Churchgal's post has me thinking about a lot of ideas that have been ping ponging in my head for awhile. Recently I've been really upset by some of the arguments against abortion. Namely, I abhor the idea that a life is less of a life if he or she is conceived as a result of rape or incest. I think that allowing abortion ONLY in these cases is more nonsensical than outlawing abortion all together from a Christian perspective. Valuing one life more than another is clearly wrong. Being a therapist, I see these heart wrenching circumstances, and have yet to find any two cases that warranted the exact same response to unique, but similar situations of brokeness.
I do think abortion is murder, I do think abortion is wrong. However, it is an evil no less evil than exploiting entire peoples in sweat shops. Or allowing the genocide of an ethnic group. Or building our own wealth while globally millions starve. It is no less or more evil than an unjust war, or a million and one types of other corporate sin in which I engage or am a part of EVERY SINGLE MOMENT OF MY LIFE.
So, for these reasons, I feel convicted that I am prochoice. I am pro that it be your choice. Abortion is a Pandora's box that we opened long ago. Some mistakes can never be undone. The decision to abort or not is such an idiosyncratic one that I do not feel comfortable to let the government decide which situations warrant "permission" to abort a baby, as if the government has the authority to legislate such absolution or condemnation.
So it is your choice and my choice to be a Christian or to not, to eat organic food or not, to abort your pregnancy or not, to love others or not, to wear red shoes or not, and the list goes on. I pray everyone would experience the freedom that I have in Christ. I pray that we do such a good job of educating and loving our women and teaching our men to love women so that abortion would seem a ludicrous proposition. It's not likely to happen this side of creation, but I pray it will happen.
Until then, show me how to love you. I'll show you how to love me. This is going to be hard, and messy, and probably cost way more than I'll ever get back. You want to? It's your choice.
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nicole, that was a thoughtful post. thanks for that.
I am pro life. Still, I could probably accept society's decision to allow women to choose if abortions were few and far between.
The number of abortions that would result from rape, incest, etc., would be few. Even if you throw in all cases of failed contraception, surely the number wouldn't balloon that much.
It troubles me that the number of abortions is so high. With the increased control women have over their sexuality (not that contraception is strictly up to the woman, of course), and all the means available in a modern society to avoid conception, I just don't get it.
In individual cases, I might be sympathetic. But when I look at the big picture, it looks like a huge number of people behave irresponsibly. Abortion on demand makes it relatively cost-free to be lax.
You're asking people to turn a blind eye while tens of millions of babies are destroyed annually. (In the USA; the number is much smaller, but still too high, in my opinion, here in Canada.)
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