What’s going on?! I saw these two headlines next to each other today, “Italian Judge Sentences 13 Year Old Girl to Abort Baby”, and “Born At 22 Weeks Tiny Baby Leaves Hospital”.
What two amazingly disparate pictures of life? One demonstrates the incredible value of life, one shows the utter depths of human depravity.
The story of the 13 year old is that she got pregnant by her 15 year old boyfriend(I’ll save comment on this for another blog). She wanted to keep the baby but her parents are in an uproar. They have thrown an unholy fit to the point that they have gone to court. In Italy the parents have the final say over the 13 year old, so the judge is ordering the abortion of this baby.
I know this is not the American justice system, but it is still a system of supposed justice. Our world has sunk so deep that justice is a joke. Justice is to serve and protect the innocent, not order it’s execution. That little baby in that 13 year old girl is not at fault. Why make that baby pay the price for the mistakes of many?! How detestable! What a horrible violation of the sanctity of life!
And then the good news of a 22 week old baby born, and thriving! Born last October at 21 weeks 6 days, Amillia set a record for being born so severely premature.
The abortionist must hate this story! The mother was barely showing and yet this “fetus” was born, and is thriving with an excellent prognosis. The pictures are so amazing, it is not a blob of cells, it is a precious life!
Scripture leaves no room for doubt. We are responsible for protecting and standing up for those who cannot do so for themselves. “Thou shall not murder.” (Exodus 20:13) Murder is the killing of innocent life. What is more innocent that a baby in a womb?! We need to use civility, order, prayer, and the ballot box to stand up for the innocent.
Proverbs 17:15 “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent – the Lord detests them both.”
Jeremiah 22:3 “This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.”
What two amazingly disparate pictures of life? One demonstrates the incredible value of life, one shows the utter depths of human depravity.
The story of the 13 year old is that she got pregnant by her 15 year old boyfriend(I’ll save comment on this for another blog). She wanted to keep the baby but her parents are in an uproar. They have thrown an unholy fit to the point that they have gone to court. In Italy the parents have the final say over the 13 year old, so the judge is ordering the abortion of this baby.
I know this is not the American justice system, but it is still a system of supposed justice. Our world has sunk so deep that justice is a joke. Justice is to serve and protect the innocent, not order it’s execution. That little baby in that 13 year old girl is not at fault. Why make that baby pay the price for the mistakes of many?! How detestable! What a horrible violation of the sanctity of life!
And then the good news of a 22 week old baby born, and thriving! Born last October at 21 weeks 6 days, Amillia set a record for being born so severely premature.
The abortionist must hate this story! The mother was barely showing and yet this “fetus” was born, and is thriving with an excellent prognosis. The pictures are so amazing, it is not a blob of cells, it is a precious life!
Scripture leaves no room for doubt. We are responsible for protecting and standing up for those who cannot do so for themselves. “Thou shall not murder.” (Exodus 20:13) Murder is the killing of innocent life. What is more innocent that a baby in a womb?! We need to use civility, order, prayer, and the ballot box to stand up for the innocent.
Proverbs 17:15 “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent – the Lord detests them both.”
Jeremiah 22:3 “This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.”
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