Tuesday 20 November 2012

To love Life

This post was inspired by a recent debate I had with two women friends of mine over the issue of abortion and the showing of pictures of aborted babies to the general public.

First of all I'd like to state that I understand women are often under alot of pressure when it comes to pregnancy and abortion. As a man I know that I will NEVER have to face many of the dilemmas that they do.

That said I think that many women, in their great vulnerability, are easy targets for "well meaning pro choicers".

You see the problem is that the whole abortion affair together with euthanasia are ever so "clean and caring". What do I mean? By clean I mean so clinical. All the instruments, the leaflets, the concepts seem so bright, shiny, new and even liberating. The underlying reality of what abortion and euthanasia are actually about can be so easily lost, even by those who are pro life

Then there is the "caring" aspect which is the whole emotional side of the "pro choice" lobby. "We care about women" and "no child should grow up in poverty" and "it's her body" are packed to the brim with emotional pulling power and they are all so appealing to a frightened and vulnerable woman. That combined with what is no less than total intellectual dishonesty found in the "pro choice" lobby goes towards pushing women into having less "choice" and not more.

Take for instance pregnancy itself. The unborn is referred to as a foetus, most particularly if the woman in question is having serious doubts about her pregnancy. Furthermore many "pro choicers" will be very adamant in their assertion that life doesn't begin with conception but at some vague moment later, usually when their personal "choice" deems it so.

The truth of the matter is actually very simple: Life begins at this point http://www.medicinenet.com/conception_pictures_slideshow/article.htm

and continues naturally until this point http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://fromagirlspointofview.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Grandpa-From-The-Dead.jpg&imgrefurl=http://fromagirlspointofview.com/?p%3D9362&h=334&w=500&sz=116&tbnid=TJOLTVgO7D1y7M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=139&zoom=1&usg=__wK8ONmotp6STzQe2vyZWEyDgfOE=&docid=AwPctzRV2dMzMM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=toerUMuuN-7s0gWeiYGwBQ&ved=0CDkQ9QEwCA&dur=206

 after hopefully a long and holy life.

All this has lead me to muse on what pro lifers are to do in their service of the Culture of Life. Of course we have to be aware of what the "pro choice" lobby are about. But campaigning for life should stem frpm a love of life and a genuine desire to see women and the vulnerable flourish. Our fight for life must be upheld by practical measures to help women who find themselves pregnant when they feel they'd rather not be. We already see this practical element present in the beautiful work that the Good Counsel network does.

Furthermore we must keep in mind the clever tactics used by those opposed to life. They offer what really and genuinely appears to be a solution to a very painful and frightening dilemma, be it pregnancy or end of life issues. Some women have an abortion and breathe a sigh of relief, feeling that their "problem" has been resolved only to find themselves in the throes of post abortion trauma syndrome many years laters. What is apparent with abortion is that it's dire consequences are not always immediate. Nevertheless with every abortion there are consequences, even if they aren't seen in this life.

At the heart of our battle cry for life, especially when it comes to abortion simply MUST be: Women DESERVE better than abortion. That is a woman's right. Her right is to feel the genuine support of society, the authentic respect of her body and her God given fertility.

Respect for life at its inception will logically lead to respecting it at its end. Conception and natural death are but two ends of a continuum called the story of life.

Abortion is the abrupt closing of the book before the beauty of the story has had the chance to be written, whereas euthanasia is the tearing off of the last pages before the story reaches its summit. Each life is a book of many pages wating for the hand of the Author of Life to write upon them.

It is only by working on people's hearts will we ever be instrumental in changing our society which seems so fixated on the culture of death.

When hearts are opened then, and ONLY then, can God begin to write His word and His truth on them.

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