As I was performing my morning ritual of blog reading, I came across a most interesting post on Parableman. He is commenting on recent posts made on Pro-Life Blogs that suggest the common position of pro-life with exceptions (for example, rape and incest) is an inconsistent position.
I agree with Pro-Life Blogs.
My beliefs on abortion are very closely tied to my faith and belief in God. I believe that God is the Creator of every life. I believe that God knows every child before they are even conceived. I believe children are gifts, not consequences.
If a woman is raped and becomes pregnant, God has a reason, plan, and purpose for the child. No one on earth has the right to take the life of a child God saw fit to bring into being.
By allowing exceptions, we are indirectly saying, “No, God. You were wrong. This child shouldn’t be allowed to come into being because it’s too traumatic for the woman. We think you made the wrong decision by creating this life so we are going to take it.”
Jeremy, of Parableman, says, “Being pro-life is being generally opposed to abortion, not being absolutely opposed to it, and moral considerations might lead someone to be generally opposed to it while allowing some exceptions, particularly in these life-or-death cases.”
What greater moral consideration is there than the life of a child who did not choose to be brought into the world, can not choose to remain in it, and is at no fault whatsoever for any choice made by the mother, or the man who may have raped her? What kind of morals do we have when we kill a child God brought into this world in order to save the life of the mother? If our steps are numbered, and I believe they are, then killing the child won’t save the life of the mother if God intended her to die. And saving the life of the child won’t kill the mother if God intended her to live.
Perhaps my argument is too “Christian flavored” for you. But for me, the two issues (God and abortion) are so closely tied together that you can’t talk about abortion without talking about God.
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