- Tue, Feb 03, 2004
- Culture and Worldview, Prolife
50 Ways To Help Unborn Babies and Their Mothers
Suggestions on how to help unborn children and their mother, from Randy's book ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments.
Suggestions on how to help unborn children and their mother, from Randy's book ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments.
There is a small but influential circle of prochoice advocates who claim to base their beliefs on the Bible. They maintain that “nowhere does the Bible prohibit abortion.” Yet the Bible clearly prohibits the killing of innocent people (Exodus 20:13). All that is necessary to prove a biblical prohibition of abortion is to demonstrate that the Bible considers the unborn to be human beings.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5)
The following is one of 39 prochoice arguments, followed by a prolife answer, taken from Randy Alcorn's ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments (Multnomah Press, 1992, 1994).
The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform uses a convoy of large trucks to display oversized prolife photographs in their Reproductive Choice Campaign to those on freeways and city streets.
As you well know, you and your fiance have a very difficult problem with challenging choices.
If we used the same logic of separation of church and state, we would not have laws against killing adults either, since the Bible says "Thou shalt not murder."
"Let's go see the gap!" My friend, Bob, is a dentist but I was fairly certain he wasn't talking about dental work.
The Bible teaches human beings are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27; James 3:9). Not just Adam and Eve, but each individual since has been personally created by God (Malachi 2:10). Personhood is never measured by age, stage of development, or mental, physical, or social skills (Exodus 4:11).