Pro Life or Pro Death

Choosing death over life

One of the greatest misnomers in the English language is the compound word "pro-choice."

Pro-choice is the classical term that the executioners of unborn infants coined many years ago to lessen the stigma of their profession. Pro-choice sounds a lot more innocuous than pro-death, and certainly, abortion sounds a lot more sublimate than murder.

But when it comes to life there's no such thing as choice unless a person wants to either commit suicide or wants to legally remove a gravely ill person from a medical machine that's keeping that person alive.

However, when it comes to the life of another person who has no say in the matter--such as an unborn infant--then a person who chooses to terminate the unborn infant's life has chosen to commit murder.

Think of it this way: If you could obtain the legal right to kill your next door neighbor because he's a slob who refuses to cut his grass and pick up the dog feces in his backyard, then that would be your choice to end his life and not his. 

Certainly, your neighbor could plead for mercy and promise to amend his ways, but the decision to allow him to live or die would be up to you. And so, if the decision is up to you, then it becomes a matter of whether or not to grant mercy to your neighbor since his life is in your hands rather than his.

When it comes to ending a human life, the Bible permits capital punishment to be administered to those who have been convicted of committing serious crimes such as murder and rape. But the Bible absolutely forbids the taking of innocent life no matter what the circumstances.

Therefore, in God's eyes, no one has the legal right to abort an unborn infant under any circumstances whatsoever. 

Since the unborn infant can't defend itself, then it's up to the parents to defend the infant by protecting its life. When a parent "chooses" to abort an unborn because the infant poses a major lifestyle disruption, then that parent has chosen to commit murder. Period.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the apostle John revealed that "no murderer has eternal life in him." (1 John 3:15) A murderer is anyone who unlawfully takes another person's life. And that includes life inside the womb as well as outside the womb. 

Thus, all those who are complicit in abortion from those who choose to abort an infant's life to those who perform the procedure are guilty of murder and are worthy of eternal damnation.

Certainly, the increase in global infanticide over the past 40 years coincides with the world's growing rejection of God, His commandments and His transcendent moral laws. 

Millions of people throughout the world--and particularly in the western world, see life as the accidental product of millions of years of random evolutionary forces. They no longer believe that human life is created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26), but rather they now view it merely as evolution's end product. 

And that's why the abomination of abortion has become so tolerated and accepted in the world today--even by many professing Christians. It is this blissful ignorance of sin and evil that underscores we are living in the terrible times that the apostle Paul warned would come in the last days. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

The good news for those who have committed murder via abortion is that God will forgive that sin and all their sins if they confess them and accept by faith God's ultimate payment for sin in Jesus Christ's death on Calvary's cross and His resurrection from the dead. That's the good news.

However, the bad news is that if they choose to reject Christ's everlasting atonement for their sins, then they'll be paying for their own sins eternally. And that's in a place called hell.