If you walk through an art museum, you’ll hear countless opinions on what people consider beautiful. A painting that one person believes is hideous may be considered another person’s masterpiece.
I’ve witnessed something similar as I’ve fought to end abortion. Many Americans look at a preborn baby as they do an inanimate piece of art. They falsely believe the baby’s beauty is a mere matter of opinion, with babies being considered “disposable” based on the parents’ whims and desires, and wrong information.
If a baby’s parents choose to give their child LIFE, then we celebrate their baby, recognizing the miracle and the worth of the human being grown inside the womb.
However, if a baby’s parents don’t want the child, or if the baby has physical challenges, then our culture does not believe that child is valuable, and it’s considered acceptable to take his or her life. The fact that the baby is a real live person is often lost in translation, as people prefer to use the terms tissue or clump of cells to describe this unique human life.
The problem with this perspective is that a human’s worth is not a subjective determination to be made by the parents or the culture. Rather, all human beings have an objective and inherent value determined by an all-powerful God. And that value is expressed in our nation’s founding documents—most notably, the Declaration of Independence, which declares that all people have certain unalienable rights, starting with the right to life.
Every single human being is beautiful and important. God made us that way and sees us as such at every step of our lives—from our conception to our gray hair and walking canes.
No one on earth has ever been you—or will ever be you. Imagine that. There are some 7 billion people on the planet today, and not one of them is just like you. From the beginning of mankind until the end of our existence, there will never be another you.
Every one of us is created in God’s image. He is the Master Artist who intricately knit us together in our mothers’ wombs. He knew our names before we ever existed, and He made specific plans for each of us long ago.
He put such loving care into our creation that He made our physical bodies and the Earth to be perfectly compatible. In his book Miracles, my friend Eric Metaxas describes the way countless variables are in place on Earth, which, when perfectly combined, miraculously allow for life to exist. For example, if water had a different density or temperature, or if the size of the Earth were bigger or smaller, then we wouldn’t be able to survive.
God allowed us to live—and thrive—and have dominion over the entire world. This immense love and privilege is unique only to humans. No animals, plants, rocks, or things have this kind of power.
However, along with these rights comes a responsibility to care for the world and the people who live in it.
We shouldn’t drive 150 miles per hour in a school zone. We shouldn’t steal from or murder our neighbor. And we shouldn’t presume to devalue the lives of an entire people group—especially to the point where we have their blood on our hands. When we do so, we raise ourselves up to a dangerous position as we try to think and act above our Creator and His right ways.
With abortion, many people arrogantly believe the mother’s life and choices are more important than her child’s basic right to live, exalting her life as we grossly undermine the baby’s and ultimately approve of his or her death.
But why is that?
When there are two humans involved who are both made, known, and loved by God, how can we determine that the mother is more important than the baby? How are they not equal in the sight of God?
Just because we can’t yet see the baby with the naked eye—just because the baby is not fully developed yet—that doesn’t negate or degrade the complete humanness, specialness, and the unalienable rights of this child.
As I wrote last week, a baby is the same person both inside and outside the womb. A baby has the same DNA, the same hands, the same feet, the same heart, the same mouth, and the same eyes as before he or she was born—just like you and I are the same people today with the same physical body and genetic makeup that we had inside the womb.
Human Coalition recognizes the beauty, unique identity, rights, and value of every preborn baby. As we look at the fuzzy image on the screen during an ultrasound, we see a human being…a person who in less than a year’s time will be smiling and playing with toys.
We work night and day to help rescue these babies from the horror of abortion.
Join us by praying in real time for abortion-determined parents to choose LIFE for their babies, by using our Human Coalition Prayer App.
Join us by visiting our HC Resource Center, gaining knowledge, and learning to speak out on the pro-life position with confidence, compassion, and correct information.
Together, we can make abortion unthinkable and unavailable in our lifetime, turning the tide from death to LIFE for these precious babies.
Please join us.
Thanks to a Catholic Hospital I was able to adopt a precious girl on her first day of life! She is now a beautiful young woman teaching children in Nevada. I am still friends with her birthmother.
……… Some day someone needs to find the courage to call legalized abortion what it is… It is a Satanic sacrifice to false demonic gods … Sacrificing living babies to false gods has been going on sense earliest historical records of pagan societies … We cannot find a way to… Read more »
Over the years my view(s) on abortion have evolved quite drastically. I have to say that’s because my Christian walk has also. As I have grown in Christ allowing Him deeper and deeper in my heart, I have come to realize that ALL lives are gifts, miracles from God. Regardless… Read more »
Great testimony, Kurt. Thanks for sharing this!
By the way, I wouldn’t mind doing the translations for you for free…
Hi, Brian! I’m writing from Spain. As you may have heard, spanish is the second language most spoken over the world (and in the United States…). I would appreciate if you could translate your beautiful message and publish it also in spanish. Thank you very much!
Hello Juan – we have published one of our books in Spanish but not the rest of our content. Great suggestion and we’ll see what we can do. Thanks for staying with us all the way across the Atlantic! We’ll post back here if we can find a way to… Read more »
Brian: (I’m replying here because the other thread had no Reply) That’s my point. It doesn’t sound like we’re on the same page. We are human from conception. That is biological fact. Call the zygote whatever you want, but I’m focused on the differences between the zygote and the newborn.… Read more »
Life is so precious, how can anyone choose executing their child? Abortion is nothing less than murder! It is a tool that is also used by racists, bigots, hate mongers, So you want me to have zero say in whether or not you have the child? But, you want my… Read more »
My thoughts exactly; I can’t stop or even persuade a woman to forgo this inhuman (and inhumane) procedure if she is determined to do it, but I resent the idea of having to pay “blood money” for her barbarity.
You’re bringing taxes into the conversation? Where your taxes will be used is housing the unwanted people who become criminals.
The underlying premise of your argument is that it is better for our tax dollars to kill people than to provide for them. You also assume you know how each and every born person is going to end up. If you approve of aborted pre-born humans who might someday grow… Read more »
I’m not advocating killing people. We’re talking fetuses, remember? I’m simply saying that if dollars and sense are the topic (Drood brought it up, not me), then let’s go there. Don’t whine about tax money going to fund abortions when tax money will also be going to fund incarceration of… Read more »
That’s my point. We are human from conception. That is biological fact. The use of the term “person” to somehow assign value to various stages of development is subjective at best. A fetus is, by definition, human. So if you are an advocate for abortion, you are in favor of… Read more »
I’d love to be able to pin the “Every Life is Beautiful” and “Value isn’t determined by size” graphics to my Pinterest board. Thanks for this website!
You say that value is not determined by size, and you have a photo gallery of people big and small. As far as that goes, I’m on board. But you want to extend that thinking to the single cell at the beginning of the gestation process. An adult might have… Read more »
Adding a single cell photo to the gallery would be awesome! Nice idea.
That single cell was and is our beginning. How can supposedly intelligent people argue against this? I’m appalled.
Yes, we began as a single cell. No, a single cell isn’t a person.
Bob – what is your definition of a person and how does that definition related to a human’s value?
The definitions that come to mind are just redefinitions–a person is a human being, say. That doesn’t address your question.
For this conversation, personhood is a spectrum. A newborn is a person, the single cell on the other end of the spectrum is not, and it’s a spectrum in between.