OUR VIEW ON ABORTION

Understanding our view on abortion must be preceded by understanding our view of when human life begins.  Many people, including religious and political leaders as well as pregnancy care centers and abortion providers create their own definitions for life which may or may not be accurate.  Personal or corporate views on life and abortion often advance a particular ideology disregarding truth in favor or promoting a belief or philosophy.  Opinion without understanding facts can cloud life and abortion issues.  Disappointingly in the United States and the world there is much confusion and inconsistency defining the beginning of human life.  

Our view of life is based on both Christian Biblical and Objective Medical truth.  We define the beginning of human life as evidenced in the 66 books of the Bible and we also define the beginning of human life in accordance with medically accurate definitions.  

While the Bible does not describe nor was it intended to define the medical knowledge we have today, the Bible and today’s medical knowledge harmoniously agree that human life begins at the moment of conception.  Conception is the instant the egg and sperm unite.  Human life regardless of age begins at the moment egg and sperm unite combining 23 chromosomes from the male sperm with 23 chromosomes from the female egg totaling 46 chromosomes.  Immediately after the sperm fertilizes the egg, the medical term Zygote is used to describe life at this development stage.  The Zygote may take 3 - 4 days to adhere to the mother's uterine wall for further development and sustenance. Following the Zygote stage, the medical term Embryo is used defining life from conception and implantation in the uterus through the eighth week of development.  Abortion is the term describing the discontinuation of life inside the womb regardless of time that life is in the womb.     

It is our view that a medical or surgical abortion* is an intentional termination of an innocent human life.  It is our view that there is no avoidance of consequences for choosing to safeguard innocent life or terminate innocent life.  The physical, emotional, mental, social, moral, and spiritual consequences for choosing to protect or terminate innocent life are life long and unavoidable.

Our view on abortion is that the consequences of a medical or surgical abortion is death for the innocent life and consequences are life long and hurtful for the living following the abortion choice.  It is our view to protect mother, child, and father from the short term and life long consequences of an abortion choice, consequences that can not be avoided.  

It is our view that life at any stage or age is sacred and to be protected.

* See Client Services section 3