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==Bonhoeffer on [[Abortion]]==

==Bonhoeffer on [[Abortion]]==

According to Bonhoeffer, killing an embryo in mother’s womb violates the right of emerging life granted by God. Entering the marriage is in his view associated with recognizing this right of future new life as right that spouses do not have at their own discretion. If this right is not honored, marriage is ceasing to be a marriage and becomes a mere affair. Honoring this human right opens a room for the free creative will of God that can elicit a new life from this marriage. If we investigate the question whether the human embryo is a human being or not, this only serves to obfuscate the fundamental issue that God intended, by all means, to create a human being here and that we are wittingly taking the life of this developing innocent human being against the natural course of events. This is nothing else than a murder. Although the motives of such act can differ widely, they however do not change the very fact of this murder whatsoever. When this is taking place in the hopeless human loneliness and poverty, the guilt is more correctly to be attributed to society than to an individual. In any case, this definitely requires a personal approach and tactful treatment of person with such experience. Namely the mother that underwent the difficult decision process that contradicts her own nature, will be unlikely denying the weight of guilt. Only God as Creator and donor of bodily life has right to have the life at His disposal.{{#tag:ref|cf. ''“…keep in mind God's sovereignty over life. … God created life and He has the right to take it. If you can create life, then you can have the right to take it. But if you can’t create it, you don’t have that right.”''<ref>{{cite book

According to Bonhoeffer, killing an embryo in mother's womb violates the right of emerging life granted by God. Entering the marriage is in his view associated with recognizing this right of future new life as right that spouses do not have at their own discretion. If this right is not honored, marriage is ceasing to be a marriage and becomes a mere affair. Honoring this human right opens a room for the free creative will of God that can elicit a new life from this marriage. If we investigate the question whether the human embryo is a human being or not, this only serves to obfuscate the fundamental issue that God intended, by all means, to create a human being here and that we are wittingly taking the life of this developing innocent human being against the natural course of events. This is nothing else than a murder. Although the motives of such act can differ widely, they however do not change the very fact of this murder whatsoever. When this is taking place in the hopeless human loneliness and poverty, the guilt is more correctly to be attributed to society than to an individual. In any case, this definitely requires a personal approach and tactful treatment of person with such experience. Namely the mother that underwent the difficult decision process that contradicts her own nature, will be unlikely denying the weight of guilt. Only God as Creator and donor of bodily life has right to have the life at His disposal.{{#tag:ref|cf. ''“…keep in mind God's sovereignty over life. … God created life and He has the right to take it. If you can create life, then you can have the right to take it. But if you can’t create it, you don’t have that right.”''<ref>{{cite book

|title=The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

|title=The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

|author=Lee Strobel

|author=Lee Strobel