Jeremiah 1.5.
May as well state my biases up front: I’m prolife.
In the United States we use this term to describe a person who doesn’t approve of aborting a pregnancy. Depending on the person, we either want the practice discouraged, banned outright, made a crime, or even made a capital crime with death penalties all around. Which goes way too far for me, because I’m prolife in the proper sense of the word: I don’t want anybody to die. Not just fetuses.
The real problem with abortion is a society which claims they care about women and motherhood, but they only care about self-supporting women and mothers. When women get pregnant, hadn’t planned on it, and don‘t know how they’re gonna have the time or money to raise a child, society’s response isn’t, “How can I help? Whatever you need, just ask; I’m there.” It’s usually condemnation: “You should’ve expected this.”
No moral support, no financial support, no personal support; God forbid we suggest government support. So the pregnancy is turned into a massive burden… and the easiest way out of the burden appears to be abortion. Social Darwinism turns into actual Darwinism.
You honestly want abortion to be gone, or at least rare? Start supporting women. Start caring for the needy. Love your neighbor. Don’t be one of those hypocrites who only care about fetuses, but not about women struggling to raise kids. Rant over.
So. In conservative
Me, I start to squirm whenever they misquote bible in support of their cause. I’m pretty sure “Thou shalt not kill”
This bit from the first chapter of Jeremiah in particular. For some reason, I hear people quote it in the
Jeremiah 1.5 NIV - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
- before you were born I set you apart;
- I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
“See?” prolifers will point out, “God knew us before we were born.”
Um yes, but y’all need to read that verse again. It says Be
The verse is about foreknowledge, not fetuses. God knew Jeremiah before God created Jeremiah.