[Darris McNeely] Safe, legal, rare. For many years this has been the mantra of those pro-abortion advocates in the United States of America to a woman's right for an abortion. But is it really safe, legal, and rare?

Well, let's look at what took place this week finally after a number of days of deliberation and the conviction of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor who was running what amounted to nothing more than a charnel house, an abattoir, calling itself an abortion clinic where so many abortions were done through the years and so many deaths of fetuses, even after they were born and laying on the table. He was convicted of three of those, plus the manslaughter of a 41-year-old woman who died after a botched abortion. At least he's been convicted on three murder accounts and now in one manslaughter account. I hope the man spends the rest of his life in jail, and I hope at some point a ray of repentance and remorse will come through in his mind, which will be the first step toward redemption in this gentleman's mind and in his life. But is it safe, legal, and rare?  I don't think it's safe for a child being ripped from the womb of its mother, a life taken and then killed or maybe being actually born and then having its neck, essentially its head decapitated in what is called "a procedure" to end its life as it whimpers on a table.

Is it legal? I don't think so. Not according to God's law. When you look at the Bible definition abortion can be nothing more than murder.

Is it rare? In the 40 years since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the United States more than 55 million have been performed in this country alone. Add up all the casualties of all the modern wars of our time and you don't come up with 55 million deaths. Rare? I don't think so. But this is where we are, and this is what's taking place. And as a result of the attention that's been drawn to this Philadelphia abortion case in recent weeks, I think it has begun to awaken people to the horrors of what has been taking place now all these years under the legal guise of a Supreme Court ruling.

One United States Senator even went so far as to say that life is precious at every stage, and calling for policies to be changed to prevent anything like this from happening again. Yes, indeed, life is precious at every stage. There's no way to get around that. We've been doing a lot of thinking about this because a cover article in the most recent Good News magazine speaks to the purpose of human life, and we have several articles dealing with this subject of abortion.

We've also done a Beyond Today television program on this. And so we are speaking out on this subject and pointing all of us back to the biblical teaching about life and what God tells us and how to address this most horrible of actions and facts of life in our world today.

In thinking about this as I was looking over the notes from this week's news on this situation in Philadelphia, a scripture came to my mind in Matthew 19:6 where Jesus Christ was talking about the sanctity of marriage and how within marriage God joins two people, a man and a woman, together in marriage. And He says, "Then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together let not man separate." This is in Matthew 19:6. "What God has joined together, let not man separate." That's speaking certainly of the marriage union of a man and a woman in a covenant relationship before God in what is a divine relationship.

I got to thinking about this in regard to abortion and this issue and the ripping apart of flesh, a baby from the womb of its mother as it has been attached and growing during that nine month gestation period as a ripping apart of flesh. Life from conception forward is part of a divine act if you will in terms of life being from God and what is taking place as a human life develops in the womb of a mother. For another human to reach into that and interrupt it and rip it apart is the ripping apart of flesh. God has joined that together. That's a divine concept whether it's certainly in marriage as Christ is talking about here or in regard to what we are dealing with in regard to abortion and life and what is so important there. Some of the research that I've been doing on this subject of late I've been surprised, and it has really been pointed up to me how we have been conditioned through all of these years of the debate about pro-abortion, right to life, a woman's right to her own body, and calling a child in the womb of a mother nothing more than a fetus.

One article that I saw actually said that now today people are calling the life of a baby in the womb of its mother nothing more than a parasite. A parasite. That a life, a baby, a little boy or a little girl growing in the womb of its mother is nothing more than a parasite, which in nature is something that sucks life out of another organism. Referring a human life to a parasite - I was appalled by that. I was appalled at that.

That degrades human life whether it's in the womb or any life outside the womb and anyone of any race, of any sex, and of any ethnicity should be appalled that people are using such terminology to refer to life. Anyone can be called a parasite and their life terminated by the will of a powerful majority should that idea ever grow to such horrendous bounds in our world today. No, a baby growing in the womb of its mother is a life. If it's not that, then what is it? Safe, legal, and rare? I don't think so. Here's our slogan: never, never, never.

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