The Truth About Abortion

Here's something I wrote about a year ago, and felt like adding to the blog. :)


This post is not meant to convict those who have had an abortion. It is only meant to show others the truth about abortion.




Abortion.
A word we are very familiar with.
A word that people use so carelessly, you wouldn’t realize how devastating its action really is.
An action many people support without fully understanding what it means.
I want to help you understand what it means.

Think about what you know of this word - Abortion. To most, it means almost nothing. It means simply removing a clump of cells that may one day become an inconvenience. It means getting rid of a reminder of a traumatic experience. It means controlling possible overpopulation.

But to me, it means murder. Murder of an innocent baby, who never intended to become your inconvenience, but your loveable child. It means killing a defenseless child, that is as much as an innocent victim of that traumatic experience as you are. It means slaughtering millions of babies, God’s gifts, for no better reason than our own selfishness.

Those who support abortion, or are “pro-choice,” pose the argument that the mother should be able to do what they want with their body. But they aren’t dealing with their own body, they are dealing with a child’s. Their child’s. The baby’s blood is separate from the mother’s, making the child a separate life. “The life of the flesh is in the blood…” Leviticus 17:11

Another argument is that if a woman has been raped, surely she can abort the child. But that child is just as much a victim as she is. God has a plan for that child. Murdering that baby is not your right. That baby is God’s gift- not your curse. Sadly, some never get to realize it.


Looking at sonograms and pictures in my school textbooks, it amazes me how so many people can say that a fetus is not a child. That it is only cells. When it has a heartbeat at only eighteen days of conception. All body systems are present by eight weeks, and are fully functioning by eleven weeks. The brain is present, already sending impulses at six weeks and is fully formed by twelve weeks. While it takes four to six weeks, if not longer, to get a pregnancy test. The Latin word “fetus” even means “small baby" or "unborn baby." It is alive from the point of conception. “And the children struggled within her..” Genesis 25:22, “He took his brother by the heel in the womb..” Hosea 12:3, “the baby leaped in her womb..” Luke 1:41

But many of us don’t believe it.
Some aren’t even aware.
We’ve been misinformed. Lied to.

We’ve also been misinformed of the physical and emotional pain it causes the mother, the child, and sometimes the father. When a woman goes in for an abortion, she most likely isn’t aware that she will see her child delivered, scorched and burned, due to the saline solution that has been injected into his body. This is known as the saline method. These women probably aren’t aware that their children are being vacuumed out of their womb, body part by body part – the suction method. That their fragile flesh is being torn to pieces, as if thrown into a blender, inside of her own body. The dilation and evacuation method. If they are aware, one thing they don’t expect is the immense guilt they feel after the process. The years of “what ifs,” wondering how life could have been if they decided against abortion. Missing their baby. The one they got rid of to better their own lives, while in turn, only made it worse. While they watched their newborn laid aside on a counter, to sit helplessly, ignored by doctors and nurses. Just left there to die - the hysterotomy. Imagine the emotional damage done to that mother.

I want to inform you. Abortion is murder. That is an unborn child, not a bunch of cells. That is a mother, who will regret her decision. Abortion is something we’ve become desensitized to. We can’t be desensitized. We can’t let this become a meaningless topic. This is a serious issue. An issue that takes millions of innocent lives.

Don’t ignore the issue.
Abortion.

“For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139:13-16

Christian or not, If you are reading this and you have already had an abortion, I want you to know that this is NOT meant to judge you or make you feel like a horrible person. You can’t undo what has already been done, and we don’t hate you for doing it. As I said at the very beginning, this is only meant to inform others, and to keep them from going through what you have gone through. I want you to know, if you don’t already, that God loves you, and will forgive you if you just go to Him and ask for forgiveness. “Return to the Lord your God. Your sins have been your downfall! Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him: ‘forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips.’ I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for My anger has turned away from them.” Hosea 14:1-2, 4
Christ is the only way to once again have peace. He’s the only one who can help you overcome. He still loves you, and so do we.