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The legality and acceptance of abortion in this our world has caused a great controversy among humans, especially to those who see it from the religious point of view, scientific point of view, those who speak generally based on life happenings and those who don't believe in the existence of the God.











To solve this great controversy, I decided to make a research based on different individuals' opinions and thoughts. Therefore, I started a debate online where I popped up a question asking; "is Abortion legal for Christians'' and I found answers quite interesting with over 200 replies in 2 hours.

But before I go deep, I would like to share with you what abortion really is.





What is abortion?

Abortion deals with the right or wrongs of terminating a pregnancy before childbirth killing the foetus in the process. i.e killing an unhatched or unborn vertebrate showing signs of a mature animal. Abortion deals with the right or wrongs of terminating a pregnancy before childbirth killing the foetus in the process. i.e killing an unhatched or unborn vertebrate showing signs of a mature animal.





Human beings are higher animals and we are vertebrates and I want you all to know that we all have choices, we all have rights, we all have our own authority, we choose to do whatever we want to, but doing it the right way matters. Human beings are higher animals and we are vertebrates and I want you all to know that we all have choices, we all have rights, we all have our own authority, we choose to do whatever we want to, but doing it the right way matters.





What is the right way?

I found out that it is very difficult to change the mindset of any reader just by a mere article and this post is not in any way written to force or try to change anybody's belief but to make sure that no matter what we do, we do the right thing.

Therefore, I have decided to split this article into 4 categories;





1: Religious views





2: Scientific views





3: General views





4: Atheist views





RELIGIOUS VIEWS











Many Christians have different denominations such as the Catholic, the redeemers, deeper lifers etc. and many individuals have been wired to believe in Christ based on the church ethics and believe and permissions. So if the pastor of a denomination claims abortion is right, most congregants accept this without thinking twice and vice versa. They believe more in what the pastor says than what they should actually believe.

Going back in history based on the Roman Catholic ethics, we could see that the acceptance of a Christian aborting a child was based on the popes' ideology. Therefore we have had times where a sworn in pope had made abortion morally right for Christians and wrong too, with the latter currently strictly adhered too. Therefore, can we say Christianity has a multiplicity of viewpoints because there are over 2.4billion Christians worldwide and if there is no unity in moral ethics then it's very difficult to convince anyone to either believe abortion is right or wrong.



A huge percentage of believers think abortion is murder because according to the old testament, someone causing an unborn child to die was treated like a murderer. they believe all humans are created in Gods’ image hence, they should be treated like one cause a strike against the image is tantamount to a strike against God. A huge percentage of believers think abortion is murder because according to the old testament, someone causing an unborn child to die was treated like a murderer. they believe all humans are created in Gods’ image hence, they should be treated like one cause a strike against the image is tantamount to a strike against God.

what gives a being right to life? But the question here is;





Does the foetus have a right to life? If yes does that right have the chance to take priority over the rights of the mother to control her body? If yes





Is the foetus a separate being from the mother?





is the right to life more important than the right to life? Since we have all other human rights,





Whose rights should prevail if the mother is in danger because of the pregnancy?





With all these questions, we are currently not in the generation of the old testament, where abortion is a fine and death is the penalty. We are in a generation where abortion has been made legal in lots of countries and we have the right to speak for ourselves. Can we say if rights are derived from God we could say abortion is a sin and if gotten from nature then we have our rights at the moment of conception, therefore, it could be legal and not a sin.





Therefore, another question is can someone both believe in creator derived rights and human-derived rights? Ask different Christians this questions and they would probably say NO. why? Because they lack proper understanding and they are probably the ones you see around fighting for human rights and still come back and tell you that the only right to be followed is the creators-creative right.

General views





Generally, as humans, we all have emotions and conscience and we all feel bad when a friend, wife (if you have one) or a mother loses a pregnancy or an unborn child. Therefore, when it comes to morality and ethics especially based on ABORTION, generally we all would say it’s wrong or confused to choose because terminating a pregnancy might be of greater advantage to the mother.

I've heard people saying {"we don't have authority on who should live or die"} but unfortunately we do, that's why we have a choice, we have the power to influence a lot of things such as abortion, death, wars, health care, poverty.





Scientific views





We currently live in a world where technology has taken over and science has proved a whole lot of things wrong. So talking about abortion, a mothers right to autonomy is mostly considered, to a foetus right to life. In the case of medical complications, abortion can be discussed on rare occasions though.

mercy killing i.e terminating it to avoid a painful death for the mother. But is science really making a clear distinction between an embryo and a postnatal infant? According to modern science, organisms are created in the process of conception and abortion would be killing the organism. According to modern science, an organism is human therefore abortion kills humans. Also, it's also termed as ai.e terminating it to avoid a painful death for the mother. But is science really making a clear distinction between an embryo and a postnatal infant? According to modern science, organisms are created in the process of conception and abortion would be killing the organism. According to modern science, an organism is human therefore abortion kills humans.

Tell an atheist all this and this is what you will probably hear...







Atheist views





From the atheist point of views, they think the foetus is just a tiny little clump of cells which has no soul. Therefore, the Christians consider abortion as murder because they think they are killing souls.

Ask an atheist why he probably thinks a tiny clump of cells is worth crying over when a woman has a miscarriage. He would probably tell you things like "it would be disrespectful. If someone has emotionally invested in a pregnancy, it's going to be traumatic to lose it but that doesn't mean it's killing a human being"

He thinks the loss is just a state of devastation about what could have been. He'd probably tell you whether something has a life isn't particularly relevant because to him, there are lots of living animals which have been slaughtered by humans and used for meals without anyone caring. He believes since science is on the side of abortion then why do people disagree with it?

He thinks all words have different meanings in different contexts and science just defines words in the most useful ways rather than in moral ways.

Personally, I believe all these views are a piece of shit, humans have major control over all things and when we talk about abortion we are talking about human beings and not life. We shouldn't be using science to judge if our morals are right or wrong and so judging abortion based on science and crazy atheist views are totally unacceptable to me.





There's a huge difference in the murdering of plants and animals than humans. God breathed life and uniquely made humans in his own image and has consistently ascribed much worth to humans than any other beings on earth. And I know most atheists would agree to this.



