I remember when my girls, yet unborn, moved about in their mother’s womb, and I was able to feel their movement and kicks, even on the outside. I also remember holding them in the hospital and rocking them to sleep at home. In God’s eyes, when did my girls receive life?
You know the story of Mary greeting her relative, Elizabeth, and how “the babe leaped in [Elizabeth’s] womb” (Luke 1:41). Notice the translators did not say, “the fetus leaped,” for the word God specifically chose of the unborn was “babe.” The very same word was used by the angel who told the shepherds, “You will find a Babe…lying in a manger” (Luke 2:12), and they did (2:16). The same Greek word is found in Luke 18:15, when the multitudes “brought infants to [Jesus] that He might touch them.” Paul used the same word of Timothy: “from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures” (2 Tim. 3:15). 1 Peter 2:2 speaks of “newborn babes.”
In God’s eyes, babies in the womb and babies out of the womb have life.