“Abortion and infanticides”
What is Abortion and Infanticides?
The Deliberate termination of a human pregnancy
When does life actually begin? When, if ever, is it right to terminate a
pregnancy? These are some of the moral dilemmas that are faced when dealing with the issue of abortion. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. There are
many different stands held on the issue of abortion. For those holding a
conservative view on abortion, abortion is never acceptable except when
necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman. In contrast, the liberal view
believes that abortion is always ethically acceptable at any point of fetal
development, and for any reason. Finally, there are those in the middle that hold the moderate view. They believe that abortion is ethically acceptable up to
a certain point of fetal development and that some reasons are acceptable.
Already a Baby?
When you think about political issues, many things come to mind. Almost, undoubtedly, abortion is one of those things. There is no argument sufficient enough to steer my mind away from anti-abortion. Most people think of the circumstance of the woman, and what the pregnancy might cause and therefore jump to the conclusion that seems simplest: eliminate the baby; eliminate the problem. Unfortunately, it is rare for a woman to think about the physical consequences of the abortion itself.
First and foremost, a fetus is a baby. A woman usually only even begins to consider that she might be pregnant 31 days after her missed period. Abortions do not usually take place before the baby is seven weeks old. At this point the fetus is a baby. The baby's heart has already started beating, it's arms and legs are noticeable as such, and it displays measurable brainwaves. This baby is alive, human, and developing.
Abortion is murder. Murder is defined as "the malicious or predetermined killing of one human being by another." If, it is illegal to harm an animal, to treat a pet wrongly, yet we have given a mother the right to murder her own child, even without true legitimate cause. Despite any imperfections in the child, it is still a human being, therefore establishing the act as murder. If you take away the loopholes and false justifications, would taking these imperfect babies that possibly may suffer diseases or deformities, and killing them because of their infirmities be much different than Adolf Hitler destroying innocent lives because of what he saw in them as imperfections? Approximately eleven million people were killed during the holocaust(Distruction), six million because of what was seen by one human being as inadequacies. Over 3500 children are aborted every single day. This is about 1,277,500 lives a year. It would take only five...
Arguments Based on, “What If”?
Very few subjects get the blood to boil like the raging controversy about abortion. One thing for sure though, there are no neutrals when it comes to this topic. The arguments can only take one stand or another; it is a black and white subject with each having their respective camps. It is not hard to bring to mind the position taken by the vast majority of Christians around the world regardless of denominational affiliation. They are against it. That's that, the other camp, as there are only two, will bring up arguments about all the "what if's" in the world. "What if" the girl is raped? "What if" she is too young and it will "ruin" her life? "What if" the prospective mother "isn't ready”? "What if" the mother's life is in danger by giving birth? "What if" the mother can't provide a good life for the baby? "What if".......
There are as many "What if” as there are people who support the practice of abortion. Many in the medical field have embraced it. The United States government has enthusiastically supported it. Most courts in most Western countries have been persuaded to support it to varying degrees.
In the End Time prophecy that Jesus gave in the 24th chapter of Mathew He said, "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold."(Mt 24:12)
.Affect and Result
There is a little-known battle for survival going in some parts of the world. Those at risk are baby girls, and the casualties are in the millions each year. The weapons being used against them are prenatal sex selection, abortion and female infanticide — the systematic killing of girls soon after they are born.
According to a recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) State of the World Population Report, these practices, combined with neglect, have resulted in at least 60 million "missing" girls in Asia, creating gender imbalances and other serious problems that experts say will have far reaching consequences for years to come.
China
"Twenty-five million men in China currently can’t find brides because there is a shortage of women," said Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute in Washington, D.C. "The young men emigrate overseas to find brides."
The imbalances are also giving rise to a commercial sex trade; the 2005 report states that up to 800,000 people being trafficked across borders each year, and as many as 80 percent are women and girls, most of whom are exploited.
The policy encourages late marrying and late childbearing, and it limits the majority of urban couples to having one child and most of those living in rural areas to two. Female infanticide was the result, he said.
"Historically infanticide was something that was practiced in poor places in China," Mosher said. "But when the one-child policy came into effect we began to see in the wealthy areas of China, what had never been done before in history — the killing of little girls."
India
The bias against females in India is related to the fact that "Sons are called upon to provide the income; they are the ones who do most of the work in the fields. In this way sons are looked to as a type of insurance. With this perspective, it becomes clearer that the high value given to males decreases the value given to females.
The problem is also intimately tied to the institution of dowry, in which the family of a prospective bride must pay enormous sums of money to the family in which the woman will live after marriage. Though formally outlawed, the institution is still pervasive. "The combination of dowry and wedding expenses usually add up to more than a million rupees. In India the average civil servant earns about 100,000 rupees a year. Given these figures combined with the low status of women, it seems not so illogical that the poorer Indian families would want only male children.
So, India is also the heartland of sex-selective abortion.
Abortion: Birth Control (Western Countries) or Legal Murder?
Approximately 1.6 million murders are committed legally each year. With the exception of laws in few states, the mutilated bodies of the victims are thrown into dumpsters like pieces of rotten meat. While these victims lay waiting in the infested dumpsters to be hauled off to a landfill, the murderers are in their offices waiting for their next patient--the accomplice to the murder. This is the murder of an innocent child by a procedure known as abortion. Abortion stops the beating of an innocent child's heart. People must no longer ignore the scientific evidence that life begins at the moment of conception. People can no longer ignore the medical and emotional problems an abortion causes women. People must stop denying the facts about the procedure, and start hearing the
Silent screams of unborn children. Let me live, Let Me live, Let Me Live. LET Me Live. LET ME Live. LET ME LIVE.
Reflection: In the west, they reason and do abortion because they do not want child because of various reasons but in east we get Laitance to kill babies (girls). We all have excuses.
Is abortion biblical?
No. On the contrary, it is an abomination in the sight of the God who commands us to:
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.(Psalm 82:3-4)
Let us defend the unborn, because no matter what society might say, "Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him." (Psalm 127:3)
Every Person will be Judged According to There Acts or Bear Consequences
This topic itself is really heart touching, it brings pain. I could not continue to read in some places in the books. I had to stop and do something else because I realized I was crying. One side baby other side women, both are in a difficult situation. I do not know if my wife is giving birth to a child. Doctor comes to me and ask, we can only save one whom do you want? I know, I will choose my beloved wife. But people’s heart has been corrupted. People are selfish. Nothing is good in man. I will kill other humans to survive myself. I will push other down to lift up myself. I will suppress poor to become rich. I will dominate week to remain or become strong. That is me (Human). I do not have conclusion. I only can pray God give wisdom to the person, who takes decision to do abortion.
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