Recently I wrote an article entitled “The Sanctity of Human Life.” I won’t repeat the Biblical arguments for avoiding abortion here, but two true accounts should give anyone pause who contemplates ending the life of the baby in the womb. We will call the unborn child in this recent story “Michael.” His mother was my wife’s friend. Each day the father would spend some time speaking to the baby in her womb, bending down to her tummy, and calling him by name, saying “Michael, I love you” and “I am looking forward to seeing you soon,” as well as other conversational words of endearment.

When baby Michael was born, the father was right there. Naturally Michael cried when he drew his first breath, but the crying continued. Finally, the father got close and said, “Michael, it’s OK, I am here with you. I love you.” Instantly little Michael’s crying stopped, and he listened! Overjoyed, the mother and father continued to soothe their newborn, who was still listening.

My point for you, if you are thinking about aborting your child, is this: He or she hears you in the womb. Your child, even now, is a living human being – not a tissue mass, and not something to be discarded. God bless you for pausing to hear this true account of young Michael.

Consider a Biblical account of another child in his mother’s womb, the prophet John the Baptizer. In Luke’s gospel, after the angel Gabriel announced that Mary would conceive the Christ Child by the Holy Spirit, she visited her relative, Elizabeth, who was in her sixth month of pregnancy with baby John. Filled with the Holy Spirit, Elizabeth said to Mary,

“As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.”

-Luke 1:44

The child in the womb is not some blob and not some “choice.” The child is a person, even in the womb. Let us praise God the Creator for the wonders of His creation.