xodus 20:13 says
Thou shalt not kill.
Abortion is an abomination against the Almighty God. Abortion is called "the culture of death" by our Supreme Pontiff, Pope John Paul II. The Pope teaches we must live the gospel of life. Human life must be absolutely protected and respected from the moment of conception. The inviolable right of every human being must be respected from conception to death. Abortion is a grievous sin, a crime against human life that with formal communication in this act, the Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication.
In America there is a false pluralism regarding issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Sacred Scripture gives a grave warning regarding falsehood. Isaiah 5:20 states
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.
In Matthew 18:7 Jesus exhorts
Woe to those who cause scandals, who through scandals come.
Jude 11 says,
Woe to those who walk in the way of Cain.
Genesis 4:8-10 gives evidence that Cain was a murderer. Abortion is murder in the eyes of God. Let all those involved, and those who support abortion repent of their sins. 1 John 1:9 states
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, forgives us our sins and purifies us from all unrighteousness.
Greater than any sin is the love and mercy of God. John 1:4 states
In Jesus was life, and the life was the light of men.
In John 10:10, Jesus exhorts
I came to give life and give life abundantly.
Although Scripture nowhere mentions the word "abortion", there can be a deducible inferences taken from Biblical Revelation regarding abortion. Tradition and Church Magisterium teaching coincide with the following Biblical texts. Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium absolutely forbids abortion. Look at the following Biblical texts closely,
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you. (Jeremiah 1:5)
Thy hands fashioned and made me; and thou dost turn about and destroy me. Remember that thou made me of clay, and thou will turn me to dust again. Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love. (Job 10:8-12)
For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise thee, for thou are fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well; my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance. (Psalm 139:13-15)
Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you in the womb and will help you. (Isaiah 44:2)
Psalm 22:10-11 and Wisdom 7:1-6 give affirmative Biblical evidence regarding the formation of man by God. Tradition of the Church Fathers absolutely condemns abortion.
The Didache – the writings of the Apostles from about 70 to 80 A.D. – gives absolute affirmative evidence that one must not procure an abortion; also in The Didache there is evidence against child molestation, that one must not seduce boys. The Epistle of Barnabas (75A.D.), Section 19 gives absolute affirmation that one may not slay the child procuring an abortion. Athenagoras, writing in 177 A.D., gives evidence that women who use drugs to bring on an abortion are murderers. Terullian, throughout 197-210 A.D., gives numerous writings that absolutely forbid abortion, especially through surgery. He has written that life begins at conception because the soul is given by God at conception. St. Hippolytus, in 228 A.D. in his Refutation of All Heresies, gives evidence of woman taken drugs to prevent conception. St. Basil the Great, St. Jerome, and St. John Chrysostum all wrote of the evils of abortion.
Tradition condemns and castigates abortion. The teaching of the Church Magisterium must be followed regarding abortion. When we look at the biological process occurring in the conception and gestation of the human body in the female uterus, many have claimed that the blastula is not really a human body, but a mass of undeveloped tissue. Modern medical science has shown the gestation process under a microscope, assigning terms to the primitive stages of development such as zygote, blastula, embryo and fetus. Medical science has proven the Church Magisterium regarding abortion correct.
Sirach 38:1-2 states
Honor the Physician with the honor due him, according to your need of him, for the Lord created him, for healing comes from the Most High.
In Matthew 28:20, John 14:18 and Hebrews 13:5, Jesus gives an affirmative promise,
I will be with you to the consummation of the world. I will not let you desolate or orphans. I will not fail you or forsake you.
John 14:26-John 16:8 gives evidence that the Holy Spirit will always guide the Church in truth. In 1 Timothy 3:15, St. Paul calls the Church
The Pillar and Ground of Truth.
In Luke 10:16 Jesus exhorts
He who listens to you listens to me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me reject him who sent me.
Since the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade regarding the issue of abortion, there are six different positions on abortion in Evangelical Protestantism. Walter Martin, the great Protestant Biblical expert, host of the Bible Answer Man, believed and taught in cases of rape and incest that abortion was permissible. The Church Magisterium absolutely condemns this view and any form of abortion. The truth of Christ comes through the Apostles through the Magisterium. Amen Hallelujah! May God Richly Bless You!
May God Richly Bless You! Amen! Hallelujah!
Charles 'Friar Buck' Hatchko
September 1, 2004
Originally published in
The Trivia Wizard (February 28, 2003).
