One third of my generation is missing. One third of my generation is not here today. Where did they go? Oh, they never were here. One third of my generation was killed, before they were born. Many people take abortion lightly, maybe because they do not realize the severity of the issue. Abortion is real, abortion is murder, and since 1973 abortion has claimed over 50 million innocent lives just in the United States. Why is this? A lot of it weighs on the most important question, “Is the unborn child human?” Today I would like to talk about the humanity of the unborn baby. First I will cover why the unborn baby is human on the biological level, then with some logical deductions, illustrate the baby’s humanity on the philosophical level. Finally, I will go over the spiritual issues against abortion.We begin with the humanity of the unborn baby on the physical level. What would you think a person would need to have in order to be classified as human? A brain? A heart? Blood? After about eighteen days the baby’s heart begins to beat, and often pumping a different blood type than the mother’s. A little over a month, the baby is thinking, for the brain is present at 6 weeks. They have fingernails at eleven weeks and eyelashes at twelve weeks. They hiccup, they sleep, they smile, they are fully human, and they are living beings like you and me. The unborn babies have personalities, they have their own habits. My first sonogram picture, I was sucking my thumb. Psalms 139:13 says, “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Why do people think the unborn are not human? They react to noises, they get excited, the grimace when they feel pain, and smile when they are happy. They are curious, and they have a body, soul, and spirit, just like everyone else. If the new born baby is human, why isn’t the unborn? People have their own justifications for abortion, which brings me to the second point, arguments on the philosophical level. Steven Schwartz, in his book, “The Moral Questions of Abortion” says the newborn baby and the unborn baby differ in four ways: Size, environment, development, and dependency. If size makes you human, are adults more human than children? If size determines humanity, football players would have to be the most human of all! Are taller people more human? Since the answer is no, size would seem irrelevant in defining human. What about environment? Does the un-born child, contained in the womb, suddenly become human when he leaves the birth canal? The birth canal is approximately eight inches. Does traveling 8 inches magically change the status from un-born to human? Discover magazine ran an article of surgeries preformed on un-born babies only 21-24 weeks old. The doctors partially removed these babies from the womb, to operate on the spinal disks and repair herniated diaphragms. At only 21 weeks old, did these un-born babies suddenly become human when removed from the womb, then return to a fetus when they were replaced? Obviously not, so environment is also irrelevant. Finally development and dependency. The un-born are less developed than the newborn and their dependency on their mother is greater. Does this make them less human? Studies show that people do not reach their peek of development till age 40, does this mean those under the age of 40 are less human? What about those dependant on medications or pace makers, does their dependency on something else to live make them non-human? Surely not, so viability and development are then also irrelevant in defining what is human. So if all four are irrelevant, in defining human, and the baby is human on the physical level, then let’s move on to the final point, the spiritual or moral aspect of abortion.If the unborn child is human, than killing the baby is murder. No matter what someone believes, most people will agree murder is wrong. When Noah left the ark, God gave him two commands: to produce life, and to protect life. Genesis 9:7 says, “Be ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.” Just in the book of Genesis alone, God commands five times to be fruitful and multiply. I think there are two victims in abortion, the baby, and a lot of times the mother. Girls that get abortions are not the women you see marching around the pro-choice rallies, these girls are young, scared, and they have been fed the lie that abortion is not killing a baby. If it is not a baby, what is it? But they feel helpless, desperate, and abortion seems their only choice. Abortion clinics prey on teenage girls that have made a mistake. These girls are not evil, they wouldn’t kill the baby if they truly understood it was a baby, but they are told it is “just a clump of tissue” and all they want is to escape the consequence of their actions, so they buy the lie. The Bible views the life of the unborn baby as sacred and just as precious as the newborn baby. Psalms 127:3 says, “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His reward.” If only more people understood that from the moment of conception, a baby is a living human being, abortion might be rethought by many people. Being pro-choice is a myth, it is either pro-life or pro-abortion, there is no choice, and if there is, where is the baby’s choice?One third of my generation is missing. One third of my generation is not here today. Being pro-life means being pro-future, and the decisions we make today will affect us and the next generations the rest of our lives. I wasn’t around in 1973, when the supreme court legalized abortion, but it is affecting my culture, my nation, my world. One third of my generation has been aborted.
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