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God's Stance On Abortion

What does God think about abortion? Have we got it all wrong?
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In a previous post, I exposed what an abortion actually is. The abortion pill, the D&C, and the D&E. As we saw, it’s a horror movie in real life. However, even though we know it’s bloody, we need to ask this question;

What does God think of abortion?

There are many people who profess to be Christian who try to say that “the Bible doesn’t speak about abortion specifically.” “Show me the passage” they’ll say. Some even say the Bible condones abortion (we’ll get to that later).

Let’s explore these claims and see if they survive under the fire.

Humans Have Value


First, let’s look at human life. As Humans, we are made in the image of God and therefore have dignity and value by nature. We are like God, and distinctly unique. This should already cause us to look at the way we treat each other differently than animals.

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”

27 So God created man in his own image;

he created him in the image of God;

he created them male and female.

Ge 1:26–27

Moving further, God even mentions that humans have “rights.” Although we have no rights before God, we do have rights among men. We’ll get into the civil application later, but look how these verses mention default “rights” that humans have.

Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

Proverbs 31:8–9

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Isaiah 5:22–23

So humans are made in the image of God and have inherent rights that we would see to be different than animals and other creatures that God made. We are also individually commanded to love our neighbor as ourself (Matt 22:39), and not to murder (Ex 20:13).

It’s clear that biblically, we have a right to life (amongst men), we are commanded to not murder anyone, and we are commanded to love others as ourselves.

All of these things rest on the truth of being a human. So if that’s the case, then when does human life begin?

When Does Human Life Begin?


Contrary to our pro-choice friend’s colossal claims, it is a biological fact that human life begins at fertilization. This is not disputable.

“At fertilization, the human being emerges as a whole, genetically distinct, individuated zygotic living human organism, a member of the species Homo sapiens, needing only the proper environment in order to grow and develop. The difference between the individual in its adult stage and in its zygotic stage is one of form, not nature.”

So, we know that human life begins at conception, and we know abortion is the taking of human life unjustly, and we know that humans have a right to life. So what does that mean? Abortion is murder. Does God approve of murder? No.

“God’s Talking About Adults”


Some may argue that God is referring to adults / born people throughout scripture. Well, there is nothing in the bible that gives us an indication that the pre-born person is anything less than a person. In fact, God gives even more protection to pre-born babies as we’ll see here.

“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Exodus 21:22–25

A couple translations translate it as “has a miscarriage” but that is an interpretation, not a translation. The act discussed is simply the child being born prematurely. The literal Hebrew is “The child goes out.”

The word for “miscarriage” and for “dead fetus” are not found in this passage. We first see that if the baby is born prematurely, yet, there is no harm to either the Mother or the child, there will be a fine. But if there is harm, to either the mother or the child, given the state that we have a mother who is with child, it’s eye for eye.

Which means, the bible says that even the accidental abortion of a pre-born baby constitutes life for life. “You shall not murder…” is already more than enough to condemn abortion, but God takes it up a notch and says: Even if your abortion pill was swallowed by accident, you’ve forfeited your life

Accidental Killing


In God’s law, if the killing of someone was an accident, it wouldn’t be deserving of the death penalty like intentional murder. A good passage that gives us some detail on this is Numbers 35:11–28.

then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there…

But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death…”

Numbers 35:11–28

Here’s the interesting part. If the mother didn’t have a child in her womb, and was just an ordinary citizen, then accidentally killing her wouldn’t be worthy of the death penalty. However, we just saw in the above passages that accidentally killing the child in the womb is indeed worthy of the death penalty. (Ex 21:23–25)

That means that the pre-born baby gets special protection that an adult does not have. That is absolutely terrifying considering that America is slaughtering 1,000,000 babies every year, who if were all killed accidentally, would require blood. How much more that all 1,000,000 of those are intentional. The evil of child sacrifice in our culture is absolutely gruesome.

Is Abortion Ever Justified?


When is it legitimate to take the life of a human being? The bible gives us 3 explicit categories.

  1. Public justice (Capital punishment)

  2. Lawful war (Just war)

  3. Necessary defense (Self defense)

Do any of those categories fit in with abortion? Let’s try it out.

Is abortion capital punishment? - Of course not, a fetus cannot be convicted of a crime, so therefore, it cannot be punished.

Is abortion condoned in a lawful war? - No, you do not declare war on an unborn child. It doesn’t make sense to declare war on a specific child.

Self Defense - Maybe its self defense?

Some will argue that if the life of the mother is at stake, the doctors are doing their duty to intentionally murder the baby. If the mother died because of our inaction, we would be guilty.

In the plea of self defense, there is an action of aggression towards the victim. But in the case of the pre-born baby, there is no aggression towards the mother. In scripture, self defense is applied to instances of assault.

“If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed.

Exodus 22:2–3

If someone breaks into your home to steal at nighttime, the Bible indicates you have every right to kill that thief in self defense because at night you do not know what his intentions are. But in the day time specifically, this is not the case. We can see this is a very specific circumstance of self defense that is given.

The pre-born fetus does not apply to this case, because it is not an act of aggression.

The reality is, if this is self defense, then you’d have to charge the assailant. If the baby lives but the mother dies, would you take the baby to court? Self defense is out of the question here.

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’

Jeremiah 2:34–35

Jeremiah is saying, while Israel makes the claim they killed in self defense, God will hold them accountable for their blood guilt of those they’ve killed. The key is, he references the Ex 22 passage about breaking in at night as the reason they’re guilty.

In the same way to our culture, we must say “You might think its self defense to kill the unborn baby in your womb”, or any similar objection, but God knows the truth and will hold us accountable.

If someone told me “If I kill you, I’ll be able to live”, that wouldn’t be very fair for me would it? That wouldn’t uphold my basic human rights that are given to me because I’m made in the image of God.

Exposing Evil


There is never a good reason to have an abortion, and God’s command is clear; do not murder, love your neighbor, you are made in my image.

In part 2, we’ll take a look at some of the biblical objections that people bring up to defend abortion, and while they’re all bad arguments.


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