Is murder wrong?
Is it wrong to have an abortion, if (as *Planned Parenthood itself* said) "an abortion kills the life of the baby after it has begun"? If abortion takes/"kills...life" ? After all, if "death" is defined medically as the cessation of all body's vital functions including the heartbeat, brain activity, brain stem and breathing--than a fetus with a beating heart, brain waves, brain stem, breathing amniotic fluid in and out is, by medical definition, a "life".
Is it wrong to violently destroy with our own hands a baby that has a heart beat, brain waves, all major organs, its own unique set of DNA (which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic being) and fingerprint, breathes amniotic fluid in and out, dreams, learns, remembers, reacts to loud noises and to mom's laughter, distinguishes between voices, responds to a familiar story, moves, stretches, yawns, sucks, swallows, smells, tastes, hears, sees, hiccups, and can feel pain-- perhaps (with such a raw and unmodified pain system) even more than we can? A life, that from the moment of conception is growing and changing?
Is it wrong to rip babies from their mother's wombs with a suction device, while you watch as the baby pre-dodges the suction instrument time after time, while its heartbeat doubles in rate and when finally caught, its body being dismembered, the baby's mouth clearly open wide in a silent scream? (see The Silent Scream and a see description of the different abortion methods here:
http://www.prolife.com/ABORMETH.html )
Is it wrong to pierce a baby's beating heart with a needle, injecting poison to kill?
Is it wrong to, as Luhra Tivis describes--who worked for an abortionist who "specializes in third trimester killings"--throw fetuses into a gleaming, metal, full-sized crematorium, "just like the one's used in funeral homes”, fire up the gas oven and a few minutes later, smell burning human flesh? Is this anything more noble than committing an "act of prenatal infanticide" and "cold blooded murder"? (Luhra Tivis, now a member of Operation Rescue, on her experience in the abortion business Quoted in Celebrate Life Sept/Oct 1994 "Where is the Real Violence?")
(For other quotes by former abortionists exposing abortion, go here:
http://www.prolife.com/EVERETT.html, including Eric Harrah, who was part owner of one of the nation's largest chains of abortion clinics:
http://www.abortionfacts.com/dr_willke/connector_july_98.asp and quotes by celebrities on abortion:
http://www.prolife.com/celeb.htm )
Is it wrong, to--as Mother Theresa says--pit mothers against their children and women against men, sow violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships, aggravate the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society, portray the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience, nominally accord mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters and, in granting this unconscionable power, expose many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners? Is it wrong to have the right to life depend on/be declared to be contingent on the pleasure of someone else?
Is it wrong to coldly "remove the products of conception" (Dr. Thomas Dillon & Colleagues, 1974), "empty" and "evacuate" the uteris? (All of this sounds strikingly similiar to the Nazi doctors and Hitler's subhumanity of the victims, ie: “ "It had nothing to do with humanity — it was a mass. I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass." (Franz Stangl, former commandant of Treblinka, 1971); "The Baron de Hirsch ghetto would have to be emptied." (Max Merten, 1943); "If it is now pointed out that the Jew is human, I then reject that totally." (Antisemitic speech, Reichstag, 1895))
Is it wrong to treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit?
Is it wrong "to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish"? (Mother Theresa)
Is it wrong to take an unborn child’s life?
Is it wrong to commit an act of murder?
Take a good look at this picture and then tell me if abortion is wrong.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2SW6_mohlmk/Sazq-ufDUaI/AAAAAAAAA9M/0Q5ChKl4wDM/s200/silent+scream3.jpg
But there is a much deeper matter at hand.
The truth is, you cannot divorce religion (or God, rather) from abortion (which is trying to separate the Creator from his creation), because an unborn baby is a sacred life created in the image of God to live forever.
God himself "shaped [his/her] life"/"knit [her] together" "in [her] mother's womb." He "knew all about" her “before” that. He "knows [her] inside and out", "every bone in [her] body", "exactly how [she] was made, bit by bit." He "watched" her “grow from conception to birth”, "all the stages of [her] life were spread out before [him]." He had "holy plans for" her "before [she] saw the light of day"; "when [she] was still in [her] mother's womb he chose and called [her]." The unborn child was "uniquelly", "wonderfully" and "marvelously" made by the Creator, designed for a glorious life in Christ and an eternal relationship with Jesus Christ. "Children are God's best gift." (Jeremiah 1:5, Psalm 139, Isaiah 44:24, Psalm 127:3, Galatians 1:15, Psalm 127:3)
"The Bible tells us that human life is sacred; God gave it to us, and only God can take it away. You and I aren't simply a higher form of animal; we were created in the image of God. God gave us a spirit or soul that will live forever—and this makes all the difference. The Bible says, 'God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them' (Genesis 1:27). This is why we must never destroy any life casually (from the unborn to the old). Life is precious, even when it nears its end on this earth. It is so precious that God sent His only Son into the world to open heaven's door for us by His death on the cross. The Bible says, 'For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord' (Romans 6:23)." ~Billy Graham