How can you be a Christian and anti choice?
Recently walking through a parking lot I saw a car with the following bumpersticker:
You can't be Catholic and pro abortion.
How silly. Nobody is *pro* abortion. Anyone who believes the argument about abortion is a pro or anti abortion one is either stupid or just unwilling to face reality.
I guess though for many people they have to refuse to face what the issue really is...because if they did, as a christian, they would not be able to continue with their mission.
Abortion rights are not about promoting abortions. They are about promoting knowledge. Complete knowledge about woman's individual reproductive decisions.
Personally I have never had an abortion. However I have been given the information concernign this option and asked if I would like to speak with a counselor concerning this option. No pressure was put on me. I was treated as a person who, if given the all the information, was capable of making the decision that was best for me.
Pregnancy is an intensely private affair. Nobody else can go through it with you. They can help you, they can comfort you, they can rejoice with you. But it is occuring in your body, and only you can know what it means. Something that may seem minor or unimportant to someone else may be more then you are capable of bearing or vice versa...a condition or problem that may seem overwhelming to others may not be for you.
We hear time and time again and see the billboards saying: Adoption not Abortion and 2 million couples waiting to adopt.
Why do none of those billboards mention the thousands of children awaiting adoption in this country? Why do none of those billboards mention the thousands of children in foster care, many in facilities because there are not enough foster parents. Instead of trying to force pregnancies on women, why are these people not worrying about the children already here?
Instead of focusing on making it the law that every pregnancy results in birth..why not try to make sure that every birth results in a wanted and loved child?
I had an old priest who gave a very unusual *life* sunday sermon. He talked about all life. Especially the already living. He told the parishioners that if they wanted to stop abortion to start volunteering. That more abortions are stopped by this then by all the laws in the world.
He finished by saying "If I see any of you picketing outside of Planned Parenthood today, I will stop and pick you up and take you to the food kitchen or pregnancy hotline to volunteer."
The main reason a woman has an abortion is because she feels that she has no other choice, or that this is the best choice she has available. Change that belief and you will cut the number of abortions. But you have to let go of your preconcieved decisions of what makes up a legitimate choice/option. Because you don't matter...what you believe doesn't matter....It is what the pregnant woman believes that matters.
The bumper stickers I want to see are two very simple ones:
How can you be a Christian and be anti-choice?
and
God can trust me with choices, why can't you?
You can't be Catholic and pro abortion.
How silly. Nobody is *pro* abortion. Anyone who believes the argument about abortion is a pro or anti abortion one is either stupid or just unwilling to face reality.
I guess though for many people they have to refuse to face what the issue really is...because if they did, as a christian, they would not be able to continue with their mission.
Abortion rights are not about promoting abortions. They are about promoting knowledge. Complete knowledge about woman's individual reproductive decisions.
Personally I have never had an abortion. However I have been given the information concernign this option and asked if I would like to speak with a counselor concerning this option. No pressure was put on me. I was treated as a person who, if given the all the information, was capable of making the decision that was best for me.
Pregnancy is an intensely private affair. Nobody else can go through it with you. They can help you, they can comfort you, they can rejoice with you. But it is occuring in your body, and only you can know what it means. Something that may seem minor or unimportant to someone else may be more then you are capable of bearing or vice versa...a condition or problem that may seem overwhelming to others may not be for you.
We hear time and time again and see the billboards saying: Adoption not Abortion and 2 million couples waiting to adopt.
Why do none of those billboards mention the thousands of children awaiting adoption in this country? Why do none of those billboards mention the thousands of children in foster care, many in facilities because there are not enough foster parents. Instead of trying to force pregnancies on women, why are these people not worrying about the children already here?
Instead of focusing on making it the law that every pregnancy results in birth..why not try to make sure that every birth results in a wanted and loved child?
I had an old priest who gave a very unusual *life* sunday sermon. He talked about all life. Especially the already living. He told the parishioners that if they wanted to stop abortion to start volunteering. That more abortions are stopped by this then by all the laws in the world.
He finished by saying "If I see any of you picketing outside of Planned Parenthood today, I will stop and pick you up and take you to the food kitchen or pregnancy hotline to volunteer."
The main reason a woman has an abortion is because she feels that she has no other choice, or that this is the best choice she has available. Change that belief and you will cut the number of abortions. But you have to let go of your preconcieved decisions of what makes up a legitimate choice/option. Because you don't matter...what you believe doesn't matter....It is what the pregnant woman believes that matters.
The bumper stickers I want to see are two very simple ones:
How can you be a Christian and be anti-choice?
and
God can trust me with choices, why can't you?
posted by Kharma @ 10:43 AM
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