Abortions and Vascetomies

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 An argument from a Facebook friend I am hearing on social media these days:

“…I don't believe that I can dictate what a woman does with her body against her will. I've said before, if you are truly against abortion, why not give reversable vasectomies to all male children? That would solve the issue instantly and in all forms. But it seems so barbaric to take such forceful action to a person's body against their will, even if it for the greater good…”

Some background on the argument can be found at this Newsweek Article.

My response:

Laws forcing men to have vasectomies try to stop humans from being created.  Laws preventing people from having abortions try to stop human beings from getting killed.

Perhaps this analogy will help.  If Fred kills Steve, we hold Fred accountable for his crime.  We do not say that we should have given Steve’s Dad a vasectomy to prevent Steve from being born because then the murder could not occur.  Abortion is murder.


Comments

Anonymous said…
"Abortion is murder."

That is a blatant lie. The bible itself has a recipe for abortion in it. The bible also proposes different punishments for killing born children as opposed to the lesser penalty for injuring a pregnant woman and causing her pregnancy to end.

The Roman Catholic Church didn't oppose abortion until 1869, and that was not due to anything the Bible said about it. . .it was because of the logical implications of a Papal pronouncement from 1854.

Most protestant Churches didn't oppose abortion until the early 1980's, and again that wasn't about the Bible, it was about major Protestant leaders like Jerry Falwell partnering with Republican operatives for mutual gain. The GOP would gain voters they lost by opposing the Civil Rights Movement, while conservative Protestant leaders would gain political influence.

Historically, going back to the Early Church, there has been no consensus on the issue of abortion and there's been theological debates about its morality going on since as far back as we have records, with no consensus.

Terminating pregnancies through herbal medicine was WELL known to Roman physicians and was a common practice in Christ's time. . .yet there's no record of Christ ever saying anything against this common medical practice in the Roman Empire in which He lived.





May 12, 2026
J. K. Jones said…
What do you say of the First Century document know as the Didache which has a firm statement condemning abortion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didache

I'd really like to know where this so-called recepie for abortion is located in the Bible? If its the reference in Numbers 5:11–31 about dust from the temple floor, how does dust cause an abortion? Also, how does that passage describe an abortion when it only talks about effects on the woman and not an unborn child?

Christ didn't have to address every sin or type of sin. He said, "For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished" (Matthew 5:18, NIV). With that statement, he affirmed the Moral Law of the Old Testament.
May 12, 2026
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