Is Abortion Wrong?
The right-wing
conservative Christian American has up until recent years had a
ready answer: “Of course it’s wrong, it’s illegal!”
Nowadays,
that cannot be the answer because the American government and
the world in general have written pro-abortion laws, so the
anti-abortionist is fighting the system. So the pro-lifers now
scream “Murder!” in order to guilt the sexually active teenager
(or her mom) and the doctor. The post-abortion patient reels
under this indictment, not understanding the vehemence of these
self-proclaimed medical experts. The doctor merely counts his or
her money.
So the debate has
polarized into two opposite opinions. The pro-abortionists call
themselves “pro-choice”; the anti-abortionists call themselves
“pro-life.” Any propagandist can tell you that both of these
terms are misleading (but effectual to preempt reasoning). The
pro-choice appellation only gives the appearance that someone is
holding up women’s rights; the pro-life designation only gives
the impression that they are for life in general. For instance,
in general, pro-choice adherents think that capital punishment
is a bad thing. Society should do everything it can to
“rehabilitate” rapists, murderers, child molesters, etc. In
general, pro-lifers think these miscreants should be
hanged. This is an oversimplification, of course, and so are the
terms “pro-life” and “pro-choice.”
On the side of the
abortionist: The woman who seeks an abortion has obviously made
some poor choices and is attempting to make it right. She is
doing the best she can under the circumstances and is continuing
her choice making based on her best information and her
welfare. And not only her own welfare: She also thinks that the
world will be a better place without another hungry mouth to
feed. The woman who calls her “murderer” is outside her
jurisdiction because neither she nor her religious organization
has the power to determine what is murder; only the state can.
On the side of the
anti-abortionist: The woman who seeks an abortion has obviously
made some poor choices and is attempting to get away with
murder. Maybe not murder, exactly, but she’s trying to sweep the
products of conception under the rug, which is a little like
drowning kittens or incinerating leftovers at a concentration
camp. Get rid of the embryo/evidence and you get rid of the
consequences. The pregnant woman has some responsibility to look
at issues and not run to the first and easiest solution, or as
Hitler called it “The Final Solution.”
Having said that, I
grant that the woman seeking an abortion does have a lot of
complex issues to face, and she thinks she is making the best
decision given her circumstances. She doesn’t want to bring an
“unwanted child” into this cursed world. The Bible character Job
himself said it would have been better to have never been born.
The would-be mother may already be too burdened with life to
bring more life into the world. She is physically and mentally
incapable of bearing and raising a child. She does not have the
financial capability. The child is from an unfortunate one-night
stand with a bum. The child having the child is 14 years old,
she is the pastor’s daughter, the father of both children is the
pastor, and the family is going on a missionary trip to
Thailand.
All of these things
could be true in one woman’s life. But, who’s kidding who if we
say this is typical? Most women seeking an abortion are mostly
trying to clean up a life that is so punctured and patched that
they feel they cannot take another thorn This is the average
American life. We have an abundance of goods, as it says in
Ezekiel 16, but we have no comfort. We are estranged from
happiness and seek it by pursuing more of the same stuff that is
destroying us. The women seeking abortions are by and large
trying real hard to find happiness in life and make most of
their choices based around that. Can we blame them for trying?
I’m sorry to refer to
“these women” in the third party, but it is only a convention. You
could be one of “these women.” Let me tell you that I have nothing
against you for wanting to be happy. But I must warn you that the
pursuit of happiness will only bring real big problems if not dealt
with properly in this life.
That’s the biggest thorny
point: Who decides what is the best way to deal with the pursuit of
happiness? The Christian? Then why do just as many Christian women
practice abortion as non-Christian women? They too must feel it is a
practical way of obtaining a certain amount of freedom that is
necessary in order to pursue this happiness thing. Other women, say
Muslims, know that abortion is wrong. Many Christian women have
affairs with men (commonly known as “adultery” in the Bible) and
want to reconcile with their pastor so they visit the abortion
clinic.
The Christians are aghast,
but sympathetic. To be fair, many women just dump their husbands and
marry the sperm donor, and keep the child. Many churches are loaded
with such husband and wife swappers. The feminized churchmen smile
and nod their approval, because they understand what makes women
tick and how they need escape and how they need special nurturing. I
say, if this is true, then abortions must also be a respectable way
of dealing with life issues. After all, childbirth can be
destructive to a woman’s lifestyle when it causes her to die (or
suffer responsibility). Also, raising children can also be just as
destructive to a woman. Being married to one husband is also very
destructive to many women. There’s nothing like a new start in life
once they shake off the old flesh and put on the third or fourth
husband (Christian, of course!). The pastors know all this and love
to perform wedding ceremonies (for a fee).
Such is the religion of
the lost. They think that life is a bunch of decisions one must make
in order to better oneself, all with the hope this leads to
happiness. This is why abortion is wrong: It is pro-choice.
Pro-choice says it all! It exalts the rights of the unregenerate
man or woman. By unregenerate I mean the body, soul and spirit of a
person who puts his trust in body wisdom and neglects the spirit.
He makes his life-and-death decisions based on convenience, not
truth. But why pick on the poor woman who is having an abortion? I
would rather pick on the self-righteous Christian woman who is
liberated from obedience to her husband. In order to compensate for
this, she goes and screams and yells “Murder!” in front of clinics,
instead of staying home and taking care of the house and the kids
she brought into the world.
Let’s look into the mirror
when we point out the sins of the pro-choice movement. Women,
sisters, do you offend the law of God by your antics? Obey your
husbands. Show the straying women how to love their husbands and
children. Preach the word of God to them, not your husbands. Maybe
they’ll change their minds about what choice is all about. Maybe you
will save a soul from ultimate judgment and the destruction of God.
Jesus said, “If any one hears my sayings
and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to
judge the world but to save the world. He who rejects me and does
not receive my sayings has a judge; the word that I have spoken will
be his judge on the last day. John 12:47,48.
“I
have chosen you; you did not choose me.” John 15:16a
“The times of ignorance
God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent,
because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in
righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has
given assurance to all men by raising him from the dead.” Acts
17:30.
A final word for both the abortionist and the
anti-abortionist: Proverbs 14:12, “There is a way which seems
right to a man, but its end is the way to death.”
- Chris Simonson
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