Abortion and Evangelical Christians: Wikis

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While the status of abortion has been accepted by many mainline and progressive Christian denominations, Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians have actively opposed both the legal right of a woman to undergo an abortion and its practice within the wider community.

This stance has been naturally at odds with any person who supports abortion. The reason why Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians have opposed abortion is because of their belief in the Bible as the unchanging, perfect and inspired "Word of God" (ie, God's words written down for people to understand), as well as the interpretive framework that is used to understand and apply it. Through this belief and process of interpretation, Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians have come to the conclusion that abortion is morally wrong. Indeed, most would argue that, in God's eyes, the termination of a human embryo - whether in pregnancy or artificially fertilised outside the human body - is murder.