Three Reasons Against Abortion

As I am going to participate in the March for Life this Friday, I want to talk about this very controversial issue of abortion, since our country’s future depends on it. Of course my basic position on abortion has always been very clear to me. Even so, I have not ever given the matter much thought. So here I will expand my thoughts.  Why should we not practice abortion?

1.      The first reason is rather simple: “You shall not kill.” (Exodus 20:13) God has commanded us not to murder. Therefore we must not murder, and no murder can be justified. It is a commonly accepted truth that the deliberate killing of an innocent human life is murder. But abortion takes an innocent human life. This being so, abortion must also be murder. It is therefore immoral, no matter what the case, no matter what the situation. Abortion murders a human baby, and we know better than to deceive ourselves about that.

2.      Secondly, all human beings are endowed by their Creator with the right to life. If this right is taken away, then none of the others can be given. Why should we refuse this fundamental right to the most vulnerable and innocent in our society? We are terribly unjust if we do. 

3.      Abortion will have devastating social consequences that we need to examine. If a society embraces abortion and universalizes it (like we have), the family will disintegrate, and if that happens, society will disintegrate as a direct result, since the family is the basic building block of society. There will be no more families; therefore there will be no people left to form a society. That being said, abortion is not just immoral, it is downright foolish. Who would be foolish enough to murder all their children if they knew what would follow? Sadly, we are.

            These are just a few of the reasons why abortion must not be allowed. There are countless others.  

                        This weekend, pray for our country to come back to God and back to the culture of Life.