The bald eagle is the chosen emblem to represent my country; the United States of America. Selected because it is free to soar the skies, this majestic bird represents freedom just as we fought for our freedom from England. Recently I have been watching live-stream videos of the nesting eagles in Decorah, Iowa. In the state where I live there are civil penalties for violating the Endangered Species Act which protects fish, mammals, birds - as well as plants - listed as threatened or endangered. The maximum fine is $5,000 or one-year imprisonment with $10,000 OR not more than two years imprisonment for a second conviction. Tell me, why is it a crime to harm or kill a bald eagle but not to kill a baby in the womb? How crazy is that? If you were reading closely, you caught that the Endangered Species Act also protects plants! In our backward society, plants are protected and babies are not! Does that make any sense to you? There are written rules to be followed and carried out regarding the protection of eagles. I want to briefly go over those as compared to the protection of human babies.
1. Report injured, killed, or dead bald eagles to your local conservation agent. We have no rights that allow us to report a baby about to be aborted/murdered.
2. Do not disturb active nests. We have no right to disturb or attempt to stop the actions taking place in an abortion clinic which will result in murder.
3. Support organizations that rehabilitate injured bald eagles. Nobody steps forward to help an injured baby that has survived an abortion. They are left on a table to die!
4. Learn more about eagles. No one seems interested enough to really know what takes place during an abortion. A human's life is being injured, tortured, and killed!
What a self-centered, backward society we have become. It is a shame that we cannot see the most basic principles of human life for what they really are. This is beyond the argument of abortion, this is murder without laws, without regret, without remorse!
One argument the pro-abortionist use is that what a woman is carrying in her womb is nothing but a lump of cells. I urge every reader to go see the movie "UNPLANNED." It will answer every question you ever had about abortion and "is it a baby?" In the meantime, I don't need a movie to know how God feels about aborting the conceived. It's in the Bible. Let's read it. It's located in Psalm 139: 13-15, "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 ..." IT WAS GOD who made the process of life happen. God forms us, every part of us. From the moment of conception. Fertilization is a sequence of events. It's no different than the process of a seed becoming a plant. Within a seed is life, the ability to become a beanstalk, a beet, carrot, cucumber, pea, pumpkin, radish, etc. Here is the comparison: Once a seed (sperm) is planted into the ground (womb), the sequence of events begins (fertilization). A carrot seed becomes a carrot, a radish seed will produce a radish. From the moment of conception, a baby is being formed, "You formed my inward parts." It is a work of God. A miracle to be protected, not annihilated. It is God's way to make the process of life happen! There is a soul at the moment of every conception, and a purpose for every baby intended to be brought into this world. When we thwart that process, we mess with God's plan. We will not escape the punishment of these atrocities, either now or in life hereafter UNLESS WE REPENT!
We are to care for and respect animals for they were created by God as well, but human life is different because unlike the animals we are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27). When we pass laws that demand respect and protection OF PLANTS and not our own babies, we are truly deprived of senses. God is the giver of life (Acts 17:24-28). Have you ever flipped channels on your television where one station is telecasting a demonstration to protest the destruction of turtle eggs, only to flip to another channel and see people pushing for the right to murder their own babies inside them? This just recently happened as people cheered in New York to pass laws that allow babies to be killed by lethal injection, placing a needle in the back of the babies neck even as it is in the process of birth and 3/4 outside the mother!! Where is the logic in this madness?
When does life start? Ask yourself, then answer logically as taught in scripture. When does someone become human? To avoid obvious accusations of murder, those who advocate for abortion have long claimed that "it" is just a mass of tissue, with no purpose, no life, no rights, just a clump, lump minus the baby bump. Let me ask this, is an eagle's egg an eagle or something else? When a woman is expecting, we say she is "with child" and not "with a mass of tissue." And here is something you really need to mull over. If a pregnant woman is killed, the murderer is charged with double homicide because TWO HUMANS DIED, both mother and her "child" -- please read Exodus 21:22-24 if you read nothing else today. The baby inside the womb has value, and harming that baby brings consequences. When you read the Bible, you must read it carefully and with intent. Too often we read over answers and keys to important knowledge in our disinterest or haste to finish. Look at the following verse and tell me what knowledge you reap: "And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she has also conceived a son in her old age..." The key here is that Elizabeth conceived a son (not yet born). How was the sex of the child known before Elizabeth gave birth? Because all human beings at the moment of conception have a soul. God chose the sex He wanted to place into this world, and He has a purpose for every baby intended to be brought onto this planet... whether male or female.
OH! Did you think it was you that determined the baby's sex? Really? Who allowed your body to produce sperm? Who made you fertile? Who designed your body to function in a reproductive way? It was God! The high ranking angel Gabriel KNEW when Elizabeth conceived she would bear a son according to God's plan. God has intentions for every human life conceived. What's interesting as well is that according to my Lexicon, neither the Hebrew or Greek terms make a distinction between a child conceived and a child born. What we are now witnessing across this globe is A TERRIBLE EVIL where human life is claimed to have less value than animals or plants; in fact, no value at all. The book of Romans lists what kinds of people would be living in what I believe is our society today because of the description of everything on the list from Romans 1:20-32. Verse 31 specifically mentions people "without natural affection." There is nothing MORE NATURAL THAN LOVING AN INNOCENT BABY and yet there are millions of people that do not regard life in the womb because they have no natural affection. It seems the only way to save an innocent baby today is to somehow get them placed on an endangered species list next to the bald eagles and turtles!
Until next time,
-Pat-
what a powerful blog, pat! being a dad myself, I cannot fathom people believing the life in a mothers womb after conception is just a bunch of cells! the bible says "the life is in the blood." what is blood? red blood cells, therefore the blood that flows through that fetus is more than just blood & cells. it is life according to God's word. more than a bunch of cells, it is a baby from the moment of conception. do we smash and destroy cocoons because the butterfly hasn't emerged yet? no! we know that butterfly is developing, that it is living, that it is alive. how much more should we honor a fetus that is developing?
ReplyDeletePowerful! It just doesn't make sense! I watch the Eagles also and marvel at their beauty. And yet, how much more beautiful is it to watch the development of a fetus (Greek for little one)in a mother's womb! It is truly miraculous! We claim as a society to be progressing in to better and bigger accomplishments year after year. Yet a PLANT has more value than a HUMAN LIFE?! We will definitely reap the repercussions of the spilling of innocent blood as a society!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Pat for tackling this very important issue.