Abortion Kills a Child. That’s Why It’s Wrong.

Every so often, I feel the need to go back to the basic tenet — and the only tenet which holds up — of pro life opposition to abortion. 

It’s really quite simple. 

Abortion is wrong because abortion kills a living child. 

That’s it folks. 

Abortion is not a “right.” Abortion is killing. 

Any time we have laws that allow us to pick a group of people and say that it is permissible to kill them at will, the entire edifice of moral reasoning that supports our defense of the weak against the powerful begins to crumble. It is wrong to kill people. The only exception is self defense. Other than that, it is always, without question or debate, wrong to kill a human being. 

People are, from the moment of their conception to the moment of their natural death, and even beyond that into eternal life, made in the Image and Likeness of the eternal God. No one may kill a human being. No one. 

I think it’s past time for us to go back to the single essential premise of what pro life opposition to abortion is really about. Except for self defense, it is wrong to kill people. Abortion kills a child. That’s why it’s wrong. 

Except for self defense, it is wrong to kill people. Abortion is wrong because it kills a child.