Number of abortions worldwide reaches one billion

 

The truth about the protection of human life

Abortion: the modern day genocide

Biblical teaching together with common sense have given humanity the unchangeable and universal truth about the sanctity of human life and the inherent right to life which comes from God. This explains why Christians are under attack as western culture for nearly three generations has come more and more to embrace the culture of death. Canada is sadly a leader on this issue. To stand up for life, family and marriage is to be counter-cultural today. You're an obstacle to the way of full political correctness and progressive thinking.


The 2018 publication Abortion Worldwide Report authored and edited by Thomas Jacobson, Robert Johnston and Nicholas Eberstadt with Global Life Campaign records facts and information on what is the greatest human genocide in human history: abortion. Since abortion was first legalized in 1920 we have had over 1 billion babies intentionally killed. Today 136 countries have legalized abortion. The Report is published to provide a resource to help develop pro-life policies and strategies to reverse this pro-death trend. It's worth noting that both the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have failed to make the evil of abortion the number one pastoral goal that needs to be addressed.

In this post, we share with our readers Part I of the Report titled, "What is the Basis for the Sanctity of Human Life?" Without Biblical principles there would be no resistance today against the ever expanding culture of death. Here are the essential pro-life Biblical teachings:

1. God created man in His image. “In the beginning,” when “God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1), His final act on the sixth day was the pinnacle of His creation: making man in His image and likeness. The Personal God made personal man. “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness’ . . . God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:26–27)

In creation, God made mankind distinct from and lower than Himself, but also distinct from and above plants and creatures, and distinctly male or female.

 

2. God created man for relationship with Him for eternity. God created each person as an eternal being to live in right relationship with Him, and with other people. That relationship was broken because of sin, as recorded in Genesis 3, but can be restored instantly through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ and His redemptive sacrifice for our sins. Through belief in Jesus alone, God has extended to every person the opportunity to live with Him eternally.

3. God created man as “male and female” for marriage, procreation, and family. God ordained the institution of marriage when He created the first man and woman, and designed them to be joined together as “one flesh” in a lifetime covenant (Genesis 2:24). He also ordained them to procreate and form a family when He commanded them to “[b]e fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth” (Genesis 1:28). It is through this union of love that He ordained a husband and wife to bring forth, nurture, and raise children. Yet children born out of wedlock are to be equally cherished and protected. Furthermore, God created women to be givers of life, and never to arbitrarily take life (Genesis 3:20).

4. God knows a child before conception. Another profound truth God revealed in the Bible is that He knows each person before we are conceived in our mother’s womb. When God called Jeremiah to be a prophet, He said: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you” (Jeremiah 1:5). Every child is precious to God and known by God before he was even a thought in the mind of his parents.

 

5. God forms each child in the womb. It is a profound revelation that God Himself forms each baby in his mother’s womb. King David beautifully explained this truth 3,000 years ago: Thou didst form my inward parts; Thou didst weave me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from Thee, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Thy book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.” (Psalm 139:13–16)

Every baby is an eternal being created by God from the moment of conception.

6. God brings forth children “from the womb,” as King David realized: “You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts. Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother’s womb” (Psalm 22:9–10)

7. Children are a gift from the LORD. When the first child was born, Eve declared, “I have gotten a man-child with the help of the Lord” (Genesis 4:1). King David, 3,000 years later, said, “Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward” (Psalm 127:3)

 
Let us pray for a culture of life and love. In the words of Mother Teresa, "The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing— direct murder by the mother herself. If a mother can kill her own child—what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me—there is nothing between." The truth will set us all free.

Here's a video released by Abortion Worldwide Report. Consider buying the publication and informing your community. See what we can do to help bring an end to this evil. May the souls of all the innocent unborn babies through the mercy of God rest in peace.

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