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Interesting implications here. If a woman can prove that she had a fertilized egg in her body, even if a pregnancy never started, would she be able to take an extra exemption on her income taxes?

Would folks engaged in IVF treatments be allowed to take exemptions on all resulting embryos for the year(s) they are stored?

Would police be required to investigate every miscarriage as a potential homicide?

What about state sponsored murder commonly called "the death penalty?"

Shalom

Since the state reserves the right to terminate humans' lives for legal reasons as defined by the state government, one should assume that any potential state-ordered abortions would be included in that realm.

Darryl,
You make no distinction between an unborn human being incapable of committing any crime and a career felon convicted of raping and murdering a 5 year old?

You guys just love the idea of eradicating human life the womb - the modern American killing field. You just have to support feminists in their glrious quest for convenince - at ANY cost.

Its really not a matter of wranglin over fetal viability at certain stages of developoment, or income tax law, etc.

It's simply about love and respect for the precious and holy gift of bring lives into the world. The callously and acpriciously eliminate them for a selfish woman's-convenience whos how morally vacant we have become. of course there are hard decisions involved, but aren't there in life always.

The real reason for pro-abortion decisions and laws in the first place is hard-ball feminist politics: to allow them to escape the respnsibilities (and joys) of home to compete with men in the wonderful world of corporate dog-eat-dog fulfillment - the heck with nurturing, lloving and teaching our precious children. All the hoopla and dturm and drang over keeping this prerogative is just about feminism, pure and simple - NOT about children!

THe bottom-line issue is about a general honoring of God's gift of human life in the womb - having a high view of the reproductive process. Yes, babies are viable human beings from early on in the process; and yes, the moment an egg i fertilized it becomes a developing human being. All of this, including laws, economics, science etc. are all distractions from the central world view of the holiness and specialness of all human life - period - at all stages - the just execution of muerdous misanthropes NOT included, to which JW Liles rightly alluded.

What feminists?

JWL, if life is sacred at the womb and deserving to have the opportunity to live, what happens to cause that same life 20, 30, 40, 50 years later to be less sacred? God forgives, why do humans not do the same?

Shalom

Darryl: “God forgives, why do humans not do the same?”

It seems that people have no conception today of just how holy and precious human life really is. There is a vast difference between an innocent baby still in his/her mother’s womb, and an adult who consciously chooses to end the life of another human being. That fully conscious, fully intentional killer must give an appropriate account not only of their sin against the murdered human being, but against God Himself, being that the victim was a manifestation of the very image and likeness of God. In Genesis 9 God says:
“Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
‘Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed;
For in the image of God
He made man (Heb. “ADAM”).’ ”
This initial call by God for capital justice here in Genesis was, of course, echoed in the Commandment to not commit murder (#6), and the resulting case laws regarding capital executions. There is no commandment to kill innocent babies in the womb – or out. Quite the contrary: the ones who do so deserve to die under the law of God. Capital punishment is part of the entire system of justice set forth in the OT codes, some of which was strictly for the Israelites, and some for all peoples everywhere until the return of Messiah at the end.
God has entrusted the execution of murderers to the State in order to #1 – vindicate the image of God being desecrated (also why human beings CANNOT just willy-nilly forgive murder); and #2, to provide satisfaction to the loved ones of the murdered victim and justice before the law; and #3, to act as a deterrent to potential murderers – some of whom, admittedly, would not be deterred even if Jesus were standing before them. It’s a GENERAL deterrent, not an absolute one. The main reason is #1.
Yes, God forgives, but the Scriptures clearly and definitively declare that He also exacts justice; which is precisely why Jesus died on the Cross; because the penalty for ALL sin is death, not just murder (“the wages of sin is death”). God’s absolute holiness REQUIRES absolute justice. God’s love (John 3:16) and forgiveness in Christ was NOT FREE – Jesus suffered the due penalty for our transgressions in our stead. That’s why Christians are so thankful to God when the joy and release of saving faith becomes real to them. It can be real to anyone who understands his/her sinful and lost condition, repents, and trusts solely in Messiah’s atonement. The seed is hereby scattered – will it fall on hard ground or fertile ground?