How do parents pray for their unborn child? This article provides five things to incorporate into prayer for an unborn child that displays our dependence on the Spirit who gives life. 

Abortion was practiced in the ancient Near East at the time of Moses. Waltke considers a number of Old Testament texts to test them for their view on the life of the unborn child and the nature of the fetus: Genesis 2:7, Job 42:7, and Psalm 51:5.