ABORTION? Which way forward.

Is unborn baby a tissue in the mother’s womb or is it a life created by God. How can we recognize life?
About eighteen days after conception, the unborn baby’s heart has started beating. For years a beating heart was the sign of life. When a heart stops beating a person was considered to be dead. Doctors in hospitals listen to the fetal heartbeat to determine whether the baby in the womb is healthy, alive and doing well. Where there is no heart beat the baby may be considered to have died. If there is no life in the womb, there can be no death also. Death is only possible because life has been present.

Six weeks after conception, the baby has its own life long brain waves. Modern science considers the absence of brain waves in person as a sure sign of death. What this means is that the presence of brain waves in an unborn baby is a sure sign of life. The baby in the womb is a person and is alive.
According to Dr. Peter Hammond “birth is not a magical act that turns a non human being into a human being”. Therefore a non baby in the womb does not become a baby just by going though the process of birth. If a stone is what is present in a womb, it is that stone that will come out at birth.

The bible teaches that all life begin at conception and comes from God. Concerning Ruth the bible says “…the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son” (Rth 4:13 NIV). David testified of his birth in this way: “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb” (Psa 139:13 NIV). God said to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jer 1:5 NIV) John the Baptist was able to express joy while in his mother’s womb. The scripture states that “As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.” (Luk 1:44 NIV) This also shows that a baby can experience grieve, pain and joy while in the mother’s womb.  How can a woman or man blessed by God with a baby turn around to be such a source of pain, grieve and death to that baby.

Statistics from feminist activists show that about 750,000 abortions are carried out yearly in Nigeria. USA and Russia record 1.5 and 7 million abortions yearly. Some of the methods used by the abortionist include:

SUCTION: Placenta and the baby is sucked from the womb using a powerful vacuum pressure.

DILATION & CURETTAGE/EVACUATION: the unborn child is cut into pieces and brought out of the womb using surgical instruments.

PROSTAGLANDIN/SALT POISONING: the baby is poisoned in the womb or violent labour is induced to expel the baby through the use of numerous drugs and chemicals.

HYSTEROTOMY: An early caesarian section that surgically opens the mother’s abdomen and uterus and the baby is lifted out and then killed or left to die.

Which ever method is used the result is the same death to the unborn child. Many who chose abortion do have their reasons. Some of the reasons include arguments such as (a) I can not afford to have a child now (b) The child has been rejected by the father or the father is a useless person (c) The conception was a result of rape (d) A baby now will truncate my career or education. (e) I do not know the father of the baby (f) It is a child out of wedlock and will destroy my chances of marrying etc.

In all these cases, the innocent child is made to pay for what others did. Is it fair to make the innocent pay for the misdeeds and sins of others? The commandment of God is clear, "If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked." (Deuteronomy 25:1 KJV) and “You shall not murder.” (Exo 20:13 NIV)

You have been deceived to believe that there is a safe abortion. There is no abortion that is safe. A baby dies a painful and traumatic death each time an abortion is done. Abortions may also lead to infertility or other complications in the mother. Abortion helps to create a mentality within the society that some people can kill others for convenience. It always leaves behind spiritual and emotional scars. There are many childless couples who are praying to God for babies and are willing to adopt them.  Instead of killing your baby why not give him/her up for adoption.

The word of God is explicit “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” (Rev 21:8 NIV) The only way out is true repentance with godly sorrow. I charge you today with the words of Moses to the children of Israel: -  “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” (Deu 30:19-20 NIV)

You may say that you did not know these things before. If you are right, then the time to repent in truth is now. The bible says “In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.” (Act 17:30-31).  True repentance involves a quality decision to stop all your involvement in abortion and other sins, confess these sins to God and ask Him for forgiveness and join like minded people to fight this scourge.
If you chose to repent now, God will accept you, transform and make you his child. Jesus will say to you what he said to Zaccheaus (the man in the bible who repented in a similar fashion), “Today salvation has come to this house.” (Luke 19:9) If you desire to pray the prayer of repentance, your prayer to God should acknowledge

That you have sinned (Confessed all the sins you can remember to God)

That you are turning away from your sin (tell God the kind of change you desire)

That you want God to forgive your sins. (Ask God to make you clean in his sight)

That you are submitting yourself to Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. (Offer yourself to God to serve him as your master and Lord)

You can pray now.