There are many reasons why the founding fathers of our nation put the phrase "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in our Declaration of Independence.
These men knew and understood that the God of all life cared deeply about all human life in all stages of development. All human beings are constantly working through every level of development throughout the life cyle of human beings.
In fact, 34% of the time that our founders quoted anything, it was the Bible.
Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."
Proverbs 6:16-17, "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Deuteronomy 24:16, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin."
In Jeremiah 1:5, we see the God of the Bible, Jesus Christ who created all life tells us that he's always known us and so no matter how small we might be early on in our development; we always matter. Sanctity of Life is huge in God's eyes.
In Proverbs 6:16-17, we see that God doesn't mince words when telling us how he feels about "hands that shed innocent blood". We know from what God says in Romans chapter 3 in verse 10, "...There is none righteous, no, not one:" and in verse 23, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" who God is talking about in Proverbs 6:17. He has told us how any human being, besides God in the flesh; is NOT innocent. Therefore the innocent human beings he speaks of can only be unborn humans.
And he very specifically, hates the hands that shed "innocent blood". Those are the hands of abortionists. There isn't anything that happens that God doesn't know about.
In Deuteronomy 24:16 and in Ezekiel 18:20, God tells us to not punish the father for the sins of the son and not punish the son for the sins of the father. This would include killing.
As bad as the situations of rape and incest are (I wouldn't wish these on my worst enemy), God says he going to take this ugly situation and put something beautiful in it when allowing the victim (the lady) to become pregnant.
Rape and incest are both situations where the father is the evil wicked perpetrator and we can clearly see that God says abortion is wrong in this situation.
In addition to this we also have Caesaran (C) section births and something called, fetal surgeries (no not on your feet). C section surgeries were modernized in the 20th Century, but go back to at least the year 1500 A.D.
Fetal surguries occurs when doctor operates on a baby, INSIDE the womb. Yes, mom has to be there as this happens to the body inside her. This includes laser surgeries and defective fetal heart beats, which include balloon valvuloplasty to open narrowed valves and atrial septostomy to improve blood flow. These are just a couple of the types of fetal surgeries being done on the baby in the womb.
As you can see, abortion is never medically necessary and babies have survived outside of the womb as early as 21 weeks and 0 days gestation.
Clearly, if doctors are doing surgeries on babies IN the womb, it's not just "a blob of tissue".
The sanctity of life from conception to natural death is clearly what the founders had in mind.
Life has to come before liberty and then liberty before the pursuit of happiness. It has to be in that order or it would become the logic of liberals.
DECLARATION OF EQUAL RIGHTS
FOR THE UNBORN
Declaration
We, the undersigned, believe that the God of the Holy Bible created the earth and all that is, in 7 days. (Genesis 2:2)
We believe that God made us “in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Genesis 1:27), and we are therefore his image bearers in creation.
We believe in life in all cases and want to make it known that we acknowledge the sanctity of innocent human life, which should be protected from the beginning of biological development to natural death. (Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18:20)
We believe we are to “owe no man any thing, but to love one another”. (Romans 13:8)
We believe in loving “thy neighbour as thyself”. (Lev. 19:18; Matthew 5:43; 19:19; 22:39; Mark 12:31; and Romans 13:9)
We believe the Holy Bible tells us that your neighbour is every human being alive. (Luke 10:29-37)
It’s hard to do that if you are killing your neighbor when they're still in the womb.
We do not believe abortion is of God. (Proverbs 6:17)
We believe God when he says it is an abomination and he hates, “hands that shed innocent blood” in Proverbs 6:17.
We believe that God tells us that anyone who has been born from a woman (outside of God himself), cannot be innocent as he tells us in Romans 3:23, that “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”.
Therefore, we believe that only unborn human beings are truly, “innocent”. (Romans 3:10)
We believe that unborn human beings, while they are still in momma’s womb are entitled to the same rights bestowed to us by nature's law and nature’s God. (Jeremiah 1:5, Psalm 139:13-16)
We believe this is distilled by the Declaration of Independence when it states, “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
We believe God hates partiality when he says, “Thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.” (I Timothy 5:21)
Therefore, we believe that all human beings, both the born and unborn; deserve equal rights codified in the law.
We believe God when he says, “All souls are mine”. (Ezekiel 18:4)
We further believe that “man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7), and that as David said, “I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.” (I Samuel 12:23).
King David was talking about how he would again see the child who had died, the one he first had with Bathsheba, in heaven.
Therefore, we believe that the soul of every aborted child is in heaven.
Drafted March 17, 2025, by Philip J. Sherman of MrUnborn.Life
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