Abortion

I am looking at the painting on my wall called Road to Bethlehem by Joseph Brickey.  It depicts Joseph leading the donkey on which is riding his very pregnant wife, Mary.  They are passing a small flock of goats being tended by a young boy.

The expressions on the faces of the three people are perfect.  Each is absorbed in his or her private thoughts.  Not one of them is fully aware of what is happening.  They are trying to puzzle it out.

There is Mary.  She has been chosen to be the mother of the Savior.

There is Joseph.  He has been chosen to be the guardian of the baby and its mother.

Also present, though unseen, is the unborn baby.  I ask myself, “Is Jesus' spirit already in that unborn body?”

In answer to that question 3 Nephi 1:13 comes to mind:  “Lift up your head and be of good cheer; for behold, the time is at hand, and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world ...”

Those words indicate that Jesus' spirit had not yet entered the baby's body.  At that point He was not yet a helpless, non-functioning infant, but the in-control ruler of the universe.

Which brings up these questions:

At what point does the spirit enter the body?

What is the condition of an aborted baby?

Why do we not seal stillborn babies to their parents?

We really don't know the answers to these questions; but I suspect that since Jesus was talking to Nephi and revealing things to him on the very day before He was born, His birth should be typical for all births.  In this case the spirit apparently entered the body at the time of birth.  And yet, an unborn fetus moves in the womb, and is very much alive, so it is difficult to say when a baby actually becomes a living soul.

Currently there is a huge outcry throughout the country over the question of abortion.  In June 2022 the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade.  Roe vs. Wade has been the law of the land for half a century, and granted women the right to have abortions.  The recent Supreme Court decision took the federal government out of the picture, and gave to the individual states the ultimate decision of whether or not abortion should be legal.

Numerous state legislatures immediately made abortions illegal in their states.  These were states dominated by the Republican party.  Other states loudly proclaimed their progressivism, and invited women to come there to have their abortions.  These were states dominated by the Democratic party.

For my part I shake my head in disbelief that modern people should be following the same practices that the worshipers of Molech did anciently.  Those degenerate people sacrificed their babies to that false god by burning them in fire.  The adversary was surely pleased.  The Lord was not.  The people were destroyed.

I shake my head in disbelief that my contemporaries are fighting for the right to kill their babies.  I could never, ever vote to give them that right; and yet if they want that right, it's not all bad.

Where the aborted baby is concerned, its situation is good.  If it was a living soul, that spirit returns to the God who gave it, and is saved in a kingdom of glory.  In addition, it has avoided being born into a situation where it would have been unwanted, unloved, untrained, and on a course to be like its parent.

Society comes out ahead, too.  We avoid having to contend with one more delinquent, and one more future Molech worshiper.  The world has one less idol worshiper, one less adulterer, one less murderer, and one less Democrat.