Is
Abortion Murder
For murder to occur there
must be life present, and taken away forcefully.
With the introduction of new technology to view the fetus, the
question of when life begins is raised. Some on the right have claimed
that life begins when the heart starts beating.
Some take it even further and say that life begins at conception.
But when does life actually begin?
That is the question this treatise will try to answer.
What
the Bible Says
Many on the pro-life side also consider themselves to be religious
Christians, so let’s take a look at what the Bible says about abortion.
Actually, it doesn't mention the word abortion, but there are many
references to birth. There is
even a reference to God knowing someone before his being formed in the
womb, (Jeremiah 1:5) "Before
I formed thee in the belly I knew thee." But the most telling
verse in the Bible about when life begins is in the ontological statement
of Genesis 2:7 which says: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
The man, or fetus,
became a living soul when God breathed into his nostrils, or when the
fetus took its first breath. The
life of man, or fetus, is in the breath.
So while the fetus is in the womb, its “life” is provided
through the breath of the mother via the umbilical cord.
There is also a
reference in 2 Corinthians, 12:2 about a man that may or may not have been
in a body. “I
knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I
cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such
an one caught up to the third heaven.”
According to this, life can and does exist even if there is no
physical body. This is
commonly accepted in terms of the "afterlife," but rarely
considered in terms of a "pre-life."
If abortion is to be
classified as murder it would have to take away the life.
However, if the life has not yet entered the fetus through its
nostrils, and the only actual life sustaining the fetus is from the
mother, abortion cannot be considered murder.
It also couldn’t be considered suicide because the mother lives
on. In this light, I cannot
use the term “pro-life” to describe those who want to end abortion.
An
American Hero
One of the heroes from the political right is former president Ronald
Regan, who was against abortion. However,
he was also well known for getting advice from astrologers, not only while
president, but also during his acting career.
If you go to an
astrologer and ask to have you natal chart constructed, the first thing
the astrologer will do is ask for the time and place of your birth.
In other words, they need the moment that you took your first
breath, the moment that “God breathed into your nostrils the breath of
life,” to take a picture of the energies from all of the planets in our
solar system, and how they merged as they entered into your body when you
began your life on this earth. This
is another indication that the fetus does not have its own life while in
the womb. Whether you have any
belief in astrology or not, Ronald Regan, hero of the anti-abortion
political right did.
We know that a person
can survive for many days without food, and even a few days without water,
but if you take away the ability to breathe, death follows in minutes.
When a person dies, they exhale their last breath, and their body
is dead from that point on. Once
again showing that life is in the breath.
If murder is the
taking of a life, and life is in the breath, and the fetus has not yet
breathed its first breath, then abortion cannot be considered to be
murder.
Whose
Choice is it Anyway
Now let’s try to
take a look at this issue from a totally different perspective.
You have probably heard it said that when one dies, his or her life
flashes before them in moments. At
the end of life, there is a review. Since
life is not dependent on a
body to exist, could it be that there is a review before commencing a life
on this earth? Is it possible
that the soul, preparing to start its life here might get a glimpse of
what the life might be like, change its mind and urge the potential mother
to abort the whole thing? If
we look at life as a learning process, a school so to speak, we might be
able to see this as a possibility.
Have you ever signed up for a class, or agreed to take a job, or even
agreed to something as life changing as a marriage, but when it came close
to the time to start, you changed your mind and backed out?
We have all had situations where we thought we wanted to do
something, but changed our mind and didn’t do it.
Now suppose you are a
soul, preparing for an incarnation, preparing to go through a class in the
school of life. When you are
far away from it, it may look easy, but the closer you get, the more it
looks like you are trying to bite of more than you can chew.
You are hovering around the potential mother, creating that glow
sometimes seen on pregnant women, but you have changed your mind.
You want to pass on this particular life experience, and maybe look
for another opportunity at a later date.
So you urge the woman, soul to soul, to abort the pregnancy and let
you avoid an experience you have decided not to go through with.
Some
Common Sense
Abortion isn't
murder, and the incoming soul might have a say in it.
Also, making it illegal won't stop it.
It will make it, like before Roe v Wade, more dangerous.
Joe Furcinite