University of Memphis track athlete Cassandra Harding didn't give a second thought to signing a document stating she could lose her scholarship if she became pregnant because, "I wasn't going to get pregnant." But she did. When asked what role the fear of losing a scholarship played in a decision to have an abortion or not, another female athlete said, "On a scale from 1 to 10, it was like a 9. It had a big, big part in my decision; because that's the first thing I thought about, I'm losing my scholarship."

 

We have come to the place in our society where choosing between a college scholarship and the life of a child is a tough decision. Why is that? First, I believe it's because we have bought into the lie that an unborn child is not a person. Read Psalm 139:13-16 and see what God thinks of the unborn child. Second, we don't like to accept the consequences of our actions. We want to be able to do whatever we want to do without having to reap any hardship for our choices. But according to the Bible that is not the way things work (see Galatians 6:7-8).

 

There are consequences to destructive actions. For example, sex outside of marriage has been known to cause unwanted pregnancies. This is not groundbreaking information. David's destructive actions in 2 Samuel 11 wreaked havoc on his family for many years.