VOTE AGAINST THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM AMENDMENT

Do not allow abortion and the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment become part of the Declaration of Rights within the Maryland Constitution. Vote AGAINST THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT in the upcoming November Elections.
Some will say that no one knows when life begins in the womb, as if that somehow justifies the killing of an unborn baby. Our Declaration of Independence, states that we are all endowed by our Creator “…with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is our legal duty to err on the side of caution and assume life begins at conception, thus providing our unborn citizens the full protection of those Rights.
Abortion has had a devastating effect on our country’s financial stability. With over sixty million abortions since 1973, a major work force has been eliminated. These were citizens who would have contributed to our economy and would have helped to provide for the solvency of our Social Security system. The aborted would have been producers and consumers who would have enriched our nation.
Most important of all, abortion is morally wrong. In the Apostle’s Creed, we read that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. Who can deny that Jesus was a living person at that sacred moment of His conception, as He became like one of us?
There are many Biblical passages that provide proof that abortion is wrong in the eyes of God. Below are just some of them:
God knew Esau and Jacob before they were born, and He told their mother, Rebecca, that “Two nations are in your womb: two peoples shall stem from your body. …” Genesis 25:23.
Moses said to his people that the Lord, “…will love and bless and multiply you; He will bless the fruit of your womb…” Deuteronomy 7:13
The mother of Samson was told by an angel of the Lord, “As for the son you will conceive and bear, no razor shall touch his head, for this boy is to be consecrated to God from the womb. …” Judges 13:5
Job said to God, “Your hands have formed me and fashioned me…Oh, remember that You fashioned me from clay!…Did You not pour me out as milk, and thicken me like cheese? With skin and flesh You clothed me, with bones and sinews knit me together.” Job 10:8-11
Referring to justice towards his servants, Job said “Did not He Who made me in the womb make him? Did not the same One fashion us before our birth?” Job 31:15
Job said “though like a father God has reared me from my youth, guiding me even from my mother’s womb?” Job 31:18
“You have been my Guide since I was first formed, my security at my mother’s breast. To You I was committed at birth, from my mother’s womb You are my God.” Psalm 22:10-11
“He Who fashioned the heart of each, He Who knows all their works.” Psalm 33:15
“On You I depend from birth; from my mother’s womb You are my strength…” Psalm 71:6
“Shall He Who shaped the ear not hear? or He Who formed the eye not see?” Psalm 94:9
“Truly You have formed my inmost being; You knit me in my mother’s womb. I give You thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works. My soul also You knew full well; nor was my frame unknown to You when I was made in secret, when I was fashioned in the depths of the earth.” Psalm 139:13-15
“Just as you know not how the breath of life fashions the human frame in the mother’s womb, so you know not the work of God which He is accomplishing in the universe.” Ecclesiastes 11:5
“I too am a mortal man,…and a descendant of the first man formed of earth. And in my mother’s womb I was molded into flesh…” Wisdom 7:1
“He forms men’s tongues and eyes and ears, and imparts to them an understanding heart.” Sirach 17:5
“[E]veryone who is named as Mine, whom I created for My Glory, whom I formed and made.” Isaia 43:7
“[T]he people whom I formed for Myself, that they might announce My praise.” Isaia 43:21
“Thus says the Lord Who made you, your help, Who formed you from the womb…” Isaia 44:2
“Thus says the Lord…Who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord, Who made all things…” Isaia 44:24
“…The Lord called me from birth, from my mother’s womb He gave me my name.” Isaia 49:1
“For now the Lord has spoken Who formed me as His servant from the womb,…” Isaia 49:5
“Shall I bring a mother to the point of birth, and yet not let her child be born? says the Lord; or shall I Who allow her to conceive, yet close her womb? says your God.” Isaia 66:9
“The word of the Lord came to me thus: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you.” Jeremia 1:4-5
In the Second Book of Machabees, we find a mother who witnessed the brutal torture and murder of her seven sons. As she encouraged each to be brave as they faced death rather than offend God, “she said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb, for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the limbs of every one of you. But the Creator of the world, that formed the nativity of man, and that found out the origin of all, He will restore to you again in His mercy both breath and life,…” 2 Machabees 7:22-23
In the Book of Ezechiel, there are passages that reveal that God condemns the sacrificing of children in pagan rituals. These appear in Ezechiel 16:20-21, 16:36, and 23:37-39. Likewise, God must be greatly saddened and angered by late term abortions, partial birth abortions and so-called after birth abortions.
The Bible is so clearly instructive when we open our hearts, minds and souls to God’s sacred words. The good news is that God is willing to forgive all who have made the choice of abortion, as well as those who perform them. What a comfort to know that Our Father is so merciful and forgiving.

Vincent dePaul Gisriel, Jr.
8/5/24