As I am going to participate in the
March for Life this Friday, I want to talk about this very controversial issue
of abortion, since our country’s future depends on it. Of course my basic
position on abortion has always been very clear to me. Even so, I have not ever
given the matter much thought. So here I will expand my thoughts. Why should we not practice abortion?
1. The
first reason is rather simple: “You shall not kill.” (Exodus 20:13)
God has commanded us not to murder. Therefore we must not murder, and no murder
can be justified. It is a commonly accepted truth that the deliberate
killing of an innocent human life is murder. But abortion takes an innocent human life. This being so, abortion must also be murder. It
is therefore immoral, no matter what the case, no matter what the situation.
Abortion murders a human baby, and we know better than to deceive ourselves
about that.
2. Secondly,
all human beings are endowed by their Creator with the right to life. If this
right is taken away, then none of the others can be given. Why should we refuse
this fundamental right to the most vulnerable and innocent in our society? We
are terribly unjust if we do.
3. Abortion
will have devastating social consequences that we need to examine. If a society embraces abortion and universalizes
it (like we have), the family will disintegrate, and if that happens, society
will disintegrate as a direct result, since the family is the basic building
block of society. There will be no more families; therefore there will be no
people left to form a society. That being said, abortion is not just immoral,
it is downright foolish. Who would be foolish enough to murder all their
children if they knew what would follow? Sadly, we are.
