ViaCrucis
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It wasn't a difficult question. Do you support abortion?
No. I don't support abortion. But I do believe that there are cases where terminating a pregnancy might be necessary for health and safety issues. And I would rather live where the law permits women that agency instead of forcing them into back alleys or DIY abortions where there is immense risk. The means toward curbing abortion isn't about making all abortion illegal regardless of context and circumstance, but about improving living conditions, providing adequate healthcare and social services to women and children, better sex education. I would rather we work toward improving things in our society so that we can reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies altogether, and so that women who get pregnant aren't forced into a situation where abortion seems like the only solution. Better maternity leave laws, better welfare programs, social safety nets, programs to help and aid minority and underprivileged women and children, etc.
Want to reduce abortions, not just push abortions into the back alleys? Then address and fix the underlying social issues that promote abortion.
Don't tell me that you are pro-life just because you are anti-abortion; that's lazy and ridiculous. Pro-life doesn't end at birth, it means actually promoting the life, health, and well-being of other human persons in our communities. Want to be pro-life? Then don't support policies and programs that encourage and promote violence, especially violence against the poor, the weak, and the least of these. Want to be pro-life? Then don't support the death penalty, don't support needless war, don't support wasteful military spending that could be better used to actually improve the life of your fellow neighbors and citizens. Use your voice to actually speak out in favor of justice and mercy, as God commands: "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"
When we stand before the Throne of Judgment on that Last Day, what is it that Christ our God says to us? He says, "I was hungry" and "I was thirsty" and "I was naked" and "I was sick" and "I was in prison" and "I was a foreigner". For whatever we did, or did not do, to the least of these we did, and did not do, unto Him.
Ask yourself where you want to be on that Day.
-CryptoLutheran
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