A few days ago, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled according to the state constitution that a fetus is a child. According to the news article, this could mean that in vitro fertilization clinics will have to move out of state to practice their version of medicine. This article is not meant to criticize in vitro fertilization, or the clinics that provided it. However, we should make a very important point as a result of the Supreme Court ruling.
The ruling of the Highest Court in Alabama is completely consistent with morals, ethics, and Scripture. After birth we all go through stages of maturity and growth. Before birth we do the same thing.
The human sperm and egg unite to begin the process of growth. There is no other means by which a fetus is created! It takes a male human and a female human to propagate. When they do so, the result is a first step of God’s plan for additional humans to walk this earth.
If this were not the case, how do we explain the definition of a fetus? It is not just a growth that happens to appear suddenly like a wart inside the woman’s womb. Until most recent years, the liberal movement has tried to redefine what is a human and what is gender. In regard to gender, an individual may mutilate their body and take hormones, but they still have the muscle tone, the DNA, and the chromosomes of their birth gender. Nothing can change that.
If the fetus were a sudden growth that appears inside a woman’s womb, at what point does a transition occur into the development of a human body? That is the point! What we call a fetus is stage one about development. We could use other words like zygote to define the pre-born person and stage I. However, juggling words is simply a carnival act.
Scripturally speaking, we can name at least two incidences of a person in the early stages of human development. God said to Jeremiah in chapter 1 verse five, “before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou came forth out of the womb I sanctified thee… “ When Elisabeth and Mary were talking about their pregnancies, Elisabeth said that the babe (John the Baptist) leaped in her womb for joy.
Thank God for the Supreme Court in Alabama that took the right stand. Thank God that they clarified the issue that a baby is a baby is a baby no matter what stage of development that baby happens to be in.
Christian Writer 