DIY abortion is a crime
Submitted by tcblack on Tue, 04/10/2007 - 11:55am
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You have got to see this: woman charged with self abortion. Browse through the comments and you'll hit lots of opinions, some of them spot on. Like the few that explain the reasons for her self attempted baby murder is a crime instead of a right.
Wait a minute! I thought it was a woman's right to choose to keep her baby or not. Where are the abortion activists? After-all, it's not murder if the baby is not born yet. Right?
Only Planned Parenthood and doctors can kill the baby?
Follow the money! Planned parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry is pocketing an obscene amount of money on abortion. I guarantee that if it wasn't lucrative for them they wouldn't fight for it.
Abortion/pro-life issues aside, if she would have performed heart surgery or any other procedures that only licensed professionals are allowed to perform, she'd have been arrested as well...its not an abortion issue per se, its an issue dealing with whether or not you are a licenced professional to perform a procedure.
Standards? Well I'm certain that there are medical standards which are supposed to be met. But I dare you to find any procedure besides abortion which an underage girl can have done without tons of paperwork and several signatures from her parents. No, it's not about standards it's about murder for profit.
No, it was a crime because it was potentially dangerous to the mother and definitely for the unborn child.
Dangerous? Certainly. Not to mention the women that die from regular old abortions. I'm not convinced that the DIY kind is more dangerous.
I'm obviously pro-life folks. I happen to believe God is too. Why else would he send his son to take our place if he didn't want us to live? Yeah sure start the argument about physical -vs- spiritual life but the issue remains that God will demand an accounting for every person's blood (Genesis 9).
The real tragedy here isn't the botched DIY abortion nor is it that this poor woman sought to kill her own baby by herself. The crime is that she even thought it was a good idea to kill her own baby at all. No, I do not condemn her. I pity her and I hope that someone close to her will share the life transforming power of Christ with her before it's too late.
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Interesting. I thought there
Interesting. I thought there were abortifacients that were readily available just for this purpose and that one could get prescriptions for them pretty easily. This is certainly a schizophrenic world.
There is to my mind no Biblical question about the sanctity of life of the unborn.
That said, it strikes me as dangerous to ascribe motives that vilify others. I certainly find planned parenthood and the abortion providers to be in the wrong, but if you're wrong? It's conceivable that some of the doctors and providers of abortion might be mistaken rather than greedy or malicious; 1 Cor 6 says that slanderers won't inherit the kingdom of God. There's always the desire to attribute ignoble motives to those who disagree with us, as those who disagree do to us. It seems that graciousness should be the rule, and certainly so when knowledge is incomplete.
Please don't kill your unborn babies. No matter how bad your troubles may be, what seems bound for ignominy may yet turn to joy and glory - consider the joy you have in your best friend or love, and what would be lost if he or she had been aborted. For those in Christ, we know that one day our troubles and shame will one day be erased. All we need do is endure patiently.
I suppose I must agree to
I suppose I must agree to the principle that a great many (if not all) abortion providers are mistaken in their basic assumptions. Perhaps there are even a few who out of the goodness of their heart honestly seek to better the lives of their clients by removing their unwanted children - but I find the thought so revolting as to nearly choke on it.
Nevertheless I find it entirely unlikely that they would be involved in the task if it were not lucrative. To take their side: it is a medical procedure. And in this country, medical procedures are inherently costly for the patient and simultaneously provide a reasonable source of income for the provider.It is not up to me to determine the attitudes of the heart. The actions speak for themselves in their wickedness. Whatever the motive the outcome is evil.
And one good reminder for me
And one good reminder for me not to judge the heart (which I cannot see) of others:
I open my Bible to a passage I'm studying and see:
Matthew 7:1 ?? ???????, ??? ?? ???????· ("Do not judge so that you will not be judged.)