Celebrating one's birthday is not even supported by the Bible, or any other faith text for that matter.  The Bible only gives us two references to birthday celebrations.  "Genesis 40:20" tells us that a Pharaoh gave a feast for all his officials on his birthday, and "Matthew 14:6" says that Herod beheaded John The Baptist on his birthday. As you can see both examples are of non-God fearing men, of which both were powerful leaders with lots of money.  It is also worthy to note that both Pharaoh and Herod were praising and celebrating themselves and not the miracle of when God gave them life. We are told by God on many occations to "Follow His decrees...keep seperate from....their detestable practices...and I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on....them".  Our actions through the years may have tied the Lord's hands and brought this immorallity of abortion on ourselfes.

It is my belief that if we had chosen to celebrate our conception day, which the Bible tells us to celibrate and be thankful for the gift of life, rather then our birthday we would not be debating abortion at all.  Society, as the years have gone on, has equated life with one's birthday.  This is where the whole debate rages, "When does life begin?".  Had society equated life with one's conception day because we had been celebrating God's gift of life when it actually begun, the debate would have been over before it started!

The Original Intent of our Nations Birthday!

Keep in mind that we as a nation celibrate our nation's conception day.  July 4th, 1776 was the day that our nation was given life throught the Declaration of Independence.  Although we call this our birthday, it was not.  Though in the mist of revolution we were still under British rule, our mother if you will.  If you carry this analogy on, the rest of The Revolutionary War was the pregnecy.  For some our birth was the day Britin surrendered and we had no further British influence.  For me it was not untill full ratification of the U.S. Constitution, "In order to "FORM" a more perfect Union", that we had achieved full seperation and independence from our mother, and became a nation with our current government.  With all this our founding Fathers new the truth about life of human's and of this nation.  They started calling the colonies states, the very next day, July 5th!  Remember also what Jefferson wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are "CREATED" equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life".  The founders of our nation knew that man was given life by God at the time of his creation or conception, and has the right to LIVE!

When was your conception Day?

"The Doctrine of Original Intent"

As Always Thanks for being involved, Many Blessings, Shane