"And what about the baby's rights?"

There are some television programs that I do not watch, and Boston Legal is one of them. I'm sure there are some good lines and moments on it, but I also know that it is very obscene at times. While I don't follow the show, I do catch many of their previews while watching certain programs on the tv. This morning I saw a preview for this week's show that provided one of those good moments.

It appears that this week's show deals with a prospective abortion. A young girl comes to the law firm because she can't get an abortion without parental consent. Her mother will not back her in this decision, as she feels it isn't right. In a discussion between lawyers, James Spader's character has a disagreement with William Shatner's character. After being asked about the mother's rights, Shatner's character says "and what about the baby's rights?" Why are more people not asking that question today?

The Bible clearly teaches that an unborn child is still a life, whether certain people in today's society admit it or not. Under the Mosaical Law, anyone who struck a woman causing her to go into premature labor and lose the child was to be executed (Ex. 21:22-25). This was an accidental death. If God felt this way about the accidental death of a child, how do you think He feels about abortions where innocent lives are being taken deliberately?

Even though Shatner's line was acting, I hope that it might cause people to open their eyes and see what they're doing by aborting, I'm sorry, I mean murdering, these babies.