This is not my first attempt to write on the subject of abortion, or as it is known today as, PRO-CHOICE. One of the main arguments in favor of this decision is that a female has the right to decide what she does with her body. It's against the law to commit suicide, but that's another discussion. Let's explore the premise that our body belongs to us from a higher perspective than a human one.
Exodus 34: 19a. All that open (issue forth from) the womb are Mine...
Now, what is so special about a fetus or embryo laying in the womb?
Psalms 139: 13, 15b-16a. For You formed my inward parts, You covered me in my mother's womb. When I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my my (invisible) substance, being yet unformed.
There are those who contend that they have the right to terminate a fetus because of some birth defect.
Exodus 4: 11a So the Lord said to him (Moses), "Who made man's mouth; or who made the deaf, the seeing, or the blind; Have not I, the Lord"?
Matthew 19: 12a. For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother's womb... NOTE: In Acts 3: 2a, a certain man was lame from his mother's womb; Acts 14: 8a, a man was cripple from his mother's womb).
While the medical procedure of performing an abortion was unknown in Biblical times, yet the very act of destroying the 'fruit' of the womb was seen as evil.
2 Kings 8: 12 . And Hazael said, "Why is my lord (Elisha) weeping"? He answered and said, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and you will dash their children, and rip open their women with child. NOTE: rip "open" their women with child; Hmm?
2 Kings 13: 16 . Then from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tipshah and all who were there, and it's territory because they did not surrender; therefore he attacked it. All the women who were with child he ripped open. NOTE: I have heard of using "rape" as a weapon of war but 'ripping open the belly of a pregnant woman' (abortion) is terrorism and a war crime if it were done today!
Jeremiah 20: 17a . That he did not kill me from (in??) the womb, that my mother (het womb??) might have been my grave. NOTE: Interesting!!
Hosea 13: 16. Samaria is held guilty, for she has rebelled against God. They shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed to pieces, and their women with child ripped open.
Amos 1: 13. Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four I will not turn away it's punishment because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead.
CONCLUSION: Is the term "abortion" mentioned in the Bible? No, however, the deliberate termination of a pregnancy, which is the modern definition, then several examples have been presented in this study. Even God is shown as giving birth in Isaiah 46: 3.
So, why were women specifically target by ripping open their bellies? I believe this was a deliberate attempt to destroy the 'seed' and of course, the mother died too. Even in modern times, a female who undergoes an abortion she can still die from medical complications; including an infection. This article probably won't dissuade a female from having an abortion, because if she wants to get one, she will. As a final point, Margaret Sanger, the founder of 'Planned Parenthood' ehich inspired NARAL and the PRO-CHOICE movement believed in having a vehicle where only desirable traits would be preferred births, and other undesirable ones should not be allowed to be born ("eugenics").
Robert Randle. 79 79 Westheimer Rd. Apt 1105. Houston, TX 77063. September 3, 2020. robertrandle51@yahoo.com
