For Abortion Workers - Mercy?

Is it always wrong to kill a child? Is it murder if it’s legal? Should murder be legal? Should it be legal to kill a group of human beings? If someone is dependent on a caregiver or parent or doctor for their survival does it give that parent or caregiver or doctor the right to kill them?  

In a movie on PureFlix, “Samson”, there is a scene where a man asks the ruler for mercy. The ruler responds something to the effect of “I will grant you mercy. I will promise you that you will never have to go hungry again,” at which point the man is killed with a sword. The ruler than asks, “Would anyone else like to be shown mercy?”

This is exactly what we do to preborn children every day. So that these children don’t have to struggle with poverty, a missing parent, a handicap, a disease, a poor prognosis, or the timing for them is simply not to our choosing, we pull them apart limb from limb through a catheter or with a clamp, or painfully poison them so they cannot take their first breath. But do these children want that kind of mercy? Would you?

Is that the type of “mercy” you would like to be shown? What would happen if we apply what Jesus taught, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Why do we do to others what we would not like done to us? A child with their entire future ahead of them for their only experience in this life to be one of fear and pain? To be rejected by their parents and killed by a “health professional” instead of getting to see a sunrise and hear the words that someone loves them.

If you’re having financial problems, would you like someone to break down your front door and tear you into pieces? That’s what is happening to these children. Someone is entering the door to their home to snatch them from safety to crush them, taking away their one and only chance to live.

If it is discovered at a doctor’s appointment that you may only have six months to live, would you like to live those six months, or do you prefer your doctor inject you with poison at the doctor’s appointment to kill you early? Wouldn’t you rather get to choose how you spend those six months? Would you like one more chance to say “I love you” to your family before you go? Perhaps these children would like to have the chance to see their mother’s face and pass peacefully in the comfort of her arms rather than to be ripped painfully from her?

Is it morally alright to kill some innocent human beings? Maybe because they are sick, handicapped, poor, young, old, Jewish, black, white, …? Killing a human being does not help the gene pool, nor does it help others live. We are not on a continuum of evolution; rather, we are made in the image of God. He weaves together our very DNA that science did not even know about until recently and are largely illiterate to read it.

Who are we to say that we have no need of a human being for whom Christ died? No need of a human being God Himself is creating to give as a gift to that family and the world?

Children with faces and fingers and toes, tiny infants we can recognize with beating hearts, working brain waves, and moving away from touch before even entering fetal development are no less living human beings than we are. Even when they do not look like us in the first few weeks of what a human looks like, that doesn’t mean they are not one of us. We all have to go through the stages of embryonic and fetal development, toddlerhood, teenager, young adult, and if we are blessed to be allowed to live long enough, old age. We are not any less a human being at any of those stages.

Even if we appear to have no practical use to society, bedridden, or sick, a Jew in Germany, or an infant in the womb, we are no less valuable to humanity as an image bearer of God with the ability to be light and salt as God redeems us. It is above our pay grade to judge who is worthy to live and who is deserving to die. Only God can make that call. And we are not him.

For their size and lack of ability to defend themselves, these tiny children may arguably be “the least of these” to whom Jesus refers separates “the sheep from the goats” or more precisely, those who burn in hell and those who spend eternity in the light and love of Christ. Not to say that those who have taken the lives of children cannot be forgiven upon repentance.

But what of those who never repent?

In Jeremiah 2:34-35, God says to His people:

How skillfully you pursue love!

Even the most immoral of women

could learn from your ways.

Moreover, your skirts are stained

with the blood of the innocent poor,

though you did not find them breaking in.

But in spite of all these things

you say, ‘I am innocent.

Surely His anger will turn from me.’

Behold, I will judge you,

because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Scripture says, “even the compassion of the wicked is cruel”. (Proverbs 12:10)

There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

haughty eyes,

a lying tongue,

hands that shed innocent blood,

a heart that devises wicked schemes,

feet that run swiftly to evil,

a false witness who gives false testimony,

and one who stirs up discord among brothers. (Proverbs 6:16-19)

These tiny infants are not blobs of tissue any more than you are. And the kind of mercy we need to show them is to let them live. Let them be the people God is creating them to be. When we painfully extract from them all that they have, even their very lives, we are not being merciful, but cruel. That’s not how we would like to be treated. Nor how God commands us to treat them.

Abortion doesn’t need to be “legal, safe, and rare” as anti-life politicians used to say. Killing children needs to be illegal. It is never alright to kill a portion of the human race because they are too young or small to defend themselves.

To the abortionists out there, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Leave the least of these alone. And let their mothers go free. Close your doors to do something that actually helps humanity, like be a shoe salesman. I’d say help with foster parenting, but I don’t think you should be around children. Show the kind of mercy you'd like to be shown to you.

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