If Life is Sacred

If life is sacred, save the child

Whose mother cannot pay the price

To bring a doctor’s care.

 

If life is sacred, save the child

Whose mother in a darkened room

Gives birth with none to share.

 

If life is sacred, save the child

Who has no books, no hope, no smiles,

No dreams, no joys to dare.

 

If life is sacred, save the youth—

No place to go, no good to do—

Then save the adult whose despair

Has led to crime and trouble. Care 

For all the wounded warriors who

Need hope, respect, and mercy too.

And save the sick, the unforgiven,

Unemployed, the lost and hidden,

Those on death row waiting—Save

Their lives, or sacredness deny.

 

If life is sacred, why

Are we not saving sacred lives?

 

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/columnists/is-abortion-in-christianity-a-mistranslation-of-bible

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-fetus-in-jewish-law/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2582082/

https://humanjourney.org.uk/articles/exodus-21-and-abortion/

https://thecripplegate.com/a-closer-look-at-exodus-2122-and-the-abortion-debate/

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/abortion-in-jewish-thought/

 

I don’t know what translation is correct, but I do know I cannot impose my interpretation of God’s law on my neighbor in the name of human law. And I know I am called to love my neighbor.