Evangelical Views
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Although Ariadne concentrates on secular arguments, it is important to be aware of other considerations that have led to strong views on abortion. The rightness or wrongness of abortion is not an intrinsically religious or theological question. Nevertheless, there are religious considerations that can lead to positions on the issues.

Evangelical Christians tend to emphasize Bible study, spreading the Gospel, and bringing their Christian beliefs into daily life. On the abortion issues Evangelicals are split, but many (probably most) have taken strong anti-abortion positions. Given their twofold desire to base their arguments on scripture and still address a broader audience, Evangelical authors usually make both scriptural and secular arguments.

In discussions of abortion, Evangelical writers often make use of the idea that "man" is a creature made in the image of God. It is this that gives him or her a special relationship to God. It becomes important to ask, then, when the child becomes a divine "image-bearer" --at conception, quickening, viability, birth, first breath, or some other point?

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