{"id":178754,"date":"2018-02-05T19:07:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=178754"},"modified":"2024-06-18T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:29:08","slug":"stephen-baldwin-cant-support-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/stephen-baldwin-cant-support-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Stephen Baldwin: You can&#8217;t be Christian and support abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In an interview with Faithwire on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/faithwirenews\/videos\/2028735600729223\/\">Facebook Live<\/a>, actor Stephen Baldwin shared his pro-life beliefs and how he thinks supporting <a href=\"http:\/\/abortionprocedures.com\">abortion<\/a> or considering yourself pro-choice goes against the teachings of the Bible and of Jesus.\u00a0&#8220;The Bible&#8217;s very clear,&#8221; said Baldwin. &#8220;The Word never changes. [&#8230;] You can&#8217;t be pro-choice and call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ. Doesn&#8217;t go together. Just doesn&#8217;t go together. It&#8217;s a fact. It&#8217;s a simple common sense fact. So, anybody who hears me say that and goes, &#8216;Well, hey, I&#8217;m a this type of Christian or this denomination and in our church it&#8217;s acceptable,&#8217; I&#8217;m just going to say, &#8216;Well, whatever they&#8217;re teaching you according to God&#8217;s Word that has allowed you to believe that, is incorrect.&#8217; It&#8217;s very simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ffaithwirenews%2Fvideos%2F2028735600729223%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Baldwin, who is set to star in the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2018\/01\/19\/actor-stephen-baldwin-will-star-in-new-roe-v-wade-movie-the-story-of-what-really-happened\/\">Roe v. Wade movie<\/a>, firmly believes that supporting abortion goes against the principles of Christianity and the teachings of Jesus Christ, including God&#8217;s specific command to not kill. He believes that science backs up his pro-life stance as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to appeal to everyone that can hear this right now,&#8221; said Baldwin. &#8220;They have scientific evidence that shows an infant [a preborn child] at 20 weeks feels pain. In the womb, a child at 20 weeks is alive and developed enough to feel pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgw4X7Dw_3k\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Baldwin says that God gives us each choices and free will, but that when we choose abortion and other things that go against His teachings, &#8220;He&#8217;s going to be upset about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sad monday for me <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcsnl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nbcsnl<\/a> &amp; Hollywood Democrats think partial birth abortion is funny ! Sad as I think of all my beautiful nieces &amp; nephews<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Baldwin (@StephenBaldwin7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenBaldwin7\/status\/790600122937860096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Baldwin has spoken out against abortion. In 2016, he took to Twitter to voice his concern over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=108&amp;v=-kjyltrKZSY\">Saturday Night Live skit<\/a> featuring his brother Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, which joked about abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Faithwire on Facebook Live, actor Stephen Baldwin shared his pro-life beliefs and how he thinks supporting abortion or considering yourself pro-choice goes against the teachings of the Bible and of Jesus.\u00a0&#8220;The Bible&#8217;s very clear,&#8221; said Baldwin. &#8220;The Word never changes. 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