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On 9 September, 2008 the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, Australia will consider a bill to decriminalize abortion in that state. What is being proposed is nothing short of horrific and there are lessons here for Christians and governments in all democratic nations. Under a model recommended by Victorian Law Reform Commission the government is proposing the following: For pregnancies less than 24 weeks, a woman would be allowed to have an abortion done by a medical practitioner for any reason. For pregnancies of more than 24 weeks gestation (in other words, right up until the time of birth) abortion would be lawful if a doctor determined that it was necessary to prevent risk of harm to the woman if the pregnancy continued. As has been shown in other countries the risk or harm may include factors that merely impinge upon a womans social life.
The Australian newspaper reported that: Julian Savulescu, who holds the Uehiro Chair of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, said legislation before the Victorian parliament that would legalise abortion on request before the 24th week of pregnancy was flawed, because it did not give couples enough freedom over the number or the type of children they have .1
Children? Discarded like unwanted toys
He was advocating terminations purely on the basis that the sex of the baby might be unsuitable for the parent(s).
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according to research 18% of all US abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as Born-Again/evangelical. Because church leaders have accepted some of the faulty and sincedisproven ideas to justify abortion, they have not stood against this evil and have now opened a veritable Pandoras Box. As former US President Ronald Reagan once said: The real question today is not when human life begins, but, What is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mothers body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law 3 the same right we have.
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Surely, it can only be because the unborn baby is not regarded as human. And there is no question that this false idea is the fruit of evolutionary ideology.
Unfortunately, at the time of writing, a potential future President of the United States has a different view. Senator Barack Obama agrees with rabid humanistic bioethicists that infanticide should be legal. That is, killing a child even after he/she is born.
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Chamberlain and the Church Unborn babies may be planning their future
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References
1. Baby the wrong gender? Abort it, says expert, The Australian, www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24273462-5006785,00.html, 1 September 2008. Return to text. 2. Abortion Facts, The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html, 1 September 2008. Return to text. 3. The Human Life Review, Ronald Reagan, www.humanlifereview.com/reagan, 1 September 2008. Return to text.
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