Why ‘free will’ isn’t a solid reason for Christians to profess to support abortion

Recently, The View host Whoopi Goldberg made remarks claiming that because God created human beings intelligent and capable of making choices for themselves, choosing abortion (the homicide of a unborn human) is perfectly acceptable. Although this idea is not new – neither logical nor solid – it seems to be gaining popularity among some who profess some kind of religious or Christian belief.

Stacey Abrams: Abortion is like miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy, and ‘free will’ trumps everything else

Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams sat down for an interview with Yahoo! News last week in response to the fall of Roe vs. Wadewhich led to the enactment of legal protections for unborn children in Georgia.

“With the reversal of Roe vs. Wade, millions of women across the country have lost their reproductive rights,” said Marquise Francis of Yahoo! News tells Abrams. “I know you have been a strong advocate for reproductive rights. I also know your faith and you are very vocal about Christianity. So, what would you say to people who find it difficult to be pro-abortion but also Christian? »

“Abortion is a medical decision,” Abrams replied. “It’s what helps a woman who’s had a miscarriage navigate that space. It’s technically a miscarriage. It’s what happens in an ectopic pregnancy, but it’s also a decision women make because they’re not ready to be mothers. It’s a medical decision.”

Abrams confuses a lot of things in this statement. First, an induced abortion is the intentional murder of a child in the womb. While medical terminology refers to a miscarriage (in which the child dies unexpectedly) as a “spontaneous abortion”, induced abortion is not a treatment for a miscarriage nor does it help. a woman who had a miscarriage. While some treatments for miscarriages (such as a D&C procedure) can also be used for induced abortions, the difference is that treating a miscarriage does not not intentionally killing a child; this child is already dead in utero. In an induced abortion, a still living child is intentionally killed to terminate the pregnancy.

In addition, the treatment of an ectopic pregnancy is not considered an induced abortion. Until very recently, Planned Parenthood itself acknowledged this on its website, which said, “Treating an ectopic pregnancy is not the same as having an abortion. It was only after the overthrow of Roe vs. Wade that the abortion giant decided to rub its tongue, though a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood still acknowledged that “[ectopic] treatments are different from abortion care.

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Abrams took her defense of abortion a step further, using her Christian faith to support her views. “Although your religious tradition may tell you that you personally do not want to make this choice, it is not my right as a Christian to impose this value system on someone else, because the value that should taking precedence over everything is the right to do ours.” decisions, the agency that the God I believe in has given us,” she added.

Al Sharpton: The Bible is ‘a matter of choice’ and we ‘don’t make laws to compel’ people

The idea that God-given ‘free will’ is justification for supporting abortion was echoed this week by the president of the National Action Network and MSNBC PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton. During an interview on Chris Jansing Reports, Sharpton said, “The Bible, if you use this [abortion] as a religious argument, the Bible speaks of choice. You can go to heaven or hell. There is nowhere in the Bible that says you had to go to heaven. So where do we get this theology of forcing something when the reality is you can’t even base it on the Bible? It’s a question of choice. If you are a minister, like me, you can preach to people to convert them, you don’t make laws to compel them.

Sharpton argues that laws shouldn’t exist to force people to act a certain way – but we have plenty of laws (which he would no doubt agree with) that most certainly force people to act a certain way. certain way. We have laws against rape, murder, assault and theft. Abortion laws are – like other laws – intended to protect the lives of human beings. Pro-life laws seek to protect the most innocent and vulnerable among us – the unborn.

The late Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., in one of his most famous speeches, addressed the idea of ​​laws and morality as it relates to civil rights for African Americans in the 1960s:

Now, the other myth going around is the idea that legislation can’t really solve the problem and that it doesn’t have much to play in this time of social change because you have to change the heart and you cannot change the heart by legislation. You cannot legislate morality. The work must be done through education and religion.

Well, there is a half-truth involved here….

But we must go on to say that while it is true that morality cannot be legislated, behavior can be regulated.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.

It may be true that the law can’t force a man to love me, but it can stop him from lynching me and I think that’s pretty important too.

The fact remains that laws impose a system of values ​​by their very nature, and anti-murder laws are in place to protect human life and penalize those who choose to do the opposite. Tragically, society has recently chosen to dehumanize, discriminate against and kill human beings before birth under the guise of preserving the “rights” and “freedom” of others – ignoring the inherent right to life of every human being. This right is already recognized in the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution which states that no one shall be deprived of “life, liberty, or property, without due process; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

These are certainly not the only instances in which pro-abortion Christians have asserted that having “free will” and “choice” means killing unborn human beings is acceptable before God. However, there is nothing in Christianity that elevates God-given “free will” to assert that all decisions are therefore moral. (If that were the case, the very concept of Fishing would not be supported by Scripture.)

In the Old Testament, God clearly said, “Thou shalt not kill. In the New Testament, Christ also calls his followers to actively evangelize and share their faith with others – to “[g]all over the world and preach the gospel to all creation” (Mk 16:15). The gospel, or good news, is that although mankind has used our God-given “agency” to Fishing against (or disobeying) the commandments of God, God has made a way for us to be forgiven and have a restored relationship with Him through Jesus Christ, His Son. Therefore, this gift of free will was never meant for us to do what we want (even if it harms others) and then sit quietly while we watch others do the same. Agency allows us to have the freedom to follow God and choose the right and the right, and as professing followers of Christ we should encourage others to do the same. Putting in place laws to take away the right to life of some weaker human beings is unjust and unbiblical.

If Abrams and Sharpton believe in God as they claim, they must believe that he is the author of all life. Abortion is an intentional act of homicide, which takes the life granted by the Creator. Despite what Abrams or Sharpton or anyone else claims, there is no way to justify supporting either view.

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