re United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization—

On May 3, 2022, Heather Riggleman addressed the question “What Does the Bible Say about Abortion?” on Christianity website.

“Every year, over three million women … in the US will face an unplanned pregnancy and of those pregnancies, 43% end in abortion ….

The word abortion is never mentioned in the Bible ….

That does not mean the Bible is silent on the matter though because it has a great deal to say about the value God puts on life and even when life begins. King David illustrates this most beautifully in Psalm 139.

‘For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb ….

Additional references include the following.

• This is what the Lord says — your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself, (Isaiah 44:24).
• Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5).
• But when He who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through His grace (Galatians 1:15).

The complete article, accessible free online, includes a section the provides perspective “For Those Who Have Had an Abortion.”