Killing the Unborn Can Never Be a “Right”

The Contradiction of Compassion: Why Killing the Unborn Can Never Be a “Right”

A World of Inverted Morality

We live in an age where moral contradictions are not only tolerated but celebrated. A society that mourns the mistreatment of animals, campaigns against the slaughter of endangered species, and passes laws protecting stray dogs, simultaneously justifies the killing of defenseless unborn human beings as a “right.”

This is not progress — it is a tragic moral inversion. The issue is not whether dogs deserve compassion (they do), but why the unborn — created in the very image of God — are denied the same moral consideration.

1. The Inconsistency of Human Compassion

When someone harms a puppy, we call it cruelty. When a person kills an unborn child, we call it choice. How did compassion become so selective?

The Bible teaches that all life is sacred because it originates from the Creator Himself.

“For You formed my innermost parts; You knit me [together] in my mother’s womb.” — Psalm 139:13 (AMP)

The unborn child is not a potential human being but a human being with potential. Yet our culture treats animal life as sacred while reducing human life to a matter of convenience. This is not compassion — it is confusion.

2. The Deception of “Rights Without Responsibility”

Modern secularism argues that abortion is a matter of personal autonomy — “my body, my choice.” But this reasoning ignores a simple biological and moral truth: the unborn child is not the mother’s body. He or she is a separate, living organism with distinct DNA, heartbeat, and destiny.

Claiming a “right” to end innocent life is a distortion of liberty. True freedom does not give license to destroy another being; it exists to protect life and promote good.

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” — Isaiah 5:20

The unborn child’s right to live is not granted by man — it is endowed by God (Genesis 1:27). No government or individual has the moral authority to revoke what the Creator Himself has given.

3. The Image of God: The Ultimate Standard of Worth

Animals, though loved and cared for, are not created in God’s image. Humans are. That divine imprint gives human life eternal value.

“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…’” — Genesis 1:26

When we protect a dog but destroy a baby, we reveal that our moral compass has shifted from divine revelation to emotional preference. The sanctity of life is not based on how we feel about it, but on what God has declared about it.

4. The Logic of Life: Science Supports Scripture

Science confirms what Scripture has always declared — life begins at conception. At fertilization, a new human being comes into existence, complete with DNA distinct from both parents.

Heartbeat: detected at 5 weeks.
Brain activity: detected at 6 weeks.
Fingerprints: formed by 12 weeks.
Pain sensitivity: present by 20 weeks.

To end that life is not medical progress — it is moral regression. The scientific evidence leaves no room for ambiguity; only the willful blindness of a culture that values convenience over conscience sustains abortion’s justification.

5. The Theology of Compassion: God’s Heart for the Voiceless

The God of Scripture identifies with the weak, the oppressed, and the voiceless.

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.” — Proverbs 31:8

The unborn are the most voiceless of all. To defend them is to reflect God’s heart; to destroy them is to oppose His nature. Jesus Himself affirmed the preciousness of children, saying,

“Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” — Matthew 19:14

6. The Cultural Consequence: When a Nation Loses Its Conscience

A civilization that justifies abortion while criminalizing animal cruelty has lost its moral foundation. The same society that tears down slaughterhouses for dogs builds clinics for human babies. This is the inversion of morality that Romans 1 warned about — a generation that “exchanged the truth of God for a lie” (Romans 1:25).

The fruit of this rebellion is spiritual blindness, moral decay, and the devaluation of life at every level — from the womb to the elderly, from the poor to the disabled. Once life becomes negotiable, no one is truly safe.

7. The Gospel Answer: Grace for the Guilty, Hope for the Broken

The message of the cross is not condemnation but redemption. Jesus came to forgive, restore, and renew even those who have made tragic choices.

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” — 1 John 1:9

There is healing for those who carry the pain of abortion, and there is forgiveness through Christ for every sin repented of. But repentance begins with recognizing that killing the unborn is not a right — it is a wrong that grieves the heart of God.

Return to Truth and Compassion

True compassion values all life — human and animal — but it never exalts animal life above human life. True justice protects the innocent, not destroys them.

When society calls cruelty “evil” but labels abortion “empowerment,” it reveals not enlightenment but estrangement from God.

Let us, therefore, speak truth in love, defend the defenseless, and rebuild a culture of life founded not on shifting emotions but on the unchanging Word of God.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I sanctified you.” — Jeremiah 1:5

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