I believe life begins...

         Well I believe that there is potential life anytime an egg is fertilized. But that is not technically life. Still I have heard people say that IVF, in vitro fertilization, wastes life because each unused embryo has unique DNA. I don't think that embryos should be wasted. They all have the potential for life and that is precious and amazing. But they are not life yet. Also fertilized eggs in women do not always lead to a pregnancy. Some pass through the body. Some are unfortunately attached in the Fallopian tubes instead of the uterus. I believe these fertilized eggs were potential life. If my beliefs on life were purely science based, I would be very upset about the loss of these potential lives. However, instead I see them as disappointing and their loss as a shame but not as death or murder. This view is because I have a religious view of life. Although it is not the typical pro-life view that life starts at conception.

          I believe that life actually starts at implantation. You see I believe that God gifts a mother with a child. I believe that he has a divine purpose for everyone that lives. I believe that implantation is how God indicates that this is now life; that he has now bestowed a soul upon the baby growing in your womb. 

          You see embryos with unique DNA, that is something man has managed to figure out a way to engineer. But even after you put embryos in a woman with IVF, only God can cause them to implant and grow. He is still the only giver of life! Those tubal births and passed eggs, those seem like mistakes, and I don't believe God makes mistakes! 

          Some people who I tell my beliefs, ask me how I feel about miscarriages. Are those mistakes? Were they alive? Were they a child sent by God? No child is ever a mistake! Yes they were sent by God! We may not understand why they were only with us for a short time, and only in the womb, but they still were here for a divine purpose. They were still a gift to the mother!

          Thus like all the other pro-life people I believe that abortion is murder. You can't allow even a 6 week abortion. In most cases by the time a woman knows she is pregnant, implantation has already occurred. That pregnancy is no longer just a fertilized egg. It is now a growing baby. In most cases by the time that the woman goes for her first doctor visit the baby has a beating heart. 

           I can't stand to hear ladies say that babies are parasites who feed off of a mother! They argue that their inability to live out of the womb makes them non-living and eligible for termination. The relationship of mother and child is a nurturing one. The mother is supposed to nurture and care for the child. The return of love from the child is evident even while the child is in the womb. Unborn children know their mothers voice and respond to it. It is not like the child is an alien sucking the life force out of the mother! 

          Pro-choice people always give the example of a raped women being forced to carry the child of her attacker. The reason this is so hard for these women is because of a lack of relationship with the Lord. You see God has this amazing way of taking the evil and foul deeds that the devil has committed and turning them into something amazing! That is His grace, His glory. God can take any situation that sin or evil has brought about and turn it into something inspiring! But for Him to do that you have to know Him. You have to let Him work in your life. Children born of rape should not be spit upon! They should be celebrated! People say that because their father was a bad person, and they share the same DNA, that they will also be a bad person. But DNA does not determine the righteousness or sinfulness of a soul. Believing that DNA dictates the type of person that child will become is another instance where we believe in man over God! But if a woman absolutely cannot bring herself to raise that child, there are families all over that are desperate to adopt! If she can't value that life, there are lots of families that would cherish it!

          Pro-choice people are always saying that women should use contraception. They argue that a woman should have the right to choose if she is ready to become a mother. What they forget is that at the point a woman becomes pregnant, she has already made that choice. When you choose to be sexually active you are agreeing to risk getting pregnant. No contraception is fool proof. By being sexually active you  are agreeing to take that risk. Abortion should not be a back up plan B form of contraception. 

          I don't believe that we should teach our youth that you can have sex without consequences. Everything you do in life has consequences! We should be teaching are youth to be responsible, to understand the consequences of their actions, and to value all life!