Human Life Questions and Answers—Abortion and Euthanasia

Abortion

 What stand should Christians take on abortion? Are unborn babies alive and human right from conception?

• Abortion—The answer’s in Genesis (available in Spanish)
• Questions about abortion and ethics
• Antidote to abortion arguments: Review of Politically Correct Death by Francis Beckwith
• Abortion: an indispensable right or violence against women
• The Baby-Killers
• Offended by the term ‘Baby Killers’ [Response to a critic of above article]
• Abortion and Feminism
• Abortion argument unravels
• Legalizing abortion: no-one is safe anymore—Compromise on ‘made in the image of God’ is taking us into Hitler’s gas chambers
• Blob or baby?
• Life—a gift from God
• When you begin to be you
• Other responses to pro-abortion arguments (off-site)
• Of Lettuces and Cow-humans
• [Embryonic] Stem cells and Genesis
• A ‘wrongful birth’?
• Refuting contrived pro-abortion arguments
• ‘Bioethicists’ and Obama agree: infanticide should be legal
• Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation by President Ronald Reagan (1983, off site)
• Baby Steps video from from American Life League: Using 4D ultrasounds, the film shows the baby in the womb from 8 weeks through to birth (thanks to Saltshakers)
• Exodus 21:22–25: Translations & Mistranslations (off-site)
• Oh, the Humanity! Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade (Greg Koukl, off-site)
• Cloning: Exposing Flaws in the Preembryo-embryo distinction and redefining when life begins, Regent University Law Rev. 11, 1998. (Semi-technical — Abstract reprinted at ICR Impact 310)
• Is the Human Embryo Essentially a Fish with Gills? by Dr David Menton (off site)
  
• Annihilating Arguments for Abortion (Hank Hanegraaf, Christian Research Institute)
• Answering the arguments for abortion rights (Francis Beckwith, Christian Research Institute):
  1. The Appeal to Pity
  2. Arguments from Pity, Tolerance, and Ad Hominem
  3. Is The Unborn Human Less Than Human?
  4. When Does a Human Become a Person

Euthanasia

What does the Bible teach about euthanasia? Is acceptance of euthanasia related to evolutionary thinking?

• Euthanasia: Hospital humanism
• Principle, politics and the pro-life cause
• The Euthanasia Debate (J.P. Moreland, Christian Research Institute):
  1. Understanding the issues
  2. Assessing the options

See also:

• Life Before Birth from the Christian Answers Network Abortion Q&A
• Charles Darwin and Communism and Nazism, for related articles concerning Charles Darwin, the Holocaust and other 20^th-century evils
• Cloning on scientific and ethical issues concerning animal and human cloning
• Morality and Ethics for some philosophical and Biblical articles.