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|                    B I B L E   B U L L E T I N         Number 12 |
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|                        Is Abortion Murder?                       |
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|  The caption on a poster of a month old baby girl read, "If you  |    
|  killed me today it would be murder, but if you killed me two    |    
|  months ago it would be called abortion!"  Are the 4,200         |    
|  abortions we Americans perform each day premeditated murders?   |    
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|  In Exodus 21:22-25 God declares that if men are fighting and    |    
|  hit a pregnant woman and the baby within her is killed, the men |    
|  are to be put to death for murder.  God views an unborn baby a  |    
|  person whose murder requires the death penalty.                 |    
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|  In Psalm 139:13 we find God directly creating in the womb of a  |    
|  woman,  "You created my inmost being; you knit me together in   |    
|  my mother's womb." The child is a human from conception,        |    
|  "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." (Jeremiah 1:5). |    
|  In Luke 1:44 evidence that the unborn child is a being capable  |    
|  of thoughts and feelings is given when Elizabeth, who was       |    
|  pregnant with John the Baptist, spoke to Mary, pregnant with    |    
|  Jesus, saying "As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my |    
|  ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy."                      |    
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|  God intended a woman's womb to be the place where a new life    |    
|  would be initiated and formed.  We have often made it the scene |    
|  of brutal slayings of helpless little humans.  We need to judge |    
|  ourselves before God requires settlement for this bloodshed.    |    
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