Why is Abortion Wrong?

A question about abortion

Christians will tell you that if a baby dies it goes to heaven. Why then are they so against abortion? All the child is being deprived of is the opportunity to go to hell. Either that or god expects unborn fetuses to accept Jesus.   


Abortion is a very hot topic. Rush Limbaugh once said that it would be the nation's next civil war.  While I hope it won't go that far, this is not a topic that should be discussed lightly.

Like most Christians I am against abortion for any reason except possibly to save the life of the mother. Our reasons for this stand come from the fact that we believe that, from the moment of conception, the unborn child is a human 
being in every sense of the word. If the child is a human who has done no wrong, then to kill it by abortion is the same as committing murder.

Some of our reasons for this belief come from the Bible itself.

"Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?" Job 31:15

"Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;" Isaiah 44:24

"Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb," Isaiah 44:2

"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Jeremiah 1:5

and others.

These verses show that people are human and called by God even before they are born. If God considers a fetus to be a human then shouldn't man do the same?

Other reasons come from science.

From the time a fetus is formed, it has its own set of DNA. The DNA is human DNA, not fish or monkey or anything else. The DNA is different from its mother, father or anyone else.

Before the woman even realizes she is pregnant, the fetus has its own brain, heart and blood. The blood is separate from the mother and may even be a different type.

And there are many other reasons.

So the reason most Christians are against abortion is we believe it is murder of an innocent human. Exodus 20:13

And, yes, God desires that, after they are born, all of these children would accept Christ, although he knows that not all of them will.

Click on the links to get further commentary on the selected verses from www.biblegateway.com which is a great site to get Bible Studies.