Where pro-lifer's and pro-choicers go wrong?
Dear Blog Readers,
Election season is interesting! We find out who we like the best and then elect them as our representative of our nation and trust them to govern our nation by defending our laws and rights.
Many church types want to know who is pro life and who is pro choice. This is one of the factors that many base their vote on. Many pro lifers, like myself, want to defend innocent life. The likely arguement of the pro-lifers is you would never throw away a brand new porche, or destroy a 3 carot diamond earings, then why on earth would you destroy human life.
But there is a flaw that I believe is enrooted in every political and non political stance I know within the evangelistic movement. The church loves to hate sin because it says its wrong in the Bible. But the church has a tendancy to always forget about loving the person commiting the sin.
I think of a 14 year old girl, who comes from a broken home. The girl is then raped by a cerial rappist and she later finds out she is having his baby. All she wants to do is forget about this horrific moment in her life and she does not want to remember it every day when she looks at her child. She wants to abort!
This is a pretty good case on the pro-choice side of why we should have the option of abortion. Pro-lifers will then begin to preach and get on their soap box on why it is wrong to murder innocent life.
My stance is you both have it wrong. First take care of the girl by financially, physically, emotionally, and spiritually healing her and then help her through the process of deciding what to do with the baby. See I believe this is not a life or death question, it is a community of support question. I believe instead of judgeing and daming these women who are in this process of decision and instead show them love and support. I believe we will not only save their babies, but also save them as well, because the decision of keeping their baby alive and looking for alternatives will be easier when they have the support they need in the process.
To me the question of "is it right to be pro-life or pro-choice?" is the wrong question. To me the right question is "how can we eliminate the need to have abortions in the first place?".
This year my new years resolution is to listen to the broken and down and out because I believe if I listen more to them, I will begin to learn the wisdom of God.
Thanks for reading,
-Justin
Election season is interesting! We find out who we like the best and then elect them as our representative of our nation and trust them to govern our nation by defending our laws and rights.
Many church types want to know who is pro life and who is pro choice. This is one of the factors that many base their vote on. Many pro lifers, like myself, want to defend innocent life. The likely arguement of the pro-lifers is you would never throw away a brand new porche, or destroy a 3 carot diamond earings, then why on earth would you destroy human life.
But there is a flaw that I believe is enrooted in every political and non political stance I know within the evangelistic movement. The church loves to hate sin because it says its wrong in the Bible. But the church has a tendancy to always forget about loving the person commiting the sin.
I think of a 14 year old girl, who comes from a broken home. The girl is then raped by a cerial rappist and she later finds out she is having his baby. All she wants to do is forget about this horrific moment in her life and she does not want to remember it every day when she looks at her child. She wants to abort!
This is a pretty good case on the pro-choice side of why we should have the option of abortion. Pro-lifers will then begin to preach and get on their soap box on why it is wrong to murder innocent life.
My stance is you both have it wrong. First take care of the girl by financially, physically, emotionally, and spiritually healing her and then help her through the process of deciding what to do with the baby. See I believe this is not a life or death question, it is a community of support question. I believe instead of judgeing and daming these women who are in this process of decision and instead show them love and support. I believe we will not only save their babies, but also save them as well, because the decision of keeping their baby alive and looking for alternatives will be easier when they have the support they need in the process.
To me the question of "is it right to be pro-life or pro-choice?" is the wrong question. To me the right question is "how can we eliminate the need to have abortions in the first place?".
This year my new years resolution is to listen to the broken and down and out because I believe if I listen more to them, I will begin to learn the wisdom of God.
Thanks for reading,
-Justin
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