Abortion: What is the Real Issue?
The group of people who thought up the plan for “convincing” our world of abortion’s necessity were very smart. I say this because they made abortion NOT the main issue. Rather than focusing on abortion’s morality, or right & wrong-ness of it, they turned the focus to something else. The “freedom of choice”. These people knew that we American’s love the right to give people the right to choose whatever they want to do. This was sneaky, and very purposeful.
It’s purposeful because it takes morality out of the picture when it comes to abortion. This is how the thinking now goes in so many of our minds: “I may think abortion is wrong, but I will never tell someone that they don’t have a right to choose that option.” What is so sneaky about this way of thinking is that someone can disagree with abortion 100% and still push people toward choosing it. Somehow we do not see that a vote for “choice” is really a vote to keep abortion legal!
We need to wake up and see that the main issue in abortion is not “choice”, it’s morality. The question is not “Do you have the right to have an abortion?” The question is “Is it right to have an abortion?” That answer is always, no.
Except when the answer is yes.
Karen,
Thanks for commenting on the blog, can you explain your “yes” please?
Sometimes abortion is the right answer. You cannot know what the correct action would be for a situation until you are going through it yourself.
I disagree Karen. We can know what is right and what is wrong before we experience some things. Everything is not relative to our experience. If God says it is wrong, it is always wrong, no matter if I have lived through it or not.
But not everybody believes in God, or the same god. Women are fully autonomous adults and are capable of making their own decisions, and we should respect that.
Karen,
I appreciate you staying with me so far in this. Let me hear you rightly: The main issue than is God’s existence, not abortion right? If God exists, am I right to say that you would disagree with abortion? Or, would you keep your opinion regardless if God existed or not? This is my last comment on this, so here is where I come down: God exists, and therefore His rights and His Word come before our human rights to do as we please.
No, I believe in God (most days), and I still think abortion should be legal.
Check this out:
http://caseforlife.com/index.asp
It’s not about whether the fetus is a human being or not, it’s about women being able to control what goes on inside her own body. So either we make abortion illegal, and make women little more than vessels, or we maintain legality and let women be their own moral actors. The fetus can have full rights as a person, or the woman can have full rights as a person, but not both.