Abortion - A Misnomer

Bishop John (Kallos) of Thermon

The term 'abortion' is an exercise in semantic gymnastics to rationalize the taking of human life. The California Medical Journal calls abortion a "schizophrenic subterfuge." It is a deliberate attempt to avoid "the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception and is continuous whether intra or extra-uterine until death", so says the Journal in its editorial entitled "A New Ethic for Medicine and Society".

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision making abortion legal during the first three months of pregnancy will lead to even greater evils, that being death control and death selection, or in a word, 'euthanasia'. The Supreme Court's decision making abortion legal by no way makes abortion moral. Abortion is first and foremost a moral issue, for it is a question regarding human life. It is a flagrant violation of God's Law which is superior to man-made laws. Every Orthodox Christian has the moral responsibility to live according to the Divine Laws as revealed to us by Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition.

For the complete article go to the Orthodox Research Institute website.