The 20th Century brought about the possibility of terminating unwanted pregnancy. Others believe that this is tantamount to murder. Those who support the right of a woman to an abortion are upset that the Christian churches generally oppose this. They claim that the church is not able to keep up with the times.
Interestingly abortion is nothing new.
Also the opposition of the church to abortion is not new either. In A.D. 314 a local church council held in Ancyra made the following statement. Concerning women who commit fornication, and destroy that which they have conceived, or who are employed in making drugs for abortion, a former decree excluded them until the hour of death, and to this some have assented. Those who penned this decree felt so strongly about this act that they would exclude the offenders from the most basic Christian act until the very end of their life. It would not seem that the council would take the time to condemn something that was not in fact happening.