I agree with a woman whose stance is that it is her body, so it is her choice. However, I agree with an unpopular context of what many women are saying. Our bodies...our choices. Our bodies are up to us to steward, but belong to God ultimately.
Yes, God gave us free will. It is best and most helpful to use this free will wisely and safely. He gave us the ability to make decisions for ourselves. He gave us the ability to make choices. In particular, it is very beneficial to make wise choices rooted in love.
• For example, my body belongs to God and I am to be a wise steward over it. I want to please God as his steward.
• I am to use my body to glorify God. Whether it is in how I dress, the activities I partake in, or the activities I refrain from.
• With this body I steward, I should watch how I eat, as well as how I drink so that I can be reasonably healthy.
• With this body, I can safeguard it and not allow men I am not married to, to access it.
• I am the gatekeeper of this body that I steward. This means hands off to all men, except my husband. My body to steward, my choice.
I cannot claim that my body is anybody else's body or that anyone else's body is mine. An unborn baby's body is not my body. If I become pregnant, the baby growing inside my womb is being housed, nurtured, and developed by my body.
Therefore, my body is mine to take care of and the baby's body is mine to take care of, because my body houses another body that belongs to God.
God has formed this precious life within the womb to house, protect and develop it until it is time to give birth. "My body, my choice" is 100% correct, in the context of free will, doing what is right with the stewarding of our bodies.
I have free will to nurture my body or destroy my body. I have no right to destroy anyone else's body that is living inside of me.
• If I have twins, then I'm responsible for the safety of three bodies.
• If I have triplets, I'm responsible for four bodies, including my own.
What an honor a woman has to use the God-given creative powers within her body to develop and bring to fruition a brand new, highly valuable human being!
It is the responsibility of each individual to steward their own body in the best, most healthy ways. It is up to women of God to care for their bodies in a manner that is glorifying to God and protects the precious, innocent unborn.
Helpful Scriptures
"...These six things doeth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood." Babies are precious innocent lives. Proverbs 6:16 -17.
As a daughter of God and a steward of my body, I keep this in mind:
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
"For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 1 Corinthians 6: 19-20
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