Is Abortion The Same As Murder?

by Garland M. Robinson

Murder is the killing of an innocent human life.

Abortion is the killing of an innocent human life.

Therefore, abortion is murder.

Many reject the idea that abortion (killing the fetus in the womb) is the murder of an innocent human life.

However, the answer to a few simple questions prove that the unborn child is an innocent human life.

(1) Is "that" which is growing within the mother's womb alive or dead? Of course it is alive.

(2) Is "that" which is growing within the mother's womb animal or human? Of course it is human.

(3) Is "that" which is growing within the mother's womb guilty or innocent? Of course it is innocent.

The conclusion then is logically drawn by every rational person

that the unborn in the mother's womb is ALIVE, HUMAN and INNOCENT.

Therefore, the unborn child is an innocent human life!

Abortion is the killing of the "fetus" in the mother's womb.

Therefore, abortion is the killing/murder of innocent human life.

A "fetus," as it is called by the medical world, is a baby

(I prefer to call the unborn child what God calls it, a baby, Luke 1.41-44.

It is a human being.

It is yet unborn, but is every bit as much alive, has all bodily organs, feels pain and functions just as you and I.

The Bible speaks of the unborn child in the womb in the same words as it does the child after birth.

Luke 1.41-44 uses the word "babe" to describe the unborn child in Elizabeth's womb.

The verse reads, "For as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears,

the babe leaped in my womb for joy."

The word "babe" is also used to describe Jesus immediately after he was born Luke 2.12-16.

"And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger."

The Bible makes no distinction between the unborn Luke 1.41-44, infants Luke 18.15

and toddlers or young children Acts 7.19; 2 Timothy 3.15!

There is no more moral wrong in killing a child AFTER it is born than there is in killing a child BEFORE it is born.

By what sordid thinking do doctors, nurses, medical professionals and willing mothers put to death

multiplied millions of little babies/children every year?

These unborn children are sacrificed on the altars of greed and selfishness.

The deliberate taking of human life is sinful

whether the person be two months old inside the womb or outside the womb, two years old or 92 years old!

God hates it Proverbs 6.16-19!

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Abortion is murder.

Each abortion snuffs out an innocent human life.

Tragically, doctors have deceived the American public.

Referring to unborn babies as "fetus," "embryo," or "zygote," may be scientifically correct,

but does not change the fact:

These little ones are little human beings.

Do not be deceived

When a human egg and a human sperm unite, the resulting individual is simply human.

Given time, nutrition and protection, he will grow to maturity.

Calling abortion a "termination" or "evacuating the uterus" does not change its reality as murder-

slaughtering a human being with premeditated malice.

Nerves are in place by six to eight weeks after conception.

The chemicals necessary to send messages over nerve pathways to the brain are present by 12 weeks.

Ask yourself - if you were stuck, pinched, grabbed, cut or crushed, how would you react?

You likely would squirm, thrash, try to escape or fight.

Your blood pressure would go up; your pulse would speed up.

That is how pre-born babies respond.

Before being cut to pieces, sucked apart, chemically killed, or otherwise abused (to death),

these little humans struggle, seeking to escape the destruction.

In my opinion, abortionists have forfeited the privilege to be called "physicians",

for they have abandoned the responsibility of acting like physicians.

What about rape? What about incest? These horrors defy descriptive condemnation.

They represent the least human and most selfish acts imaginable - along with murder -

and they deserve swift and severe punishment.

A woman or girl abused by rape or incest should be seen promptly,

evaluated with compassion and treated appropriately to prevent conception.

Should pregnancy occur, the tragedy should not be compounded by another crime: Murdering the baby.

Rape and incest deserve one further note:

They (thank God) represent a relatively uncommon cause of pregnancy -

and figure in less than 2 percent of abortions.

The other 98 percent are done for the sake of convenience (not that of the baby).

Abortion represents the most common surgical procedure performed in America today.

One more tragedy - often delayed and overlooked - concerns the mother of the aborted baby.

Women who find it difficult to live with an awakened conscience.

Though duped, squelched or ignored, a conscience awakened to reality may produce guilt, grief and pain.

Even with the reality of forgiveness, the scars may produce long-standing consequences.

As a believer in Jesus Christ, I am convinced that moral absolutes exist.

My convictions as a Christian and as a physician include the sanctity of human life.

If each individual human (including unborn babies) does not have worth,

if we do not acknowledge our responsibility to care for the unwanted and the defenseless,

we will find our collective path ending at the ovens of Auschwitz, the Gulags of Siberia,

or the Abortion Chambers of America.

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