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Why Christians Are Against Abortion
I have seen a lot of hate toward Christians in the last two days. And a lot of is understandable. Let’s be honest here. The US Supreme Court ruling against Roe v Wade is against reproductive rights, undermining the rights of women in America.
But I thought I’d do something different than most on Medium who have been writing eloquent pieces on the many moral shortcomings of such a ruling. I thought I’d share where these pro-lifers are coming from.
As a former fundamentalist Christian, in my teens, I once also advocated for the pro-life position. I’ve changed since those early formative years. And it’s precisely because of that, that I believe that my case against pro-life advocates is that much stronger.
“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
The Christian right is opposed to abortion for a few reasons. I won’t get into all of them. For our purposes, it’s enough to say that most have to do with the intrinsic moral wrong of killing a fetus, who is a human being (not just a potential human being) in the view of these Christians.
In that framing, the approximate 125,000 abortions that happen every day (40–50 million abortions in the world), estimated by the World…
