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“What is your position on abortion then?”

I said, “Can I ask you a question?  On every university campus I visit, somebody stands up and says that God is an evil God to allow all this evil into our world.  This person typically says, `A plane crashes:  Thirty people die, and twenty people live.  What kind of a God would arbitrarily choose some to live and some to die?”‘

I continued, “But when we play God and determine whether a child within a mother’s womb should live, we argue for that as a moral right.  So when human beings are given the privilege of playing God, it’s called a moral right.  When God plays God, we call it an immoral act.  Can you justify this for me?”

“Reaching the Happy Thinking Pagan, A Conversation with Apologist Ravi Zacharias,” Leadership, Spring 1995, page 21