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Christian author Greg Koukl helps Christians to understand how to talk about the difficult issue of abortion today.
Christian apologist Greg Koukl talks with Pastor Todd about how to wade into the topic of abortion in a loving way.
Video Highlights:
- Though abortion is controversial, it doesn’t have to be complicated. Before you can know whether it’s right or wrong to take the life of something, you need to know what that thing is.
- If the unborn is not a human being, than justification for abortion isn’t even necessary. But if the unborn is a human being, than no justification for abortion is adequate.
- According to biology, an unborn baby is alive and is an independent human being. There is no other place in culture where we allow the killing of living, independent human beings.
- To argue that a woman has the right to an abortion on the basis of the child being unwanted or unplanned is inconsistent with how we would answer that issue in other cases.
Discussion Questions:
- Watch the video together or invite someone to summarize the topic.
- What is your initial reaction to this video? Do you disagree with any of it? What jumped out at you?
- How have you tried to broach the topic of abortion? What has worked? What has failed?
- Try to articulate the position of a pro-choice activist. What are the principles or values at the heart of their arguments?
- Answer the moral question: what is the way to deal with human beings who are in our care, in the way and causing difficulty? How do you think a pro-choice activist would answer this question?
- Write a personal action step based on this conversation.
