The interruption of a pregnancy leaves the cells in a state in which they are more likely to become cancerous. October is both Respect Life Month and National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Let's make people aware of the link all through the year. We continue here to deal with possible obstacles in our pro-life ministry. My own theological field of expertise is Scripture, and I will say without qualification that if Scripture does not teach the immorality of abortion, it does not teach anything at all.
Abortion is the killing of an innocent, human child.
The teaching on abortion is contained in the numerous condemnations of the shedding of innocent blood, and the numerous instructions about charity, especially toward the weak, the small, the helpless, and those whom society rejects. Numerous texts can be pointed to, but beyond this are the entire themes and directions in which Scripture moves. The people of the old and new covenants are called to be a holy people, a community bound to God and one another in love. This happens because God takes the initiative not only in giving life but in intervening to save the helpless. Such are central events of both the Old and the New Testaments.