Abortion is the taking of an innocent life. Taking a life is the act of killing an otherwise healthy being. Few will dispute that taking the life of an innocent is especially heinous. However, many of those same people will defend abortion as the privilege of the mother over her own personal autonomy and sovereignty.
However, the baby in a mother’s womb is not the mother’s. It is a separate person that depends on the mother’s body for nourishment and protection. There can hardly be a more innocent being than an unborn baby. They have had no opportunity to commit any indiscretion or selfish act, they have not harmed any other. They are completely dependent on another for their life. Abortion is the betrayal of that Holy responsibility of the mother to protect and defend the baby.
Psa 139:13-16 You created the deepest parts of my being. You put me together inside my mother’s body. (14) How you made me is amazing and wonderful. I praise you for that. What you have done is wonderful. I know that very well. (15) None of my bones was hidden from you when you made me inside my mother’s body. That place was as dark as the deepest parts of the earth. When you were putting me together there, (16) your eyes saw my body even before it was formed. You planned how many days I would live. You wrote down the number of them in your book before I had lived through even one of them.
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Often, abortion defenders who are eager to rationalize their position based on a religious foundation, refer to Exodus 21:22 as proof.
(Exo 21:22) “If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows.
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Some translations replace prematurely with miscarriage or, as in the King James Version, it is translated “…so that her fruit depart from her…”. In this case, the abortion advocates suggest that the unborn baby is valued less than a real person. They argue that a miscarriage due to a fight is only penalized with a fine rather than a similar case that might require a life for a life. Unfortunately, Exodus 21:23-25 dispute that fact.
Exo 21:23-25 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, (24) eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (25) burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
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Reading two more verses clearly suggests that if there is serious injury to the baby, there are to be equally serious consequences.