To the writers of the New Testament, like the Old Testament, whether born or unborn a baby is a baby, a person is a person. Since implantation doesn't begin until six days and is not completed until ten, it is probable that Jesus was not even fully implanted in his mother's womb when the preborn John responded to his presence. T o be pregnant, even at the very earliest moments after conception, is to be with child , not simply with what might become a child. Christ became flesh when the Holy Spirit conceived a child in Mary-that was at Nazareth , nine months before she traveled to Bethlehem. To take that power into our hands is literally to play God.
Child sacrifice is condemned in Scripture.
Only the most degraded societies tolerated this evil, and the worst of these defended and celebrated it as if it were a virtue. The prophets were outraged that some Jews sacrificed their children. Christians throughout church history have affirmed with a united voice the humanity of the preborn child and the duty to protect him. You shall not slay a child by abortion. Origen, Cyprian, and Chrysostom stood alongside every prominent theologian and church leader in condemning abortion.