Here is the first place essay from the Peoria Area Lutherans For Life Life Essay Contest – Eighth Grade Division. The author, Naomi Niemann, attends Good Shepherd Lutheran School in Pekin, Illinois. Her parents are Rev. Glenn and Laura Niemann. Pastor Niemann is Associate Pastor at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Pekin.
The Truth About Abortion
by Naomi Niemann
Pro-abortion groups argue that at the time of the abortion, the fetus is not yet a human being. Our United States Senate feels differently. In the “Human Life Bill,” which is Senate Bill 158, it says, “Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being – a being that is alive and a member of the human species.” So abortion is therefore murder, because it is the killing of a human being. A pregnant mother who requests an abortion is putting her own wants and comfort over the baby’s life and needs. And besides, who are we to take life away? It is not our decision, but God’s.
The baby in the mother’s womb has done nothing wrong, yet it is murdered. What crime did that unborn child commit? What law did it break? It is simply executed for no apparent reason other than the mother’s selfishness. In this self-centered world, death is winning. Not many people seem to care about how amazing and special that baby’s life really is. Abortion takes away all the inalienable rights of the unborn baby. People should not have all their tax dollars wasted on something they think shouldn’t be happening in the first place! Abortion is murder because the doctor performing the operation is taking that baby’s own unique life away.
As Christians, we need to protect the helpless, as God says in Proverbs 31, verse 8, “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.” The author, supposed to be King Lemuel, certainly knew what he was talking about! All too often, we tend to turn our backs on the obvious mass murder of all aborted babies! Every day, approximately 3,300 innocent new children are victims of this selfish act of cruelty. In the time it took you to read this far, about 2 brand new lives, full of opportunity, have ended. We don’t realize how gigantic this number really is. But how’s this for a thought? In a single month, only about 30 days, nearly 100,600 living, healthy babies are aborted.
One argument that many pro-abortion groups have is that an aborted baby is not yet a human being, but just an embryo or fetus. But when the baby kicks, does the pregnant mother say, “Oh! The lump of cells that isn’t alive is kicking!” or “The fetus is kicking!”? No! She says that the baby kicked. From the moment of conception, the baby is a unique, complex, living, human being. Another argument is abortion in cases of rape. Actually, in all cases of abortion combined, cases like that account for less than 1 percent, and with proper treatment, the pregnancy can be prevented. Abortion can’t bring healing to a woman who was raped. All it really does is make the pain worse. Yet another argument brought up by these groups is that abortion is just a safe, medical procedure, safer than child-birth and a fulltime pregnancy. That’s not true. The number of mentally and physically suffering women is higher because of the huge increase in abortions. It can produce many medical problems, and can advance the chances of that woman getting breast cancer, infection, or even death. The true risks of abortion are hardly ever explained to the teenager or woman thinking about having an abortion. Even if the abortion was safer for the mother, it would still prove fatal for the innocent child.
Abortion is not something to be taken lightly. Sadly, it is already becoming an everyday thing. Most people don’t even realize how many innocent babies are victims of abortion. There are many families who spend months, or even years, on a waiting list to adopt a child, while all the time perfect children, whom they could be the proud parents of, are murdered. Your mother obviously chose life. Why shouldn’t you?
Bibliography:
Holy Bible NIV. 1978; International Bible Society. East Brunswick, NJ.
www.mccl.org
www.naral.org
www.voiceofrevolution.askdrbrown.org