We now know when life begins. It begins when the child in the womb beats the abortionist’s poisons and emerges from the womb to take a full breath of air.
Many are troubled by this story, both those favoring and opposing abortion. The doctor is in trouble for a) not showing up at his clinic on time and b) not insuring that there would be qualified personnel to care for this patient in his absence.
But the irony is that had he showed up on time and killed the child in the womb, no one would have known and in some circles he would have been praised for his act.
But since the child was able to grab that fateful breath of air, suddenly he was human, and disposing of him as bio-waste, perfectly acceptable seconds earlier, became morally questionable.
There is a darkness that clouds the reasoning of men and women in our day. On the one hand we preach the gospel and pray to see that darkness lifted. But this child is a martyr, with one cry, one gasp of air, he has injected the debate with some clarity before his untimely death.
May his testimony and that of millions like him help lift this terrible darkness, that his death not be in vain.
Gail and Keith
Had the abortionist been there this child would most likely have been left to die anyway even though the law says it’s illegal. Approximately 3700 babies are aborted every day in the United States. Every time I read about the death of these children I am grieved. I am reminded of Jeremiah 19:1-6 where God talks of the abomination of the Israelite’s sacrificing their firstborn sons to the alter of Baal:”1 This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests 2 and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, 3 and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. 4 For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. 5 They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. 6 So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.”