To refuse what God had given to us is to spurn what He intends to be a precious and cherished gift. God's Gift Of Life Begins At Conception. Elsewhere Job gives eloquent witness to God's gracious formative work in fashioning the human body before birth. Your hands shaped me and made me. Remember that you molded me like clay.
Life begins nine months earlier at conception when an individual human being comes into existence.
The prenatal period, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood are all stages in the continuum of life. The commandment against killing applies from the moment of conception. Indeed, those who practice abortion are guilty of murder. They have taken the life of a human being in its earliest moments. God is given the exclusive right to author or to terminate life.