Quiz • Where did you derive your views on Abortion and Sanctity of life? • Have you/Are you, willing to do honest research and reconsider your views? • IF you believe as most Christians do, that Abortion IS Murder, will it be a top issue when you vote? • Remember, You will answer to God! nor shall your eye pity • We must be sensitive to the Jn.8 type of Hypocrisy in judging unwed pregnancies • We must remember that we too are sinners! Jn.2:10-13 • God can and does forgive all repentant sinners! • Pity for immature yet immoral young people should not eclipse the innocent, totally helpless pre-born babies! Sanctity of life • What does this mean? • Sanctity = holy or sacred • Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish…birds…livestock…every creeping thing…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Made in the image of God • Unique above the rest of creation! • PETA/Animal rights activists are wrong • "The voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.‘ Acts 11:9 Col.2:16-23, Rom.14, 1 Tim.4:3-5 • Not even Angels can be redeemed Hbr.2:5-11, 16, 1 Pet.1:12 When Does Life begin? • Heartbeat = at 18 days • Ultrasound has given a window on the womb that shows the unborn at 8 weeks sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All the organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. Virtually all abortions happen afterward • Viability = Babies can sometimes survive on their own at 23 or 24 weeks the most dangerous place to be • Medical authorities determine a person to be “alive” if there is either a detectable heartbeat or brainwave activity. With that in mind, it is eye-opening for some to realize that unborn children have detectable heartbeats at 18 days (2 ½ weeks) after conception and detectable brain-wave activity 40 days (a little over 5 ½ weeks) after conception. What is so shocking is that essentially 100 percent of all abortions occur after the 7th week. In fact, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place to be in America is not in an automobile without wearing a seat belt, or in a commercial airliner with a potential terrorist on board. Statistically speaking, the most dangerous place to be is in the womb of one's mother. Euphemism's • Pro-Choice or Anti-abortion? Pro-life! • “Choice” for the immoral person but NOT the man involved, the parents, the taxpayer or most importantly NOT the innocent infant! • “Women's rights”, health, “War on women” • Planned parenthood or Planned Murderhood? • “fetus”, unborn/preborn or “baby” • Don’t be Single issue voters, unless… • “After-birth abortions” • Abortion (prevention) or Murder! When Does Life begin? • Gen 2:7 then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. (The Soul) • Eccl. 11:5 As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything in your book were written • Psalm 139:13-16 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. • Eph 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. Is “Murder” ever acceptable for any reason? • Exodus 20:13 “You shall not murder.” • Gen 9:6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.” • Pro 6:16-17 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood… • Executions, self-defense or “just” wars are God ordained to preserve innocent life you shall pay life for life • Exodus 21:22-25 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.” Rescue the weak • Psalm 82:3-4 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” • Jam 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction • Jam 4:17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. From the Womb to the tomb • Psalm 22:9-10 Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God. • Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. (conception) Pro-Choice? • 1Cr 6:19-20 You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. • Consider: Most often, a person who made a poor and sinful choice to have immoral sex has the “right” of choice over the life of someone who has NO choice and I MUST pay for and Assist that Choice? 1 immoral person has a choice when the “innocents” have None? Life is Sacred, therefore • Euthanasia (“mercy” killing), Suicide, Stem Cell research (abortion cells), Cloning, Genetic Engineering, Marketing body parts, human trafficking/slavery, Partiality (Nepotism), Caste systems, Racism/Discrimination, Sex changes…are playing God and egregious sin! • This also includes any hypocrisy or inequity - age discrimination, beauty favortism… • Sanctity of Life 1st addresses Abortion! President Obama • Approved by Naral • In 1997, Obama voted against a ban against Partial birth abortions • Voted to protect minors crossing state lines to get abortions • His administration has actively sent Federal funds overseas to fund abortions with your tax dollars • Passed laws to force Religious Institutions to fund abortions President Obama • Passed laws to Legally force Medical professionals to participate in Abortions, violating their conscience • Obama Opposed Sex-Selection Abortion Ban, June 2012 • “Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old,” he said. “I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn’t make sense to not give them information.” Mitt Romney • Supported a Woman’s right to choice as Governor of Massachusetts, 2002 • Passed many policies considered proabortion and anti Christian as Governor • Has since changed position • Since 2005 has called himself Pro-life • Has made numerous promises to reverse President Obama’s rulings and positions on Abortion when if he is President Websites • • • • • • • • • • • • http://www.abort73.com/ http://www.prolife.com/ http://www.justthefacts.org/ http://abortiontv.com/ GRAPHIC http://www.lifenews.com/ http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/abort.h tml http://www.abortionno.org/ GRAPHIC Abortion http://www.ehd.org/ http://www.abortionfacts.com/ http://www.cbrinfo.org/ http://www.nrlc.org/ http://www.hh76.com/ The Innocent’s wager • IF the Pro-lifers are wrong the worst that can happen is a woman is inconvenienced for 9 months and the baby can be adopted by those who want it • IF the Pro-Abortionist is wrong the worst that can happen is the murder of the most helpless and innocent humans on earth and standing before a Holy God who will punish their murder! • Luk 17:2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.