Reblogged:Women's Rights and Abortion

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Source:http://nomgqibelonono.blogspot.co.za/2014/08/womens-rights-and-abortion.html

"So before Agfjdnsjebsknsis jsvskbeknd jbsksneke Birth control there was an actual presentation on Women's Rights and Abortion, here's what I said: 

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. 

Dear sisters:Points to reflect on

Disclaimer:I'm still learning what qualifies one to be God's daughter and to be viewed by him as a woman.I am not where I should be,so this post is about the things God is currently teaching me and I'm slowly implementing these instructions in my life.I thought I should share and revive womanly dignity God's way.


I've always thought of certain housechores as demeaning.Growing up,I only had one goal-a degree,financial stability and nothing else.So,I viewed certain chores as a waste of my time.But none compare to my dislike for cooking.Somehow I associated it with those who were going to get married,which I had decided at a young age,I would not.So,I spent my time cleaning my home,ironing,helping with laundry.

Whenever I came across the chapter on "woman's rights" in Adventist Home I quickly browsed through it because I felt it wasn't meant for me.And I just hated the pressure that came with cooking.Last year December I went to a mission camp for the first time and I was paired with a brother who was a good cook.So,I kinda felt challenged.

Fast forward to 2016 and in March we had a women and men's seminar.I was really challenged.God spoke and told me that regardless of my marital status,I still need to know household duties.Also,being part of our mission group's cooking team just opened my eyes to my need for cooking.I now really see how crucial cooking is to maintain your own well-being and how it ties in with the health message.What's the point of teaching reform in health,when there will be no lessons on healthy cooking?

The world presents a different view of what a lady is.Being a lady is often associated with one who always dresses nicely,has delicate mannerism and often accompanied with a certain academic accomplishments.So,this is what I really aspired for,except for delicate mannerism.But God has taught me that physical labor is crucial and it is part of maintaining good health.Also,I'm learning that we are to be balanced individuals-not only have  well-developed mental faculties while the physical is neglected (and I'm guilty of this!).But I'll soon go back to brisk-walking.

So,below are some of the statements that have really challenged me this morning.I did my devotion on Testimonies for the church,volume 3,chapter 14,under the subheading Physical Labor for Students.I've learnt that physical labor is very pivotal to guard us from falling into sin and it is part of true education.So,there are many things to unlearn with regards to education.

“Young women regard housework as demeaning. And although the physical exercise required to perform household labor, if not too severe, is calculated to promote health, yet they will seek for an education that will fit them to become teachers or clerks, or will learn some trade which will confine them indoors to sedentary employment. The bloom of health fades from their cheeks, and disease fastens upon them, because they are robbed of physical exercise and their habits are perverted generally. All this because it is fashionable! They enjoy delicate life, which is feebleness and decay.”-p.158.

 

“Young ladies frequently give themselves up to study to the neglect of other branches of education even more essential for practical life than the study of books. And after having obtained their education, they are often invalids for life. They neglected their health by remaining too much indoors, deprived of the pure air of heaven and of the God-given sunlight. These young ladies might have come from their schools in health, had they combined with their studies household labor and exercise in the open air.”-p.150

 “Young ladies will read novels, excusing themselves from active labor because they are in delicate health. Their feebleness is the result of their lack of exercising the muscles God has given them. They may think they are too feeble to do housework, but will work at crochet and tatting, and preserve the delicate paleness of their hands and faces, while their care-burdened mothers toil hard to wash and iron their garments. These ladies are not Christians, for they transgress the fifth commandment. They do not honor their parents. But the mother is the one who is most to blame. She has indulged her daughters and excused them from bearing their share of household duties, until work has become distasteful to them, and they love and enjoy delicate idleness. They eat, and sleep, and read novels, and talk of the fashions, while their lives are useless.”-p.151

Parents, inaction is the greatest curse that ever came upon youth. Your daughters should not be allowed to lie in bed late in the morning, sleeping away the precious hours lent them of God to be used for the best purpose and for which they will have to give an account to Him. The mother does her daughters great injury by bearing the burdens that they should share with her for their own present and future good. The course that many parents pursue in allowing their children to be indolent and to gratify their desire for reading romance is unfitting them for real life. Novel and storybook reading are the greatest evils in which youth can indulge. Novel and love-story readers always fail to make good, practical mothers. They are air-castle builders, living in an unreal, an imaginary world. They become sentimental and have sick fancies. Their artificial life spoils them for anything useful. They are dwarfed in intellect, although they may flatter themselves that they are superior in mind and manners. Exercise in household labor is of the greatest advantage to young girls. –p.151,152

“There are very many girls who have married and have families who have but little practical knowledge of the duties devolving upon a wife and mother. They can read, and play upon an instrument of music; but they cannot cook. They cannot make good bread, which is very essential to the health of the family. They cannot cut and make garments, for they never learned how. They considered these things unessential, and in their married life they are as dependent upon someone to do these things for them as are their own little children. It is this inexcusable ignorance in regard to the most needful duties of life which makes very many unhappy families”-p.156

 “But there can be no employment more important than that of housework. To cook well, to present healthful food upon the table in an inviting manner, requires intelligence and experience. The one who prepares the food that is to be placed in our stomachs, to be converted into blood to nourish the system, occupies a most important and elevated position. The position of copyist, dressmaker, or music teacher cannot equal in importance that of the cook.”-p.158

 
"There are many listless, useless girls who consider it unladylike to engage in active labor. But their characters are too transparent to deceive sensible persons in regard to their real worthlessness. They simper and giggle, and are all affectation. They appear as though they could not speak their words fairly and squarely, but torture all they say with lisping and simpering. Are these ladies? They were not born fools, but were educated such. It does not require a frail, helpless, overdressed, simpering thing to make a lady. A sound body is required for a sound intellect. Physical soundness and a practical knowledge of all the necessary household duties will never be hindrances to a well-developed intellect; both are highly important for a lady."-p.152

"Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."-Philippians 1:6