Why Abortion is Never Okay

• Abortion ends the life of an unborn child. Period.
• God is the Creator of life which makes every life valuable [Psalm 139:13-16].
• God has commanded us not to take the life of another [Deuteronomy 5:17].
• God knew every person and ordained all our days before we were born [Psalm 139:16].
• All events serve God's will. We can cooperate with God or oppose Him. Those are the only two choices.
• Nothing escapes God's notice - not rape, date rate, incest - nothing. While He hates those acts, He nonetheless has the ability to bring glory to Himself through any situation that is surrendered to Him. He also has the ability to bless us in spite of and through those circumstances if we will surrender all to Him: ourselves, our feelings, our hopes and dreams, our finances, our careers, and our right to our idea of happiness. He can take what was meant for evil in our lives and turn it to good IF we will cooperate with Him.
• Nothing occurs without God's permission (e.g. pregnancy, genetic defects, etc.) and whether we understand it or not, whether we like it or not, He has a purpose in it. Our God is bigger than our circumstances. He also has our best interests at heart. We need to believe that and trust Him.
• Abortion doesn't solve a problem, it creates a wound our souls were never meant to bear, which in turn causes many other problems. [See Symptoms of Post-Abortion Stress].
• The life created through conception/pregnancy is an eternal life. Abortion does not magically turn back the clock, erasing the existence of the child that was in that mother's womb. That child, once conceived, will always be a part of that mother's and father's life. The abortion ends the physical life of the child, but nothing can extinguish his/her eternal life. Every pregnancy ends in one of five ways - parenting, adoption, miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion. Whatever the outcome of the pregnancy, a life was formed and that person will always be. The results of conception/ pregnancy are permanent and everlasting. The child that is aborted (or placed for adoption, miscarried, or stillborn) is no less real than the six-year-old that died of leukemia or the 25-year-old that died in a car crash. There will always be an empty place at the table and in the hearts of those that knew...
• Abortion wounds every life it touches.