In the eyes of God, life - especially human life - is sacred (Genesis 9: 6, Psalm 36: 9). So is the life of the creature that is in the womb of its mother, the place that God designed for babies to be protected during their formation. A writer of the Bible sang to God: "You had me covered in my mother's womb." And he added: "Your eyes saw even my embryo, and in your book all its parts were written, with respect to the days in which they were formed" (Psalm 139: 13, 16).