abortion

An abortion is the removal or expulsion from the uterus of an embryo or fetus, resulting in or caused by its death. This can occur spontaneously as a miscarriage, or be artificially induced through chemical, surgical or other means.

Commonly, "abortion" refers to an induced abortion procedure at any point in the pregnancy; medically, it is defined as a miscarriage or induced termination before twenty weeks gestation, which is considered nonviable.

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And Genesis 9:6 sharply distinguishes between animal life and the life of man who is made in the image of God, teaching that, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.".

6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Such passages of the Bible are not taken in a proof-text manner by Christian tradition (that is, they are applicable to the question, although they do not mention abortion), but as illustrations of a basic ethical principle of the created order — a unity of instruction, or "Christian worldview". And this provides for a principle, which forms the basis of the modern Christian prolife movement. Scripture condemns the shedding of innocent human blood.

When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. Genesis 38:27

The biblical insight into the order of things is that man is distinct from, and above an animal; and man is uniquely subject to God, whereas animals are given to man; and an unborn child is human and known to God.

1 Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name. (Isaiah 49:1,3 ESV);

13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. (Psalm 139:13).

Therefore, even an unborn child is protected by God, as made in the image of God because it is human (an issue distinct from all speculations of "when life begins").

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