I have always been pro-life.

However, since having my daughter this past June, I have become even more pro-life– if that was even possible.

This is why I was stunned when I heard a “pastor” come out in favor of abortion as not a necessary evil– but something that is inherently good and merciful.

A misunderstanding of how God values all human life is somewhat understandable coming from a secular worldview, but those who call themselves Christians, especially pastors, have no excuse.

How is it possible that a pastor can think the killing of innocent life is a good thing?

George Barna’s research continues to reveal the ambivalence within the church. Shockingly, only 43% of churchgoers now identify as pro-life and only 14% embrace a consistently biblical view of sin!

A 2019 Pew study found that only 3% of sermons even mention sin. When a central doctrine such as sin is rarely addressed, it leads to moral confusion within the church and is a blueprint for cultural chaos.

Pastor Kurt Kaufman, a recently ordained minister at the Federated Church of Green Lake in Wisconsin, recently argued that abortion protects the life of children.

“There are so many children that currently exist in this world that were forced to be born because of legislation, because of men that have decided for women, and so as a result, many children have grown up into an unsupportive, unhealthy, and right-challenging household that hasn’t been a life that any child should live.

And so being in favor of reproductive choice helps the life of children everywhere, because they don’t have to grow up in a world that dislikes them because they simply exist.”

According to “pastor” Kaufman, a baby that might experience a difficult childhood deserves the death penalty.

This position among pro-abortion advocates is the most common argument.

In fact, the abortion industry advocates time and time again for abortion for babies who are in poverty, minority communities, or are disabled.

Pro-abortion advocate Ezra Klein in a 2011 Washington Post editorial used “saving money” as his biggest reason for why he is pro-abortion:

“The services Planned Parenthood provides save the federal government a lot of money. It’s somewhat cold to put it in these terms, but taxpayers end up bearing a lot of the expense for unintended pregnancies among people without the means to care for their children.”

In addition to this, Vox called the Indiana bill banning abortion based upon a Down Syndrome diagnosis “torture:”

“The ‘disability’ part of the law is especially alarming to reproductive rights advocates. It could include not just conditions like Down Syndrome, but also things like anencephaly where a fetus is missing a part of its brain and is certain to die either before or after birth. Some women choose to carry such pregnancies to term, but for others the idea is pure torture.”

These arguments, which pro-lifers have heard for decades upon decades, fails to ever answer the question of life’s beginning or life’s value.

Not only does science clearly prove that life begins at conception, but one’s circumstances does not have the ability to assign value.

Amy Main, a Christian and conservative who grew up in the foster-care system and endured horrific circumstances, recently sat down with Live Action’s Lila Rose to discuss this particular pro-abortion argument.

“What you’re telling people who are in the foster-care system is:

‘If I were to love how I think you deserve to be loved, I would have killed you before you were born… instead of allowing you to see hope, I would have taken your life before because I’m so compassionate.’”

God is pro-life. He condemns the shedding of innocent blood (Proverbs 6:16-17). Life is a right that has been given by God, not government. The very first unalienable right that our Declaration of Independence grants is life.

Life is an unalienable right because it is recognized, not granted.

Because all human life is given by God (Gen. 30:22) and all human beings reflect the image of God (Gen. 1:26-27), all life– from the moment of its origin– is valuable.

A baby born to a single mom in poverty is valuable and worthy of life.

A baby born into a secure household and loving marriage is valuable and worthy of life.

There is no difference.