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Should abortion be illegal?

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On one hand I believe that the Bible leads us to the clear conclusion that ending an innocent life is sinful and immoral
Right.

but on the other I wonder if it is our place as Christians to decide for someone else.
That's the key issue: Should Christians impose Christian values on non-Christians?

Should we just leave it up to the politicians and focus on what we can do to show God to those who would seek to have an abortion and help to alleviate the challenges they fear as a result of having a baby?
What does your conscience tell you?

Or should we be active in fighting against the legality of the practice at all?
Pr 31:

8 Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed. 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
At what point should we make sin illegal and rid people of their free will to choose?
1Co 5:

12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13 God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
What should you do about abortion?

Check your conscience. What does it tell you to do? Do that, but only if you have peace about it. Let your conscience of peace, your indwelling Paraclete/Spirit, guide your action.
 

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Abortion is murder, it's just that, the person can't talk, can't defend themselves, don't own a house, still don't own goverment papers, maybe the person don't have a name yet, but is still a person.
 
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