[nazerene] *Abortion is Murder-Let's be done with it

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Abortion is Murder-Let's Be Done with It Mat 25:40-41 (KJV) And the King{Jesus} shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. {41} Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:   -------------------------------------------------------------- Exerpts from a message given at the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., February, 1994, by Mother Theresa of Calcutta. From "Life Links" Website  http://www.sehlat.com/lifelink.html   "I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?   How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts.   By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion...   ...Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3000 children from abortion. These children have brought such love and joy to the adopting parents and have grown up so full of love and joy." ---Mother Theresa, 1994     Facts about the development of the human fetus (ie. pre-born human baby)  http://www.sehlat.com/lifelink/data/baby.html     The scientific viewpoint on the issue. Many people try to claim that the unborn is just a blob of tissue, nothing more than a tumor. But it is a scientific and medical fact, based on experimental evidence, that the fetus is a living, growing, thriving human being, directing his or her own development. The unborn baby is never part of the mother's body.   By the end of the second week of pregnancy, there is a distinct embryo present. The fetus has a developing brain and a rudimentary heart. By the end of the third week of pregnancy, the fetus has the beginnings of vetrebrae, developing eyes and ears, a closed circulatory system (separate from the mother's), a working heart, the beginnings of lungs, and budding limbs. By the end of the fourth week of pregnancy, the fetus has a developing nose, and a pancreas. By the end of the fifth week of pregnancy, the fetus has the beginnings of vertebrae, a bony jaw and clavicle, developing eyes, ears, and nose, a closed circulatory system, a working heart, lungs, limbs, hands, feet, and a pancreas. By the end of the sixth week of pregnancy, the fetus has a vertebral column, a bony jaw and clavicle, a primative cranium, ribs, a developing nervous system, a closed circulatory system with a working heart, developing eyes, ears, and nose, lungs, limbs, hands, feet, a pancreas, a bladder, kidneys, a tongue, a larynx, a thyroid body, and germs of teeth. By the end of the seventh week of pregnancy, the fetus has a vertebral column, a bony jaw and clavicle, a primitive cranium, ribs, femur, tibia, palate, upper jaw, developing nervous system, a closed circulatory system with a working heart, developing eyes,ears, and nose, lungs, arms, legs, hands, feet, a pancreas, a bladder, kidneys, a tongue, a larynx, a thyroid body, germs of teeth, and the beginnings of muscles. By the end of the second month of pregnancy, the fetus has a vertebral column, a bony jaw, clavicle, and palate, a cranium, ribcage, femur, tibia, forearms that can be distinguished from arms, and thighs that can be distinguished from legs, a developi ng nervous sytem, sympathetic nerves (meaning the fetus can feel pain), a closed circulatory system and a working heart, eyes, developing ears and nose, lungs, arms and forearms, legs and thighs, hands and feet, a pancreas, a bladder, kidneys, a tongue, a larynx, a thyroid, germs of teeth, and developing muscles. --Gray's Anatomy Assorted facts: After 9 weeks, unborn babies can feel pain, yet 48 per cent of all abortions are done after this point (US Department of Health and Human Services). The fetus has his/her own genetic code, blood type, sex. The fetus receives food from his/her mother, yet has a separate and distinct circulatory system. "The cell (a single-celled zygote) results from fertilization of an oocyte by a sperm and is the beginning of human life." -The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology Keith L. Moore. 2nd Ed., Philadelphia W.B. Sanders, 1977. "Each individual has a very neat(ie. distinct, orderly) beginning at conception.... [This is] not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence." -Dr. Jerome LeJune, discoverer of the chromosome pattern of Down's syndrome in 1981, in a testimony to a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception." -Professor Hymie Gordon, Mayo Clinic. Since abortion was legalized in 1973, the number of reported cases of child abuse has increased by 1,497 per cent, from 167,000 in 1973 to 2.5 million in 1991 (US Department of Health & Human Services). USC professor Edward Lenoski from Heartbeat surveyed 674 abused children and found 91 per cent were from planned pregnancies. An average of 63 per cent of all pregnancies are wanted. "Scientists have found hints of consciousness in 7-month-old fetuses and measured brain-wave patterns like those during dreaming during 8 months. They have pushed sentience back to the end of the second trimester and shown that fetuses can learn. With no hype at all, the fetus can rightly be called a marvel of cognition, consciousness, and sentience." --"Do You Hear What I Hear?" Newsweek Special Issue, Summer 1991 "After 28 weeks in utero, the fetus can hear.... By four months in a female fetus, all 5 million ova have formed. At 4 & 1/2 months, the fetus responds to a brush on its lips by sucking. By six weeks the brain is visible and electrically active; by eight, it has convoluted folds and shape of an adult brain." --"Do You Hear What I Hear?" Newsweek Special Issue, Summer 1991 The following quotes are from pages 1 and 3 of The Developing Human: Clinically Orientated Embryology. 5th Ed. Moore and Persaud. 1993. Saunders Company. "Human development is a continuous process that begins when an oocyte from a female is fertilized by a sperm from a male." "Although it is customary to divide human development into prenatal and postnatal periods, it is important to realize that birth is merely a dramatic event during development resulting in a change in environment." "Human development begins at fertilization." Abortion might be three things-- murder, manslaughter, or criminal negligence-- each of which is not debated but instinctively condemned. --from "Choices", by Peter Kreeft --Bible verses to ponder-- -Thanks to Todd Primm-   Isaiah 44:2 "This is what the Lord says- He who made you, who formed you in the womb,  and who will help you"   Psa 139:12-20 (TLB) For even darkness cannot hide from God; to you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are both alike to you. {13} You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit them together in my mother's womb. {14} Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous--and how well I know it. {15} You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion! {16} You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book! {17} How precious it is, Lord, to realize that you are thinking about me constantly! {18} I can't even count how many times a day your thoughts turn toward me. And when I waken in the morning, you are still thinking of me! {19} Surely you will slay the wicked, Lord! Away, bloodthirsty men! Begone! {20} They blaspheme your name and stand in arrogance against you-- how silly can they be? --------------    Psalm 51:5 "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me."   Psalm 127:3 "Sons are a heritage from the Lord,  children a reward from Him."   Psalm 82:3-4 "Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless... Rescue the weak and needy." -   Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you."   Genesis 25:24 "...there were twin boys in her womb."    Exodus 21:22-25 If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury you are to take life for life, eye for eye.   John 10:10 Jesus Christ said:  "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the fullest."   Proverbs 24:11 "Rescue those being led away to death."   Jeremiah 7:6 "..do not shed innocent blood..."   Luke 1:15 (Talking about John the Baptist,)  "and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb."  ( There is no record of the Holy Spirit ever filling anything but a person. )   Isaiah 49:1,5 "Before I was born the Lord called me..."  "And now the Lord says- He who formed me in the womb to be His servant..."    Galatians 1:15 The apostle Paul says, "But when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb  and called me by His grace..."   Job 31:15 "Did not He who made me in the womb make them?  Did not the same One form us both within our mothers?"   Deu 27:25 (KJV) Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person.  And all the people shall say, Amen. 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