Bible Verses About Abortion
Are
there explicit Bible verses about abortion?
While the Bible doesn't call abortion, "abortion" since this term was coined
long after the Bible was written, there most certainly are Bible verses about
Abortion.
In the Old Testament of the Bible, verses 4 and 5 of Jeremiah chapter 1 records God Himself
declaring that He
"formed" and
"knew" and
"ordained" the baby
"in the womb...
before" the baby was
"born":
"Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
before you were born I
sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations."
Verses 22 and 23 of Exodus chapter 21 called the unborn
"child" inside the woman,
"life":
"If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she
gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished
accordingly as the woman’s husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the
judges determine. But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life."
Verses 14 and 15 of Job chapter 31 affirms that
"God... made" the baby
"in the womb":
"What then shall I do when God
rises up? When He punishes, how shall I answer Him? Did not
He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One
fashion us in the womb?"
The
"You" in verses 13 and 14 of Psalm 139 refers to God,
who
"formed" the baby's
"inward parts":
"For
You formed my inward parts; You covered me in
my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made; marvelous are
Your works, and that my soul knows very well."
The New Testament of the Bible also has verses that related to the issue of
abortion. For example, Luke 1:15 states that
John the Baptist will be
"filled with the Holy Spirit, even
from his mother's womb," which means that the baby in the womb
has a soul for the Holy Spirit to fill, while Luke 1:41 states,
"And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of
Mary, that the baby leaped in her womb."
Abortion activists attempt acrobatics in logic to try to
dismiss these Bible verses, which indicate that
abortion kills babies whom God
"formed," "sanctified,"
"ordained" and
"made" in the womb and in whom the
Holy Spirit may already reside, and is therefore
a murderous rebellion against God.
The "choice" pregnant women have is between
keeping or giving up their babies for adoption, not
murdering the
"wonderfully made marvelous ... works" of
God. It is unconscionable that 1.3 million
unborn and even
born babies are
being aborted annually in America today. To put this atrocity into perspective, 1.3 million is even more than the
number of Jews murdered annually during the Nazi holocaust of World War II: see
Abortion Holocaust.
(Also consider whether or not
abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest, the
Bible verses about
homosexuality, as well as the
Bible verses
about heaven and hell).