In this thesis I analyze different Christian ethical arguments on abortion and its connection to social responsibility. In the analysis I focus on the views that the Church of Sweden, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Word of Life have on the procurement of an abortion and how they connect social responsibility to abortions in society. I also analyze how the different churches uses the Bible in their argumentation on abortion. 

The Church of Sweden is the only one of the three churches that is pro-abortion which they base on the belief that there is a relevant difference between a fetus and a born child. The fetus doesn’t have the full human value which means that the Christian responsibility to protect the human life doesn’t apply to it, making abortion justifiable. 

The Roman Catholic Church and the Word of Life instead believes that the human life must be protected from conception, making abortion strictly forbidden since it is equal to killing a human. The Catholic Church therefore also argues that abortion should be illegal because of its similarities with murder. 

All three of the churches believes that it is important that the society gives parents financial and other forms of support to give them alternatives to abortion. The Roman Catholic Church and the Word of Life has the goal that the support completely will remove abortions from society. The Church of Sweden instead has the goal to give parents the choice to either give birth to the child or to procure an abortion and that the support will give them a freer choice since it will remove some of the burdens of a child that can force them to a certain decision. 

In their argumentation on abortion the Word of Life uses the Bible directly basing their theology that the human life must be protected from conception directly on passages from the Bible. The ten commandments are also directly used to show the wrong in killing a human life. The Catholic Church also refers to the Bible in general and the ten commandments in their argumentation, but they also refer to the church tradition. They base their theology on the value of life from conception on what the church has believed throughout history and not directly on the Bible. The Church of Sweden never directly refers to the Bible in their argumentation on abortion, but they use general ethical principles they base on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, giving them an indirect use of biblical values.