My body, my choice. Those words seem to define what most pro-abortion women think. The trouble with that mantra is that it is not true. When we talk about abortion, we are not discussing the life of the woman, or any abuse to her body. We are talking about the human body that is in the woman’s womb. It is not her body she is choosing to abort, rather its the body of the human baby she does not want.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 warns us, “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” (NIV) Everyone should understand this, certainly every Christian should. We are not our own! Surely the Christian knows that God has given us the Holy Spirit, who is in us! No one has the right to claim “my body, my choice.” This belief in no way honors God.
If we live by the claim, my body, my choice, then why should we be forced to care about our children after they are born? My body, my choice seems to imply we should not be forced to give medical, nutritional, and material needs to those born into our family if by doing so our needs are not met. The truth is, we indeed are required by law to provide for our children. Why should this be any different for the human child in the womb? The woman’s body is not the only body involved.
What gives any woman the “right” to choose to intentionally destroy the human body that is in her womb? Time after time, when someone murders a pregnant woman, and the human baby inside her also dies, the assailant is charged with a double homicide. One for the woman, and one for the human who died in her womb. Why should abortion be considered anything other than murder?
Advances in science over the past few years has belied the claim that the fetus is nothing more than a “clump of cells.” We’ve seen pictures of the human baby as he or she develops in the womb. These pictures don’t show a clump of cells; they show a human being created in the likeness of God. Just as James wrote in James 3, “With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness.” (NIV)
In Jeremiah 1:5 God tells us, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; . . .” (NIV). He forms each human in the womb. He has plans for each person – even from the time before He formed that person in the womb. And they are all created by Him in His likeness. Each person, known by God from before the womb, has been created with a “moral, spiritual, and intellectual nature,” just like God!
This human baby in the womb is not a non-entity, he or she is a person. A person set apart by God for His purpose. For the woman who wishes to abort her baby the phrase, “my body, my choice” conveniently ignores that fact.
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