This narrow way

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June of last year, the mask came off the so-called pro-choice crowd. The facade of safe, legal, and rare abortion that was their calling card since the days of the Clinton Administration suddenly became abortion at any point in the pregnancy, up to and including the moment of birth, for any reason or for no reason at all. The House and Senate wasted no time in drafting legislation saying as much. In short, they revealed what they really had been about all along. They can’t cloak their language in benign sounding terms like reproductive health services and a woman’s right to choose any longer. Now all the pro-death, pro-infanticide cards are on the table.

My aim since I decided to start this blog and comment on the issues facing Christians today has been to ask one question and one question only. What does God, through His Holy Scriptures, have to say about it? So, let’s begin to answer that question,

First, children are a blessing and a reward from God.

Behold, children are a gift of the Lord,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.
 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.
 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. Psalm127:3-5

Grandchildren, too.

“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”  Proverbs 17:6.

God knew us before we were born.

For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:13-16

Knit and woven together. This is exactly what happens when DNA strands come together to form chromosomes to create a unique human being unlike any other. We’ve only discovered that process recently. God knew about it all along. Almost like he created the process or something.

No exception for children with what the pro-death crowd might call birth defects or disabilities either. These special children are created by God too.

The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Exodus 4:11

We are made in the image of God.  

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness. Genesis 1:26

Jesus had a special affection for children.

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? He called a little child to him and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:2-4

“Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.  Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”  And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them.” Mark 10:14-16.

And to those who would harm children:

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better off for him to have a heavy millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Matthew 18:6

That seems fairly straightforward to me.

The abomination of infanticide is nothing new. Pagans in ancient Rome threw unwanted children into the river or on the garbage heap and left them to die. The only difference today is that American pagans have moved the garbage heap indoors and renamed it Planned Parenthood.