Why are Evangelical Christians pushing to outlaw abortions without clear Biblical guidance on abortion?

Laws, especially when made for moral reasons, should have unambiguous support in God's Word. But God's Word is far from unambiguous on this issue. The clearest passages addressing abortion (although the Bible uses other terms) all appear to *lean toward* it. Job's Desire to Have Been Aborted --------------------------------- > 11 **Why died I not from the womb?** why did I not give up the > ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees > prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For > now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then > had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the > earth, which build desolate places for themselves; 15 Or > with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: > 16 **Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as > infants which never saw light.** 17 There the wicked cease > from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. (Job 3:11-17, KJV) Solomon's Declaration --------------------- > 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, > so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with > good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that **an untimely birth > is better than he.** 4 For he cometh in with vanity, and > departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. > 5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: > this hath more rest than the other. (Ecclesiastes 6:3-5, KJV) David's Lament -------------- > 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as > soon as they be born, speaking lies. 8 As a snail which > melteth, **let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a > woman, that they may not see the sun.** 58:8 (Psalm 58:3,8, KJV) Hosea's Prophecy ---------------- > Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: > they shall fall by the sword: **their infants shall be dashed in pieces, > and their women with child shall be ripped up.** (Hosea 13:16, KJV) None of these passages declares that abortion is *good*; but none of them *condemns* it, either. In fact, they appear more favorable toward it overall. Given lack of clear condemnation for abortion, how can people push for legislation on the basis of their strongly held opinions, without respect for the right of others' individual conscience? Do we presume to think that it is a lesser evil to force others against their will, than to allow them to possibly make major mistakes with their free choice? As Paul aptly states: > Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for **why is my > liberty judged of another man's conscience?** (1 Corinthians 10:29, KJV) **On what basis, therefore, can the coercion of conscience be based, when the Bible seems so unclear on the issue?** ----------- Links to evidence that Evangelicals are pushing for abortion laws: - [What everyone gets wrong about evangelicals and abortion](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/16/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-evangelicals-abortion/) - ['Throughline' Traces Evangelicals' History On The Abortion Issue](https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734303135/throughline-traces-evangelicals-history-on-the-abortion-issue) - [Evangelicals and Abortion in the 20th Century: A Hidden History?](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2013/01/evangelicals-and-abortion-in-the-20th-century-a-hidden-history/)