by Stephen Rodgers
This is the hub post for various articles and sermons on the subject of abortion.
Our church recently took a Sunday to consider what the Bible has to say on the topic of abortion. For anyone who missed it, both the sermon and the follow-up article are still available.
Considering the magnitude of the issue, I was asked to create a repository on the subject, much like we’ve already done with several other topics (such as DTR or Church Discipline). Periodically we may update this page to introduce links to new resources.
All posts in the Abortion series:
- Jesus Loves the Little Children (article)
All sermons in the Abortion series:
- Jesus Loves the Little Children (sermon)
In addition, there are a number of excellent books that deal with the topic.
In the interest of keeping this list relatively short, here are four that approach the topic (directly or indirectly) from a variety of angles:
- The ESV Study Bible contains a series of essays on the subject of Biblical ethics, one of which specifically addresses the issue of abortion
- The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture by Scott Klusendorf
- Abortion: A Rational Look at an Emotional Issue by RC Sproul
- Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Questions by Randy Alcorn
- Safe in the Arms of God by John MacArthur
There are also a great many resources that are freely available on the internet. Given the sheer breadth of those resources, I will initially present a number of topical indexes (please be warned, some are quite large) that you can review and search yourself, and then conclude with a few particular articles of note.
Here are the topical indexes:
- Thabiti Anyabwile
- Apologetics 315
- Denny Burk
- Desiring God
- Kevin DeYoung
- GTY
- MandM (Abortion / Embryocide / Feticide / Infanticide)
- Al Mohler
- Russell Moore
- Public Discourse
- Stand to Reason
- Justin Taylor
- Triablogue (Google search results)
And here are the specific articles and series:
- A free e-book on abortion (John Piper)
- 15 Pro-Life Truths to Speak (John Piper)
- Christianity’s History of Opposition to Abortion (Triablogue)
- Why I Am Pro-Life: A Short, Non-Sectarian Argument (Douglas Groothius)
- Abortion and the Morality of Feticide (MandM) (Part I, Part II)
- My Take On Why The Abortion Issue Won’t Go Away (Al Mohler)
- What Makes Abortion Plausible? What Makes Abortion Unthinkable? (Al Mohler) (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6)
- The Bible and the Bulls-Eye on the Baby (Dan Phillips)
- The Gospel in an Abortion Culture (Russell Moore)
- The Biblical View on Abortion (John MacArthur) (Part 1, Part 2)
Additionally, there have been some relatively recent developments in the field of medical ethics that have begun to examine the question of post-birth abortions as well: