2.02.2007 | "you knit me together in my mother's womb"

The Psalmist knows the source of each and every person: God. From the beginning; before, even, our beginnings in out mothers' wombs. Psalm 139:13-17

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. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

In different terms, what does this mean for those who claim that an abortion is, somehow, a matter of our "choice?" It means that they are denying that God has created us all, in his image, and that that creation was known to God from the very beginning of time.

Or, if they are not denying God's work in our creation, then they are denying God directly, and saying, in effect, "I don't care about God's will; I only care about my choice."

It is a child, not a "choice." And it is God's child first and foremost. As are we all.

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