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Knutsford Court Hotel
February 7, 2008
- The Jamaica Association of Evangelicals (JAE) believes very firmly that all life is a gift from God. We affirm our position that the moral issue of Abortion is more than a question of the freedom of a woman to control the reproductive functions of her body.
- We believe that all life is a gift from God, so that neither the life of an unborn child, nor that of the mother may be lightly taken.
- We express our disappointment on the Abortion Bill tabled in parliament recently that continues to ignore the realization that life in the womb starts long before viability (Psalm 139:13-14; Jeremiah 1:5). Abortion-on-demand or for reasons for personal convenience, social adjustments, or economic advantage, are morally wrong. Therefore, the JAE will fight this present abortion bill from Negril Point to Morant Point.
- Both the testimony of the Bible, and the history of evangelical thought, unite to condemn abortion-on-demand.
Principles from the Bible
- By identifying living persons with their fetus (i.e. the unborn child). Psalms 51:5; Psalm 139:13-16; Luke 1:41:44). The unborn child is a human with supreme rights to full personhood.
- By using the Hebrew words for “infant” and “adult,” God identifies the fetus as a “child” in Exodus 21:22; 1 Kings 3:17; Ecclesiastes 11:15. God looks upon the unborn as his children whom he loves - unlike the butchers of the abortion industry, who victimize vulnerable women and look upon these beautiful children as mere “blobs of the tissue” who serve only one purpose - to be killed for a profit.
- The Bible places a strong emphasis upon concepts like: continuity of the race, children being a blessing from God, and, the taking of personal responsibility in sexual affairs. All of this seems contrary to the contemporary “quick-fix” abortion-on-demand sub-culture.
- We find high regard for life among the Jews of the Old Testament and Jesus’ day. Throughout the whole of Jewish literature (such as the Talmud) right up until 500 AD, there is only one record of an abortion being performed and that was in order to save the mother’s life. The Jews of Jesus’ time always understood abortion to be wrong, for example, Josephus, a famous Pharisee historian and thinker of that time, said, “The law forbids women either to cause or to make away with the fetus; a woman convicted of this is regarded as having committed infanticide.”
- In Exodus 21: 22-23 and Job 10:8ff the Bible teaches “the quality of life.”
- In Lev 19:4, Deut 27: 18, Psalm 82:3-4; and Matt 25:40--the Bible teaches special care for the weak, thus protecting the rights of the unborn.
The JAE believes that
All Reality Hinges on Moral Foundations. We believe that moral laws are
as abiding as the physical laws. Just as “it is always wrong to
hate” we believe that abortion on demand is always wrong. It is
wrong in 2008 and will still be wrong in the year 3000.
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