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Copyright: © 2004 Tom Flannery
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ON ABORTION AND AMERICA

By: Tom Flannery

The very first of our guaranteed rights in the Declaration of Independence is that of life itself, and yet the issue of abortion has once again been almost completely ignored this election year.

Nevertheless, it's the issue that more than any other may determine whether America remains the world's predominant superpower or if we continue (to borrow Judge Bork's phrase) slouching toward Gomorrah.

After all, we now have plenty of scientific evidence showing unborn babies are not just "blobs of tissue" -- as radical feminists and the abortion industry spent decades trying to convince us -- but human beings. Medical advancements like ultrasound technology and now 4-D images that provide a window into the womb have proven that. Through 4-D scans, we see unborn babies laughing, smiling, and sucking their fingers inside their mothers' wombs.

We even have pictures all over the Internet of Baby Samuel, the unborn child who reached his tiny hand out of his mother's uterus while he was being operated on inside her womb and grasped the finger of the surgeon.

Still, the central argument against abortion is not scientific or medical, but biblical. If you believe in the God of the Bible, you know we cannot continue slaughtering millions of babies for the sake of convenience and escape judgment.

God lists seven sins He detests in Proverbs 6, including "hands that shed innocent blood." This applies to unborn children, since God sees them as persons. He told the prophet Jeremiah: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."

When Mary was pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth was pregnant with John the Baptist, the two women came together one day. When they did, the Bible tells us of John that "the babe leaped in [Elizabeth's] womb" (Lk. 1:41) over his excitement about being in the presence of the Savior -- though both of them were unborn at the time. Parenthetically, I wonder what advice a young, pregnant and unmarried Mary would have gotten from the pro-abortion crowd if they were around back then.

God's standard is clear. Scripture forbids murder and requires murderers be put to death. In Genesis 9, God commands: "Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed." This is reaffirmed in the New Testament, which tells us the government does not bear in vain the sword, an instrument of death, but is to use it to punish evil (Rom. 13).

This prohibition against shedding innocent blood applies to unborn children, for under God's law a man was to be put to death if he assaulted a pregnant woman and her unborn baby died as a result. God also condemned the pagan practice of murdering children as "an abomination" (Jer. 32:35), in an age when many were burning their babies in sacrifice to the false god of Molech. He instituted a death penalty against anyone who took part in this, and said He would judge anyone who aided or supported those who did (Lev. 20:1-5).

When Cain slew his brother Abel, God declared to Cain: "The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground" (Gen. 4). God's justice compelled Him to avenge Abel, as He will always avenge the blood of innocents. Jesus said it would be better for anyone who even harms a child if he had a gigantic stone tied to him and was cast into the sea (Lk. 17:2).

The time of Noah was one in which all the earth was filled with violence. Murder was commonplace. For this reason, God judged the world, just as He will ultimately judge America if we don't turn from our murderous ways.

Judgment delayed is not judgment denied. The people who practiced, tolerated and supported (probably with their votes at election time) murder of innocents in Noah's day were given 120 years to repent, but wouldn't.

No one can say how much longer God will give us, but we can say for sure "all the nations that forget God will be turned into hell" (Ps. 9:17).

That's what the upcoming election and the culture war surrounding it are really all about.

"Real Answers™" furnished courtesy of The Amy Foundation Internet Syndicate. To contact the author or The Amy Foundation, write or E-mail to: P. O. Box 16091, Lansing, MI 48901-6091; amyfoundtn@aol.com

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