Abortion - Morally Wrong for 3000 Years! :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

The Judaeo-Christian tradition has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. The law of Moses ordered strict penalties for causing an abortion. We read, If men who are fighting pull in a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely Hebrew so that her child comes out, but there is no serious injury, the offender must(prenominal) be fined whatever the womans 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 (Ex. 2122-24). This applies the lex talionis or law of retribution to abortion. The lex talionis establishes the just punishment for an injury (eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life, compared to the much greater retributions that had been common before, such as life for eye, life for tooth, lives of the offenders family for one life). The lex talionis would already have been applied to a woman who was injured in a fight. The distinguishing point in this passage is that a pregnant woman is hurt so that her child comes out the child is the focus of the lex talionis in this passage. Aborted babies must have justice, too. This is because they, like older children, have souls, even though marred by true sin. David tells us, Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me (Ps. 515). Since sinfulness is a spiritual rather than a physical condition, David must have had a spiritual nature from the time of conception. The same is shown in James 226, which tells us that the body without the spirit is dead The soul is the life-principle of the tender body. Since from the time of conception the childs body is alive (as shown by the fact it is growing), the childs body must already have its spirit. The approximately 5,000 historic documents of the Early Church Fathers makes legion(predicate) references to abortion as a grave sin. The Didache, perhaps the first Christian catechism from 70-90AD, records the following in chap ter 2, verses 1-2 The second commandment of the teaching You shall not murder. You shall not entrust adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure an abortion, nor destroy a newborn child.