Today many people feel that what was morally wrong a hundred years ago is acceptable today because society has changed and so also should social standards change.
When a woman becomes pregnant at the hands of a rapist, or in the case where we have the technology to know in advance that a fetus has a genetic birth defect and we could terminate this life before it ever comes into the world to experience pain and sorrow, are these not valid reasons to exercise the option of an abortion?
A woman may feel that it is her body and she has the right to decide what to do with her body. A single mother already has more children than she can care for, one more mouth to feed and clothe would only make a bad situation worse.
An abusive marriage would only bring a child into a world where it would be battered as the mother and other children have been. When the life of the mother is in danger should she carry her baby to full term?
These are a few of the very important and valid reasons that are considered in the controversy of abortion. Are there other factors though that should also be considered in the decision to end an human life.
That is the real issue here is it not, that we are considering whether or not to allow a human being to live?
Has the value of one human life become less important than the life of another human life in this modern, socially evolving society that we live in?
Is not a woman who has within her own body, the body of another human being, a steward of that life, no matter what the circumstances were for how that life came into being? What is the difference between a mother who cares for her child within her home and a mother who should care for her child inside of her own body?
The Word of God says that all human life is precious and therefore deserves honor and dignity, protection and nurturing.
Psalms 139:1-17
1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
3 You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
5 You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
13 For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
In this beautiful Psalm, the Lord reveals that each human life is not an accident. He is the One who formed us and fashioned us in the womb of our mother. Whether that womb was in the woman raped, in danger of her life, or in an abusive relationship, the baby in that womb was formed and fashioned by God is Loved by Him.
In verse 16 the Lord reveals that all the days of each human life have purpose, that each one of these days were “Fashioned” for that tiny fetus inside the womb. Therefore these lives are very precious and have infinite worth and should be honored, respected, protected and preserved with every ounce of strength that both the mother and all society possess.
The Psalm finishes by reminding each one of us that this life inside this woman is “Precious” to the creator of all things, if so valuable to Him, why not then equally as valuable to each one of us?
There have been many stories of children who have been born to woman who nearly terminated the pregnancy of that child. The decision was made to go ahead and carry the child to full term. The lives of these special children are told in the amazing stories of their existence. How rich and full and meaningful their lives were, what great impacts they made on the lives of others as they had their chance to live and fulfill the life designed for each one of them.
There are countless broken hearted mothers and fathers on the earth today who have not been able to conceive and bear a child who would love and cherish the child in the womb of a woman wanting to terminate the life of that baby.
Every life is precious, every life has meaning , every life is greatly loved by the maker of all things. To count each life as precious and allow it to come into the world for which it was made, it the highest and most honorable thing a woman could do.
