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10 Facts About Abortion
Aaron Erhardt
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Elizabeth conceived a “son” (Lk.
1:36)
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Child in womb is called “baby” (Lk.
1:41-44)
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To be pregnant is to be “with
child” (Matt. 1:18)
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Unborn child considered a “life”
(Ex. 21:22-25)
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God has special relationship with
unborn (Ps. 139:13-16) (1)
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God hears the cries of innocent
blood (Gen. 4:10) (2)
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God hates hands that shed innocent
blood (Prov. 6:17)
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Hebrew midwives were blessed for
preserving life (Ex. 1:15-21)
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Early church writers strongly
condemned abortion (3)
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Personhood never measured by age or
stage of development (4)
Footnotes:
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Job 10:8-12, Isaiah
49:1, Jeremiah 1:5, and Galatians 1:15 also reveal God’s special
relationship with the unborn.
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Since the Roe v.
Wade decision in 1973, more than 50 million babies have been killed in this
country. God hears the cries of the unborn as they are sacrificed on altars
of convenience.
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The Didache, a
treatise of early church teachings, says, “You shall not murder a child by
abortion” (2:2). The Epistle of Barnabas says, “You shall not murder a child
by abortion” (19:5). Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Jerome, Augustine,
Origen and a host of other writers condemned the practice of abortion.
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Just as it was wrong
to deem an entire group of people to be inferior because of their skin
color, it is equally as wrong to deem an entire group of people to be
inferior because of their age or stage of development.
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