to make a choice between someone dying and someone living.

c) A baby has the same rights and value as a mother.

d) God made this point in Ex. 21:22.

e) God said two men might fight and in the process a woman is injured and the birth could be premature.

7) If this happened and the baby was okay, a fine was to be paid.

8) If the fighting resulted in the death of the unborn child, God said a harsher penalty was to be imposed.

9) This penalty (verses 24-26 ) was “eye for eye, limb for limb, tooth for tooth, burn for burn.”

10) God also said “life for life.”

11) If this argument is not persuasive, another one might be introduced and this argument is very emotional.

12) If the life of a mother is not on the line, what about a case of rape?

a) Abortion supporters ask if a woman who was attacked must carry an attacker’s child.

b) If we had harsh laws for this crime, it would vanish.

13) Abortion providers like to use this type of situation to justify abortion.

14) Once again they are using rare exceptions to justify a practice that is very common.

a) If women are carrying an unborn child, abortion, under any circumstance, is murder.

b) The child has committed no crime, but he (or she) is the one someone wants to punish.

c) God says (Ezek. 18:4, 20) that this is unfair. The child did nothing worthy of death.

d) Too, as the old saying goes, two wrongs do not make a right.

e) Women often find that guilt and anxiety are added to the trauma of the attack.

f) A woman is told she will make things better when things often become worse.

15) Abortion providers rarely talk about the guilt that plagues women who have abortions.

16) Some women have nightmares from the process.

17) Contrary to what is often suggested, abortion is not something that is done and immediately forgotten.

18) For the Christian, God gives His people strength for difficult times.

19) Paul made this point to the Corinthians in 1 Cor. 10:13 as well as to the Philippians (4:13).

20) Abortion not only holds up rape to justify abortion, it appeals to incest.

a) Under the Old Testament God said relations between close relatives was not allowed (Lev. 20:17).

b) In these cases, just like the previous ones, pregnancy is not very common.

c) Even in this type of situation the facts of abortion are unchanged.

d) The way a child was conceived may be wrong, but that does not change the truth.

e) A child is still a child and this child did nothing wrong.

f) Our world likes to play God, but the Bible says there is only one God and we need to obey Him.

g) Do we know this one God? Have we obeyed Him?