The reason I ask is that humans are composed of a body, a soul, and a spirit.
The body is procreated by sexual act.
The soul is created at the time of birth and imputed to the body.
The human spirit is regenerated at the time of saving faith, and the believer is then given that eternal life.
Murder is the illegitimate act of killing the human, resulting in the separation of the soul/spirit from the body.
In the case of abortion, the physical body is destroyed, making it unable to receive the soul.
While the RCC tends to consider abortion as infanticide or murder of a human, Augustinian theology declares only God creates the soul and places it in the human body. This is generally identified with the moment of birth from the mother when the soul is activated in the baby.
There are some who argue the soul resides in the baby at conception, but that would tend to support a heretical theology that man creates the soul rather than God.
Biologically, the same physical symptoms used to identify life in the body of an adult, is present within the baby by the first trimester.
A safer approach might be to consider the act against a ‘potential human life’ as being criminal.
The arguments allowing abortion in cases of rape, fail to acknowledge life in the baby prior to birth from the mother. Even if not embued with a soul or spirit, the physical baby still has biological human life, though it’s killing is not identical to murder of a mature human adult, it still deprives that person of life and steals their rewards which had been predestined for them by God in eternity past.
Well, you know sadly I believe that the soul is in the baby.
I can’t specify exactly when that occurs, but it is my belief that it’s there form the start.
I do believe abortion is murder, and I believe it is an absolute tragedy.
But it’s the mother’s decision to do that. She is a victim of rape, and that is something that she, very unfortunately, has to weigh.
I sincerely hope that she decides not to abort the baby. You know, if she doesn’t want to raise it, which is perfectly understandable, she can adopt it.
The gravity of this being done to someone is so severe that this is why I would support the death penalty for rapists.
Much as I want the victim to do the right thing, I am not prepared to tell her that she has no choice but to deliver the child.
I just can’t do that.
What would happen if abortion were 100% illegal, there was no access to it under any circumstance whatsoever, and a scum of the earth, low life rapist decides that he is going to continue his genes by raping and impregnating as many women as he can, thus exploiting such a law to his advantage?
I really think that, considering this, the victim must be given the option. We have to let them decide, and do our best to guide them in the right direction.