Why do some Christians think being Pro-Choice is acceptable?

Question

When did supporting murder become acceptable? I know many christians who are Pro-Choice.

Answer 1

Ignorance and compromise are easy. They would rather peel potatoes in the spiritual warfare.
http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/what_would_you_do.pdf

Those that agree with the world and compromise with it, have made the world their friend. And believe me, if you are pro-abortion, the media and the world are on your side.
James 4:4
Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Answer 2

Eri: "But don't think you understand it well enough to lecture us."

This coming from the person who asserted that "fetuses have no brain." Who's lacking in understanding? Is that comment just ignorance, or willful stupidity? Clearly SOMEONE has no brain. What, does Eri think the brain just "magically" appears at the moment of birth?

Thank you Eri for making the Pro Choice argument sound as stupid as it is.

I am nineteen weeks pregnant. I am getting kicked, jabbed, etc. My baby responds to sound and my touch. Nothing does that without a brain. It responds to stimuli, including pain. All of this, and I could still walk into an abortion "clinic" at any time in the next several weeks and demand to have my baby brutally ripped limb from limb with forceps and dragged piece by piece from my womb.

Abortion providers sell fetal body parts, including brains. They sometimes price by the part, selling individual limbs, complete with tiny fingers and toes, individual heads, eyes, organs, etc. Abortion is murder of a small human being. Murder, plain and simple. Any Christian who investigates what abortion is and what it does knows this. If they try to deny it, they are not only not Christians, they are blind and willfully ignorant.

Answer 3

I know many who are pro-choice as well.

I think that these Christian's have confused loving your neighbor and the idea of tolerance, with accepting everything anyone does.

You hear people saying progressive arrogant statements like...well I wouldn't have an abortion but I would never tell someone else what they should do. You can tell someone else what to do when they are murdering another human being.

If your neighbor was killing his/her children...would you say, well...I wouldn't kill my children...but...

The idea that a preborn child is less of a human being is preposterous! What else would a woman be carrying in her womb but a human being? The process of conception, gestation and birth are all supposed to be this way. All living things have a time in which their entire life and existence depends on another...their mother. God created it this way...who are we to say that in the womb this is not a life?

The cycle of life, is God's design. Christians, especially, need to stand up for the life of the innocent. Those who cannot speak for themselves! If given their right to choose...you can bet they'd choose to live.

Answer 4

"From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a 'criminal' practice (GS 27 # 3), gravely contrary to the moral law. The Church imposes the canonical penalty of excommunication for this crime against human life."

With the overwhelming Scriptural references above, in my opinion, there is no way a true Christian can, at the same time, be "pro-abortion." God plays a part in the creation of life from the moment of conception. One could argue in regards to separation of Church and State, but, regardless of that, this country (the United States of America) was founded on Christian principles. I doubt if the Founding Fathers would have approved of abortion. Since God knows us in our mothers' wombs per Scripture, how can we say it is moral and/or ethical to kill a child within this very same womb?
One final thought in regards to this issue - would Jesus Christ Himself approve of abortion?

Answer 5

it is supporting murder, I agree with you 100%. I feel that you can't be a true Christian and be pro choice at the same time. One contradicts the other. I don't like the other answers either. One thinks it's not a real life until it has cognitive abilities--something ab out not until the 7th month. I have three children. He is dead wrong. They have heartbeats you can view on ultrasound as early as 10 weeks. They begin kicking hard enough for the mother to feel it at 4 months. They are alive from conception. Noone gets pregnant and says OOoh we're going to have a fetus, or a bunch of cells. They say we're having a baby. When trying to get pregnant, the moment you find out people say congratulations on the baby. It isn't just cells, or a fetus with no brain function or whatever people want to say. It's a living human being. Abortion is wrong, it's a sin. Being pro choice is equally as wrong, because you are allowing or agreeing to abortion.

Answer 6

Like maximum different issues in existence, abortion incredibly isn't a "black and white" situation. If a woman is raped, i'm unlikely to tell her that she has to undergo that infant in spite of if it incredibly is "destroying a existence". If she desires to undergo that infant, it incredibly is actual her selection; yet whilst she believes donning that infant and giving beginning to it incredibly is in basic terms going to re-traumatize her, I won't say "no" to an abortion. Ditto if a 13-365 days previous is impregnated with the help of her father or a male relatives member. And if a woman reveals that her infant has a *intense* fetal deformity which will effect interior the death of the child presently after beginning (Tay-Sachs, anacephaly, and so on.) abortion would desire to be an selection. If the lady has an important threat of intense injury or death could she carry her infant to term, and does not elect to run that threat — she shouldn't would desire to undergo that infant. i do no longer help abortion as a huge-unfold ability of beginning administration, rather whilst there are maximum of powerful strategies of beginning administration for a pair who chooses to have intercourse. it incredibly is for that reason that the team I donate the main funds each and each 365 days is planned Parenthood — i think birth control could be attainable, and low value, for those that elect to have intercourse. yet i'm unlikely to tell a woman who has been raped, or an adolescent who's pregnant via fact her pig of a father (or brother, or male relatives member), or a woman reveals her infant has a intense fetal deformity which will effect interior the death of the child presently after beginning, or the lady threat jeopardizing her wellness or perhaps death if she consists of the child to term — i'm unlikely to assert she could be denied an abortion in basic terms via fact some fundagelical "professional-lifer" (or incredibly "professional-being born") has desperate that makes me a "infant killer". If helping abortion below those particular circumstances makes me a "infant killer" — then i will placed on the call, thank you; and if mandatory i willpersistent the lady to the wellness center or the sanatorium to have the abortion below those particular circumstances. And if that provides some fundagelical genuine Christian™ a foul hair day — as far as i'm worried, it incredibly is in basic terms too undesirable.

Answer 7

As you can see by most of the ill-formed responses - to quote my friends the Atheists - these people have been brainwashed.

Our Atheist friends look to science for answers. Our scientists have show that life begins at conception. More and more studies prove this. These are scientific, non-christian tests.

Notice how they're saying it is a "right." Rampant meaningless unprotected sex is a "right." More women die now of legal abortions than ever died of illegal ones. And that is their "right." 8 women died within the first three months of the abortion pill being legalized. And that is acceptable. 3 people get sick from spinach and every bag is pulled from grocery stores. A higher possibility of breast cancer as a direct result of abortion is their "right." A higher chance of sterility and/or endometriosis is their "right." Having men use them as tread mills is their "right."

Ah well.

So too, for the uninformed - pro-life means all life. It means: Anti-death penalty. Anti-war. Anti-euthanasia.

Answer 8

The simplest answer is that God is Pro-Choice. He doesn't stop people from having abortions, so who are we to interfere? Of course, take that sort of attitude to its logical conclusion and you end up with anarchy. Pro-Choice everything, that sounds reasonable, right?

Answer 9

First, I don't see how anyone could be a Christian and support abortion on demand. BUT I have heard this argument...If you "terminate the pregnancy" then the baby will go to heaven, so no harm done. But if you follow that train of thought, it would make sense to kill all children before they become adults so they could go to heaven, which obviously makes NO sense.

Answer 10

They obviously are not defining abortion as murder, which they should. Same goes for Christians who are in favor of the death penalty. They don't define it as murder, but it really is -- it's just state-sanctioned premeditated murder.

There are a lot of inconsistencies among Christian beliefs. I try hard to stay consistent. I'm opposed to the death penalty because of "Thou shalt not kill" and I'm opposed to abortion for the same reason. And even though it makes people mad at me, I'm even opposed to abortion in the case of rape, because abortion doesn't FIX the rape. It doesn't UNDO the rape. It just kills an innocent person whose only fault is that his/her father is a rapist. Is it "right" or "fair" for a 9-year-old to go through pregnancy? No, not at all. But that's the rapist's fault. An abortion would only rape her body again and deny her the opportunity to see something GOOD (a healthy baby, probably put up for adoption to a loving couple) come out of a perfectly evil situation.

The real crime against rape victims who become pregnant is the way society recoils in horror from them and their innocent babies.

Answer 11

Hmm, I've never actually met a Christian that was pro-choice before. I'd say that it qualifies tham as being hypocrits, really. To call yourself a Christian means that you accept the teachings of Jesus Christ right? He said *in Matthew5:21&22* "You have heard that it was said 'You shall not murder" and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment. But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council, But whoever says 'you fool!' shall be in danger of hell fire." With that, do you think Jesus would be pro-choice? I sure don't.