Why Abortion Is Wrong

Psalm 139:13 "For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb."  (ESV)

Jeremiah 1:5a "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" (ESV)

Luke 1:41 "And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb." (ESV)


We can see from these Biblical passages that it is a baby in the womb, an actual person. Life begins at conception and even before that we are already planned by God (Psalm 139:16).  From this we can conclude that abortion is murder.  This is not a politically correct statement in our modern culture but it is the truth.  And God commands us not to murder (Exodus 20:13). 

Abortion is pushed by feminists in our society and it often seems they consider it a good thing.  Abortion is called a woman's right by them. But is it really a woman's right to murder an unborn baby?  There are others who say they consider it wrong themselves but do not want to enforce their beliefs on anyone else.  This position is nothing but a cop out because many are unwilling to stand for the truth.  One assumes that the only reason to think abortion is wrong is because it is murder.  So how can you have the position that murder should be legal? 

The U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in America in 1973 with the Roe VS Wade decision.  This was a bad decision because the U.S. Constitution says nothing about abortion.  It should be overturned and the decision of whether to have abortion legal or illegal should be decided by the states. 

But what about abortion in the cases of rape and incest?  This is where it gets really tough because of the horrible situation in which it happened.  In these cases the woman is not at fought.  But does the horrible way it happened then justify taking the life of the unborn baby?    I think it does not because it is still a baby, an actual human being.  So what about in the case of the mother's life being in danger?  This is another tough situation.  Does it justify taking the life of the baby to save the life of the mother?  On the one hand you could make the case for self defense and on the other you could make the case for sacrificing your life for that of another.  I think it would be justified in order to save the life of the mother.

But the root problem with most cases of abortion is actually sexual immorality.  God created sex to take place between a man and woman who are married to each other.  When we violate this we cause ourselves many problems, the abortion issue being one of them.