Also another quote from the bible is “Surely you know that you are Gods temple and the Gods Spirit lives in you! So if anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For Gods temple is holy, and you yourselves are his temple.” This means that everybody was made by God, everybody is special so no one should hurt or destroy anybody. This shows that people who do follow the Christian religion would be very much against abortion. This quote shows that if you were to destroy a baby (foetus) then you would be destroying part of God or what God made and this would go completely against the bible teachings.
Roman Catholics believe that life starts at conception so they would believe that if you were to have an abortion then it is a form of murder, for this reason it is forbidden. They also believe that only God can decide when some one should dies, not the mother of the child.
Christian’s belief that ever body has a right to life, so although a baby is alive in the mothers womb it hasn’t lived so it should not die. The bible states that “Your body is a temple” and god created you before you were even in the mothers womb.
I think if a Christian had to make the decision to have an abortion then they would probably not have one. But I think that it would also been seen as wrong if someone very young (teenager) were to have a baby. I don’t think they would pressurise a person to do what they thought was right, but they would give them opinion and advice and help them through it. I don’t think that they would be angry at somebody if they did have an abortion even though they way think of it as wrong I think they would try to stick by them.
I don’t think that people would just make the decision to keep a baby because of there religion. I think at the end of the day it may come down to whether a person just believes it would wrong to have an abortion because it is taking what would have been a live.
Belief in action
Christians may put their beliefs forward by trying to teach younger people more about abortion and contraception etc. This may help teenagers understand things more and may make them realise the consequences of pregnancy. They may use none violence protests to try and get there message across. Or they may even do things in their church and try to teach the younger people in the church about abortion. They may provide special church services aimed at women, they could hold discussions groups that women could go to, to take Part and get advice or just to talk to women going through similar things. They could advertise things like this by using leaflets and posters. They could also have a free help line that could be available for women to phone for advice this could also be advertised using leaflets etc.
They could make women aware of the damage that abortion can have on women mentally and physically. They could also, with help form the government, go to schools and teach younger people about abortion.
Also I think that Christians might start something like a charity to get the views across about abortion. This charity could be set up to maybe help young people who need some advice, support or help about abortion. It may also be there to help women that have been made pregnant through rape and need support. They might also over advice about other options that women could take instead of abortion like adoption or foster care.
If Christians felt really strongly they may run for local elections, this would mean they might have more of an influence over local services that the council provide. This may make it easier for them to set up help services about abortion and get their message across.
Another way for Christians to put their views across is to become a member of parliament. If they were to become an M.P. it would mean that they could encourage the government to become more involved in these issues.
Compared to a member of the council an M.P. has more of an influence on people because they have higher power and are able to get there message over to larger amount of people.
Is Abortion Never Justified?
In ways I believe that abortion can be justified but in some circumstances I think it’s unjustified. I think it’s justified if a woman were to get pregnant through rape or if the child was going to be permanently ill when born e.g. handicapped. I think that abortion can be justified through rape, a think that Christians may understand why someone may have an abortion if they were raped because the baby would not born through love. Also they belief that rape is wrong. They may also belief that a person should have the baby if they became pregnant through rape because it would bring happiness through a sad situation. I believe this because I feel that the babies may not have a very good live and it may mean that the family would struggle a lot and the parents would always be looking after the child, until it died. If they know before it is born that it will be ill its entire live then die young I think it is best not to put the family or the child through that because then nether the parents or child really get to live properly. Although I think if there is a chance that the baby would be happy and may get better then I think it is worth taking the risk and keeping the baby because other wise the person may never forgive themselves for having aborted the baby.
I think it is sometimes wrong when people have an abortion when they say they are too young e.g. teenager. I think that it is wrong to have an abortion in those circumstances because it is selfish. They are only thinking of them selves and not the baby that they may have. It’s not the baby’s fault that that person got pregnant it is there own fault. So why should the baby then be killed for it. I think in these cases mothers should think of other options like Adoption or putting their baby into Foster care until they can look after the baby themselves.
The only circumstances that I am unsure about are if the mother has a multiple pregnancy. This may mean that if she has all of the babies then there is a chance that the may not all survive or all of them may die. But she could have all of the babies and they could all live. It would be a hard decision because you would have to choose which baby/babies to abort. If you did go through with it you may always be left wondering what if you had keep them all would they have all lived, what would the baby/babies that you aborted be like etc.
