How Will We Handle the Mourning?
Jul 20th, 2007 by Amanda
MIntheGap has the best post I’ve seen on abortion in a long time. He quotes the Times Online:
After years of wondering whether we’ll ever change society’s permissive attitude towards abortion, I’m convinced that we will some day come to view it in the way we now view slavery, a moral abomination that generations simply became inured to by usage and practice.
The big difference, of course, is that abortion is worse than slavery. Not just in the obvious sense that it involves the taking of life rather than liberty. But because our current debate suggests that deep down most of us really know there’s something quite wrong with abortion.
Say what you will about the slaveowners, I doubt many of them sat around agonising about their decision to keep Uncle Tom and his family chained to the shack at the end of the drive. I doubt they justified it, after much soul-searching, by saying they were only painfully exercising their “choice” to own slaves so they wouldn’t have to sacrifice their standard of living.
He then follows it up with this question:
When we finally get it, how will we handle the mourning?
I can’t help but wonder the same thing.
I have pondered this a bit myself, and in short I do not know. Christians will mourn the most I think, and we will have to learn to teach those who are not Christians, but still in mourning how to mourn right.
I think a good run through the book of Lamentations might provide some guidance.