Ronald Reagan Quote

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. --Ronald Reagan

I found this quote the other day in the companion reader that accompanies my textbook for the U.S. Government class that I'm taking at the homeschool co-op. I thought it was really interesting. There are so many people out there who want to be able to abort their babies for convenience. They don't even want to give their child a chance. But they were born. They were given a chance.

Never Silence Life

You all know that I am very Pro-Life. I never like to hear people talk about abortion as if it is no big thing. If you feel the same way that I do (or even if you don't) you should check out this post on the Rebelution blog. It is very encouraging.

On January 22, 2009 the sisters from the band BarlowGirl are doing abortion awareness. According to their website a child dies every 22 seconds due to an abortion. That is terrible. I think we should all have the responsiblity to tell people the truth about abortion.

Visit the Barlow sisters website at Neversilencelife.com.

America Says: Pre-marital Sex is Okay

Something my Mom mentioned to me in a comment on my last post really caught my attention. In my last post "America Says: Abortion is Okay," I didn't really say anything about why so many girls have abortions.

According to this website, 64.4% of abortions are performed on never married women and 93% of abortions occur because of (according to this website) social reasons (i.e the child is unwanted or inconvenient.)

So I would say that a lot of the abortions performed are because the woman having the procedure had sex outside of marriage and got pregnant. What is sad about the American mindset is that so many of these girls think that their only mistake was getting pregnant and that having sex was fine.

Obviously though, you are only going to get pregnant as a result of having sex, so if you don't have sex, you won't get pregnant, but girls don't seem to realize that.

I know someone that had a baby outside of marriage. My mom and I were talking about it and she jokingly said to me "You aren't going to have a baby at sixteen are you?" I said, "No, I'm not planning on it." When I told a friend about this conversation she said to me, "Well, I don't think the girls that got pregnant were planning on it either." They weren't planning NOT to get pregnant, either. That's why purity is so important.

Besides the fact that the bible condemns it, another reason premarital sex is wrong is because: a) It can lead to pregnancy and b)then those pregnancies can end in abortion.

So I would say that the problem is not just abortion, but what it stems from, which is pre-marital sex. So if you decide that you are never going to have sex before you are married, you will never have to make a decision whether or not to abort your baby.

That is why I think that courting is so important because you keep yourself from being put in a situation where you might be tempted. But I'll save the topic of courting for another blog post.

Amercia Says: Abortion is Okay

What America says about abortion is not just that it is okay, but that it is legal. Here is a little bit of history about abortion.

Abortion was legalized in 1973 at the end of the famous Roe v. Wade court case. What happed was that a woman named Jane Roe (actually a pseudonym for Norma McCorvey) decided she wanted an abortion. She first went to her state to try to have abortion legalized. From there the case ended up in the Supreme Court, and the conclusion was that abortion was made legal. Suddenly any woman that wanted to kill her unborn baby could.

As a note, in 1995 Norma McCorvey became part of the pro-life movement. She now tries to make illegal a case she fought so hard to have legalized.

I believe that abortion is wrong because I believe abortion is murder. In Exodus 20:13 (NIV) is says: You shall not murder. Therefore, I believe that abortion is not only murder but also a sin.

I think that these doctors who perform abortions and the women having the abortions have brainwashed themselves into thinking that the baby isn't a life. They call the baby a "fetus" and refer to it as an object, as opposed to a human being. I know that one of the reasons that Pro-Choice advocates give for the legality of abortion is that the baby in question of being aborted isn't viable. Viability is being capable of living. So they say that the baby isn't a human because it isn't capable of living on its own. However, if you left a one or two year old alone it wouldn't be capable of living on its own. Generally, everybody considers one and two year olds to be humans. So I see that as putting a stop to that reason for the legality of abortion. Of course, the pro-Choice people wouldn't agree with me.

Another thing I think is funny is that if someone murders a pregnant woman, the killer can be charged with a double homicide, one killing for the mother and one for the baby. But, if the baby isn't a life, how can someone be charged with ending it?
The definition of homicide is: The killing of one human being by another. So, obviously someone thinks that unborn babies are lives.

Because abortion is morally wrong, people end up contradicting themselves as they try to find some way to say that abortion is fine, legal, okay, correct, all of the above.

What I have to say is that I believe abortion is WRONG, and that as Christians, we should stand against abortion and put up a fight to get abortion made illegal.