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Some Thoughts On the Pro-Choice Abortion Position
Posted by Ronnie Worsham
Abortion has been a hot topic since I can remember. I was getting ready to start to college in March 1970 when the Roe versus Wade suit was filed, and I was a junior in January 1973 when the Supreme Court decision was handed down legalizing abortion. I actually remember hearing about female students who performed their own abortions with clothes hangers and such. These were unsubstantiated as far as I know, but I mention it just to say I’ve been hearing and thinking about this my whole adult life.
Having been in ministry now for about 35 years, I have encountered quite a few women and men as well who had previously been involved in an abortion of an unwanted child. In a couple of instances, the man actually opposed it, but the woman had gone ahead with it anyway. Everyone that I talked to regretted ever having it done. My heart goes out to anyone who did things in their youth that they live to later regret, in some instances bitterly. I feel nothing but compassion and mercy for them. Now I’m well aware that the numbers of people who’ve been involved in abortions that I’ve known represents a small sample. The fact is that most people who are in a counseling session with a conservative Christian minister will not likely be indicative of the whole population of those who choose to have abortions. But, nonetheless, I do have some insight into the hearts of people doing it.
I find abortion personally repugnant and unbelievable. I think I understand those who’ve chosen it. However, I can certainly be opposed to something without being condemnatory of those who have been previously involved in such. My problem though is with those who are well aware of the brutality of abortion and then defend it! I have written an article on abortion that describes my personal convictions pretty clearly, I think. That article has not only stirred up people who are pro-abortion, but the article has also incurred the wrath of a couple of anti-abortion individuals I heard from who didn’t feel it was “telling people the truth from the Bible”. I just happen to think there’s a lot of Scripture being used in the debate that wasn’t intended to be used in application to abortion. These verses surely shed light on the subject but aren’t really addressing the subject at all. I think Christians ought to be the most honest, forthright people in the world, especially in our use of Scripture. The article I mention appears under the article section of this website if you’d like to read it.
The question I want to pose here is this: Why don’t those people who fight so vociferously for the “rights of women to choose” concerning their own bodies (meaning their fetuses), fight equally for those same women to have the right to pay a doctor to kill the women themselves. I’m talking about legalized euthanasia, defined as mercy killing. Euthanasia is allowing individuals to be put to death painlessly. It is allowing people to die by their own accord or perhaps by the decision of some other responsible party.
Don’t get me wrong, I am NOT for legalized euthanasia. I find duplicity in the right-to-choose position because of this, and it is seems to me just outright disingenuous. How can so many fight so strongly, and with a clear conscience, for a woman to have the right to have a doctor kill her fetus, but seem so silent about the fact that she does NOT have the right to have a doctor kill her. I mean if one is so “pro-choice”, considering those who don’t agree to be hindering women’s rights, shouldn’t they be equally assertive over her right to euthanasia. So, the Supreme Court rules, and advocates forcefully defend, that a woman should have the choice over her own body in that she can euthanize her living fetus, that is in fact not a permanent part of her body at all but just a temporary dependant, but she doesn’t have the right to actually have the life of her own body legally ended.
And by the way, I understand that there are modern forms of euthanasia that are truly “merciful” in that they just allow people to go off to sleep and not wake up. A pathologist and right-to-die (right to choose) advocate, Jack Kavorkian, was sent to prison from 1999 to 2007 for doing just this. This kind of mercy-killing is in sharp contrast to the cruel, clinical and brutal ways the lives of fetuses are often ended in abortions, and especially in late-term ones. And, the doctors who perform these cruel procedures do so under the protection of the law and at the insistence of the pro-choice crowd. I’m constantly astounded by this inconsistency. I’ve never heard this whole point even addressed. Go figure.
Silence is golden I suppose when a point shows an inconsistency.
Posted May 18, 2010
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