ABORTION

Abortion The 1967 Abortion Act never said that abortion was moral. It simply said that certain abortions would not be the concern of the criminal law. But practically that legitimised abortion for millions. So, how, do you decide the morality of abortion? Many people play a game of "ethical snap". Someone cites a case of a woman or girl in desperate poverty who wants an abortion; someone then "snaps" that with horrific photos of dead foetuses …

…in the womb: For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb (Ps 139.13). Isaiah said much the same thing: Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name (Is 49.1). Most importantly this is the understanding of the New Testament in the birth stories of Jesus. The incarnation of the Son of God began not with his birth but with his conception.