EmilyD wrote:
Do you understand it better when it is not a question?
Okay, since you don't seem to understand the concept as a question, I will put it into non-question format for you:
"With all the contraceptives available in the past 50 years, there still have been 1.5 billion abortions."
Do you understand the concept now?
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The first thing is there should be no unmarried sex. That is the Lord's prescription.
The second thing is there should be no abortions. None!
Thirdly, if you are violating the first prescription, you are assuming the responsibility for the life you breed if it happens. If neither partner can assume this responsibility for the child together, or individually, they will be so judged by God.
God has prescribed that man should not spill his seed on the ground, which implies not into a rubber either. And so, a female that accepts a contraceptive is by analogy throwing her partner's seed on the ground. They will be judged for this.
Thus, to satisfy the lust for sex without first having marriage and by using contraceptives, is to reject the prescriptions of God. Thus, you are acting in a non-Christian religious manner, which is your right of free determination, of course. Comes judgement time, you will face God. Let us hope He is a very understanding and charitable God. We are all sinners, of course, of one or more kinds of sin, and Jesus went to the cross to give us forgiveness for all time. Many believe that is the key to free sex, automatically deducted from the list of your sins. The Bible, however, says go forth and sin no more. Jesus said confess your sins and you will be forgiven. Your choice! All too many choose free sex, atheists and agnostics in the lead, I suppose.
A further note: An embryo and a fetus contain all the information for the creation of a living person, and thus are proto-persons due all that persons are due. So, there are no times at which an abortion is ok, with the one exception of demise or deadly configuration to life of the baby in Situ, or for death of the mother for natural reasons.