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What would you do?
1. There's a preacher and wife who are very, very, poor.
They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she's pregnant with their fifteenth
child. They're living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the
excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an
abortion?
2. The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB.
They have four children: the first is blind, the second is dead, the third is
deaf, and the fourth has TB. She finds she's pregnant again. Given the extreme
situation, would you consider recommending abortion?
3. A white man raped a 13 year old black girl and she got
pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion?
4. A young woman is pregnant. She's not married. Her
fiancé is not the father of the baby, and he's very upset. Would you consider
recommending abortion?
These four circumstances are very upsetting and unsettling,
at least to some people. What would you recommend in the four circumstances?
Would you recommend abortion, or would you recommend that the child be born?
An even more important question -- would God recommend abortion? God is
the final judge of all our decisions.
If you recommend abortion in the first case, you have just
killed John Wesley, One of the great evangelists in the 19th century.
In the second case, you have killed Beethoven.
In the third case, you have killed Ethel Waters, the great
black gospel singer.
If you recommend abortion in the fourth case, you have just
approved the murder of Jesus Christ.
Adapted from a tract by
Ted Huston
Central Baptist Church
Jefferson City, MO |