Blog: Why I Think Abortion Should be Banned – Part 4: Abortion and Religion

To wrap up this month-long series on abortion, it’s time to talk about the religious aspect of abortion. I saved this one for last because it’s easily the most controversial part of the abortion debate. According to Pew Research Center, as of 2023-2024, 95% of atheists, 94% of agnostics, and 80% of secularists believe that abortion should be legal in all/most cases. Furthermore, 57% of Muslims, 79% of Buddhists, and 82% of Hindus also support abortion. That’s also not accounting for the large number of Progressive or lukewarm “Christians” that have bought into Leftist ideology and support abortion. What this means is that if you bring up the existence of God in the abortion debate, you’ll likely be even more hated than if you had just brought up the moral/ethical, scientific, and legal arguments against abortion. God forbid you stand peacefully in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic and pray for all the children that are being slaughtered and the mothers who need God’s healing. In that case, you risk being assaulted, and even investigated by the FBI and imprisoned. Even more evidence that requires religion to be talked about when considering the abortion debate is it’s use in the Satanic Temple, which openly mocks Christianity in the name of “satire.” The Satanic Temple has actually framed abortion as a “religious ritual” so they can argue that banning abortion infringes on their religious rights and even run their own abortion clinics. Because of this, it’s clear that religion does play a part in the abortion debate and is something that we need to talk about.

Now, I’ve already written an entire post about how God condemns abortion as murder last Friday, but I’ll recap. Though the Bible does not explicitly condemn abortion (that word didn’t even exist until the 1500s, but it was used to refer to any pregnancy that didn’t come to term; it wasn’t until 1867 that it meant “the termination of a pregnancy” and replaced the word “foeticide” which had been used by the medical world since 1823) it makes it very clear that life starts at conception with passages like:

Psalm 139: 13-16

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Luke 1:41-44
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! … As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.’”

Job 31:15
“Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?”

It even gives rights to the baby in the womb in Exodus 21: 22-25:

“If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”

From this we can see that God sees the human fetus as life and thus, abortion as murder and no person who truly calls themselves a Christian can be in support of abortion for any reason except in the rare case where there is absolutely nothing that can be done to save both the mother and the baby. You would need to either be incredibly ignorant or really talented at twisting Scripture beyond recognition to ever justify supporting it as a Christian.

Now that I have established the Christian view, let’s take a look at the claim that abortion should be protected as a religious right by the Satanic Temple. Though this seems like a reason that might have some legitimacy, if you look at it for more than five seconds, it falls apart. For one thing, the Satanic Temple, though it claims to be a religious organization and has the hallmarks of a religion, it is not one. Religion has always been recognized as the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods. The Satanic Temple, however, does not recognize those things. If you go to their About Us page, they basically just push secularism that elevates oneself as the final authority. To give it the same treatment as, for example, a Catholic/Protestant church is like giving an atheist organization “religious organization” status because they asked for it.

Oh, wait. That’s actually exactly what they’re doing, because when you look at the teachings of the Satanic Temple (and the Church of Satan as well) and the tenants of atheism, they’re exactly the same. Weird how that works….

[Author’s Note: Before I get any atheists in the comments section claiming that the Satanic Temple and Church of Satan aren’t atheist, just note that the Temple of Satan makes it very clear that they see Satan as a metaphor for reason, independence, and bodily autonomy amongst other things and the Church of Satan’s FAQ section makes it very clear that they are atheists and distinguishes themselves from “Devil-worshippers” who do believe in the supernatural. Though they try very hard to distinguish themselves from each other, in reality, they are pretty much the same, though the Church of Satan is not as social-justice-warrior-esque from what I understand.]

Furthermore, though there is such a thing as religious toleration here in the States, it’s religious toleration to a point. If you kill and eat your pet cat in some voodoo ritual, while you might be protected under the First Amendment, you’re still subject to your local animal rights laws. Extend that to humans, if you make a human sacrifice and try to pass it off as “religious expression” or a “religious ritual” you’ll still be put in jail for murder. The same should apply for these people. If the Satanic Temple kills a baby in an abortion ritual, they should not be given the get-out-of-jail-free card, religion or not. What they’re doing is murder.

Finally, to end this series, here are the key takeaways:

1. According to science, life starts at conception.
2. Abortion should not be allowed in any case (including potential severe deformity or disability) except in the rare case where there is absolutely nothing that can be done to save both the baby and the mother.
3. Abortion opens the door to euthanasia (murder) at any point for arbitrary reasons, justifying countless human rights violations, particularly eugenics-based genocide.
4. Abortion is not constitutional federally or under state law. Nothing in the Constitution defends it (and if there were to be an amendment made to make it constitutional, it would violate the other premises laid out in the rest of the text).
5. There is no good religious justification for abortion that can be made, especially when combined with what science has shown us.

Until next time,

M.J.