When Does the Soul Enter a Conceived but Unborn Child? Relation to the Act of Abortion

The question, "When does the soul enter the body of the unborn child?", is exceedingly important, especially in this day with the many opinions regard­ing abortion. If the developing child does not receive its soul at conception, then, until the time it does, it is not a human being, for the complete man, as human being, consists of body and soul

Upholding Life in the Image of God

Dr. Ling said that in 1979 Francis Schaeffer and Everett Koop considered that abortion was the keystone issue of medical ethics. They were, and still are, entirely right. Unless, and until, you have worked out your stance on abortion, you will settle little else in this realm. Issues, such as IVF, cloning, surrogacy, etc., are secondary to it. The world in which we live deliberately puts to death its own children. There are one and a half million abortions in USA every year, half a million in Japan. In the UK, we have put to death 5 million since the 1967 legalisation of abortion.