Thoughts on Abortion

Abortion is a denial of the gift of life. It isn't a just denial of life to a person. It is the denial that all life is a gift from God. God has created all life and gives it freely. It is a gift because it comes from God, and it is the greatest gift of all. When life is going well or when it is going bad, life is still life. Gift is still gift. When people press for abortion because the child will have health issues they are robbing the closest neighbour they have of the only gift they have. And yet such persons will interfere with it because it doesn't meet their own personal standards and presuppositions (which deny that life is a gift). I would even go so far to say that if someone were raped the child would still be worthy of life... even if it were the result of inbreeding. The child is not at fault for rape, it is innocent. The child was conceived in sin and reflects it? Aren't we all conceived in sin, and reflect our sinful parents? Didn't Jesus come in the likeness of fallen and sinful flesh and suffer in this life for us all? And yet it is in his death that we are redeemed. Abortion is an attempt to redeem the life of a child and our own life apart from the one who died and rose again, who redeems us in his own death, and gives us the gift of life and salvation.