If the Swedish government has its way, it will invite women from other nations to come to Sweden for the open door of abortion.
“Swedish Catholic Bishop Anders Arborelius and head of the Evangelical Church of Philadelphia in Stockholm Sten-Gunnar Hedin have hinted that Christian Democrats, traditionally supported by religious voters, could bear the brunt,” according to The Local.
“‘We are saddened that this proposal is backed by a Christian Democrat Social Affairs Minister, Göran Hägglund. It is incomprehensible that he is supporting this proposal while claiming it was required by the EU, something this country’s leading expert on EU law, Professor Ulf Bernitz, insists is not the case,’ the two wrote in Dagens Nyheter.”
Biblical believers throughout Christendom oppose killing babies in the womb. The Bible clearly states that the unborn child is a human being created by God; therefore, to destroy that fetus is to murder a mortal.
Consequently, those who claim to be part of the Church of Christ, as well as Christians, are hypocrites if they at the same time endorse the killing of the unborn child. They will answer for such hypocrisy now and at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
“The two churches pointed out to the leaders the current low levels of support for the Christian Democrats in opinion polls, with the party hovering around the four percent level needed to be voted into the Riksdag.
“’If the Christian Democrats are thrown out of the Riksdag, it will certainly have consequences for the Alliance.’
“Arborelius and Hedin write that they, along with most Christian leaders in Sweden, ‘could be forced to work actively to reduce the chances of the Alliance being re-elected’ in the upcoming 2010 general election. ‘We call on the government not to force us to do this.'”
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Appendix:
THE BIBLE AND ABORTION
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
It is alarming to realize the indifference of many regarding abortion. But it is not new. A popular news magazine quoted a medical opinion: “Abortion is finding its place as a perfectly acceptable and valid health measure. We no longer consider it a crime.”
There are those who say that every woman has the right to control her own body. That’s true. So, having control over her own body, she should not get pregnant if she doesn’t want to have children. That’s control! When she gets pregnant, she then has lost control over that situation.
But more importantly, only God has final rights to the body of any person. He brought that body back to life and one day he will take that body back from life. Meanwhile, He provides the same sustaining power for the life of the body to continue.
The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a nuisance or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, the destruction of the fetus is the killing of a person. “In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body could be in the process of forming for some time, and then ‘God breathes a soul into it.’ They got it backwards. The life that is present forms matter into a body of its own’ (Joseph Breig, “Life Forms Matter”, The Catholic News, January 24, 1974, p. 8).
“Your hands molded and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk… and bind me together with bone and sinew?
“Before I was born, the LORD called me; from my birth he has remembered my name… and now the LORD says, He who formed me in the womb to be his servant…” (Isaiah 49:1, 5).
“The word of the LORD came to me, saying, Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I sanctified you, I gave you as a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:4-5).
In the following passages we note that personality is attributed to the unborn.
“Because you created my innermost being; you woven me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are marvelous, I know that very well. My frame was not hidden from you that you made it in the secret place. The depths of the earth, your eyes saw my formless body. All the days destined for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139: 13-16).
“Children are an inheritance from the Lord, children are a reward from him” (Psalm 127:3).
Exodus 21:22-25 recounts how Israel was to judge a circumstance related to the death of the unborn:
“If fighting men beat a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there are no serious injuries, the offender should be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there are serious injuries, it will take life for life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”
All of the latter deal with the unintentional damage that happens to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty fall on those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke attributes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby jumped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit… As soon as the voice of your greeting reached my ears, the baby jumped for joy in my womb” (1, 41, 44).
Mere weaving does not jump for joy; only the personality jumps for joy. The Bible considers the fetus to have personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while he was still in his mother’s womb, but more as a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):
“But when it pleased God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles…” (Gal. 1: 15-16).
Since the Bible considers the fetus to be a personality, then to abort the fetus is to murder the personality.
Some verses of Scripture that deal with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God God made man.” Also, read Exodus 23:7: “Have nothing to do with a false accusation, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I do not acquit the guilty.” Notice I Peter 4:15: “If you suffer, do not be like a murderer…”
“For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is essentially a movement that denies rights to a silent segment of humanity and calls for public sanction, support, and subsidy for its own cause” (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLIA AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).