ISBN: Be the first to rate this. Add to cart We'll take you to your cart at ebooks. About Randy Alcorn. Reviews Latest first. Sign in with your Faithlife account Sign in Register. His books in print exceed seven million and have been translated into over thirty languages. Randy resides in Gresham, Oregon, with his wife, Nanci. They have two married daughters and are the proud grandparents of five grandsons. Randy enjoys hanging out with his family, biking, tennis, research, and reading.
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Please wait Sign in or Create an account. Home Books Why Pro-Life? Click to enlarge. Alcorn presents the facts as they are, and makes a compelling case for the pro-life position, also showing that pro-choice is really "no choice". He shares the gospel and also offers practical ways for us to help the unborn babies and their mothers by getting involved in church or community pro-life programs, opening our homes to pregnant women, and many other options.
Each person is fearfully and wonderfully made by our awesome Creator and life is a miraculous and beautiful thing! Abortion is a huge issue of our time, and I believe that every Christian should read this book. You will come away as a changed person. I certainly did! Aug 20, Mandy rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Pro-lifers and Pro-choicers, and those who can't decide.
Before reading this book, I knew in my heart that I was pro-life. I guess I really never put much thought into why, other than it seems right to me. In "Why Pro-Life? He makes a compelling case for when a baby is "alive. Most of his information is backed up with more than one source. He dra Before reading this book, I knew in my heart that I was pro-life. He draws interesting parallels between the arguments of pro-abortion activists and history's pro-slavery, and pro-genocide rationalizations.
The gruesome descriptions of the abortion procedure made my stomach turn, but it is important to recognize that fetuses have human bodies, brain waves, heartbeats, and life. This is a must read book. No issue is more divisive than abortion. It is important to know what you believe. I appreciated this book, which Randy Alcorn devotes largely to explaining the medical and logical reasons why abortion is wrong, but always with a feminist sensibility and a caring heart.
As a Canadian, I am honestly not certain that making abortion illegal even though I believe it is murder would improve the moral landscape in my country. Should women who procure abortions be put in prison along with their doctors? This is the question he does not answer, and I wish he would have.
This book I appreciated this book, which Randy Alcorn devotes largely to explaining the medical and logical reasons why abortion is wrong, but always with a feminist sensibility and a caring heart. This book reminded me again why, as a gay and disabled Evangelical Christian, I affirm a pro-life position.
I will continue to do what I can so that, even if abortion remains legal as it is likely to do given Canada's legal system , abortion ceases to be because we have removed the intersectional oppressions that give rise to the perceived need for abortions. Mar 21, Graham Heslop rated it really liked it. Pastoral and sensitive, but uncompromising on the truth.
I appreciated that Alcorn doesn't merely pick out a few verses of Scripture to show what God thinks about abortion; he relentlessly invites us as both thinking and feeling humans to reconsider the poor arguments made in favor of killing unborn children. The only evidence put forward that I wasn't entirely convinced by was the sociological statistics pertaining to women who have abortions.
That being said, I think Alcorn's concern for the m Pastoral and sensitive, but uncompromising on the truth. That being said, I think Alcorn's concern for the mother is a very necessary component for this debate.
For the pro-life argument must - as the author says a few times - show they are not merely pro-birth or unconcerned about the mothers involved Excellent quick read on abortion. Good, concise summary of the abortion issue from a pro-life perspective This is a brief and concise volume, not intending to be exhaustive but introductory to the issues of abortion.
That being said, it is adequate in conveying the core concerns of the pro-life community. There's also possibility for further study based on all the works cited. For the price, this is the best book to recommend to someone exploring this consequential issue. Jan 05, Mark rated it really liked it.
This is a small, quick read that presents the pro life argument without invoking religion. Contrary to popular belief, the pro life position is not merely religious dogma, but can be effectively argued without relying on the Scriptures. This book does just that. The author presents a lengthier argument in a separate book, but this one was a good place to begin.
Nov 04, Aliyah rated it it was amazing Shelves: read-in Heart-breaking, enraging, moving, saddening, hopefilling.
Shelves: nonfiction , christian , favorite-non-fiction , pro-life-v-pro-abortion. A great little book that manages to pack a ton of information into only about pages! The author explains and defends the pro-life position as it applies to abortion and birth-control. The main portion of the book is written with scientific evidence to support this position; then in the appendix and last chapters, the author discusses a biblical defense and explains the Gospel of Jesus.
Just a couple of minor things I noticed that I didn't care for: the author at one point states that "increasi A great little book that manages to pack a ton of information into only about pages!
Just a couple of minor things I noticed that I didn't care for: the author at one point states that "increasing numbers of people hijack the term pro-life to argue against capital punishment or just war…" p 61 but then later says "pro-life does not mean being pro-life only about babies. It seems to me that the author wants to have it both ways here… he wants to care about the lives of unborn children and their mothers, but not so much the lives of people whom he might view as "deserving" of death.
I just can't agree with him on this. Life matters. Note: Included in the text are internet links to photos of in-utero babies. I wish they had simply been printed in the book. Turning them into "homework" makes it more likely that readers will not view them. Dec 23, Leah Cossette rated it it was ok Shelves: women , reviewed , christianity. Randy Alcorn takes on a big and divisive topic in this small book, so it's inevitable that he would fall short in some ways. All in all, I wasn't displeased by this book, but I wasn't impressed enough to say I liked it.
As a Christian woman from a pro-life background, I'm going to need more than opinion to sway me on this. This review may be kind of disorganized and ramble-y, but so was the book, so I won't apologize. Alcorn, obviously, is of the pro-live movement. His stance is that life begins Randy Alcorn takes on a big and divisive topic in this small book, so it's inevitable that he would fall short in some ways. His stance is that life begins at conception as opposed to implantation, or development of the heart or brain.
He holds that stance very firmly, repeatedly declaring it be a fact this gets annoying in the first few chapters, but keep going. He does move on. The trouble is, he doesn't have anything to back up that "fact". There is no scientific OR biblical evidence that conclusively states that that is the truth. The difference between conception and implantation became important when Alcorn uses it to advocate the "fact" really, opinion that contraceptives cause abortion.
Since Alcorn and I disagreed on this matter rather early on, the rest of the book after that felt like talking to a wall. It didn't get better when he called birth-control users child abusers. Alcorn is free to hold that belief, and it seems his heart is in the right place, but he's unyielding on this stance which is based on an unfounded opinion. Simply put, Randy Alcorn is a man. While he has done his share of reading and writing on fetal development, he seems rather blind to some of the realities of reproduction.
I'm not saying he's a bad person. He's coming from an angle : Don't murder babies. This is a good angle to take. But in his focus on baby's life, he's overlooked the woman's. First of all, getting pregnant involves two people of different sexes. So why are we only policing one? If life begins when a sperm meets an egg, isn't the most effective way to reduce abortion to keep that sperm away from the egg?
In other words: Control your noodle, lads. Alcorn never discusses this possibility, no doubt because it's abhorrent to men everywhere. But really if you don't want so many pregnant women, you should be supporting better sex ed and yes, decrease in sexual activity for men. Yet no pro-life man ever addresses stopping abortion in this obvious way. What Alcorn did discuss was that pregnancy is actually not that bad! According to him. Talk to any group of women, and you'll learn otherwise. There are health risks, economic drawbacks, and many women do face consequences at work for having kids.
Many women suffer from post-natal complications up to a year after giving birth. And bills. Bills, bills, bills. No, birth is not as simple as heading down to your local hospital and spending an afternoon being tended by loving nurses. Then there's the after. Alcorn claims that having a baby shouldn't make that much of a difference, since women can still work and send their kids to daycare.
Not when daycare costs half your paycheck, you noodle! It's been said before, and deserves to be said again: If men are allowed to abandon a pregnancy with no consequences, why can't a woman? Because it's morally wrong, obviously, but why is it only wrong for us? Why are we always left being the last moral bastion in a culture where men are always yelling about their own perfect authority and strong leadership?
Look, I agree with Alcorn that surgical abortion is murder; children after the first trimester are identifiably human, with all the parts and pieces of a human being.
His arguments on that front were very convincing, and he's right that people need to be educated about fetal development and options other than abortion. But he's coming at the problem from the wrong angle. Pro-lifers who are targeting pregnant women in their outreach are coming to the battle a little too late.
If you want to stop abortion, you need to address the myriad of social issues that put women in that position. Poverty, marital abuse, lack of education, lack of resources, and so on.
And you have to listen to women. Margaret Sanger, for example fought for women's reproductive rights not because she was eeevvvuuuuuulll, but because her own mother went through 18 pregnancies in 22 years.
Margaret herself spent a lot of her childhood responsible for her surviving siblings, so of course she, like millions of women throughout history, went looking for a way of life that didn't involve being constantly pregnant. Now imagine if Sanger's father had given his wife a break instead of constantly impregnating her until she reached the sweet release of menopause. But no one expects better behavior from men; doing the right thing is for women, amirite?
This is especially relevant when one remembers that the majority of women getting abortions are not the stereotyped 'slutty' non-white teenage girls. They're white women, adult women. Many of them identify as religious, many of them have already had a child.
Most are poor, and many cite fear of being a single mother as a reason for wanting an abortion. These women want a way out not because they're evil whores, but because they don't want a kid.
So how do you reach those women? How do you save their babies? You're going to have to start with their relations with men. Wow, it's almost like God intended for men to be providers and protectors and men It's almost like men's abdication of moral or physical responsibility has far-reaching consequences. Who could have thought? In Chapter Ten, Alcorn says something that sums up what I'm trying to get at: " Abortion fosters the attitude, "My comfort and happiness come first -- even if I have to disregard the rights of an innocent person to get them.
I agree with him. But honey, where do you think we learned that attitude from? You lost the fight against abortion when the Sexual Revolution happened ; in other words, when women began to be allowed to live in the way that men always have.
Even Alcorn quotes Margaret Sanger, acknowledging that abortion is an attempt to get at" unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children ".
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