The topic of abortion has been a hotbed issue in America ever since Row v Wade. Today, the liberal culture not only values abortion, but it celebrates it, spinning what is clearly evil into the guise of women’s healthcare and women’s rights. It is viewed as progressive and victimless resting on the idea that the unborn are un-alive. As our nation continues to play God, claiming the authority to end pregnancies, believers need to remember what the Bible says about life within the womb. The most common biblical argument supporting God’s sovereignty and the notion that life begins in the womb comes from Psalm 139, verse 13 which says: “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” But I wanted to highlight a couple of verses in Luke that are just as compelling. Concerning God’s sovereignty when it comes to the unborn, it says this concerning John the Baptist in Luke, chapter 1, verse 15:
“…for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth.”
God had a plan for John even before he was born, and I believe he has a plan for ever unborn child. And with every abortion, his sovereign plan is subverted. As to biblical evidence of life beginning within the womb, it goes on to say in verse 41:
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.”
So, even before being born John the Baptist was alive and active within the womb. Through the Holy Spirit he was able to sense Mary who was pregnant with Jesus. It says he “leaped in her womb”. Dead tissue cannot do that. Even today, women feel the baby moving, kicking and reacting to outside stimulus within the womb. To claim that the unborn is not living, should not be protected and doesn’t have rights is not ignorance, it is selfishness. Because I would argue that it is impossible, with all of the scientific evidence we have, to believe that the unborn is not alive.
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There is biblical evidence supporting the truth that the unborn is not only living, but worth protecting. And I believe that the scientific evidence we’ve gained over the years is even more compelling. Yet, our culture still seems to ignore the facts. We seem to want to take on the role of God and decide that only those children who are wanted should be born, and those who are not wanted should be aborted. This is the pinnacle of selfishness. Jesus said that “greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” If this is the greatest display of love, then how should we define one who is willing to lay down the life of a child so that their life will not be disrupted?