The more someone knows about abortion, the less likely they are to have or recommend one – which is why Abort73 puts so much energy into educating people about abortion. In the short run, education spares individual lives. In the long run, it can reform an entire culture.
There are two primary obstacles to making the case against abortion. The first is financial; the second is ideological. Whereas the abortion industry has a built in cash cow, abortion opponents must stretch their marketing dollar. Add to that the negative stereotypes that are often attached to "anti-choicers", and the task at hand becomes a challenging one.
Abort73 helps youth pastors be a more effective witness against abortion, and youth pastors help Abort73 more effectively reach students in their community.
For student groups looking for a more focused way to get a whole campus of students to visit Abort73.com, this is for you: a week of strategic, cross-platform promotion.
Abort73 does not have the market cornered on pro-life involvement opportunities. There are lots of great organizations out there offering myriads of ways to love and care for abortion-vulnerable women and children through education & awareness, direct pregnancy & child care assistance, post-abortion recovery and political activism.
This page is still being researched and written. Check back soon.
Should abortion be outlawed in the future, the question of appropriate, criminal punishment becomes a fairly difficult one. Though a satisfactory answer can be hard to come by, the existence of this moral dilemma in no way lessens the case against abortion itself.
Some justify abortion on the claim that if it is outlawed, women will abort anyway and may die in the process. There are 3 problems with this hypothesis. First, it doesn't address the ethics of abortion. Second, laws against abortion would deter most women from having one. Third, there is no evidence that illegal abortions are more dangerous than legal abortions.
If continued pregnancy threatens the life of the mother, and there is no way to save the child, an ethical case can be made for the justifiability of abortion. A look at the data, however, indicates that this ethical dilemma may be altogether unnecessary.
This document exists for two reasons: to convince more of God’s people to enter the active defense of abortion-vulnerable children and to help those already making a defense to be more biblical.
When God prohibits murder, he is commending its opposite: love. Not participating in abortion is only half of the equation. Love demands more. What are you doing to love the women who are contemplating abortion and to love the children whose lives are threatened by it?
These nine objections reflect the legitimate concerns of many in the church who fear the socialization or politicization of the gospel. Our responses aim at answering these concerns, so as to demonstrate why actively opposing abortion is both biblically appropriate and necessary.
Pastor John Piper urges his fellow preachers to "put their lives and ministries on the line" as it relates to abortion – proclaiming boldly from their pulpits that abortion is immoral and unjust, even as they offer hope and blood-bought forgiveness to all the women and men in their congregation who have experienced or encouraged abortion.
Pastor R.C Sproul urges believers to use their voice in defense of the innocents who are threatened by abortion, sharing the words of German pastor, Martin Niemoller, who laments his condemnable silence during the Nazi reign.
Abortion is a devastating reality. Christians around the world should be moved to action by it. Hell is an even more devastating reality, and what an utter inconsistency it would be to feel indignant about the holocaust of abortion, but not about the holocaust of sinners perishing in unbelief.
Though people on both sides of the abortion debate are generally united in their distaste for bloody abortion photos, there is a significant divide over the morality of using those pictures as a means of public education. If the great command is to love God and love people, is it possible to love someone while showing them a picture that may make them very upset?