A Biblical View of Abortion & Amendment 3
Topic: Abortion
Alliance Defending Freedom regarding Amendment 3.
Alliance Defending Freedom is a conservative Christian legal advocacy group that works to defend Christian religious liberties & who regularly argues cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Amendment 3 seeks to enshrine a right to “reproductive freedom” into Missouri’s constitution but fails to accurately inform voters of the potentially dangerous scope of the term “reproductive freedom.” Amendment 3 defines “reproductive freedom” as “the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care, including but not limited to” abortion and contraception. The intentional use of the phrases “all matters” and “but not limited to” creates ambiguity that could be used by Missouri courts to interpret Amendment 3 to include a “right” to other medical procedures such as sterilization, assisted reproduction surrogacy, removal of healthy reproductive organs, and the provision of cross-sex hormones and other harmful chemicals that alter the normal functioning of the male and female body.”
- They write this on A-3
The Top 8 Missouri Pro-life Laws that would be eliminated:
1. Partial Birth Abortion Ban (RSMO 565.300)
2. 72 Hour Waiting Period (RSMO 188.039)
3. Parental Consent and Notification (RSMO 188.028)
The Alliance Defending Freedom writes this legal opinion:
Under Amendment 3, the “right” to reproductive freedom would be conferred on every “person.” This means that anyone, including a minor (male or female), would have a “right” to abortion, contraception, sterilization, and other procedures including the removal of healthy reproductive organs. Parental involvement in these procedures could be seen as denying, interfering with, delaying or restricting a minor’s constitutional “right” to “reproductive freedom as created by Amendment 3.
4. Abortion Risk Disclosure (RSMO 188.027)
5. Hospital Requirement (RSMO 188.025)
6. Ban on Taxpayer-Funded Abortions (RSMO 188.205)
7. Sonogram Law (RSMO 188.027)
8. Medical Degree Required (RSMO 188.020)
The Alliance Defending Freedom closed its brief on A-3 with:
If the Abortion Amendment is approved, Missouri would join California, New York, and Minnesota as a dangerous, unregulated, and unrestricted “Wild West” for abortions and experimental procedures to the detriment of women, infants, and Missouri taxpayers.
1. What is abortion?
Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy resulting in the death of the baby.
Women who had an abortion had a:
-59 percent increased risk for suicidal thoughts
-61 percent increased risk for mood disorders
-61 percent increased risk for social anxiety disorders
-261 percent increased risk for alcohol abuse
-280 percent increased risk for non-alcohol substance abuse
Dr. Jerome Lejeune, Professor of Fundamental Genetics who is not a Christian writes:
Life has a very long history but each individual has a very neat beginning, the moment of its conception. The material link is the molecular thread of DNA. In each reproductive cell, this ribbon roughly one meter long is cut in two pieces of twenty-three chromosomes. As soon as the twenty-three paternally derived chromosomes are united through fertilization to the twenty-three maternal ones, the full genetic meeting necessary to express all the inborn qualities of the new individual is gathered and personal constitution takes place. At two months of age, the human being is less than one thumb-length from the head to the rump. He would fit at ease in a nutshell, but everything is there, hands, feet, head, organs, brain. In the fourth week, there is consciousness. All are in place. His heart has been beating for a month by the second month. His fingerprints can be detected, his heart is beating 150 to 170 beats a minute. To accept the fact, that after fertilization has taken place, a new human being has come into being, is no longer a matter of taste or opinion.
Dr. Jerome Lejeune, Professor of Fundamental Genetics, University of Descarte, Paris, France
John Piper writes this:
>I took an abortionist out to lunch once, prepared to give him ten reasons why the unborn are human beings. He stopped me, and said, “I know that. We are killing children.” I was stunned. He said, “It’s simply a matter of justice for women. It would be a greater evil to deny women the right of reproductive freedom.”
2. What does the Bible say about abortion?
Genesis 4:1 (MSG)
Adam slept with Eve his wife. She conceived and had Cain. She said, "I've gotten a man, with God's help!"
Genesis 21:1-2a (NLT)
The LORD kept his word and did for Sarah exactly what he had promised. She became pregnant
Genesis 25:21 (NLT)
Isaac pleaded with the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children. The LORD answered Isaac's prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins.
Job 10:8-9, 11 (NLT)
"'You formed me with your hands; you made me.... Remember that you made me from dust — you clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together.
Exodus 4:11 (ESV)
Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Job 33:4 (NLT)
For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Psalm 100:3 (NIV)
Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are His...
Psalm 127:3 (MSG)
Don't you see that children are God's best gift? The fruit of the womb his generous legacy?
Psalm 139:13 (NLT)
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.
Psalm 139:15-16 (NLT)
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 (NLT)
Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother's womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.
Jeremiah 1:5 (NLT)
"I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations."
Luke 1:39-41
A few days later Mary hurried to the hill country of Judea, to the town where Zechariah lived. She entered the house and greeted Elizabeth. At the sound of Mary's greeting, Elizabeth's child leaped within her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
2nd God judges a nation that pollutes their land with murder
Psalm 106:38 (MSG)
They slit the throats of their babies, murdered their infant girls and boys. They offered their babies to Canaan's gods; the blood of their babies stained the land.
Psalm 106:38 (NLT)
they polluted the land with murder.
Numbers 35:33 (MSG)
"Don't pollute the land in which you live. Murder pollutes the land.
3. What should our response be as believers?
Psalm 82:3-4 (MSG)
You're here to defend the defenseless...your job is to stand up for the powerless..."
In my thirty-five years of medicine never once did a case come to my practice where abortion was necessary to save the life of the mother.
"‘Yes to Life! No to Abortion!’ Tens of Thousands March Against Abortion in Spain"
by Heather Clark, christiannews.net. November 23, 2014.
Proverbs 24:11-12 (NLT)
Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to die; save them as they stagger to their death. Don't excuse yourself by saying, "Look, we didn't know." For God understands all hearts, and he sees you. He who guards your soul knows you knew. He will repay all people as their actions deserve.
Proverbs 31:8 (NLT)
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed.
1st Vote “NO” on Amendment 3
2nd We must pray
3rd Consider adoption
4th Support the local Crisis Pregnancy Center
