4 reasons why every Christian should be pro-life
By Daniel Rodger, Premier Christianity:
From the first century, Christians have been against abortion and infanticide. It was their high view of human life that set them apart from the surrounding Greco-Roman culture where both the unborn and newborn were hardly worthy of their own lives, especially if they were girls, disabled, or the result of an illicit sexual encounter.
Many people today are unaware that the high moral value still ascribed to human life is a consequence of the Christian worldview and its influence on Western civilisation. Of course, someone does not need to be a Christian to be pro-life any more than you must be a Christian to know that robbing someone is morally wrong. The Christian view better grounds the pro-life view but moral knowledge is available to all of us because God has given us all a moral faculty.
Nevertheless, far too many evangelicals have been influenced by a secular culture that believes there is nothing special about being human. There’s also a fear among the majority of evangelical leaders about engaging their congregations on the subject of abortion. Sadly, the evangelical community has largely assimilated and compromised on a serious moral and social problem.
I believe every Christian should be pro-life. By pro-life I mean the view that elective abortion unjustly takes the life of an innocent human being. I make this claim for the following four reasons:
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