Abortion: September 2007 Archives
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Pro-life groups are protesting a Planned Parenthood clinic. There are lawsuits both ways to open the clinic and prevent the clinic from opening.
I grow weary of the all-or-nothing sides of this debate. To say that a pregnancy can never be terminated is far too restrictive to my mind, yet there are far too many abortions that could have been avoided by some personal responsibility beforehand.
While I don't see a 16 cell blastocyst as a human being, I am sensitive to the potential and what this life is growing into, just as those of us who have been born are always growing into something new. Abortion is a traumatic event for the woman and, depending on development, likely a traumatic event for the fetus.
Like capital punishment and war, abortion is a failure on our parts to find a better solution. A truly pro-life stance, in my humble opinion, seeks to prevent the situations which lead people to make the choices to kill.
And yes, a 16 cell blastocyst is alive. Even if I don't recognize it as yet being human, I recognize it as life.
How do we learn to only create life when we're prepared for it, and to not end life because we were careless? How do we learn to help people to be safe partners in community, and not end life because they have lost connection with us? How do we learn to live peacefully with our neighbors, and not resort to violence that inevitably harms and kills the innocent?
To me, those are the pro-life questions. The answers will lead us to deeper love.
Pro-life groups are protesting a Planned Parenthood clinic. There are lawsuits both ways to open the clinic and prevent the clinic from opening.
I grow weary of the all-or-nothing sides of this debate. To say that a pregnancy can never be terminated is far too restrictive to my mind, yet there are far too many abortions that could have been avoided by some personal responsibility beforehand.
While I don't see a 16 cell blastocyst as a human being, I am sensitive to the potential and what this life is growing into, just as those of us who have been born are always growing into something new. Abortion is a traumatic event for the woman and, depending on development, likely a traumatic event for the fetus.
Like capital punishment and war, abortion is a failure on our parts to find a better solution. A truly pro-life stance, in my humble opinion, seeks to prevent the situations which lead people to make the choices to kill.
And yes, a 16 cell blastocyst is alive. Even if I don't recognize it as yet being human, I recognize it as life.
How do we learn to only create life when we're prepared for it, and to not end life because we were careless? How do we learn to help people to be safe partners in community, and not end life because they have lost connection with us? How do we learn to live peacefully with our neighbors, and not resort to violence that inevitably harms and kills the innocent?
To me, those are the pro-life questions. The answers will lead us to deeper love.
