Expert: Tom Schott - 11/6/2008

Question
hello,

please why is it that God been all knowing, allow women who he knows are not ready to have kids get pregnant and then they would go and abort it? while there are millions of people out who haven't done anything, and paying millions just have child, others being humiliated, because they don't a child? i don't understand, why would he allow people to get abortion like 5 times, and then he continues to give them a child each time they have sex? or is a child no longer a gift from God?

Answer
M,

Of course children are gifts from God. But God works within the confines of both human biology and human will. What this means is He doesn't mess with a woman's natural fertility or lack of it--some are more likely to get pregnant than others--and he does not prevent any human being from making whatever moral choice they choose to make. So if somebody chooses to have an abortion, God is not going to stop them from doing so any more than he would stop commission of any other sin. The fact that he is all-knowing doesn't mean that he is not going to respect the free will of a human being to do whatever he or she chooses to do.