Life

I read this article recently and it spurred thoughts about this issue...

Abortion Is as American as Apple Pie

It is such a hard topic for so many but for me it stands as this...

We are forbidden to take life.

So then begins the debate of what is life.

Is the fetus just tissue and blood?

It is interesting that a doctor, who performs abortions, states:

"In the beginning [pro-lifers] were calling it a baby. We were saying it was only blood and tissue. Let's agree this is a life form, a potential life; you're terminating it. You don't have to argue that abortion stops a beating heart. It does."

But I didn't need to hear it from this doctor or from any doctor.

I heard it from Elisabeth and Mary in the New Testament over 2012 years ago (give or take a few years).

When Mary approached Elisabeth, John leaped for joy in the womb. Jesus was who He was in that tiny fetus in Mary, and John was who he was. Those individual spirits were already there. They were sacred and whole individuals, with thoughts, actions and emotions.

Does this mean we should be cruel to someone who has made this choice? Certainly not. The Savior was about nothing if not love and forgiveness, but man alive, He also taught what was right and what we need to do to be numbered among His sheep and that we should strive to live what is right and importantly to help others to know and see His light. So I will stand up for what I believe and what I believe the Savior expects of me.

I believe Satan delights in each spirit which is rejected it's chance to come to this earth, receive a body and experience joy and pain. Satan does not have a body, and without that body, the power and glory of mortal life. Satan can never experience the touch of a baby's hand, he cannot smell the beauty of a baby's head. He cannot feel the exquisiteness of pure heaven, as an infant rest upon your shoulder and nuzzles into that sweet spot at the crook of the neck. The baby's sweet breath warms the skin upon your neck and the glory felt at that moment cannot be described with mere words. Satan cannot have that without a physical body and he is just mean enough to want to take that away from others.

No, I cannot support anyone, any party, or any law, which believes they have God's power to give and take life. Some would question the death penalty, and say it is taking on God's power but I believe it is not a legitimate or equal debate, regardless of how I feel about it.

We are all accountable for our own sins and it was that way since Adam. In my opinion, abortion is taking sin out upon a baby, the death penalty takes sin out upon the individual. Two different issues entirely.

To me, it is not a moral issue, it is a matter of life.