Not a sane woman alive ‘wants’ to have an abortion. A woman has an abortion not because she feels free – it is precisely the opposite. A woman has an abortion because she feels alone and trapped. She believes she ‘needs’ to have an abortion. The Church in New York through CompassCare empowers women with
For the last 49 years, the Christian community has stood in harm’s way, stock still in the intersection of cultural traffic after government eliminated the stoplight of human equality by legalizing abortion. What is it about the Church’s belief that causes so many Christians to be willing to test the patience of their fellow citizens,
What does Jesus think of abortion? Once, placing a little child in front of His disciples, He proceeds to connect how a person treats a child with how the heavenly Father will treat that person (Mt. 18:5-6), warning, “See that you do not despise one of these little ones…” (Mt. 18:10). And with the child
Why is murder wrong? Or rape, or slavery, or sex trafficking, or genocide, or physician-assisted suicide? Is violating a person’s life only wrong because government says it is? If so, what happens when the politically powerful change their mind? The Bible says that man is made in the image of God. So it is that
It has been said, “Christians are people of The Book.” So why do Christians believe abortion is wrong if the Bible does not explicitly say so? Answering the abortion question can only be done by climbing to the top of the moral tree and surveying the social landscape. Once there we can ask: What makes
I was asked this question just recently when a small group leader in an otherwise pro-life church stated that she thought abortion is not wrong according to the Bible. Her basic rationale for her position was that human life did not begin until a person took their first breath. She supported her theory with Genesis
