Human life is significant enough, in other words, to allow wide latitude for. Moreover, the significant possibility that the fetus is alive is enough under most Christian ethical formulations to favor avoiding any action that might end such a life, much in the way that a Christian would be warned against firing a gun into a box if it was possible that someone might be inside it. Such is the case, quite generally, on this issue: Abortions are as much the result of a culture inhospitable to life as they are to the weak sources of support that arise out of that culture and the decisions of individual mothers.Įven if it is challenging to settle the question of when, exactly, "life" begins, it is clear that abortion negates whatever life there is. I should preempt this point by noting that it is typical of Christian ethical thought that multiple wrongs can be stacked atop one another. I oppose abortion because I believe it is contrary to Christian ethics. Since the Left generally objects to the idea that ending the life of a fetus isn't a protected right, and the Right disfavors any insistence that a culture of life has broader implications, I'm bereft of a political home on this issue. I consider my position to be a specific set of political motives and goals that don't fully align with either side of America's abortion debate.
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