Nope, still a cop-out.
That's like saying "I'd never murder anyone, but it's that person's decision if they want to go out and murder someone." or
"I'd never steal from someone, but I'm not going to judge someone who does."
There is never a good reason for an abortion. NEVER. I'm adopted, I've given up a child for adoption and I've been faced with making the decision of not aborting versus losing my life. Hmmm...I'm still here, so apparently not abortion didn't kill me.
When we listen to the kind of logic that is posted above, we put our lives in someone else's hands other than God's. We put our trust in someone else (namely ourselves) rather than God. Being told that if I didn't have an abortion I would die was probably the hardest thing I have ever heard. And yes, in my sinful nature, I thought about what it would like to have an abortion. And in that moment I knew that I had let Satan win a round. And I felt HORRIBLE. I prayed and I prayed and I prayed, and what I got was this:
Romans 8:31-39
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died-more than that, who was raised to life-is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I knew in that moment that I had to put my life in GOD'S hands, not mine. And I knew that abortion was not the answer. Even had I died, I was in God's hands.
And ever since then, I have never ever said "I'm pro-life but I'm pro-choice" again, because I realized you can't be both. You can't say "I wouldn't make that decision but I'm not going to judge the woman that does."
Jesus would've never said that - why should we.
A month ago I got involved in a thread about Santa Claus that was waaaaay over the top. I was told that my husband and I lacked discernment - oh wait, that was the halloween thread. No, in the Santa Claus thread I was told that I was a liar for letting my children believe in Santa, I was told that I was doing my children no favors by letting them think anything good of SATAN (the anagram of Santa).
