About Those "Legal" Abortions...

What, exactly, constitutes legality? Do mere humans have the authority to make any kind of behavior "legal," or is there a higher authority whose laws cannot be transgressed without consequence?

Investigation into the matter reveals that "the state" does not have the authority to declare something "legal" that is not legal according to that higher authority, whom I shall refer to henceforth as "God."

There are numerous places in the Word of God - the Holy Bible - where the laws and wishes of God with regard to pregnancy and birth are made clear. The most obvious, of course is in the Ten Commandments, which are located in both Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. "Thou shalt not kill." Bible scholars indicate that the Hebrew word for "kill" in the Ten Commandments means "murder" and the implication is that we should not kill innocent people. (It does not pertain to execution of those guilty of capital crimes - which execution is also commanded elsewhere. "You must purge the evil from your midst." Deuteronomy 19:19b)

There are places in the Bible where the killing of unborn babies and little children is also referred to - always as an abomination punishable by law. Exodus 21:22 - 25: "When men strive together, and hurt a wonan with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." Exodus 23:7 "Keep far from a false charge, and do not slay the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked." (Who can be more innocent than an baby that is yet to be born?)

"You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord." Leviticus 18:21.

It has recently come to light that the bodies of aborted babies were being burned as "medical waste" in Great Britain to heat hospitals. More recently, it was discovered that the same thing was being done in Oregon to heat homes! In his book, Deliver Us From Evil (p. 135), biblical apologist, Ravi Zacharias quotes Bible scholar, Cunningham Geike, who described in detail the rite of sacrificing babies to Molech:

The hideous image of Moloch, the god of the Ammonites, once more rose in
the valley of Hinnom, and Manasseh himself led the way in consecrating his own
children not to Jehovah, but to the grisly idol, or as the phrase ran, making him pass through the fire to the god; as if the flames, burning away the earthly impure body, let the freed soul pass through them, cleansed from all taint of earth, to unite with the godhead . . . Human sacrifice became common at the "high places of Tophet" in the valley of Hinnom; the stately central mound, on which the idol towered aloft, rising deep and large in the midst.

Night time seems to have been the special time for these awful immolations. The yells of the children bound to the altars, or rolling onto the fire from the brazen arms of the idol; the shouts of hymns of the frantic crowd; and the wild tumult of drums and shrill instruments, by which the cries of the victims were sought to be drowned rose in discordance over the city; forming, with the whole scene, visible from the walls by the glow of the furnaces and flames, such an ideal of transcendent horror, that the name of that valley became, and still continues, in the form of Gehenna, the usual word for hell.

In reading that description of human sacrifice of little children and babies by the ancients of the Kindom of Judah, we can have little wonder that The Lord would send the Babylonians to conquer them and take them into captivity. Yet, how is it more barbaric to do as they did than it is to pull the tiny bodies of babies apart limb from limb and discard them as trash to be incinerated to heat hospitals or homes? Dr. Bernard Nathanson had done thousands of abortions before deciding to film one via ultrasound. He named the film he made, "The Silent Scream," because he was able to see the baby open its mouth in a scream in the womb as the abortion instruments invaded the baby's space to rip it apart. He never performed anothe abortion and, in fact, became one of abortion's most ardent foes.

I am struck by the similarity of the rite of idolatry to Molech and the burning of babies as "medical waste" to heat hospitals and homes. Fire in both instances. Perhaps abortion is idolatry to Molech without its practitioners ever knowing it.

Those who practice abortion in this nation, and those who have received one or more, may never have to face an earthly judge for having committed a crime for their taking of innocent life, but we know that it is truly against the will of God for us to take the life of babies whether in or out of the womb. In fact, God said to Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; . . ." Jeremiah 1:5a-b That was true of Jeremiah; it may be true of all of us, including the babies that have been aborted and will yet be.

It is important to know that, if you have already had an abortion, there is redemption through the blood of Jesus. "If we say we have fellowship with him [Jesus] while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth; but if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."  I John 1:6-9

It is also important to know that if one remains unrepentant in this life for sins, we will face the Judge of all judges in the future. Best to repent before it's too late.