I have had several conversations with people this week regarding the recent election and their frustration with Obama's stance on abortion. To be honest, while I believe that EVERY life is completely sacred, abortion isn't something I think about on a regular basis. Yes, it breaks my heart that we don't recognize the sanctity of ALL lives, but I don't line up the government with abortion.
As mentioned above, the most shocking thing to me has been the amount of people who, when asked how they choose to vote, vote solely on the president's stance on abortion yet do nothing.
Have we forgotten how to use our voices? Have we forgotten how to fight against injustice? Where is our imagination?
What if the people who were adamantly opposed to abortion sought out women who were susceptible and offered to adopt their child? What if, instead of picketing, you went inside the abortion clinic as a volunteer? Obviously, not to support abortion, but to be closer to women who felt they had no other option? What if you loved not only their unborn child, but the mothers carrying the child? What is we loved the mothers like Jesus loved the woman at the well?
I don't know who reads our blog and if it will make people angry. Feel free to leave any kind of comment you'd like (if you choose to), but I do ask you this...please be thoughtful and intelligent before writing. It's fine if you disagree, but if it is degrading, I'm deleting it.
peace, Carter
PS Something Micah and I talk about is the sanctity of all life...be it the unborn, the endangered mother, the person on death row, or the soldiers in the midst of battle...how can we choose to love only one kind of life and not all people?
4 comments:
Carter, I appreciate this post a lot. I have a friend here in Eugene who knows that we are doing a church plant and asked me and my roommates what our thoughts were on abortion. So why such a hot topic?
I think we all would be radically challenged when we start to know someone who has gone through an abortion or is in the process of wanting to get one. It does not matter to me about who is right and who is wrong for there are always two sides to a story. I, nor anyone, can change someones mind on not getting an abortion, but we can and must love those women regardless. Jesus calls us to love people and I believe it means to love the women who want abortions or have had an abortion. I struggle with this one. I agree, take action friends to help the cause you have a passion for. Learn peoples names and get to know them for who they are, beautiful people God created in His image. Love is what drives us to adopt or to have a homeless women who is pregnant live in our extra bedroom in our house.
I do get sad how topics like this divide people and makes them so upset. Why did my friend, who knows I love Jesus, have to ask me about abortion rights when we started to hang out? What really breaks my heart is that she has turned away from Jesus because of religion in politics. She doesn't understand how people who are supposed to love so much can hate some people who make a choice that they don't agree with. She's not alone with that thought for I feel the same way.
People think and act out of their own experience. We are all created differently with different personalities, different upbringing, different expectations of life and those in our lives, as well as being different in our responses to outside stimuli. It is in those differences we choose to impact issues such as abortion in differing ways albeit to picket, to show mercy and care to the mother, to give financial assistance and counsel, offering to adopt the unborn child and even in the way we vote. And so, each one plays the role that evolves from their own experience.
Amen! Whether you're pro-choice or pro-life (which by the way are both ridiculous terms), certainly both sides should be able to work together to make abortions as rare as possible.
Let's use our voices, not only to fight, but also to share love & compassion.
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