The abolition of abortion
From the ancient church to the modern movement: the work this generation has been handed.
DRAFT — awaiting editorial review.
The church has been here before
From her earliest days the church stood against the killing of children. The Didache — a Christian manual dated by many scholars to the first century — instructs believers not to murder a child by abortion nor kill the born infant. In the Roman world that exposed unwanted infants, Christians gathered them up and raised them. Opposition to child-killing is not a modern political posture; it is original Christianity.
How Britain got here
The Abortion Act 1967 created broad legal defences to what the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 still formally forbids. What was presented as a narrow reform became, in practice, abortion on request — 277,970 children in England and Wales alone in 2023, a record, with Parliament now moving toward full decriminalisation. The law in detail →
The modern abolitionist movement
In the 2010s, Christians — first in the United States, now across the world — began recovering the older abolitionist vision: not regulating abortion but abolishing it, on explicitly biblical, gospel-centred, church-driven terms (the Five Tenets). Bills of total abolition have been introduced in multiple US state legislatures; abolitionist societies now exist on several continents (the worldwide movement →).
Britain’s turn
This nation once led the world in abolishing a legal, profitable, parliament-defended evil. The task has come round again, and the qualifications have not changed: conversion, conviction, evidence, perseverance, and a church that will not be quiet.
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