A religious question?….
Today on talk back radio there was discussion between the radio host and a well known local lawyer about a recent case where a pregnant woman was hit by a motor vehicle causing serious injuries to the mother and tragically taking the life of her 8 month child. .
The issue that caught my attention was that the courts, that is our law system, did not recognize the 8 month old infant a human unless it has been born. So certain criminal charges were unable to be laid due to the law not recognizing the baby as a person! The law would need to be changed for an unborn child to be given the right of being considered a person, a living person! The lawyer said it was a ‘religious’ question and not a legal one
Part of the discussion on the topic then naturally moved to the issue of abortion being legal in Australia and thus the “difficulties” that would arise if the laws were to be changed recognizing the unborn child being considered a person. How sad a society we have become and how far we have moved away from the biblical truths about the preciousness of life, especially infant human life!
Sometimes we look at our world and we consider ourselves as a nation, Australia that is, one that is not as bad or barbaric as others. After all we are educated and civilized and certainly not a third world nation! Jesus said in Matthew 7: And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye?
The Apostle Paul was so on target when he said, Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
May we who know Christ as our Lord and Saviour be moved to our knees to pray for our nation and seek God’s face for our nation.
May our prayers move our politicians to change the laws that rob the womb of the life that is made in the image of God and yet not recognized!
For eight months a heart beat and life lived…….the law says it doesn’t matter…it does not count. God help us!
One last point, our whole judicial system of justice, I believe is predicated on ten religious statements, that also happen to be ten statements of law – the Bible calls them the Ten Commandments and the Law of God.