Abortion isn’t a religious issue or is it?

Does religion truly plays a role in abortion? Does it really state in the Christian Bible that abortion is bad? These are questions that are brought up as an opposition to the GOP presidential candidates. Many religious Christians believe that it breaks the fifth commandment, “Thou shall not kill”. Some made parallels amongst the Jewish people killed by the Germans during the Holocaust. It says that it’s different, that was actually killing persons compared to fetuses. Some people believe that killing fetuses does not measure up to killing persons, argued by the Evangelicals. Evangelicals according to polls,

“about 10% of evangelicals allow for abortion in the case of rape or incest”
(Wills).

The Catholic Church did not make a stand about abortion to prior to recent years. This causes a way that there not scriptural evidence saying that abortion is truly wrong and is killing someone. The author argues that,

“even popes have said that the question of abortion is a matter of natural law,
to be decided by natural reason, well the pope is not the arbiter of natural
law, natural reason is” (Wills).

This discredits other ways that it should be affiliated religiously. There is no sense of it being based on misconception that pro-life advocates or acts out of religious conviction. These have been a staple argument that still goes on in our world.
In my opinion, I personally am against abortion but only when it is truly needed such as a rape. I believe that once the egg is fertilized, there is life so when a woman is undergoing abortion, they are a killing a human life. In some cases rape is an outcome that does happen. Abortion should be last resort. If I was the father of the child, and the woman who is giving birth to my son at a young age should not have an abortion. There should be other alternatives such as adoption because saving a life would be the better scenario for me but this does not necessarily mean I am all with force against abortion. I don’t like it but it should be a choice if really needed. Now about the author, in a sense I disagree with him because I believe it does have a religious connection. Anything that is produced by humans that has living such as a fertilized egg becoming a baby is life. If someone were to have that abortion, it would be killing that life. God created this life and humans so I do believe that it has some religious connections. I found it weird how the Catholic Church actually took a stand on this in recent years and how that some popes acknowledge that this is based on natural reason. In a sense I agree with that statement because I am not fully against abortion, treated as a last resort. In my understanding, abortion is a hard topic to argue about because you will always have someone either one way, both, a little, etc.

works cited: LA Times: “Abortion isn’t a religious issue” by Garry Wills (Opinions).