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Is it wrong to terminate an innocent human life?
To read this in article form, please see benhammond.org/is-abortion-wrong
Link to video 1: Is Abortion Wrong?
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Link to video 2: Is it OK to abort a nonviable fetus?
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Is it wrong to terminate an innocent human life? The answer to this one is easy. Everyone knows it’s wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone lobbying to remove a law against murder.
But how does this apply to abortion?
We’ve been considering a syllogism to determine if abortion is wrong:
1. Abortion terminates an innocent human life.
2. It is wrong to terminate an innocent human life.
3. Abortion is wrong
We’ve discovered that abortion does terminate an innocent human life. Inside the mother is a baby person. It can’t yet survive on its own, but many people couldn’t survive on their own, and we usually don’t justify killing them.
So, our question today is this: Is it really wrong to terminate an innocent human life? The answer is, “Of course!” We could just quote “Thou shall not kill” from the Old Testament Law, and that would be enough, but what makes humans so special that we’re not supposed to kill each other?
It’s simple—human life has value. When God was creating, He just commanded the animals into existence. He said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let the birds fly above the earth…” (Genesis 1:20). But when it was man’s turn, Genesis 2:7 says that God “formed man of the dust of the ground.” He took special care with people.
The Bald Eagle is the National Bird of the United States, so it is protected. The Bald and Gold Eagle Protection Act prohibits doing anything with an eagle, or its nest, or its eggs—including killing, capturing, possessing, moving, or selling—even if it’s already dead. The fine is a maximum of $5,000 or one year imprisonment for the first offense, and $10,000 or two years imprisonment for the second offense.
So, we can’t even take a feather from a dead eagle or touch an eagle’s egg, but we can slaughter a human inside its mother. That, my friends, is the definition of insanity.
As humans, we are different from the rest of creation, and God has given us authority over it. We have much more value than eagles.
Most importantly, though, we have value because God loves us, as humans, more than anything else in creation. He was loving enough to give us the choice to serve Him or rebel, and when we chose to rebel, He humbled Himself enough to come into His creation as a man, eventually submitting to death. He didn’t do that for the eagles. He didn’t even do it for the angels. He did it for the humans, because we, like nothing else in creation, are made in His image.
When we abort a baby, we are terminating the life of an innocent human being who is made in the image of God. Abortion does terminate the life of an innocent human being. Terminating the life of an innocent human being is wrong. Therefore, abortion is not only wrong, but an absolute disgrace to humanity. In my opinion, there should be nothing in our laws that carries a harsher penalty than the intentional slaughter of innocent human beings, regardless of their location.
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Is it wrong to terminate an innocent human life?
To read this in article form, please see benhammond.org/is-abortion-wrong
Link to video 1: Is Abortion Wrong?
youtu.be/ED-vKZNwGZo
Link to video 2: Is it OK to abort a nonviable fetus?
youtu.be/I_6m34QkN30
Is it wrong to terminate an innocent human life? The answer to this one is easy. Everyone knows it’s wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone lobbying to remove a law against murder.
But how does this apply to abortion?
We’ve been considering a syllogism to determine if abortion is wrong:
1. Abortion terminates an innocent human life.
2. It is wrong to terminate an innocent human life.
3. Abortion is wrong
We’ve discovered that abortion does terminate an innocent human life. Inside the mother is a baby person. It can’t yet survive on its own, but many people couldn’t survive on their own, and we usually don’t justify killing them.
So, our question today is this: Is it really wrong to terminate an innocent human life? The answer is, “Of course!” We could just quote “Thou shall not kill” from the Old Testament Law, and that would be enough, but what makes humans so special that we’re not supposed to kill each other?
It’s simple—human life has value. When God was creating, He just commanded the animals into existence. He said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let the birds fly above the earth…” (Genesis 1:20). But when it was man’s turn, Genesis 2:7 says that God “formed man of the dust of the ground.” He took special care with people.
The Bald Eagle is the National Bird of the United States, so it is protected. The Bald and Gold Eagle Protection Act prohibits doing anything with an eagle, or its nest, or its eggs—including killing, capturing, possessing, moving, or selling—even if it’s already dead. The fine is a maximum of $5,000 or one year imprisonment for the first offense, and $10,000 or two years imprisonment for the second offense.
So, we can’t even take a feather from a dead eagle or touch an eagle’s egg, but we can slaughter a human inside its mother. That, my friends, is the definition of insanity.
As humans, we are different from the rest of creation, and God has given us authority over it. We have much more value than eagles.
Most importantly, though, we have value because God loves us, as humans, more than anything else in creation. He was loving enough to give us the choice to serve Him or rebel, and when we chose to rebel, He humbled Himself enough to come into His creation as a man, eventually submitting to death. He didn’t do that for the eagles. He didn’t even do it for the angels. He did it for the humans, because we, like nothing else in creation, are made in His image.
When we abort a baby, we are terminating the life of an innocent human being who is made in the image of God. Abortion does terminate the life of an innocent human being. Terminating the life of an innocent human being is wrong. Therefore, abortion is not only wrong, but an absolute disgrace to humanity. In my opinion, there should be nothing in our laws that carries a harsher penalty than the intentional slaughter of innocent human beings, regardless of their location.
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