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Source:http://nomgqibelonono.blogspot.co.za/2014/08/womens-rights-and-abortion.html
I'll start at the beginning, Genesis 1:1. “In the beginning God…” fast forward to verse 26, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…” He then commissions man to be fruitful and multiply. In Genesis chapter 2 we see that God for the very first time in all His creation says something is not good. “It is not good for man to be alone…” because how will he be fruitful and multiply right?
So God then brings in this suitable helper who Adam calls Woman, she is created equal to him (taken from his side) she will serve humankind differently but her role is necessary. The scripture then says “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his WIFE, and they become one flesh.” So basically a man should only ever be united to his WIFE, become one flesh with his WIFE – not any Sarah, Jane or Ntombikayise he meets.
I'll fast forward again to the fall. To cut the long story short, Eve is deceived by the serpent which results in the serpent (who is the enemy) and humankind being cursed.
The curse proclaimed against the enemy is this:
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and hers; he will crush your head and you will strike his heel. “
I believe this is where the entire issue starts; there is a war on women. Hell is bent on destroying the woman. We see it time and again in our world history, the rights of women being debated, women oppressed and treated as less than.
The war has intensified in recent years through a direct attack on the offspring of women, the fruit of her womb, through abortion. The enemy, whose head is supposed to be crushed to death by this offspring, wins the fight against the offspring before it even starts. The enemy is working overtime to ensure that his head is not crushed – because should the fight actually take place the most damage he can do is to just bruise the heel. It’s still a good fight for this Offspring if given a chance to live.
Again, just like in the Garden, women have been deceived to think that they can actually decide who lives or dies.
There are two camps that exist in this “abortion debate”:
Pro-life: which essentially says, life has begun let it grow and take its full course. Pretty simple…
Pro-choice: basically says that it’s the woman’s body therefore she has a choice as to whether or not she wants to have an abortion. In other words, will she carry this pregnancy to term?
I want to stay on this pro-choice issue because it’s an important aspect of the woman’s rights. It seems to me that there is a distortion as towhen exactly the “choice” starts and ends.
Ann B Ross says “I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.”
The freedom to choose starts at the very beginning, the woman has the right to choose whether or not she will partake in life forming activities. In other words, is she going to partake in sex, with a man (who must, in the correct order of things, ACTUALLY be her husband!)
Once a woman makes that choice (which she has every right to make) she must realise that there is a high chance of conception – because when a mama egg meets a papa sperm life begins. We as women were created, as suitable helpers to husbands, to host and nurture the life in the womb. We have menstrual cycles to evidence that our bodies are ready to host and carry life. It’s an automated process – which we hardly have any control over.
An example of infringement of the women’s right to choose is the issue with the KZN municipality that is forcing girls to take contraceptive injections in order to avoid pregnancy while they are studying. The right for a woman to choose is being taken away in that situation; they are treating her fertility as some kind of illness that needs to be managed. In the society that we live in, should it not be the girl’s choice as to whether or not she should have sex with a man? This is her first choice right? But it is treated as irrelevant in this matter.
The KZN matter is an actual choice issue; but this is where the pro-choice movement gets it wrong. The woman’s right to choose starts way before the fact and it ends where the choices of another human being start. Once conception has taken place, there is another human being involved whose rights and life should be protected – no matter what. The pro-choice advocates at their very core are actually infringing on another person’s right to LIFE. This person, who is not fully developed yet, cannot speak for themselves, cannot march to defend their right to life.
There is also the rape issue…
What then of a woman who was not given a choice but was horrifically violated and a child was conceived through this act of violence? Yes, that’s a different situation, a different circumstance of conception, but the fact still remains that there is an innocent life that now becomes part of the equation.
I love how Lila Rose of Live Action puts it, she acknowledges that rape is horrific and that the rapist must be held accountable by the law and that the ends of justice must take their course. The victim of rape should be allowed to heal in her community, but abortion does not un-rape a woman. Abortion would simply add more violence to that act of rape, because now innocent blood is shed.
Rebecca Kiessling, who was conceived in rape, asks this question, “Should I have received the death penalty for the crimes of my father?”
Is it fair to you if you receive the punishment, because your father did something wrong in his past?
On that note of fathers, it seems to me that there is an absence of the male in the “choice” that needs to be made. Like Adam seems to have been absent or silent during Eve and the serpent’s exchange, men seem to leave it to the woman to decide whether or not to keep the baby. Like Eve, women are left wide open to deception and children are not protected by their fathers because men don't take their positions and take responsibility for their part in conception.
It all just feels like a vicious cycle that is bent on destroying the family, the family that God commissioned to rule the earth and have dominion over it. Mothers and fathers don't play their roles as intended by God. Children, future world changers, are killed before they can even take their first breath. Fathers are absent. Mothers are either killing their offspring or not actually BEING mothers because they have to balance between being mom and dad as single parents. I’d say the enemy has ensured that those who are in fact made in God’s image and likeness do not rule over this earth and subdue it as we should.
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If you have had an abortion please know that there is forgiveness in Jesus Christ and total redemption of what was lost. Speak to someone about it, go for inner healing because the Lord wants to heal the broken parts of you. He wants you to also forgive yourself and live free of guilt and shame. Your Redeemer lives.
