Pope Paul VI - Mr. Horner's Trinity Academy of Raleigh Class Pages

Abortion
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (We must
first acknowledge that God is the creator of all life.) Genesis 1: 26: Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our
likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the
air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures
that move along the ground." Gen. 1:27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He
created him; male and female He created them. Gen. 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. 4:1- Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave
birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a
man."
Gen 25:26- "Afterward his brother came out, and his hand took hold of
Esau's heel; so his name was called Jacob. ..." The verb yatza is
generally used to speak of what happens to a baby when a mother is struck,
but is also used of ordinary births.
Exodus 20:13 You shall not murder. Exodus 21:14 "But if a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor to
kill him by treachery, you shall take him from My Exodus 21:22-25 When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, *so that
her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall
surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall
pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life
for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn
for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. *There is debate about what
is meant by the Hebrew here, whether it indicates a miscarriage or a
premature birth. Exodus 23:7 - Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or
the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty. Deut 24:16 Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall
the children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to
death for his own sin. (Even in case of rape, the pre-born should be
protected.) Deut 27:25 Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.
Job 3:3 - 3Let the day perish on which I was to be born, and the night
which said, 'A boy is conceived.' (Job considered himself alive at the
moment of conception.) Job 10:8-12 Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed
me altogether. Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you
return me to the dust? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like
cheese? You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones
and sinews. You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has
preserved my spirit. Job 31:15 Did not He who made me in the womb make him and the same one
fashion us in the womb? (NASB) Psalm 22:9-10 Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made
me trust when upon my mother's breasts. Upon You I was cast from birth; You
have been my God from my mother's womb. Ps. 82:3-4 Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and
destitute. 4 Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the
wicked. Psalms 119:73 (NASB) Your hands made me and fashioned me; give me
understanding, that I may learn Your commandments. Psalm 127:3-5 Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the
womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children
of one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them; They
will not be ashamed When they speak with their enemies in the gate. Ps 139:13-18 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's
womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not
hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the
depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When
as yet there was not one of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to
me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would
outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You. Prov 6:16-17 "These six things the LORD hates, yes, seven are an
abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent
blood" Prov 31:8 Open your mouth for the dumb, For the rights of all the
unfortunate. Ecclesiastes 9:9 "Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of
your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is
your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the
sun." Isaiah 44:2 Thus says the Lord who made you And formed you from the womb Isaiah 44:24 (NASB) Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and the one who
formed you from the womb, "I, the LORD, am the maker of all things,
stretching out the heavens by Myself and spreading out the earth all
alone... Isa. 49:1- "Listen to Me, O islands, And pay attention, you peoples from
afar. The LORD called Me from the womb; From the body of My mother He
named Me" Isa 49:5 "And now the LORD says, who formed me from the womb to be His
servant, to bring Jacob back to Him... Jeremiah 1:4-5 The word of the Lord came to me saying, "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." Amos 1:13 Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of the sons of
Ammon and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they ripped
open the pregnant women of Gilead Malachi 2:15 "But not one has done {so} who has a remnant of the Spirit.
And what did {that} one {do} while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take
heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the
wife of your youth." Matt 18:10 See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say
to you, that their angels in heaven continually behold the face of My
Father who is in heaven. Luke 1:15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink
no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in
his mother's womb. Luke 1:41-44 "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her
womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. And she cried out with
a loud voice and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the
fruit of your womb! "And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my
Lord would come to me? "For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached
my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy." Luke 18:15 And they were bringing even their babies to Him so that He
would touch them,
The same word is used for the child before and after birth in Luke 1:41 and
Luke 18:15 Phil 2:4 Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also
for the interests of others. Galatians 1:15-16 But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's
womb and called me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me
so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately
consult with flesh and blood,
James 3:9-10 9With it [the tongue] we bless our God and Father, and with it
we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Scholars Prior to A.D. 1000
Ambrose of Milan
"The poor expose their children, the rich kill the fruit of their own
bodies in the womb, lest their property be divided up, and they destroy
their own children in the womb with murderous poisons. And before life has
been passed on, it is annihilated." - Ambrose of Milan, Hexaemeron.
5.18.58. Available at: www.religioustolerance.org/abo_hist.htm#second. 32 Aristotle "As to the exposure and rearing of children, let there be a law that no
deformed child shall live, but that on the ground of an excess in the
number of children, if the established customs of the state forbid this
(for in our state population has a limit), no child is to be exposed, but
when couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense
and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases
depends on the question of life and sensation." 350 B.C. Aristotle,
Politics, 7.16 Translated by Benjamin Jowett cited from
www.classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.7.seven As to the exposure and rearing of children, let there be a law that no
deformed child shall live, but that on the ground of an excess in the
number of children, if the established customs of the state forbid this
(for in our state population has a limit), no child is to be exposed, but
when couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense
and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases
depends on the question of life and sensation. Aristotle, Politics, VII.
xvi; cited from classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.7.seven.html
Athenagoras
"How, then, when we do not even look on, lest we should contract guilt and
pollution, can we put people to death? And when we say that those women who
use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder, and will have to give an
account to God s for the abortion, on what principle should we commit
murder? For it does not belong to the same person to regard the very foetus
in the womb as a created being, and therefore an object of God's care, and
when it has passed into life, to kill it; and not to expose an infant,
because those who expose them are chargeable with child-murder, and on the
other hand, when it has been reared to destroy it. But we are in all things
always alike and the same, submitting ourselves to reason, and not ruling
over it." Athenagoras, A Plea for the Christians 35.4
http://www.priestsforlife.org/magisterium/earlychurchfathers/athenagoras.htm
l "What reason would we have to commit murder when we say that women who
induce abortions are murderers, and will have to give account of it to God?
For the same person would not regard the fe