The following article by Brother Ray O. Brooks appeared in THE BAPTIST MONITOR (October 2011 Issue). 

RIGHTS VS. FREEDOMS IN HUMAN REPRODUCTION

By Ray O. Brooks

After spending much ink in chastising Govenor Perry and the Texas Legislature, editorial writer John Foster concluded by setting forth this statement.  "A good question for the govenor to answer is whether he believes women have the intelligence to determine their own reproductive rights."

Our Creator God set all the rules for the propagation of the human race.  All reproductive rights are contained within the bounds of marriage between a man and a woman and every conception within these bounds is holy before God and deserving of a live birth, to be loved and nurtured to maturity.  While many claim to have freedom of choice, no woman, no man, no doctor, no government hs the right to determine any other end to any fertilized human egg which is in fact a human being in the embryonic stage.

God created man as an intelligent being with the ability not only to receive instructional information, but also to give serious thought to that which has been received and make reasoned decisions.  Each person has the freedom to make his own decision even when he makes the wrong decision.  To illustrate, I say, "You exercise your freedom to drive past a school bus unloading children and you will soon discover you did not have the right to do this."  Why?  Because there is a law.

Woman, men, doctors, legislators, judges, and lab technicians have the freedom to do as they wish with all the ins and the outs of the human reproductive process, but time will soon reveal they had no right to go against the laws set forth in God's Word.  The law requiring a doctor to perform a sonogram before an abortion is an attempt to prevent the killing of a human being.  God will have the last say, and what He will say to all who have participated in the destruction of human life will not be a pleasant thing to hear.