They could also stop unwanted pregnancies before they occure by organising and giving proper sex-education talks to young people in a church, youth center or school. They could offer alternatives to abortion by becoming baby-sitters or even foster-carers to a lesser extent, this would mean that if the parent wanted to abort the baby because she felt that she wouldnt have time, the Christian could help her to raise the child. Also a christian may want to stare a parent wanting an abrotion towards adoption, there are many parents who want children but are unable to conceive. Choosing adoption could not only save the child from death, but put it in a loving home.
However, not all Christians are pro-life, although they see its usefulness they support pro-choice and act accordingly. They could support a pro-choice organisation such as the all-party parlimentry pro-choice group or pro-choice alliance (PCA). They could speak out in discussions about how abortion can sometimes be the most loving option and the best choice for the child. They could also provide counselling or support for te women who have had an abortion. Despite beleiving that avortion can be the right choice, pro-choice supporters also beleive that if the unwanted pregancy can be avoided, then it should be. They do this by giving sex-education to young people as a pro-lifer would.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children is the main organsiation against abortion, it was founded in 1967 when several peopel who were against abortion formed the organisation. Although SPUC is not a Christian organisation, many christians support it because it is based on Bible teachings, such as ‘do not murder’ and because it campaigns for other ethical issues such as euthanasia and genetic engineering. It points out that since abortion was made legal, 4.5 million babies have been aborted and denied the basic human right, the right to life. They also say that if a foetus is aborted due to physical or mental disabilities, then it is discrimination against disabled people, and that aborting a disabled child is no worse that saying that the world would be better without it.
SPUC raise funds in many ways to produce advertismenst to explain their views. They organise marches, more so when the government talk about relaxing the laws about abortion and write letters to MPs trying to persuade them to vote against abortion when it is being debated in parliment. Also, SPUC produces educational materials and give them to schools to help raise awareness for abortion and to try and discourage young women from having abortions. Christians may support this organisation as it bases much of its beleif upon the Bible. They beleive that God wants them to ‘Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked’ Christians beleive it is wrong to do nothing rather than act on their beleifs, for this reason they may choose to support an organisation like SPUC.
The most influential pro-choice organisation is the All-Party Parlimentry Pro-Choice Group or the Pro-choice Alliance (PCA) is an organisation which campaigns for the right of the women to have an abortion (up to the 14 week deadline) without a reason. It is open to any member of any religon or political party and works towards making abortions easier to obtain. They beleive that it is a violation of privacy for the women to have to give a reason for the abortion to a doctor and a violation of rights to leave it up to him to decide whether or not they are allowed an abortion. They see it as treating the women as if she cannot make a sensible descision by herself and cannot do anything without being told what to do by someone who generaly doesnt even know her. Christians who support the PCA may base their beleifs on the Bible passages which teach that women and men are allowed equal rights and those on forgivness and love. They would rather allow the women to have an early abortion that cause her suffering by giving birth to an unwanted child.
Most Popes are extremely pro-life as is most of the Roman Catholic faith. Pope John Paul II said ‘that the killing of an unborn child is always intrinsically evil and can never be justified’ he also beleives that ‘the conceptus is human; it is human from the very instant of fertilization; this means the conceptus has exactly the same rights as any other human being; to kill the conceptus directly is always murder.’ Mother Teresa was also against abortion and she too beleived it was murder and a violation of human rights.
In conclusion there are many ways that a Christian can put their different beleifs into action, there are many organisations with different views and there are lots of different methods of helping towards their cause.
