Children too are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children born in one’s youth.
Blessed are they whose quivers are full. – Psalm 127:3-5
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. – Jeremiah 1:5
On you I depend since birth; from my mother’s womb you are my strenth; my hope in you never wavers. – Psalm 71-6
You shall not kill. – Exodus 20:13
You formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, so wonderfully you made me;
wonderful are your works!
My very self you knew;
my bones were not hidden from you,
When I was being made in secret,
fashioned as in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes foresaw my actions
in your book all are written down;
my days were shaped,
before one came to be. – Psalm 139:13-16
Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you. – Isaiah 49:15
[Scripture Passages from the New American Bible]
Want more?
The Bible’s Teaching Against Abortion, by Fr. Frank Pavone.
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