Peter Ould marks the fortieth anniversary of Molech-worship in the UK with a post including the following very effective Christological argument against abortion:

I was convinced of the absolute wrongness of abortion in practically all circumstances by an argument put to me by a Roman Catholic during my time in Oxford. He asked a simple question – “Would there have been any time during Jesus’ gestation that to abort him would not also have been to abort (and murder) God?” And without wanting to get into the subtleties of incarnational Christology, the answer was of course “No”. “Aaaahhh”, went my RC friend. “Given that we believe in the hypostatic union, so the incarnate Jesus from conception was totally God and totally human, it wouldn’t have been moral or acceptable to abort the human Jesus would it. At this point I consulted my Thomas Weinandy on the communication of idioms and said “No”. “There you have it then”, said my friend. “Imagine any unborn child is Jesus and then consider whether it would be OK to abort”.