What About the “Hard” Cases?

Answering Pro-Abortion Arguments

by Ken Ham on January 24, 2023

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When abortion activists argue for abortion, they usually bring out the most extreme cases. They use them as examples of why all abortion should be allowed. One of those hard cases is rape or incest. Should abortion be allowed?

Well, in America when someone is convicted of rape, they go to jail. They don’t get the death penalty for their horrific crime. And yet that’s what abortion activists want for the unborn child—the death penalty! And yet it’s the father who’s guilty, not the unborn baby.

Yes, such circumstances are horrible and complex. But the unborn baby is still a baby, a person made in God’s image. And that baby deserves life no matter what their father did.

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