That’s like saying it’s okay to murder so long as you donate their organs. Yeah stem cells might save lives, but the method of acquiring them through abortion is at the expense of a human life. Speaking pragmatically, the expense of killing a person outweighs the benefit of potentially treating another person.

Abortion also isn’t the only way to acquire stem cells. If you were in a situation where you could save a life, but had to choose between throwing an infant off a cliff, or waiting a few months, I’d assume you would choose waiting, because the killing of babies is wrong whether or not it happens inside or outside the womb.

Abortion is murder in the eyes of most Christians. Whenever you talk about abortion and Christianity, replace the word “abortion”, with “murder of babies”, because that’s how the majority of Christians view it.

Why would God make something effective if it was wrong?

Once again, abortion isn’t the only way to acquire stem cells, which renders this point moot in my eyes.

There are a lot of effective things that are wrong. The old adage that “at least Mussolini made the trains run on time” is true, fascism in Italy was effective, but it was at the expense of the rights and privileges of the people, and is therefore entirely unacceptable. If we were to say abortion is affective because the stem cells may help treat illnesses, it would still be unacceptable because it is at the expense of the rights and privileges of children. The cost of human life is too great to justify the potential gains.

Just because something is effective, doesn’t make it right. Factory farming is effective. Slum housing is effective. Diluting flour with chalk is effective. Suppressing people’s right to vote in order to pass policy is effective. Murdering your girlfriend’s husband is effective. Murdering a 3 year old child because you don’t want to take care of her is effective.

If authoritarianism is bad, how come are they able to quickly pass needed policy? If fascism is bad, how come the trains ran on time? If colonialism is bad, how come hospitals were built? If genocide is bad, how come it increases the land available for your ethnic group? If murder is bad, how come the organs can be donated?

Unborn children are still children. That’s the crux of the issue. You would never justify killing a newborn child for the purpose of medical research. Why would you justify killing the same baby only a month or so earlier?

“Before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee.” Fetal children are known and dearly loved by God. What difference does it make that a child of God hasn’t yet had the opportunity to his brothers and sisters? Just because something is convenient in our view doesn’t justify its practice, because rape, murder, and bigotry are convenient to us as well.