Body Parts

Planned Parenthood is again  in the news with their practice of selling body parts of aborted babies.  I know that they don't regard or refer to them as such but prefer to label them fetal tissue.  And they don't admit they actually sell them, even though they have been caught on hidden camera arranging to do precisely that.

Despite their denials and their word-crafting, I cannot get past the fact that what winds up in the hands of certain labs for various tests looks an awful lot like arms, legs, hands and feet of tiny infants.  Apart from a legal debate, if you were to come across these parts on the side of the street, you wouldn't just toss the "fetal tissue" into a trash can, you would call 911 to investigate the baby parts you just happened upon.

Something else that I can't get past is the fact that we (human kind) are not the creator of life but rather the procreator.  We go through the act of procreation (sexual intercourse) and God creates the spirit, which makes the flesh more than just pathological  tissue.  Of course, the question is precisely when does that happen.  We can and do debate that fact but until and when we know the mind of God, we can only debate it, not settle it.

So, not knowing just when God transforms the fetal tissue into a developing baby, we would have to take the place of God in making that determination.  Do you see my problem with abortion?  I recognize there can be extreme cases, such as the life of the mother, which is almost never the case due to advances in medical science.  And I recognize that there are cases of rape and incest, although those are a very small minority.  The vast majority of abortions are matters of convenience.  Let's get real and admit that we abort because we want to, with few exceptions.

I said earlier that we cannot know when fetal tissue becomes a living soul as it is God, not man, that creates the spirit.  Unless, of course, we knew the mind of God.  However, I did not say we couldn't know His mind on this subject.  In fact, He has spoken to it: “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" (Jer 1:5).

So, what do you think?  Apart from our desire to dispose of babies which we find to be inconvenient, how would one interpret Jeremiah's revelation from God?  God knew him and appointed him before he exited the birth canal.  There are more passages but one word from God is enough for me.  The fetus that is ripped apart in the womb is the baby that comes out of the womb.

Planned Parenthood is not selling fetal tissue but rather body parts - parts of the baby they first killed in the womb or partially delivered and whose head they crushed outside the womb.  Partial delivery?  Sounds a bit like partial pregnancy, doesn't it.  Regardless of what it is called, it is God, not man, who decides when life begins.  Unless, of course, you can take the place of God.  Jus' Say'n.