Sermon Tone Analysis

*/The Biblical View on Abortion/*

*Part 1 & 2*

*Copyright 1993*

*by*

*John F. MacArthur, Jr.*

*All rights reserved.*

*PART 1*

As we come this morning to the matter of abortion, before I take you into the scriptures and we look more closely at to what the Bible has to say, it is probably fitting for us to get some kind of a grasp on the issue itself.

So, I want to address that, if I may, for a moment.

What I am going to say to you may sound like an article in the newspaper because it is full of statistics and quotes and that kind of thing, but it does set the scene for understanding the issue at hand.

To sum up what we are experiencing with regard to abortion in America, we could simply say, "America, as a nation, is highly committed by law and by practice to a form of mass murder."

And that is really the bottom line.

This nation, which certainly prides itself on its humanitarianism, is in a murderous cycle of violence that makes the Nazi Holocaust look mild by comparison.

Nearly 2,000,000 babies are aborted a year in America.

Every third baby conceived now is being murdered.

Among teenage women there are 736 abortions for every 1,000 births.

Among married women abortions now exceed births!

More babies are killed than are born.

Some would tell us that there is an abortion about every 15 seconds in America.

In some metropolitan hospitals, in the major cities of our nation, abortions far outnumber live births.

Planned Parenthood has gone so far as to say, "This is nothing more than a means of preventing disease; pregnancy being noted as a disease."

If you think that sounds farfetched, I will remind you of a paper by Dr. Willard Kates, from the Planned Parenthood Physicians Association.

The title of the paper is, "Abortion as treatment for unwanted pregnancy: The second sexually transmitted disease."

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Pregnancy then is seen by Planned Parenthood as a sexually transmitted disease that needs to be cured by abortion.

Planned Parenthood has somewhere approaching 1,000 abortion clinics doing somewhere approaching 75,000 murders a year, and are receiving millions of dollars of support from the U. S. Government and the United Way, and other agencies like that.

Our nation, and other nations in the world are frankly wiping out an entire generation of human beings in mass infanticide.

It is estimated that perhaps as many as 75,000,000 babies will be murdered this year around the world—75,000,000!

That's probably conservative.

It's more than all the deaths in all the wars, in all the history of the world.

This kind of murder is shocking and I don't want to be too shocking, but I want to tell you how it is done and I hope that I don't offend anyone.

The processes of abortion are somewhat frightening and bizarre.

During the First Trimester, the methods are Dilation and Suction, called DNS, or Dilation and Curettage, called DNC; basically this means that a vacuum tears the child in pieces and sucks the pieces out through a tube.

Or, a sharp instrument dismembers the Fetus into sections, and then often forceps are used to crush the head and reduce its size.

This, of course, can result in a torn uterus, a perforated uterus, sterility, [and] things like that.

During the Second Trimester the safe comfortable home of the child, known as the Amniotic Sack, is wounded by a needle which withdraws the Amniotic Fluid and replaces it with a heavy saline solution (which basically burns the child alive), and in 24 to 72 hours the body will expel the dead fetus.

During the Third Trimester, a Hysterotomy is used—sometimes "prostaglandin," a drug producing delivery by stimulating the uterus falsely into labor.

These sometimes produce children born alive, who are then left to die or even be killed.

A new way being advocated by the

National Abortion Federation in their recent meetings was advocated at a workshop: puncturing the "soft spot" on the baby's head and then vacuuming out what is in the head.

Another abortionist at that meeting suggested that the length of the baby's foot could be measured and used to determine the price of the abortion.

It almost sounds primitive, certainly not characteristic of a culture as sophisticated as our is.

Even Cesarean Sections are performed as abortions in the Third Trimester.

I remember reading about a case in New York City where twin babies were conceived in the womb.

Both of them had "Down Syndrome" and they were killed by puncturing their hearts directly.

Hundreds of these attempted abortions in the Third Trimester, are born alive and then used in some kind of experimentation.

The IRS, jumping into the fray, as they are always wanting to do in order to rule on how this all affects our taxes, has ruled, in "Revised Rule 73 dash something," "That parents are entitled to a tax exemption, if after an attempted abortion their child lives for any length of time."

Now, you tell me how a child, attempted to be aborted, can be considered a dependent child if it lives, but not a child if it dies.

What kind of dilemma is that?

I suppose it is the same dilemma that the Van Nuys Police had not long ago, when a woman in Van Nuys had a baby in a bathroom—and she killed it with a razor blade.

Had she killed the baby before it was born, she would have had no problems.

But because she killed it with a razor blade after it was born, she is serving an 11 year prison sentence.

This is the stupidity of Humanism.

Fifteen year olds can get abortions without parental knowledge or consent; in fact, generally the law wants to say that parents are the enemy of the freedom of the child; in fact, even the consent of the spouse is unconstitutional.

Dead fetuses are used in an industry of business and experimentation.

The "Journal of Clinical Pathology" indicates that fetal organs have been grafted into mice and rats to see how long they live, and other frightening experiments that I won't even speak about in a public meeting.

Squibb Company is involved in paying tens of thousands of dollars to doctors to experiment with fetuses for use in research on high blood pressure drugs, and this is all coming very rapidly.

I saw something about it the other night on television.

The U.S. Government funded experiments on live aborted babies.

"The New England Journal of Medicine" reports that tissue cultures are obtained by dropping still living babies in the meat grinder after abortions, and they determine something from the culture that is produced in that.

Some are thrown away.

Dr. Jay Domingues (sp.) of New York City wrote, "On any Monday you can see 70 garbage bags with fetal material in them along the sidewalks of abortion clinics in New York City."

Again, the "New England Journal" article by Raymond Duff and Professor A. G. M. Campbell (sp.) of Yale acknowledged that over a 21 year period, 14% of babies who died at Yale Hospital did so through the physician's choice.

So you are dealing with a very, very, widespread problem.

It is now possible to do to a retarded infant what would be impossible to do to a dog or a cat.

In fact, a recent case in California, "Cerlander (sp.) vs. BioScience Labs" makes it possible for children to sue their parents for wrongful life, for letting them live and refusing abortion (this reported in the newsletter, "The American College of Ob-gyn").

In other words, if your parents didn't abort you and you lived, and you've got severe problems [then] you can sue them for letting you live.

Bags of babies are found by trash compactors (as we all know); yet on the other side of this, a wounded American eagle was found recently in Maryland and rushed to emergency treatment.

However, it died and a $5,000 reward was offered for the arrest of whoever injured it.

It is illegal to ship a pregnant lobster: it's a $1,000 fine.

In the State of Massachusetts there is an anti-cruelty law that makes it illegal to award a goldfish as a prize.

Why?

This is what it says, "To protect the tendency to dull humanitarian feelings and to corrupt morals of those who abuse them."

The same people that want to save the goldfish are leading the parade, usually, to kill the babies.

This of course has developed into a multibillion dollar industry, in the terms of business.

Many people make their money on this.

I talked to an abortionist who was attending our church, some years back, and presented to him the gospel.

We had several meetings together and he understood fully the gospel.

I don't know his spiritual condition at this time, but I remember on the days that I talked with him that he told me that he himself alone did $9,000,000 worth of abortions in a year in his own clinic (that's one doctor).

The industry goes beyond just the abortion itself to the products of abortion: the material (the fetus material) which is used for all kinds of things and sold.

It is a massive industry.

This even gets more bizarre and there is no need to get into it.

The whole abortion industry is frightening [and] mind boggling.

How a nation of civilized people (if we are civilized; advanced technologically yes, civilized—no), how we can tolerate this is unthinkable, except for the fallenness and the wretched sinfulness of the human heart.

In other countries in the world people are still reeling from the impact of this.

I will give you one illustration: Japan has been very aggressive in the abortion field for a number of years, and in Japan there is severe trauma on the part of Japanese women because there have been millions and millions of abortions that have occurred there.

Over the last say 40 years, in Japan there has been an excess of 50,000,000 abortions that are known.

The women have been traumatized by these abortions, in terms of their own emotional life, and so the Buddhists have erected temples for the expressed purpose of dealing with the issue of abortion.

These are temples which memorialized what are called "water babies" (this is a term for an aborted child).

A "water baby," those who perish by abortion.

In order to secure peace for their departed souls, these women come to these places.

And they are now aware of the fact in their own conscience (at least they assume this to be true without biblical revelation) that these little aborted "water babies" have a soul, and they have got to do something for the departed soul; so the Buddhists, in their religion, have erected temples where the departed souls of "water babies" can be attended to by penitent mothers.

For somewhere between $340 and $640 a grieving mother can purchase a small stone Buddha.

And somehow purchasing this small stone Buddha not only feeds the business enterprise but relieves some of the anxiety and, apparently, does something for the departed soul of the baby.

In one temple alone, tens of thousands of these have been sold; the grounds have become a commercial attraction where visitors pay to come and take pictures of women who are there agonizing over their departed "water babies."

Priests will offer prayers at that place for "water babies" at $120 per baby and $40 for each additional baby that you have aborted.

That is just one illustration from one country of the trauma that has occurred in the lives of these women.

400% to 800% is the range of statistic figures that regard suicide; somewhere between 400% and 800% of suicide rates increase in women who have had abortions.

Hypochondria, depression, withdrawal, guilt, shame, drugs, alcohol dependency, serious emotional trauma—all of these come from abortions.

Six to seven times more women die each year from legal than illegal abortions.

So the whole thing is a very, very frightening, frightening scenario.