While the Bible forbids murder, there are those who rationalize abortion.
Some hold that unborn children have no value, that they are not truly human. But Psalm 139:13-16 says differently:
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
“My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”
Does that which God creates lack value—especially babies, which God fearfully and wonderfully made?
And indeed, the unborn are not just valuable creations of God, but humans made in God’s image, which makes them just as valuable as anyone born.
For if the unborn child is not a living human being—but simply a growing mass of tissues—then how is it possible for the unborn to die? The Bible speaks of death in the womb:
“Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.” (Job 10:18, 19)
“Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon, because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.” (Jeremiah 20:16, 17)
Thus whenever a child perishes in the womb, the child dies as a human being—thus, in abortion, a child is killed, and is therefore murder.
