Frequently Asked Questions:
Where does a woman's CHOICE come into play in abortion?
As thinking human beings, women do have choices about their pregnancy, but not all of them are right or good for them or their unborn children. Unfortunately, we can reason ourselves into wrong decisions when we forget about our spirits and the spirit of the Creator. Usually, this happens when we make decisions from a place of fear, not hope.
Women, we can choose to abstain from intercourse when not ready or willing to have a child. One can choose contraception but this is not fully effective, nor moral according to some. We can honor our Creator by abstaining from sex outside of marriage as he designed it.
We can choose to have our babies and give them to loving parents for adoption. We can raise our unexpected babies and trust them and ourselves to the care of a loving Creator who does not abandon His children to those who trust in Him to save a life, even when afraid to do so.
I am a spiritual person but why does a group of cells have value as a person or spirit?
Women are not just bodies, nor unborn babies are just a group of cells or a body, depending on how you look at it. Women and babies have spirits too. We are physical and spiritual beings so what one does with her body and her baby’s body will affect her spirit. It is a law of the universe. The physical and spiritual touch on planet earth. Science is understanding this now more than ever.
We ask you to consider your spirit and your baby’s as you think through abortion. Unfortunately, we can reason ourselves into wrong decisions when we forget about our spirits and the spirit of the Creator. Usually, this happens when we make decisions from a place of fear, not hope.
Isn't abortion ok since I am not ready to be a parent?
No one is ever fully prepared or perfect at parenting. The trials of parenting are real but they are full of blessings too. While a woman's body may be free of an unwanted pregnancy after abortion, her spirit will most likely not ever be free from this decision to end the growing life in her womb. Most likely the reality that she has killed her own child will haunt her and hurt her for a long time. It is far more rewarding to persevere and grow as a woman by choosing to become a mother when faced with an unwanted pregnancy than to endure the pain of being the cause of death to an innocent child, one's own innocent child.
What are some things that God says in Bible about abortion?
Psalm 139:13-15 - For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well my frame was not hidden from thee when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. 16 Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you."
Psalm 71: 6 - "By You, I have been sustained from my birth; You are He who took me from my mother’s womb; My praise is continual of You."
Why does abortion matter anyway? Why does God care?
Each human being has infinite value by virtue of being a creature made in the image of God. Our beings are sacred, set apart for beauty, goodness, love, and truth: hence, the shedding of the innocent blood of God's creations is strictly forbidden (Gen. 1:26, 9:6, Ex. 23:7, Prov. 6:16-17).
Why do some abortion advocates believe that abortion is not clearly forbidden in the Bible?
This is easily explained. The question of the personhood of an unborn child was never a question to followers of God in the Old and New Testaments. Unborn children were considered innocent human beings and children were seen as a pure blessing in the Bible. They were only, at times considered unwanted or as a nuisance, if they turned wicked during maturity after birth. Only the blessed were able to have children as a gift from God and this was considered the highest possible blessing from God (Psalms 127:3-5, 113:9, Gen. 17:6, 33:5). Abortion was never even thought of as a possible answer to pregnancy because it was considered killing an innocent life which was punishable by death.
The modern spiritual or Christian only questions bringing his/ her child to life or not because the question of the PERSONHOOD of a fetus has been promoted by certain philosophies that do center around the knowledge of loving of God. Elective abortion is a serious moral wrong that violates the Creator’s Biblical commands against the unjust taking of human life (Exodus 23:7, Psalm 106: 37-38, Proverbs 6: 16-19, Matthew 5:21). Again, a child in the womb was considered a life to protect and killing it was punishable by death.
I won't feel loss after aborting my unborn baby, will I?
Those who can not have children, have lost unborn children, or cannot conceive a child, often struggle mightily with feelings of loss and sadness in their souls. They feel this in their hearts because in our spirits we know children are a blessing. We are created to feel that children are a blessing. If someone does not or is unable to have children, this does not mean that they are not blessed by God in other ways that are just as important. We simply express this thought to demonstrate that there is often a feeling of loss in those without children because something in their minds and hearts is wired to believe that having children is good.
We all know our spirits are created to live and love. Your unborn baby was created for the same reason. It is when fear, not a choice, takes over that we forget this. Informed spirits CHOOSE LIFE.
The Catholic Church is old, and doesn't put the Bible first, why are pro-choice protestors targeting them?
What does the Catholic Church say about abortion?
Jesus was clear that good and evil would co-exist in the church started by His apostles, but he promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. They sure would try, within and without (Matthew 16:17-19) . True Christ followers know that evil has always and is now, trying to overcome the church. But the keys (authority) to teach faith and morals were given to the Church by Jesus. He knew that corruption would enter in, but He also knew that truth about life would be preserved in the true church, in His word, and in the hearts of His followers. The Catholic Church represents the visible church on earth, and some who promote abortion know that the church has vehemently promoted the protection of the life of the unborn.
The Catholic Church clearly states, in its authoritative interpretations of scripture and morals, that:
"Abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written word of God, is transmitted by the Church’s tradition, and is taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium. No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church" (Evangelium Vitae 62).