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It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
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