Newt Gingrich said that “human life does not begin at conception but at "implantation and successful implantation" because if you say life begins at conception "you're going to open up an extraordinary range of very difficult questions." He also said that his "friends" who take "ideological positions" that human life does begin at conception "don't then follow through on the logic of" that postion[sic]. But are the questions which Gingrich believes exists that difficult to understand? For those who worship abortion it would pose severe problems.

Not unlike Gingrich in one respect is Kathleen Turner, an actress and chairwoman of Planned Parenthood’s Board of Advocates who makes fun of the personhood bills that are considered by various state legislatures. Her view follows “And then we have the so-called ‘personhood’ bills,” she said. “Now these would give full legal rights to a zygote, at the moment sperm meets egg. Frankly, I have always wondered, ‘How do they know?’” A given zygote does not know its existence any more than Turner knew when she was conceived. Gingrich does not know what life means in reference to conception and he and Turner, like so many, do not see the truth about life or understand the nature of life, so let’s expand the thinking on the matter.

When God breathed life into the nostrils of Adam, man was made alive. Genesis 2:7 then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. (NRSV-KJV has soul instead of being. Being is the correct rendering of the Hebrew word  nephesh.) The emphasis of Genesis is on God giving life to all of creation, but he breathed life into man to make him in his (God) image, Genesis 1:26-27. We can conclude that humans are the special creation of God and everything else that God did was for the benefit of mankind.

Life began with God and then God’s instruction to Adam and Eve And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:28 KJV) One of the roles of the man and woman, a husband and his wife, is to reproduce more humans. When pro-creation at conception  takes place does life begin? Now think carefully due to what follows. No, life does not begin at conception; life already exists in the sperm and the egg and their union creates a new separate life which is neither the man nor the woman, but has the genetic and DNA information relative to  both the male and the female. When God breathed life into Adam and then created Eve, he didn’t create life again as with Adam, he created  a new life called woman.

Gingrich says that to say life begins at conception opens up very difficult questions. What are the difficult questions except the faulty thinking humans. If for some reason the united sperm and egg fail to implant in the uterine wall, death of both occur, and that is a normal physical event. A miscarriage is a normal event and is part of God’s physical design for humans and the lower life forms of his creation. Abortion cannot be justified by saying that miscarriages occur. Miscarriages are part of normal life while abortion is man produced and wrong.

Kathleen Turner misses the point entirely. The role of the woman is to protect the new life that has begun within her body. Those like Turner who support killing the unborn need to stop their “oh so lofty thinking” and consider that they are in this world because their mothers chose to give birth to them. Those who have the gift of life make the issue difficult to understand or question if the zygote knows that it exists. It does not, but that does not justify killing the new life. To kill a new human life is murder no matter the excuses offered for doing so by Kathleen Turner and the others who support killing the unborn.

New life is what replenishes the earth whether it is humans or the lower parts of the creation. Life keeps society viable and dynamic and without life, the civilization will die. God gave man all that is needed to keep society stable and the Declaration of Independence declares that as well. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The founding of he republic states the biblical truth that God created man; that man has God given rights beginning with life; has liberty and the right to pursue God given happiness. Abortion deprives the new life the right to life, human liberty and the right to pursue happiness. Those who support abortion have life, liberty and possibly happiness so what is the reason they wish to deprive the unborn that which they possess? Could selfishness, inconvenience and the unwillingness to cope with difficulties be the reasons among several others?

But do they have liberty and happiness? When abortion supporters are so busy defending the indefensible do they have liberty? And in the same vein, are they truly happy? They will have both if they will accept that God created life and that the zygote is the beginning of a new human life.

© 09-07-2012 DEC

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