Why are Evangelical Christians pushing to outlaw abortions without clear Biblical guidance on abortion?
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Why are Evangelical Christians pushing to outlaw abortions without clear Biblical guidance on abortion?
I can find no sources that back up your statement that ”Evangelical Christians are pushing to outlaw abortions without clear Biblical guidance on abortion”.
Nor can I find any supportable references that this ”coercion of conscience be based, when the Bible seems so unclear on the issue”. Where is this coercion?
The Pew Research Center almost seems to imply the opposite, in the fact that most still favour legal abortion to be the norm.
More than four decades after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide, most Americans (57%) are supportive of legal abortion, according to a 2017 Pew Research Center Survey.
By comparison, only 35% of those who are part of the mainline Protestant tradition say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, with 60% in support of keeping abortion legal. Members of the Episcopal Church (79%) and the United Church of Christ (72%) are especially likely to support legal abortion, while most members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the mainline Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (65%) also take this position.
Unitarian Universalists (90%) and American Jews (83%) in the 2014 survey were much more supportive of legal abortion than the general population. And most people who have no religious affiliation – particularly atheists and agnostics (87% each) – also support abortion rights.
Among those who do identify with a religion, the majority view about abortion among members of a particular group often mirrors that group’s official policy on abortion. This is the case with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon church) and the Southern Baptist Convention – both churches oppose abortion, as do most members of those churches. And the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Unitarian Universalist Association, and Reform and Conservative Judaism, for example, all support abortion rights, in line with most of their adherents.- American religious groups vary widely in their views of abortion
The following question about the immorality of abortions is in fact quite closely related to this post, as it shows that there is at least some biblical references against the idea that abortion is a moral right: What is the biblical basis for the claim that abortion is immoral?
In the end there no support that Evangelical Christians are using some form of coercion of conscience in this domain. Coercion implies doing so by force:
the use of express or implied threats of violence or reprisal (as discharge from employment) or other intimidating behavior that puts a person in immediate fear of the consequences in order to compel that person to act against his or her will.
If someone can show me otherwise, I will modify this post.
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