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Pro-Life or Just Anti-Abortion-On-Demand
by
Major Stephen Court
I
am growing increasingly convinced that many Christians are not
taught the truth about abortion. I just assumed that because
you are born again, your sins are forgiven, you’ve been
adopted into God’s family, and you’ve crossed over from death
to life, that you’d be pro-life.
But many in my circles aren’t. In fact, the movement in which
I fight is not pro-life. Now, before anyone gets all hot and
bothered, let me admit that they say they are pro-life. But
what they really are is anti-abortion on demand. That is not
pro-life.
That is pro-convenience and anti-mess. That is pro-pill and
pro-condom. That is vaguely moral-sounding.
But it is not pro-life.
You see, if you
believe in the sanctity of life, if you are PRO-life, then you
are pro-life. What I mean is that if you are pro-life you
don’t attach a bunch of exceptions to your stand. Many of my
comrades say that they are pro-life EXCEPT in cases of ______,
______, and _____ (fill
in the blanks with your choice of unseemly situations
including rape, incest, etc.). What they are really saying
is that they are against abortion on demand. Yippee. At best
they are saying, “I am in favour of life (of protecting a
baby’s life) with some exceptions, in which cases I am not in
favour of life.”
And they don’t
see the issue. It is tantamount to saying that I am pro-Jesus,
except _____, _____, and _____
(how about these
blank-fillers: 1. when it means I have to stop sinning; 2.
when I might be embarrassed for being labeled a
Jesus-follower; and 3. when I might have to obey Him at the
cost of my desires?). You’re
not pro-Jesus. You might be pro-religion, pro-appearance, or
pro-warm-fuzzies, but you are not pro-Jesus. In effect, you
can say, “I am in favour of Jesus, with some exceptions, in
which cases I am not in favour of Jesus.”
Once you throw an exception in, your position is not based on
principle. It may be based on preference or consensus or
consequence but not on the fact that you believe human life to
be anything special.
Does that make
sense? For example, you may not want to kill unborn babies on
demand. That may be an issue of preference. You would prefer
to use a pill or a condom than have your tax dollars
(in my country)
poured into killing babies as a means of contraceptive. Or it
may be an issue of consensus. Most people in our western
society feel it a little uncivilized to be killing babies on
demand. It could be an issue of consequence. So you are
against killing babies on demand because if you go around
killing unborn babies on demand it becomes increasingly
difficult for the mother to bear children in the future.
But you cannot say that you are against killing babies on
demand because you hold a principle that human life is sacred,
since you make exceptions to your anti-abortion stand.
And once you start down that road you find yourself traveling
with the likes of Professor Peter Singer, who actually argues
that some humans aren’t people and so don’t deserve the same
human rights as the rest of us. Unborn babies are on his list.
But so are newly-born babies.
And there are also really old people who can’t really do much
anymore.
And he’d include all sorts of health issues and mental
limitations.
So, once you make an exception to your pro-life role you are
in cahoots with Singer and the death squad. You may think it
unseemly to kill old, sick, or whiny people, but your distaste
for killing them is not based on any principle but only
preference, consensus, or consequence.
Christians need to learn about the sanctity of human life. We
are created in God’s image.
Let’s fight to protect life.
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