“Aborting Babies Just Sends Them to Heaven” is a False and Disgusting Claim

The most chilling of rationales I’ve ever heard for abortion was uttered by a gentleman with whom I was discussing abortion: “Aborted babies are in the best place possible, heaven. Isn’t it better to be aborted and go to heaven than to be born in a ghetto to a crack-addicted mother or end up in prison? Honestly, I wish I had been aborted myself.”

My good God! This comment isn’t just alarming and repugnant; it is a grotesque blend of theological ignorance, moral confusion, elitist prejudice, and internalized self-loathing. Worse, it dresses itself in a veneer of compassion, cloaking death in the language of destiny and redemption, and it’s not the first time I’ve heard this dangerously twisted reasoning.

Let’s call this argument what it is: the spiritualization of despair, and a theological betrayal of Christian hope.

Let’s unpack these sentiments as best we can.

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To begin, this reasoning glosses over and erases the horrifying reality of what abortion actually is. It is not a gentle transition into eternity. It is a violent act against a living, sentient being. During a late abortion, a child can feel pain as sharp instruments tear through tissue and bone.

Tiny limbs are dismembered one by one, organs crushed, skulls pierced or suctioned, hearts stopped by injection. In chemical abortions, the baby’s developing body is poisoned, and the child dies slowly as the mother labors alone to expel what remains. To describe this as mercy is to strip the word of meaning. It is suffering inflicted upon the smallest and most defenseless members of the human family.

And at the heart of this comment lies a sinister implication: that some lives, those born into poverty, addiction, or struggle, are less worth living. This is not only morally abhorrent but also deeply racist, elitist, and classist. To suggest that the child of a “crack-whore” (an already dehumanizing slur) is better off dead is to judge human worth based on socioeconomic status, to see hardship not as a circumstance to overcome but a justification for elimination.

Such thinking has historical parallels in the eugenics movement, where poverty and disability were treated as grounds for sterilization or worse. We rightly recoil from that history. We should also reject it when it’s dressed up in pseudo-theological robes.

Then there’s the self-loathing aspect.

That someone could say, “I wish I had been aborted and gone straight to heaven,” isn’t just disturbing, it’s tragic. It reveals a deep wound, a hopelessness that must be met not with affirmation but with compassion and truth. Scripture never justifies despair. Christianity is the faith of resurrection, not resignation. Jesus doesn’t say, “Blessed are those who were never born,” but rather, “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10).

To believe that life is better off not lived is to deny the transforming power of grace. And it’s to forget that God often births greatness from suffering, Moses, born into genocide; Joseph, sold into slavery; Christ, born in a stable under Roman occupation.

And the Bible is unequivocal in its celebration of life, especially vulnerable life in the womb.

• Psalm 139:13-16: “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb… Your eyes saw my unformed body.” Life in the womb is not a placeholder for heaven. It is a sacred creation, worthy of protection.
• Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.” God doesn’t form children for the purpose of immediate death; He calls them by name, with purpose.
• Exodus 20:13: “You shall not murder.” No theological gymnastics permits us to kill the innocent to deliver them into glory. God does not command evil that good may come.

And while it is a comfort to know that God receives the innocent, this truth is never presented in Scripture as a warrant to kill them. Heaven is not ours to administer. That authority belongs to God alone.

To suggest that abortion is somehow merciful ignores the very real harm it does to women. The physical risks, perforated uteruses, infections, and future infertility are well-documented. But the emotional and spiritual wounds run deeper still. Post-abortive women often report depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and deep spiritual anguish.

Why? Because abortion doesn’t erase motherhood, it fractures it. The soul knows when life has been lost.  Christianity teaches that life is never ours to take. To justify abortion on the grounds of heavenly reward is to mistake eternity for utility, and to miss entirely the redemptive nature of suffering. The person saying “I wish I’d been aborted” is wishing all of this on their own mother!

And abortion offends the heart of God. In Proverbs 6:16-17, Scripture lists “hands that shed innocent blood” among the things God hates. In Deuteronomy 30:19, God pleads with Israel: “Choose life, that you and your children may live.”

To kill a child is not to honor God’s sovereignty; it is to play god in His place. It is to exchange the glory of divine parenthood for the cold calculus of convenience or fatalism.

The notion that aborted babies are better off in heaven may feel superficially comforting, but it’s a dangerous lie. It diminishes the value of earthly life, distorts the character of God, and dehumanizes both the unborn and their mothers. It gives moral cover to violence and wraps despair in piety.

God doesn’t call us to protect the unborn from life. He calls us to protect them for life.

That means affirming the dignity of every human being, born into wealth or poverty, into joy or hardship. It means offering mothers real support, not fatal choices. And it means rejecting every argument, however pious-sounding, that treats death as a deliverance from difficulty.

The Gospel never says, “Blessed are the aborted.” It says, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” So let us make peace between mother and child, between truth and compassion, and between a broken world and the God who heals it.

LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.