The Bible extends the status of personhood to the unborn. Exodus 21 shows that the Lord regards the death of an unborn baby as the death of a person. This text teaches that if a man strikes a pregnant woman and she miscarries with no harm to the child, he shall be fined as the woman's husband demands. If either the unborn baby or the mother dies, there must be just retribution. The preborn baby falls under the protection of God's law.
Abortion continues simply because babies are unable to fight back.
Their screams are muffled in the semi-sanitary abortion mills. Someone has to fight for these helpless ones. Tiny wonder, little human, Lying still, your hands outstretched. I wonder what you might have been, I wonder what you might have done. Sixteen weeks - that's all you lived Until they wrenched you out of the womb To lie unattended, gasping, stunned, A plastic bag to be your tomb.