Abortion

Well, I guess it's no surprise that a blog like this was going to eventually take a stab at the topic of abortion.  What may be more surprising to some, especially non-believers, is how this topic wasn't addressed much earlier seeing how this is a blog about God, but I guess I had many other things come to mind over the past year-and-a-half that I felt I was supposed to address instead.

So what's my take as a Christian on this immensely controversial topic?  Well, I'm sure you know that my stance on this topic goes without saying.  But because I am pro-life, am I going to froth at the mouth to pro-choice folks?  Am I going to lay a guilt-trip on those who have decided either directly or indirectly to end a pregnancy?  Am I going to bombard your mind with Bible passages that speak to the sanctity and sacredness of life?

Actually, all I want to do is share a revelation of sorts that came to mind recently.  I don't remember exactly what got me thinking about the topic of abortion, whether a news story or a conversation, but while doing so a thought came to mind that, due to its profundity, led me to conclude that it could have only come from the mind of God Himself.  Here it is, and I will do my best to capture this thought in words:

Regardless of when a person believes that an embryo or a fetus becomes a human being - either at conception or after birth - aborting a pregnancy means that a human life will not have a chance to exist.

In other words, the abortion debate seems to be fixated on what happens before birth - on the unborn, on that being that resides within the womb - instead of the reality of the outcome of a pregnancy if it is allowed to go to term, i.e. on what happens at and after birth.  The fact remains that regardless of where you stand on the abortion issue, aborting a pregnancy means that a child won't be born, because I'm sure all of us would agree that birth results in a human being, even if one believes that it is not a human while in the womb.  Whether the unborn becomes a human 40 nanoseconds or 40 weeks after conception (i.e. at birth), it will still be born as a human if it is allowed to be born.

To put a twist on this, in the United States alone according to this source, over 40 million humans since 1973 (about 4,000 per day) have not been allowed to be born.  This many pregnancies have not been allowed to go to term, and thus there have been this many less children born since 1973 in the United States.  Again, whether or not you believe an embryo or a fetus is human, the outcome of a full-term pregnancy will always be a human.

So those are my thoughts on the topic of abortion, and I hope they made sense.  I also hope they were able to put things into a different perspective that what you might have had before.