Rather than allowing political pundits or fertility clinics to define the conversation, the church should equip Christians to think biblically about creation, marriage, procreation, the image of God, justice, and the sanctity of human life.

Wilberforce and some of his allies in Parliament focused their efforts not on ending slavery per se, but on ending the slave trade. They received hundreds of parliamentary petitions against the slave trade in 1788 and the years following."