Are you a sincere Christian person who thinks abortion is wrong but still believes a woman should have the right to choose?
Are you disturbed by the high number of abortions and that it's used for birth control?
Supporters of abortion have managed to twist the original question from "Is abortion wrong?" to "Who decides, the woman or the government?". They completely ignore and refuse to discuss the original question: Is Her "choice" the overriding concern? This is effectively answered by considering a different issue, one that also raises a significant moral question. Let's look at hypothetical situation:
A group of young men have just started a "Right to Rape" organization. They explain that they believe they have the right to rape women. The real question, they tell us, is "Who decides, us or the government? We believe that the government should stay out of this very private matter." Futhermore, they want the state to set up tax funded centers where they can rape women in a safe, legal fashion.
What should our response be? We would promptly reply "You can't do that! Rape is wrong!" Note carefully the answer. The REAL QUESTION, the first, most important and overriding question is not "who decides". But a question about the action itself. We must ask ourselves, "Is rape right or wrong?" only then can we decide who has the right to choose it.
We could use other human actions that also have obvious moral overtones to illustrate this. Does a burglar have the right to choose to rob your house? A husband to abuse his wife and children? Of course not. The first and most critical question always is to judge the action itself. And so it is with abortion.
First, one must ask "Is abortion right or wrong?" Only then can we consider a second question and ask "Who can choose to do this?" Truly her "choice" is between life and death, a live baby or a dead one. But it doesn't end with the abortion for many women. It can impact the rest of her life. There can be physcial complications. Perhaps, more important for many is the emotional aftermath that can result.
On the other hand, if she toughs it out and carries her baby to term, there can be good memories instead: her own child to love and cherish. Or, if she feels she is not ready to parent her child, she can place her baby for adoption in a pair of loving arms of a couple unable to have one of their own.
There are many people today who believe that abortion is wrong. They recognize that medical science has proven conclusively that human life begins at fertilization. They accordingly, cannot and do not deny that abortion is killing. Further, most also believe that God is against it. But many of there sincere people feel that women's rights are so important, or believe so firmly that the government should have no say, that she should be allowed to choose to end her baby's life.
This is an false position. One cannot have it both ways. If abortion is wrong, then that baby's life should be protected by law at all costs just as much as a born person's life is. To sit on the fence is nothing but pure hypocrisy!
I have a right to swing my left fist, but that right stops at your nose. I have the freedom of free speech but i can't yell fire in a movie theater. I have the right to freedom of religion, but not if that involves human sacrifice. A woman has the right to her own body, but this new being, growing in her is not a part of her body. Rather, it is a totally different human being half of whom are even a different sex.
Pro-lifers in their concern for pregnant women and their needs have established numerous women helping centers. In addition pro-lifers take pregnant women in their home, collect maternity and baby clothes, and adopt far more frequantly babies with handicaps. They offer legal, medical, and social help for women during, and after their pregnancies and after their abortions. The abortion industry only offers a violent solution to her problem--murder. They have no other choices available for the pregnant woman in need of help.
The pro-life movement stands with her. The rights of women and the rights of the unborn should be joined. Loving alternatives like adoption must be the focus of our debate.
We reach out to every woman faced with the agony of abortion and say to her "Your life and the life of your baby are both important, and we will not desert either one of you, we want to love you both."
NOONE HAS THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE TO DO WHAT IS WRONG--Abraham Lincoln
taken from the Tract, Choice by Hayes Publishing Company
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