On Women and Babies

I know a lady who's committed to speaking and praying against abortion.  And I've been convicted by her stance.  

You see - she's right.  Abortion happens.  

In my city each Wednesday, medical professionals kill unborn babies and get paid for it, pregnant mothers are lied to and scarred for life, and innocent babies die.  And there's seemingly no end in site.

I recently added to my daily prayers, "Pray for the unborn."  

This week I happened to see a video that portrayed abortion as an attack on women's equality and worth.  The upshot was, "Women are awesome because they can bear new life."  

Growing a baby inside of you and giving birth is an amazing thing!  One minute, you're struggling with the pain.  The next minute, a new human being is alive in this world.

My youngest son and I sometimes argue and jest about who's worked the hardest on a current project.  Eventually I play the mommy card, "Hey, I grew you inside of me for 9 months and then gave birth to you." 

His reply is priceless, "Quit bragging."  

"Quit bragging!"  Ha!  He knows how incredible it is that women have babies.

In today's world, there's confusion about sexual identity, sexual orientation, and the act itself.

Fact is...two women can't create a baby.  Two men can't create a baby.  A trans-woman can't become pregnant.  A trans-man can't impregnate a woman.  

And the sexual act, when between a man and a woman, always has the potential of creating a child.  God created women's bodies to bear and nurture new life.

All our sexual issues and conflicts today are attacks on that life.  



Just go back to Genesis and Adam.

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”  Genesis 2:18

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.       Genesis 2:24

The two becoming one flesh actually happens with the birth of that one flesh, that baby.

And when sin entered the picture, it entered as a conflict and attack on life.  God told Satan:

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15

That's the first gospel, the first promise of a Messiah, the One Who is to come.  It's the promise of Jesus.  

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law.  Galatians 4:4

That Son, Jesus, the Life that saves and gives life to all, was promised to us as being born of a woman.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  John 1:4

May our society wake up and see all new life as God's work and His gift.