This month America Will choose a President and Vice President. Among the many things voters are bombarded by is the propaganda dealing with abortion. One candidate claims to be antiabortion while another declares that he believes abortion to be a woman's right to have control over her own body, etc. This is certainly not being written to help anyone decide for whom to vote. We assume all Christians realize we are not to become involved in such affairs since Paul plainly said the powers that be "are ordained of God." (Romans 13:1) How would one know the choice of God? What if I voted for the wrong man? Is it not a serious mistake to vote for a man God does not want? I would far rather trust in earnest prayer that God smile upon us and grant that we be privileged to live under a government which will allow us to "...lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." (1 Timothy 2:2) The purpose of this little piece is to stand up for the Bible way even in the face of such "great" men who advocate, for the purpose of getting votes, the practice of abortion. No matter who may be for it the Bible still reads as it always has. We wish to notice only one or two reasons why abortions is still wrong, sinful, in 1992. Notice what David said in Psalms 139:13-16: "For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonder-fully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them."

It is amazing that anyone who claims to believe the Bible could ever argue that life begins at birth. David says God possessed his reins. According to Albert Barnes in his Commentary on Psalms this means that God knew David and also knew his desires, affections and passions. God had covered him or put him together, as the original seems to mean, within his mother's womb or body. David declared that his substance, or body, was not hidden from God. This before his birth! Is it reasonable to assert that David was not human or really alive when God knew him? What did God see while David was yet within his mother's body? Only tissue, etc.? It simply is not possible to make the modern theories harmonize with inspired scripture. Then, in Psalms 139:16 he wrote: "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written..." What is the book of which he speaks? Is it possible that the book of life is meant? John spoke of it in Revelation 20:12 and shows that it will be opened at the great Day of Judgment. He says: "...and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." Whatever the book was, it is plain that God recorded David within it before his physical birth. Where does that place the woman who claims it is her body to do with as she pleases? Notice carefully: Apparently, God recorded David within His book before his physical birth. What if his mother had aborted him? She would have killed a baby God has already recorded! What does this mean? This answer is simple. Abortion is murder just as surely as the taking of life after birth is murder. Once conception takes place a new human exists within the mother's body. That human is known to God and recorded by Him in His book. I certainly would not wish to stand before Him in judgment and try to convince Him that what He saw, knew and recorded didn't really exist.-OPA