The Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb..."
This passage illustrates the separate personalities and destinies of the unborn children in the
womb.
Exodus 21:22-25
If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no
serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court
allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
Numbers 35:22,23 addresses the penalty for accidental (involuntary) manslaughter, and Numbers
35:29 gives the death of a man or woman (a 'person') equal weight in the law. Therefore,
the
inclusion of this verse has to apply to the death of the unborn or prematurely born baby. The
accidental death of an unborn baby and/or its mother was more severely punished than the
accidental death of an adult, indicating the value of the baby as a 'person.'
Job 10:18,19
"Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me. If only I
had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!"
The agonizing Job refers to the time in womb as an integral part of his life. Only a human being
could go from the womb to the grave (tomb or place of burying the dead).
Job 31:15
Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our
mothers?
This passage speaks of God's work in developing the body of the human in the womb with no
differentiation as to the point in time where the unborn baby was not fully human.
Psalm 127:3
Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him.
The King James Version translates the word children as 'fruit of the womb,' while the NIV
shortens the phrase to 'children' or 'infants.' Science defines fruit as a 'seed and the
surrounding envelope' (fleshy substance). While we may not want to eat a tiny apple, we do not
deny it is still immature 'fruit.' The same reasoning should be applied to an immature human in
the womb.
Psalm 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you
because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven
together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for
me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
The process of building a human takes place in the womb (the same meaning as 'depths of the
earth') with a purpose already assigned the unborn child by God. This passage substantiates the
fact that the baby in the womb is an unborn person. There is no explanation of the exact 'week'
of pregnancy at which this status is attained, thus there is no 'safe' period of time to abort an
unborn child.
Isaiah 49:1
...Before I was born the Lord called me...
The conveying of a sacred mission through a 'call' can only be done to a human being with a spirit
(soul).
Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed
you as a prophet to the nations."
The pronoun 'you' signifies humanity of the life in the womb. Just as Isaiah was 'called' in the
womb, Jeremiah as 'set apart' (consecrated or sanctified) for a special mission in life.
Jeremiah 20:17
For he did not kill me in the womb...
Jeremiah refers to himself as an unborn a human being who might have been killed before birth.
Luke 1:39-41
At that time <when the angel announced she was to bear Jesus> Mary got ready and hurried to a
town in the hill country of Judea where she entered Zechariah's home and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled
with the Holy Spirit.
The immediacy of Mary's trip would indicate that she had only been pregnant a very short time.
The presence of Jesus in Mary's womb was recognized by the child John in Elizabeth's womb,
indicating both had a spirit and personality. John is described as the baby (Greek: brephos), the
same term used to describe a baby out of the womb. A mass of inhuman matter could not
generate or initiate a reaction as described in this passage.
In terms of weeks of pregnancy, Elizabeth was in her 6th month (Luke 1:36) and Mary was no more than a week of two (Luke 1:31 reveals that Mary was not yet pregnant, and she went to Elizabeth immediately).
Mark 10:7,8
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will
become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one.
If the joining of a man and woman in a marriage ceremony makes them 'one flesh,' doesn't the
joining of the egg and sperm instantly make the offspring a living human being?
IT IS GENERALLY AGREED THAT TAKING OF AN INNOCENT LIFE IS WRONG, SO
THE ABORTION DEBATE CENTERS ON THE POINT AT WHICH THE LIFE IN THE
MOTHER'S WOMB ACTUALLY BECOMES A 'PERSON.' SCRIPTURE SPEAKS
STRONGLY TO THE FACT THAT LIFE IN THE WOMB IS A PERSON, AND SINCE WE
HAVE NO CONCLUSIVE WAY OF DETERMINING AT WHAT POINT THE FETUS
BECOMES A SCIENTIFICALLY DEFINED 'PERSON,' ALL ABORTION AT ANY STAGE
MUST BE VIEWED AS WRONG. ABORTING AT ANY POINT BEYOND THE UNION OF
THE SPERM AND EGG IS RISKING THE TAKING OF AN INNOCENT HUMAN LIFE.
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