I would like to stress that, like many other topics, this one is not monopoly of the Christians. However, what one observes is that Christians have more clarity in this field. In fact, even an atheist with a minimum sense of autoconservation can easily grasp that life is the supreme value, which cannot be taken under any circumstance.

     There are a couple of distinctions that are not so subtle and that should be mentioned here.
Why does one hear more Christians speaking against abortion than speaking in favor of those who die of AIDS (malaria, TB, etc.) in poor countries? The magnitude of the two problems is not very different. In both cases there are millions of human lifes at stake.
I think there are two reasons. One is good and one is bad.

     The good reason is that, from the moral viewpoint, abortion is a far simpler case than giving poor people access to cheap drugs. Abortion is the deliberate distruction of the weakest form of human life. Period. There is no tweaking the problem, that's it.
If millions of people die of AIDS in Africa, the selfishness of drug companies that don't allow the distribution of cheap generic drugs is one part of the problem, probably a big part, but together with several other factors. One should wonder in the first place why some of these countries are in such an extreme poverty. Incompetent, corrupt governments, and their former colonial masters are part of the answer. Poverty is generally associated with the extreme moral degradation of those societies (don't tell me the usual story that AIDS spreads because there are no condoms. AIDS spreads in the first place because people don't understand the value of love and sex). This is all to say that, while the attitude and the behavior of some drug companies is unbearable, objectively they shouldn't be given the entire burden of responsibility.
Along these lines, there is only one logical solution to the problem of abortion, and that is to forbid it.
Conversely, there may be dozens of good, logical and viable solutions to the problem of people in underdeveloped countries dying of diseases that can be easily treated or controlled. After all, the existence of pharmaceutical companies is not a moral aberration in itself, while the existence of abortion clinics is. There are certainly ways that can and should be followed to allow poor people access to disease treatment and to allow pharma companies to make a honest living.

     That was the good reason. The bad reason is that Christians, more often than not, make a confusion between their obligation to be peaceful, law-abiding, order-loving citizens and a cozy sense of being politically correct bourgeois who avoid confrontation as much as possible.
That's it. We, the Christians, are the heirs of the biggest revolution of all the times, yet we are scared that others may think we are social agitators. Under this distorted logic, if you are a good Christian, you don't criticize the establishment, and Big Pharma is certainly an important part of the establishment.
Clearly, it is time to wake up and assume our responsibilities. We should shake away the crust of bourgeoisie and go back to the basics. One of the basics is that life is the first and foremost gift of God, which we should be always ready to defend. Pro-life is not just a political label. It is a part of our being.

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