Yes.
Honey, you don’t have any say in whether your girlfriend obtains an abortion. You cannot stop her.
And, of course, your girlfriend would not have any reason to consdier an abortion if you are abiding by church teaching and refraining from sex until marriage.
Not all things should be choices. Murder is one of those things.
And, in case you haven’t noticed, you don’t have a “choice” about whether you wear a seatbelt, smoke in restaurants in most cities, drive any speed you wish, murder, rape, steal, pay taxes, or litter.
And, abortion is not a Christian issue. It is a human issue. The killing of babies is of concern to all people.
Why do you want other people to have the choice to kill someone? Do you not believe killing other people is wrong?
On what do you base your position that killing a baby should be a legal choice?
There is no such thing as being “pro-choice”. What a person who says they are “pro-choice” really means is they are in favor of the legal status of baby killing.
I’m just using the quotes because some of the statements here are why abortions are on the rise again and we aren’t accomplishing our goals.
First of all, the OP stated a postion that is held by MOST Americans… in fact, it’s held by the majority of the people in the world actually - OF COURSE, that doesn’t make it correct through…
Secondly, Yes you can be Pro-Choice and NOT Pro-Abortion, no one is Pro-Abortion (well almost no one). The issue is a woman’s right to choose.
Thirdly the OP makes the correct statement that many people in American aren’t Christian. I believe that is incorrect but many “Christians” are Pro-Choice.
So in contrast to 1Ke statements what can be done?!?!?
Problem and Solution - The United States is a Democracy… at least for now, and as long as it is we supposedly live under the belief that the majority should rule. Sadly right now the majority believe in a Woman’s right to choose… because… (and this leads into the Pro-Choice vs Pro-Aboriton) they do NOT believe that it is murder.
IF you do NOT believe something is alive, then it’s not murder, plain and simple.
EVEN the Catholic Church believed for hundreds of years that a baby was not alive until after the quickening (look it up if you don’t believe me - I believe some Orthodox Bishops still hold this view as well). The quickening would be when the mother could actually feel the baby. Thus in OUR old definition most abortions would not be murder.
So some might think I’m attacking the Church with this… I’m not because the point is very important. Once the Church knew that life began at conception, other teachings fell into place and we have the theology behind our beliefs in this area which have been revealed to us. (Praise the Lord!)
Yet others are still in the darkness, the majority is still in the darkness actually.
So what to do?
The first thing we have to do is to continue our support of the standard Pro-Life groups (no not the ones that promote violence - and yes there are a few).
Secondly we look outside of those standard groups to see how we can get the abortions numbers back down. All sign point to economic prosperity. Most people don’t realize that the statement about not worrying about an abortion if they were married is a prime example of the problem. The MAJORITY of abortions are procured by mothers who already have other children. That’s right, most don’t use it as birth control.
Thridly we focus extra resources, perhaps even some from the standard groups, to groups helping women trying to make that choice. If we can help them see the light, if we can help them make the right choice and help them feel like they have a chance to raise the child in a decent environment then that is one more life.
Fourth - we need to support politicians who are worried about more than just the upper class. We need health care and we need jobs for impoverished Americans. That too will save lives (we can see that from Clinton’s years in the 90).
Finally - We step up the Education! Most people don’t realize that many young people today who group up in the Pro-Choice 90s are more Pro-Life than the kids growing up today? We need to get back to this… especially for the kids who have had abstinence only education the post 7 years. Why? because it’s their group that abortions are going up… remember what I said about most people not believing like we do?
So what’s the education going to accomplish?
Along with the other stuff it accomplishes this:
If we can have better economic prosperity with better education then the number of actual abortions will start to truly decrease at a decent rate again.
If those people aren’t worried about feeding their family and the kids growing up have a good education and are taught to think then we can educate them.
If we can educate them in lines of thought in regards to life begining at conception which are NOT purely Christian then we can reach them with Science / Philosophy rather than Religion (Separation of Church and State remember?)
If we can reach them, then we have a voting block than can truly vote to outlaw abortion. If the majority of the people decide it should be done away with it can but… this has to be a long range plan with philosophical losses along the way… so we give in one area… if it saves ONE child’s life, my pride is worth that.
In the long run it could save millions… that’s my opinion at least.
Joe
