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Odeliya -> RE: Pro-choice AND Christian - Please explain (10/10/2008 12:28:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: TorchHeart
How do Christians who are Pro-Choice justify their decision to hold that view in correlation their faith?
I was, for the first about 2 years of being a Christian. It was very difficult to change my mindset for coming from liberal Judaism I held a pro-choice position as everybody else i knew. Not as in justifying promiscuity/ irresposibility/ab-n as a birth control method, but a belief that in some cases abortion is better then bringing a person into the world.
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Basically my Mom says she would rather a woman get an abortion than to bring a child into this world only to be abused, neglected, suffer and to be unloved by their parents.
That was my view for years.I have a social service worker friend here in US, she is a great Christian, still pro-choice. She sees things that mostly happen to originally unwanted children -daily!- that make the most graphic Court TV look like a funny cartoon. Some cases make national news , but here the samples of what she sees, i only give the mild ones, not to spoil anybody's lunch:
A boyfriend of woman beats her 2 y o daughter with the remote control , child later dies in the hospital from brain hemorrage; a 19 y o father forgot his toddler in the bathtub, boy drowned , dad shows no signs of remorse; Children born with “cocain addiction” or damaged by mothers alcohol use; a mentally retarded 3 y o boy was beaten by his alcoholic mother that broke his arm,
2 y o child was left outside in winter and needed some of his fingers amputated as a result ; preschooler was raped regularly by her mother’s boyfriend since she was 4; small girl’s hair is scolded by pouring boiling water on her head for she wouldn’t stop crying
Granted- things like that can happen and will be happening even if the child originally was wanted. But as a general rule, as she testifies, unwanted before birth usually, (in majority of cases , often, not always) turns out to be unwanted after birth, abused, tortured, physically and emotionally damaged, and later inflicting pain on others
Charles Manson is quoted that the had only one happy memory of his entire childhood – his mother giving him one hug after one of her releases from prison.
In terms of eternity being born a priviledged Paris Hilton,or a loved baby in a christian family or unwanted by 16 yo mom Charles Manson makes no difference. Either of them can potentially find God.
OP question is multifaceted, but for a Christian prochoicer it basically boils down to – are high likelihood of horrors in this life that unwanted child will be subjected to are worthy of ,as practical life shows, slight chance that child will be saved eternally?
For me it took some maturation to say Yes. Becoming pro-life was a terribly difficult decision.
Again may i remind what dear and patient Kath said twice -its not a debate. I am jsut explaining the reasons for position i had.
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