Opposes Choice
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Issues get clouded when we reduce them to single hyphenated words: Pro-Life or Pro-Choice. It is true that Pro-Lifers could be more consistent in protecting human life at every level of development. However, it is also true that the real "choices" Pro-Choicers are advocating are so reprehensible that it is to their advantage to summarize them with the term "choice" rather than enumerate them. The popular Pro-Choice concept is actually a myth.
Myth 1: Reproductive Choice. Pro-Choice is not about a woman's right to choose whether to get pregnant. A woman can no more choose to get pregnant than she can choose to make her skin grow. Many women try to get pregnant and cannot. A woman can take steps that may prevent her from becoming pregnant. Some have limited effectiveness; others are 100 percent effective. Preventing pregnancy has never been the real issue. The "choice" in Pro-Choice is to keep abortion an option for dealing with the unintended consequence of casual sex. All other talk about rape, incest, and the health of the mother is just a smoke-screen to cloud the real issue - consequences.
Myth 2: Escaping Bad Consequences. The consequences of an unwanted pregnancy can be so frightening that many will do anything to avoid facing them. Just because a woman's choice for an abortion is private does not mean she has avoided the consequences. She must live with the consequences, but with legalized abortion, she can choose whether to allow one consequence (her child) to live. The consequences of that choice can be overwhelming and haunting.
Myth 3: Concern for the Mother. Giving a woman in a crisis pregnancy the choice of an abortion is like handing someone in severe depression a gun. We are not helping them by compounding their grief or their guilt. True compassion relates to human weaknesses and failures, comes alongside, and helps people through their trials.
Today's Pro-Choice political agenda is not about concern for women. It is the attempt of an increasingly depraved society to move beyond the point of copulating like barnyard animals to the place where we willingly destroy anything that hinders our narcissistic pursuits. It is a vain attempt to assuage the guilt of men, women, doctors, congressmen, judges and the general public who have chosen to hide behind euphemisms rather than face the fact that we, as a nation, are doing the unthinkable. We have slaughtered over 48 million babies since 1973. Our only hope as a nation is to repent and cry out for God's mercy: "He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy." (Proverbs 28:13)
This issue is a valid litmus test for political and judicial candidates at the most basic level. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Abortion is an abuse of power - the power of the mother, the power of the doctor, the power of government. There are some choices that are not ours to make.
Tim Witte
Winona Lake, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
Issues get clouded when we reduce them to single hyphenated words: Pro-Life or Pro-Choice. It is true that Pro-Lifers could be more consistent in protecting human life at every level of development. However, it is also true that the real "choices" Pro-Choicers are advocating are so reprehensible that it is to their advantage to summarize them with the term "choice" rather than enumerate them. The popular Pro-Choice concept is actually a myth.
Myth 1: Reproductive Choice. Pro-Choice is not about a woman's right to choose whether to get pregnant. A woman can no more choose to get pregnant than she can choose to make her skin grow. Many women try to get pregnant and cannot. A woman can take steps that may prevent her from becoming pregnant. Some have limited effectiveness; others are 100 percent effective. Preventing pregnancy has never been the real issue. The "choice" in Pro-Choice is to keep abortion an option for dealing with the unintended consequence of casual sex. All other talk about rape, incest, and the health of the mother is just a smoke-screen to cloud the real issue - consequences.
Myth 2: Escaping Bad Consequences. The consequences of an unwanted pregnancy can be so frightening that many will do anything to avoid facing them. Just because a woman's choice for an abortion is private does not mean she has avoided the consequences. She must live with the consequences, but with legalized abortion, she can choose whether to allow one consequence (her child) to live. The consequences of that choice can be overwhelming and haunting.
Myth 3: Concern for the Mother. Giving a woman in a crisis pregnancy the choice of an abortion is like handing someone in severe depression a gun. We are not helping them by compounding their grief or their guilt. True compassion relates to human weaknesses and failures, comes alongside, and helps people through their trials.
Today's Pro-Choice political agenda is not about concern for women. It is the attempt of an increasingly depraved society to move beyond the point of copulating like barnyard animals to the place where we willingly destroy anything that hinders our narcissistic pursuits. It is a vain attempt to assuage the guilt of men, women, doctors, congressmen, judges and the general public who have chosen to hide behind euphemisms rather than face the fact that we, as a nation, are doing the unthinkable. We have slaughtered over 48 million babies since 1973. Our only hope as a nation is to repent and cry out for God's mercy: "He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy." (Proverbs 28:13)
This issue is a valid litmus test for political and judicial candidates at the most basic level. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Abortion is an abuse of power - the power of the mother, the power of the doctor, the power of government. There are some choices that are not ours to make.
Tim Witte
Winona Lake, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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