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How Will We Answer Them?
May. 6th, 2022 08:24 pmWith the leak of a Supreme Court draft which may or may not reflect its final decision regarding abortion in the United States, a sizeable number of women have taken to screaming for the right to dismember the unborn and suck them out of what should be their places of safety. It's heartbreaking to see how women have been pitted against children in this day an age: the right to choose versus the right to exist.
Over the last week, I have read about how we pro-lifers are fascist Nazis who only want control over women, as it was back in the stone age, how this is just a start. States taking a stance on Abortion have been refered to as Taliban states, a horible, grievous insult to the women suffering in Afghanistan and other such places. The ridiculous "what's next" scenarios being floated by these people are truly mind-boggling. They all come down to the idea that, by sticking up for the unborn child, we want to make women property, because the millions of pro-life women are ignored.
I am, with every fiber of my being, fiercely pro-life. I am not heartless, I am not uncaring, I don't hate women, and I have no desire to see Nazism in North America. But am I pro-life? You bet I am, and anyone who asks me knows it.
I'm told the pro-life stance is a right-wing Evangelical Christian stance, as if Jews, Muslims, and others are all for the "procedure". Yes, I am an Evangelical Christian. But even if I were an atheist, I woud still be fiercely pro-life.I believe that life begins at conception, and I believe that to take away that life is murder.
But there is a religious element to it, too. As a Christian, I am answerable to the sixth commandment: Thou shalt not kill. So in this case, my basic instinct agrees with my religious convictions, and vice versa.
What's more, I believe that, when we reach Heaven, we will meet these children who were aborted. We, as a society, will have to face the question, Why? Why did you not give us the chance to live? How are we going to answer that question? In some cases, the answer is that not to do so would have resulted in death to both. I get that. But in so many cases, the answer is, "You would have gotten in the way of our careers, our lives, our dreams, you were an inconvenience." I say our because aborthion is very often a joint decision.
Forty-six years ago, a young woman was raped. She could have had the child aborted: she was a teenager, the pregnancy wasn't her fault. But she chose to have the baby, and when it became clear that the baby was blind and she knew she couldn't care for it, she put the child up for adoption. On my wedding day, I was privileged to meet this woman. And I was able to thank her from the very depths of my heart, because the choice she made all those years ago made me the most blessed man in the world, when I married her birth-daughter, Caroline. I am so incredibly glad I got to thank her.
Over the last week, I have read about how we pro-lifers are fascist Nazis who only want control over women, as it was back in the stone age, how this is just a start. States taking a stance on Abortion have been refered to as Taliban states, a horible, grievous insult to the women suffering in Afghanistan and other such places. The ridiculous "what's next" scenarios being floated by these people are truly mind-boggling. They all come down to the idea that, by sticking up for the unborn child, we want to make women property, because the millions of pro-life women are ignored.
I am, with every fiber of my being, fiercely pro-life. I am not heartless, I am not uncaring, I don't hate women, and I have no desire to see Nazism in North America. But am I pro-life? You bet I am, and anyone who asks me knows it.
I'm told the pro-life stance is a right-wing Evangelical Christian stance, as if Jews, Muslims, and others are all for the "procedure". Yes, I am an Evangelical Christian. But even if I were an atheist, I woud still be fiercely pro-life.I believe that life begins at conception, and I believe that to take away that life is murder.
But there is a religious element to it, too. As a Christian, I am answerable to the sixth commandment: Thou shalt not kill. So in this case, my basic instinct agrees with my religious convictions, and vice versa.
What's more, I believe that, when we reach Heaven, we will meet these children who were aborted. We, as a society, will have to face the question, Why? Why did you not give us the chance to live? How are we going to answer that question? In some cases, the answer is that not to do so would have resulted in death to both. I get that. But in so many cases, the answer is, "You would have gotten in the way of our careers, our lives, our dreams, you were an inconvenience." I say our because aborthion is very often a joint decision.
Forty-six years ago, a young woman was raped. She could have had the child aborted: she was a teenager, the pregnancy wasn't her fault. But she chose to have the baby, and when it became clear that the baby was blind and she knew she couldn't care for it, she put the child up for adoption. On my wedding day, I was privileged to meet this woman. And I was able to thank her from the very depths of my heart, because the choice she made all those years ago made me the most blessed man in the world, when I married her birth-daughter, Caroline. I am so incredibly glad I got to thank her.
