Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in your mother’s body I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart to serve me. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”
Luke 1:15
"He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.”
Luke 1:41
"When Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. [And she exclaimed], ‘when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy."
Exodus 21:22
“If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide. But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”
What I don’t get about the pro life argument is that many who espouse it seem to think they are dealing with people like themselves.
Many people that go for abortions or should be able to go for them are NOT like you, in any way shape or form. They will bring children into the world, conceived in sin, and born into chaotic, dysfunctional homes, on welfare, with drug or alcohol and violence issues, where the children won’t get Christian morals or values , and won’t see behavior modeled to them that helps them to grow into happy healthy morally virtuous and functioning people. Many grow up in single parent families. So is that part of God’s plan? The ghettos of Chicago and Baltimore Is what you get. Then society has to pick up the tab.
I am Christian, and I can see how preventing abortion in strong predominantly Christian areas where 99% of folks aspire to live in a Christian manner would be the righteous thing to do. But what you espouse is trying to fit that template to the great sinning masses, many of whom will never change and will not raise decent children. Is that what you want, because that is what we are getting.
Having children is a blessing but also a big responsibility. Many fail To live up to the responsibility aspect of it.