Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.”

Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM) and the author of more than 60 books, including Heaven and If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil. More than 12 million copies of his books have been sold and have been translated into 70 languages.

In his 2010 article “39 Major Pro-choice Arguments and Their Refutations”, Randy puts forth 4 categories of Pro-Abortion arguments, which contain 39 total arguments. In this fourth of 4 articles, we look at refutations of the 3 arguments in Part 4, which he titles “Arguments concerning hard cases.”

Pro-Abortion Argument #1 = “What about a woman whose unborn baby is diagnosed as deformed or handicapped?”

Refutation #1: The doctor’s diagnosis is sometimes wrong.

Refutation #2: The child’s deformity is often minor.

Refutation #3: Medical tests for deformity may cause as many problems as they detect.

Refutation #4: Handicapped children are often happy, always precious, and usually delighted to be alive.

Refutation #5: Handicapped children are not social liabilities, and bright and “normal” people are not always social assets.

Refutation #6: Using dehumanizing language may change our thinking, but not the child’s nature or value.

Refutation #7: Our society is hypocritical in its attitude toward handicapped children.

Refutation #8: The adverse psychological effects of abortion are significantly more traumatic for those who abort because of deformity.

Refutation #9: The arguments for killing a handicapped unborn child are valid only if they also apply to killing born people who are handicapped.

Refutation #10: Abortions due to probable handicaps rob the world of unique human beings who would significantly contribute to society.

Refutation #11: Abortions due to imperfections have no logical stopping place; they will lead to designer babies, products to be bred and marketed, leaving other people to be regarded as inferior and disposable.

Pro-Abortion Argument #2 = “What about a woman whose life is threatened by pregnancy or childbirth?”

Refutation #1: It is an extremely rare case when abortion is required to save the mother’s life.

Refutation #2: When 2 lives are threatened and only 1 can be saved, doctors must always save that life.

Refutation #3: Abortion for the mother’s life versus for the mother’s health are usually not the same issue.

Refutation #4: Abortion to save the mother’s life was legal before convenience abortion was legalized and would continue to be if abortion were made illegal again.

Pro-Abortion Argument #3 = “What about a woman who is pregnant due to rape or incest?”

Refutation #1: Pregnancy due to rape is extremely rare, and with proper treatment can be prevented.

Refutation #2: Rape is never the fault of the child; the guilty party, not an innocent party, should be punished.

Refutation #3: The violence of abortion parallels the violence of rape.

Refutation #4: Abortion does not bring healing to a rape victim.

Refutation #5: A child is a child regardless of the circumstances of his conception.

Refutation #6: What about already-born people who are “products of rape”?

Refutation #7: All that is true of children conceived in rape is true of those conceived in incest.

As this week’s verse and these 3 refutations against the Pro-Abortion arguments for the hard cases facing the abortion of the baby in the womb, the Bible, science and philosophy all agree that the fetus in the womb – that unborn baby from conception – is an innocent human child that deserves protection.

There is no adverse circumstance for one human being that changes the nature and worth of another human being, and we should not make laws built on exception cases.

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