The Sin of Abortion and its Anthropological Implications on the Destiny of Humankind
The Sin of Abortion and its Anthropological Implications on the Destiny of Humankind

Summary/Abstract: Our contemporary society tends to be a worldlier rather than a spiritual one and pays less and less respect to the righteous human values that are supported and promoted by the anthropological Word of wisdom given by the Church of Jesus Christ. It promotes an autonomous human being and rejects God from His own creation by placing Him almost completely out of its life. The abortion – the murder of unborn children or termination of pregnancy – is the sin that has spread so much and has become so frequent that it may be called a real massacre of innocent children, a violent attack on the meaning of life. Preventing the birth of a child is a true calendar of death according to which the maternity of the “modern” and “emancipate” woman has turned out into a cynical child murder. People of our times who represent the contemporary lay world without God are totally disordered from a spiritual perspective and therefore cannot understand that, since the very moment of conception, life in the uterus equals to the individual human life, and what we call “fetal existence” is recognized by God as a fully personal life. The newly created human being reflects the “image” of God and it becomes the “sacred reflection” that defines the personal identity of any human being. According to the Word of Church abortion is a first degree murder as the right to live is taken from a human being that is completely innocent. It can be named genocide because by killing a conceived life one also destroys the lives of possible successors and it may as well be called deicide as the child is taken away the right to share the Holy Spirit during the Sacrament of Baptism, and the blood of Jesus Christ is wasted together with the child’s blood, which is the reflection of the Holy Image. We are created by the Almighty because of His conceiving love, and therefore, we have no right to intervene on any conceived human being, no matter its stage of development. Be it just an embryo, it has life, it is alive, and we have no right to refuse the gift God sends us. It carries the divine image and it is called to the eternal life in the name of God. Therefore, the abortion means murder, and it is a sin against God, who is the source of life and entire existence, it is a sin against the human nature and its never-ending destiny, it is a sin against the institution of family and society which are less vigorous because of fewer and fewer newborns. There is the Lord’s Commandment “You shall not kill!” (Exodus 20: 13) and we should blame this modern sin and fight against this “plague” of our contemporary society. We should take urgent measures against the practice of abortion, and even more against its legalization and we should be highly aware that the willing termination of a pregnancy and murder of an unborn child is the sin that destroys the very essence of humankind.

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