By Hank Hanegraaff

People who continue to fight legislation restricting abortion are in reality not “pro-choice;” rather, they are clearly “pro-murder.” While rhetoric has served to camouflage the carnage of abortion, the act remains the painful killing of an innocent human being.

First, abortion is painful in that the methods employed to kill a preborn child involve burning, smothering, dismembering, and crushing. And such procedures are executed on live babies who have not been specifically anesthetized.

Furthermore, abortion involves killing. The zygote—that fulfills the criteria needed to establish the existence of biological life (metabolism, development, the ability to react to stimuli, and cell reproduction)—is indeed terminated. In Woman and the New Race, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger tacitly acknowledged this point when she wrote, “The most merciful thing a large family can do for one of its infant members is to kill it.”

Finally, abortion kills innocent human beings. The child who is terminated is the product of human parents and has a totally distinct human genetic code. Although the emerging embryo does not have a fully developed personality, it does have complete personhood from the moment of conception. Thus, far from deserving capital punishment, these innocent humans deserve care and protection.

Thankfully, in God’s economy there is hope for those who have experienced the ravages of abortion. Not only can they receive God’s forgiveness in the here and now, but they can yet look forward to the ecstasy of reuniting with their unborn loved ones in eternity.

Adapted from The Face That Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution

You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
Psalm 139:13–16 NKJV

For further study, see  Francis J. Beckwith, Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1993) and How do we annihilate A-B-O-R-T-I-O-N arguments?

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