Every year in the United States alone, more than one million babies are aborted. Statistics show that 50 percent of U.S. women who obtain abortions are younger than age 25, and at current rates, nearly one-third of American women will have an abortion.
Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, January 17, 2016, is a day to celebrate and focus on choosing life.
The Wesleyan Church supports the sanctity of life and those who choose to trust God despite difficulties. January 17, 2016, marks Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, an event observed the third Sunday of every January. Wesleyans are encouraged to observe this day on which many take a stand for human life.
Because all human beings are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) and are “fearfully and wonderfully made,” (Psalm 139:14) abortion grieves his heart. God, the Creator of the universe, deeply values human life and it says so in his Word:
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! (Psa. 139:13-17 NIV).
Read The Wesleyan Church’s statement on the sanctity of life.
