According to the journal Why Abortion is Immoral of Don Marquis, a philosophy professor at Kansas University, he stated that “he tries to show that aborting a fetus is, except in exceptional circumstances, a serious moral wrong.” In fact, killing is not accepted in the society. specially to kill potential human being who has a valuable ability like ours. Although the fetus is not considered as human being and it also have a spirit and sacred, the fetus will be a human being after nine months and ten days, therefore no one could destroy another person’s
As he formed us in our mother’s womb, he knew us and loved us. He called us His children. The Bible expresses that life is to be valued, and life begins in the womb. In the Old Testament, when a man got a woman pregnant leading to an injury or death to the mother or baby, the man was to have his life taken. In terms of abortion, this points to God stating that abortion is not sound or just.
There are many women who have been raped and it can be argued that ethically they have the right to have an abortion as they did not choose to get pregnant, but in Christianity’s view a life is a life, regardless of how it occurred. Christians are said to be apart of the pro-life arguments (Ridder, Karen. "Abortion: 5 Pro-Life Arguments Made by Christians.) Abortion runs counter to most Christian beliefs. Even those denominations that support the right, believe that abortion is most-often not the right choice.
Abortion has been a medical procedure for in the United States since as early as the 1880s. Historically it has been a medical procedure that was used when a woman’s life was in danger for medical reasons, rape, or incest. The Landmark case that set a new standard for Abortion in the United States came in 1973 in the state of Texas.
This displays how humans are to not take other people's lives. This displays that abortion is directly violating God and His commands. The Bible proves that abortion is wrong in many ways, but mainly through the fact that people are created in God’s image, the sanctity of life, and how killing is
My belief in that sense is that if God wants the baby to die and be with him, the death will occur naturally as a miscarriage. According to Jeremiah 1:5,
He says THE BABE leaped. This is the exact same word that God uses to describe Christ in the manger AFTER He is born (Luke 2:12, 16). In God's eyes, an unborn babe and a newborn babe are the same. They are both living human beings!” This proves to show that in the religion of Christianity abortion is the same thing as taking a life because God in the bible refers to the unborn baby and the born baby as human beings.
In Jeremiah it states that before a baby is even born God knows them and has a plan for their lives (Jeremiah 1:5, NIV). The Bible further illustrated the value of human life as well as shows that babies are a gift in Psalms 139:13-16, by elucidating that God created each person in their mother’s womb wonderfully and perfectly and does not make mistakes when creating human life (NIV). These values can influence someone’s decision to have an abortion because it would devalue human life by exemplifying that human life is not unique nor that God exclusively creates each person and has a plan for their
So it’s established that God has created all life and since God himself is sacred, then all the life is sacred itself. The question is, is someone alive before they are born? If the answer is yes, then abortion is murder and according to Exodus 21:12 “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death”(ESV). So, if you classify an unborn child as alive, then abortion is murder and according to Exodus 12:12, murder is off limits. However, if the unborn child is not considered alive, abortion is still wrong because you are preventing a life from happening.
Abortion has been a hot topic in government and media ever since the Roe V. Wade supreme court case in 1973. Many view abortion as a women’s health and rights issue, feeling that it’s up to the women to decide to carry or not carry the unborn fetus, because the women is the one who risks her health and when the child is born, is the only person held truly responsible. They also believe that abortions should be covered in medicare and medicaid packages. Others feel as if abortion is a right to life issue, and that the right to life overrides a woman’s right to her body. Those feel that argument of coverage is invalid because abortion should illegal.
Some people will not have the moral certainty and will kill the fetus for that reason. Of course in the argument the author gives choices, and the decision depends on the understanding of that individual towards
People who think it is bad say that the fetus is something alive, a human being who is partly formed and to do abortion is to kill it and commit murder. The people who think it is ok say that it is not murder until and unless the child is born. I think that abortion has to be seen about which stage the fetus is in. If it is in the very early stage, then it is
Many scholars have studied the Old Testament that talks about murder and prescribe the appropriate forms of punishment. The sanctions for those who harm a pregnant person causing a miscarriage are all highlighted, that is, those who cause the murder of an unborn child (Kaiser 307). However, the Old Testament is criticized for the monetary compensation that it prescribes for crimes that result in miscarriages. Furthermore, the monetary penalty indicates that abortion, even though it is argued to be murder, is not considered as a capital crime (308). It is an indication that people should not be castigated for performing the act of abortion.
Abortion is a sensitive topic. There are good reasons on both sides of the argument. Discussing abortion can help us understand the pros and cons of abortion and how it can help or hurt our country. Abortion could possibly benefit our country in multiple ways, financial and in terms of safety. Abortion should be legal.
Though I believe a baby is fully human, some people may argue a baby is not a human, it is just a fetus and therefore has no right to life. It is not an autonomous
