What Is The Truth About Abortion?

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

-Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV)

What is abortion? And what does it mean to be pro-life? Abortion was made legal in the United States in 1973 after the landmark ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade. This decision was made at the Supreme Court level and then enforced upon the federal, state, and local levels.

Planned Parenthood an organization that runs abortion clinics across the country, paid for largely by tax-payer dollars has recently been involved in a major controversy. Pro-life groups went under cover and videoed conversations with top officials in Planned Parenthood, discussing the sale of fetal body parts from aborted babies.

These videos have triggered outrage on a national level, sparking protests in major cities. The mainstream television media, aside from Fox News has largely ignored the controversy. Many conservative groups have accused major media outlets with biased reporting. Planned Parenthood leaders had a rebuttal to the videos, saying they were highly edited. A few days later the White House issued the same statements as Planned Parenthood, defending the actions of the organization. The Pro-life groups involved have issued new videos week by week, triggering further outrage and plans for legislation to defund Planned Parenthood. Even during the first two Republican presidential primaries the topic of Planned Parenthood came up, and candidates issued statements in opposition to Planned Parenthood, expressing desires to defund the organization.

Despite all the noise and controversy, there are several truths that must be examined: First of all, what do Christians believe regarding pregnancy, birth, rape, and abortion? Second, what arguments do secular materialists and liberals present regarding abortion? Third, how do Christians respond to the political situation, in personal ethics, and in familial conduct?

Is abortion really the extermination of children? For an evangelical Christian, the answer has to be yes. Why? Because God knew you and he knew me while we were still in the womb (Psalm 139). But what if it's God will that abortions should happen? What if God allowed abortion procedures to take place and so following, gave us the choice to do so? Doesn't that make the action of aborting a fetus OK? I don't believe that to be the case. God does give humans free choices, but he also asks us to make wise choices. God gives us the choice to have a cup of coffee or tea. God also gives us the choice to love our neighbor, or kill our neighbor. Just because the choice exists, doesn't mean all courses are moral and approved.

The case is this: Abortion would not be necessary if the Protestant ethic were ruling the minds of the nation. Don't be deceived, only 80 years ago the Protestant ethos was the centerpiece of American culture. It can be again. Don't let anyone tell you that it's gone too far and it can never be changed and "progress" and so on. Anything can happen. The gospel has transformed cultures, transformed entire societies and it will again. Wait and see.

Abortion is the necessary entailment of a culture of sexual depravity. The sexual revolution took place in the 60s and 70s. The natural result of poor sexual conduct, immature sex-no-strings-attached is that a few strings pop up. IE: pregnancy. The sex revolutionist wishes to reject this unfortunate reality of sexual intercourse, therefore abortion is necessary. The unwanted child, a result of a one night stand or a random sexual encounter, must then be exterminated.

Abortion is evil. Watch a documentary or two. Witness an abortion procedure. Watch the developing child sucked out of the woman's body. Watch a partial birth abortion where the child's throat is slit and the corpse is tossed into a bucket for later organ harvesting. Abortion is evil. If people can't see that, it's because they are blind, unknowingly, or willfully, they are blind, and they can no longer tell goodness from hell.

Is abortion child sacrifice? Yes it is. It is another life put on the chopping block for the sake of convenience. It is the natural solution for a consumer society that prefers convenience over liberty, lies over truth, pleasure over principles. Some issues are multiple shades of gray, this one is not. This issue is black and white.

I had a friend who had an abortion. She regrets it to this day. She told me how sometimes she cries late at night thinking about it. She has tried for several years now to get pregnant again in the hopes of somehow atoning for the crime she feels she committed. She's not a Christian. But something deep within her knows that what happened was wrong. I've heard that same story again and again. Another friend of mine got pregnant out of wedlock. In an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, she slammed a bottle of lemon juice. The fetus came out prematurely on her bathroom floor and she laid there crying for hours in horror. This isn't a black and white issue. But it is a women's rights issue. Women are being deceived, and pushed toward abortion. Abortions they often regret. Women have a right to know the truth.