Many who defend the practice of abortion attempt to classify it under the heading of “health care” or as “a woman’s right to choose.” The reality is that the practice of abortion is the act by which the life of a child in the womb is deliberately terminated. In other words, when an abortion is performed, an unborn child (a human being) is intentionally killed.
In our society, the issue about abortion has shifted away from the question about when life begins. If it does not matter when life begins, then it does not matter when an abortion occurs. This means one of two things:
- EITHER abortion is wrong at every stage of pregnancy (this is the pro-life position);
- OR abortion is acceptable at every stage of pregnancy, even up to the point of birth (this is now the pro-abortion position).
