Pro-Choice or Pro-Life?: Examining 15 Pro-Choice Claims: What Do Facts & Common Sense Tell Us?

by Randy Alcorn

There are few issues as consequential for our personal lives and communities as abortion. It divides people not only on the streets and in workplaces, but also in homes and churches. After all, this issue involves personal decisions about sex, pregnancy, parenting, and our health. So while abortion is difficult to talk about, it’s important to provide accurate information and a context in which that information can be discussed. In this thoroughly researched and easy-to-read book, author Randy Alcorn examines fifteen major claims of the pro-choice position and shares fact-based, rational responses. If you have mixed feelings about abortion, as many people do, this book can be part of your quest for truth. If you’re pro-choice or pro-life, it can help you think through your position. If we have any hope of understanding and engaging with each other, let’s move our dialogue beyond bumper stickers, memes, and tweets. Randy encourages readers to listen carefully to arguments on both sides of the abortion debate, and to look at the evidence and weigh it on its own merit.

Genres: Christian

Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Randy Alcorn is the founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM), a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching biblical truth and drawing attention to the needy and how to help them. EPM exists to meet the needs of the unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled and unsupported people around the world.

"My ministry focus is communicating the strategic importance of using our earthly time, money, possessions and opportunities to invest in need-meeting ministries that count for eternity," Alcorn says. "I do that by trying to analyze, teach and apply the implications of Christian truth."

Before starting EPM in 1990, Alcorn co-pastored for thirteen years Good Shepherd Community Church outside Gresham, Oregon. He has ministered in many countries, including China, and is a popular teacher and conference speaker. Randy has taught on the part-time faculties of Western Seminary and Multnomah University, both in Portland, Oregon.

Randy is a best-selling author of 50 books including Heaven, The Treasure Principle and the 2002 Gold Medallion winner, Safely Home. He has written numerous articles for magazines such as Discipleship Journal, Moody, Leadership, New Man, and The Christian Reader. He produces the quarterly issues-oriented magazine Eternal Perspectives, and has been a guest on more than 650 radio and television programs including Focus on the Family, Family Life Today, The Bible Answer Man, Revive Our Hearts, Truths that Transform and Faith Under Fire.

Alcorn resides in Gresham, Oregon with his wife, Nanci. The Alcorns have two married daughters, Karina and Angela.

Randy and Nanci are the proud grandparents of five grandsons. Randy enjoys hanging out with his family, biking, tennis, research and reading.

Taken from the Eternal Perspective Ministries website, http://www.epm.org

Reviews

[Melissa Stottmann · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was in our neighborhood library. I decided to read it because I enjoy learning different perspectives. This is biased, the author admits that but then is written like it doesn’t hold a bias. This book missed the mark in many places and speaks nothing to preventing the need for abortion/educating the youth. There is very little consideration for the trauma of a rape/incest but arguments for the trauma of the abortion itself. It was also a bate and switch. The cover makes it seem like it could give two perspectives.

[Emily Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this read. He offers a non-aggressive approach to a hard topic. I loved how he walked through 15 claims made by people proclaiming pro-choice is the only option. It gave me more empathy for people working through all of the different reasons / circumstances; yet, it made me more confident that abortion is not the way. I highly recommend this book to people who identify with pro-choice or pro-life as it gives insight into both sides and offers scientific evidence for where life begins.

[Danny Pelichowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brief, accessible, persuasive, and surprisingly covers a lot of the best arguments against abortion in a very synthesized way. I bought a hundred copies to give to my church I liked it so much.

[Dan Hamman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why Pro-Choice is not the Right Choice

The author takes each argument of Pro-Choice and shows plainly the reason these arguments are flawed. Based upon God's Word, life begins at conception and taking that life for any reason is killing a human being. That is in violation of God's commandment "Thou shalt not kill."

[Kelton Zacharias · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful for its brevity and clear organization.

[Samuel Lewis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got this at the Protestant service. I'm still pro choice but it was a good read.

[Hopson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once again Randy Alcorn tackles the pro-life vs. pro-choice debate with brilliance and gentleness. He argues that in many ways these two camps agree on more than they often admit. Pro-lifers agree that humans (and women!) should have the right to choose. But we don't have the right to choose anything and that right doesn't trump every other right. Pro-choicers agree that humans (and babies!) should have the right to life. They just disagree on what constitutes a human life worth defending. Alcorn nobly attempts to bridge the gap between these two warring camps by offering a clear and compelling case for the sanctity of human life and personhood from the moment of conception. If you've never considered a full-orbed defense of the sanctity of unborn life, I strongly recommend you consider a book like this. Even if you disagree, you'll at least better understand what Christians believe about abortion and the unborn.