Hello all, this is not my usual Bible study but it falls in the realm of what is Godly and Biblical so please bear with me.
It seems the entire world has lost all common sense. Read this partial report from a Texas trial (My comments are in red):
Dateline: Austin Texas:
The state's highest criminal court has ruled that Texas law allows the death of a fetus to be prosecuted as murder, regardless of the fetus' stage of development.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals also acknowledged that state laws protecting fetuses do not apply to abortions. (What? If a fetus can be murdered how is abortion different? The fetus is still dead. Women’s rights are dealt with later.)
Wednesday's ruling rejected an appeal by Terence Lawrence, who said his due-process rights were violated because he was prosecuted for two murders for the killing of a woman and her 4- to 6-week-old fetus.
The court ruled unanimously that state laws declaring a fetus an individual (Yes, a living individual) with protections do not conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling that protects abortion rights. (It DOES conflict if a person has common sense; according to the Bill of rights EVERY individual is granted the same rights; therefore the ruling that "abortion rights" exists at all was erroneous from the outset).
The Supreme Court has emphasized that states may protect human life not only once the fetus has reached viability but 'from the outset of the pregnancy,"' the court said. (The important words here are “human life”. If this is true then the fetus has a right to life, liberty, civil rights and protection under the law "FROM THE OUTSET OF PREGNANCY", in other words the right to be born and live from the moment of conception) "The Legislature is free to protect the lives of those whom it considers to be human beings." (It has clearly stated that a fetus is an individual life from the outset of pregnancy).
Lawrence was convicted of capital murder and given a life sentence for the 2004 shooting death of his girlfriend, Antwonyia Smith, and the couple's unborn child in Dallas County. Lawrence shot Smith after learning she was pregnant with his child, according to court documents. Perhaps he was trying to abort his child, and abortion is legal (sarcasm intended). Conclusion: If you can murder a fetus separately from it's mother then the fetus is alive and is a separate individual. Since this is true according to the Supreme Court how can abortion be legal? When an individual human being is killed by the decisions and actions of others, whether it is by a bullet or surgeon’s scalpel the individual is nonetheless dead, no longer a living individual and therefore murdered.
There are similar rulings and laws in other states and I believe this is a great first step and now I hope the U. S. Supreme Court takes note and understands the impact of this. If they do the Roe v Wade ruling will be overturned.
Where in the Bill of Rights does it say or even hint that a living individual has the right to control the destiny, life or death of another living individual? The Bill of Rights has no such provision because murder and slavery is illegal. If abortion is a "right" does that mean conjoined twins have the "right" to destroy the other? Let's look at this with common sense. In both cases (abortion an conjoined twins) there is a physical connection but they are also individuals with individual rights. It does not matter if the life is outside of the womb; it is still a life and an individual. To believe you have the right to kill a fetus because it is attached to your body and you believe you have the "right to control your own body" is the same as believing a person has the right to kill a conjoined twin because he or she is attached to your body. Murder is murder no matter what the circumstances of the individual being killed may be.
The question here is NOT if the fetus is a life and an individual because we all know he or she is alive and an individual person, the question we face is: does a woman (and a doctor) have the right to commit murder if the life inside the woman is unwanted, damaged or the result of a crime? Does it matter by what accident, crime or mistake the life occurred? No, because it is still a life with his or her own rights exclusive of the mother. God allowed the life to be conceived and mankind has no right to end that life.
The Bill of Rights establishes that individuals have the right to life liberty and happiness. We cannot exclude those that cannot speak for themselves or else we open the door to exterminate all the "unwanted that have no voice" which is similar to what Hitler attempted to bring about.
The bottom line here is if he or she is a living human being no other individual has the "right" to decide if he or she lives. Yes women (and men) have the right to control their own bodies but NOT the life or death of born or unborn individual human beings because it matters not if the life is inside or outside the womb, it is still an individual life and EVERY individual has the right to protection under the law. Chew on that for a while U.S. Supreme Court!
To those that disagree I say that perhaps over time abortion has begun to weed out human intelligence, love, compassion and common sense.
If you agree with me send this on to your all your friends, elected officials and the U.S. Supreme Court. It is time to stop the massacre.
