Pro-Life Versus
10 Questions to Ask a Professing Believer if They Claim They are Pro-Choice
1. Do you believe that the Bible is the God-breathed Word of God and that it is absolute truth?
This is always the starting point. If they answer yes, then you can have a healthy conversation. If they answer no, then you are arguing apples and oranges. It would be like sitting down at the table trying to rationalize with a member of Hamas. You would have nothing in common with the exception that you’re both breathing. If a so-called believer says they do not believe in the Bible or even that they do not believe all the Bible, then there is a question as to whether that person knows God at all. If I were in a conversation with someone and they answered “no” at this early point, then I would say, “I am happy to tell you why I believe what I believe if you want to hear my reasons.” If they say that they’re not interested, then you’re done. Dust off your shoes and move on.
If they say that they are a Christian and that they believe in the Word of God as absolute truth, then proceed with the following questions.
2. If you believe in the truth of Scripture, then here’s what the Bible says about the pre-born:
Jer. 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; Before you were born, I sanctified you.” Psalm 139:13 says, “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.” What some people would call a clump of cells, God says is something that He wove together in a very intricate way. Personhood in the Bible always defines the baby in the womb from the point of conception.
3. The life of a person is represented in Scripture by blood.
In Lev. 17:14, we learn this, “the life of every creature is in its blood”. When the Bible talks about blood being shed, that most often indicates that death has occurred. The shedding of innocent blood occurs many times throughout the Bible and it is one of the 2 reasons that God judges a nation. The other reason is idolatry. Proverbs 6:17 says that hands that shed innocent blood is one of the 7 things that the Lord detests. There is nothing quite as innocent as a baby in the womb.
4. Is the word abortion even in the Bible?
Although the word “abortion” is not mentioned in Scripture, the concept is. In Exodus 21:22-25, we learn that if a person injures a woman who is pregnant and causes her to prematurely give birth, then the person who caused the injury will be punished. If the baby or the mother should happen to die, then the person who caused the injury that led to death will also be put to death. This tells us that the pre-born child is considered to be a person in utero.
5. Ask the person, “At what point along the line of conception to birth do you believe that a fetus becomes a person.”
If the person answers anything other than “conception”, then remind them that you just read that God knew that child before they were formed and that He was the one who formed them. Then ask them if they still believe this since it is biblical and since they had already said that they believed the Bible. The preborn baby has a right to not be murdered. A life is a life regardless of the location of that life, whether it be inside the womb or outside the womb.
Although a pre-born baby is attached to its mother by an umbilical cord, it is a totally separate human being.
6. If you are wanting a woman to have the right to choose, then what rights does the pre-born baby have?
The right to life is something that all moral societies have to have to be moral and ethical. If you don’t value life, then nothing else matters.
7. What about if the life of the mother is in question?
This is almost never the case and most practitioners agree with this. Therefore, this question has become a moot point in our modern age of medicine.
8. Do you believe that abortion is murder? Who has the right to murder?
Everyone has the right to live. Job said in Job 1:21 that it was God who was both the giver and the taker of life. No human has that right. If you respect God’s decision in giving life to the baby in the womb, then you will not want to give someone the choice to take that life away. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot say, “Well I would never do it, but I won’t condemn someone else if that is their choice.” Either you believe that abortion is murder or you do not. If you believe that it is murder, then why would it be okay for anyone to commit murder?
9. Is human life sacred?
The Bible says that it is. Gen. 1:26-27 “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”” Therefore, because human beings are made in the image and likeness of God, there is an inherent sacredness about life and that includes those who are still in the womb. Human beings are set apart from every other form of life on earth. Abortion is a violent act against a sacred human being.
10. Do you believe that what God thinks is more important than what you think?
It’s hard to imagine that anyone would think they know more than God, but the world is full of people who think they know more than God and their behaviors prove it. If you believe that God knows more than you, then you will always want to do what is pleasing to Him. The belief that life is sacred/holy and every child has a right to live is a concept that is near to the heart of God.
