Personhood Laws

I saw a bumper sticker stating “God is pro-life.” Still, I hate to imagine the burden to Colorado law enforcement agencies by defining personhood as beginning at conception.

Are we talking the same God, the one who sent his son to die on the cross?

If you want a pro-life god, you might consider a fertility god like Baal. In Baal worship, the mother-goddess Asherah gave birth to a daughter named Ashtoroth. The Holman Bible Dictionary says Astoroth became the Hebrew word for “womb” or “fruit of the womb,” an ancient term for fetus. Fertility gods died and rose from the dead, but on a seasonal basis. Not once over a weekend coinciding with the Jewish Passover.

Better yet, don’t consider Baal. He caused all kinds of grief for Elijah and Hosea, as did Greek and Roman fertility goddesses for the Apostle Paul.

Coloradoans are free to worship pro-life gods. But my sister is a criminal prosecutor in Denver. She already has her hands full with rapists, murderers, drug dealers and even one 9/11 terrorism suspect. Imagine her case load if miscarriages became involuntary manslaughter, naked prenatal ultrasounds became child pornography and frozen embryos in fertility clinics demanded due process.