Guest writer: Andy de Ganahl – pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Burley, Idaho
“God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
– Genesis 1:27
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
– Declaration of Independence
“Is there a condition or situation that would deny the propositions of these two texts? The Word of God claims that all human beings are made in the image of Almighty God. It makes no comment regarding the circumstances of their conception or birth. Our own Declaration of Independence assumes this premise and then extrapolates that because all human beings bear the image of God, all human beings possess certain rights that cannot be taken away. The chief and foremost right that every single human being possesses is the right to life. Idaho House Bill 507 525 seeks to dispossess a particular group of human beings of that fundamental right based only on the circumstances in which they were conceived.”
“Abortion is a sanitized term for infanticide. Rather than seeking to eliminate the practice of infanticide, the bill in question only limits the practice to a particular group of individuals who have no control over the very set of circumstances that would disqualify them of the unalienable right to life. HB507 HB525 denies the Word of God that all mankind bears His image and it denies the very basis upon which this country was founded. HB507 HB525 does not state that apportion is morally wrong; it suggests that in most cases it is undesirable. We disagree with this premise and position. Every human life, regardless of the manner in which it was conceived, reflects the image of our Creator and therefore possesses the same unalienable rights as you and me.”
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