Those Who Are Promoting Abortion
Are Breaking All Of The Commandments

Abortion is a sin, first of all, against the Seventh Commandment. Its sin is based in that particular Commandment, "You shall not kill." And from there we have all the different ramifications and implications of the sinful crime reaching into the other nine Commandments.

It is against the first three Commandments strictly reserved for the Lord Himself because the person(s) involved in abortion do not love God, as simple as that. Their "god" is their own selfishness, thus an idol of self and selfishness. Instead of the image and likeness of God, present in the baby being aborted, those involved in that sin, develop in its place the "carved image" forbidden by the Lord. How? Why? Because they chose their crime for the reality of the Image and Likeness of God present, like a sacrament of His Presence among us, in those babies being killed. The "carved image" of the Old Testament is, in my understanding, the false and void and evil decision of killing a real human being fully alive. They worship what they think will be a better quality of life for themselves. Their "carved image" is their crime, their sin, it is themselves filled with selfishness. They worship that evil. See how they defend their "right" to do this so they themselves can have a better worldly quality of life, turned in on themselves, for their own pleasure. They place other gods before them; they take God's Name in vain in that they justify their acts of murder even claiming it is not sinful. They cannot keep any day holy with this state of mind and selfish will.

Abortion is a sin, against the first three Commandments and against the other seven Commandments. They honor not father or mother but desecrate the meaning of parents by killing what should be the fruit of parental love. How do you steal by committing abortion? You steal a human being's right to live. That is stealing in such a serious degree which depth of evil can be fully known to God alone. We were created to live and to live fully, on this earth, naturally and supernaturally as well. God wills that we be reborn into Christ's life through the saving waters of Baptism so that we will have eternal life.

We are to grow in our sharing of the life of God [sanctifying grace] thus building up this treasure for greater happiness in heaven and a greater power to glorify God for all eternity. The fullness of the fruit of this supernatural life will take place on the day of Jesus Christ, that is when we will live in the Presence of God seeing Him "face to face." His Most Blessed Mother in heaven, the Mother of Grace, Mother of life, is thus deeply offended as well. Therefore, once that right to life is denied, the person(s) involved steals the very first gift God wanted to share with His children: Life! Human and divine life. The abortionist deprives the child of human life and the grace along with the indelible character of Christ he/she could have received in Baptism.

The Sacramental indelible and eternal character in Jesus Christ in the soul comes only through true Christian Baptism, not through Baptism of Desire, even if that somehow is supplied by members of the Church.

See the two accounts of creation (Gen. 1:26-31; 2:7-15). We are told that God created man in a very special and loving way. Man was not just the result of that supreme "fiat" (let it be) which God spoke for everything that came into being. But for man God spoke in a special way: "Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves." ...Right here we see and contemplate that unique plan of God for His masterpiece, and crowning of His creation, man. The Three Divine Persons are fully acting, participating, communicating in love in the creation of this immortal being, loved in God's mind and from all eternity and meant to live in time and for eternity. Man was actually to be truly a "sacrament of God's Presence." How is this? Man, was created in the Image and Likeness of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Blessed Trinity was to live in him already upon this earth. The Blessed Trinity does for those who are permitted to live, who are baptized and formed in the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ.

Thus, the instant an abortion is decided by a parent or parents, they are stealing something which does not belong to them. The life of an unborn belongs by divine right, to the infant, not to the parents. Only God has the right to end human life on this earth. The soul is to be God's domain, for special indwelling. That soul is created at the moment of conception. The right to life is stolen from that baby, that human person, and all that God intended for its life.

"You shall not give false evidence against your neighbor" (Ex 20:16). Nowadays, science knows that the fetus is even more sensitive than a baby already born. The baby, called a fetus, withdraws, even tries to escape the executioner's hands and instruments--which is impossible for it to do. Those involved in abortion lie to a human being, to the most sensitive and fragile of human beings by killing him/her through abortion while they say it is for something better! If a fetus is more sensitive than a baby already born, if his/her perceptions of the outside world in this are more realistic than ours, how painful must it be for an unborn baby to know that he/she is being aborted, not wanted, not loved, even hated so as to kill him/her. And by the killing of an unborn baby," false evidence is being given against my neighbor." And my "neighbor," for the parent who is guilty, is the aborting parents' son or daughter.

Adultery is committed in abortion for the sacred fidelity to an unborn son/daughter is betrayed by a lustful crime. They also go against the purpose of marriage in their union with each other which is not one of love and generosity, and when God wills, fruitfulness.

"You shall not set your heart on your neighbor's spouse, or servant, man or woman..." The heart of the woman and man involved in abortion is "set" on lust for the "neighbor's body."

States Fr. Fausto Zelaya of the ancient See of Smyrna in Turkey--the Muslim present name is Izmir--"Indeed, I must fully agree regarding abortion as the sin breaking the entire Decalogue. This statement is indeed deep and Scriptural. My conclusion is that serious sin against human life by abortion is indeed a sin against the total Decalogue. The reason is because God is Life. Period."

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