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Pro-Life, Pro-Choice: Empty Words?
Let’s admit it America, we love sex! It’s part of our American freedom. It comprises that liberty we hear about so much – the spoil of patriotism!
Sex is on par with the fast car; rock music; fashion design; champagne & caviar – what would anything matter without sex!?
So when people say that they are pro-choice, or that they are pro-life, what does it mean? The terms have become so politicized now that they ring hollow. If it really were that big a deal, where is the outcry; where is the sacrifice? And I don’t mean some radio talk show host promoting some abstinence group, or some ad hoc committee spurting statistics and sounding the alarm on the perils of abortion. We know the symptoms, but by and large, from the pulpit to the White House people are talking but there is very little action. Why?
Because the Roe vs. Wade law is America’s security blanket. I’ll bet dollars to donuts there are a number of people who say they are pro-life, but have been complicit in an abortion whether directly or indirectly. There are so many situations and circumstances where having a child was not in the best interest of the parties involved.
Whether the married man who had a one night stand; the preacher who went too far during a counseling session with one of his female church members; the rebellious teenager; you name it – America has made Roe vs. Wade a contingency plan.
It’s like parachuting, and at the right time, pulling the ripcord. The sexual revolution still has us free-falling because we have a legislated ripcord to counter the fall. But make no mistake; America is falling because America is failing on this issue.
The issue of abortion goes back to ancient times as discovered in some Greek and Egyptian writings. When you look at the history of planned parenthood and eugenics (the idea of population cleansing of undesirable traits that are prone to murder, rape, prostitution, etc), it becomes clear that generation after generation has struggled with abortion. It ties into a whole lot of other social ills like poverty, racism, classicism, illiteracy, unemployment, and the social behaviors that have become the bi-products. No one person can say they will overturn Roe vs. Wade without first rolling up his or her sleeves to deal with some of the root causes of social misbehaviors.
Politicians say what their supporters want to hear, but what is the reality? Administration after administration has left us with empty promises. Life is about choices and “choice” should not connote negativity on such a vast and sensitive issue as abortion. When we choose our sexual behavior, we choose consequences that we have to deal with one way or the other. As pro-lifers would hope that a woman chooses wisely for something she’ll have to answer for – whether to God or to her own conscience – the choice is still hers.
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